Theatrical Muse - 178; "Mommy"
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You’d be amazed how often humans sing about their mothers, even when they write their own songs. “It’s My Mother’s Birthday Today”, "Mammy", "My Yiddisher Momma", even "Throw Momma From the Train"! (Yeah, really. It wasn't one of mine, either. Some songwriter came up with that one all on his ownio, maybe 50 years ago! It was requested for years on some jukeboxes, on some of the English radio programmes, too – some of them liked it and some of them couldn’t believe it.)
Demons sing about their mothers, too. (Okay, the Drokken types may tend to warble about how they got away when she ate the rest of the litter - but we all have our separate lifestyles, don’t be narrow-minded. Pyleans tend to have some interesting “Mammy Songs,” too – not that most of them sing, exactly; they chant. They dance, though. You can get some real fireworks from a Pylean with a mother complex, and most of them have real hang-ups. Then there’s the Llarians. They normally have at least two mothers and it makes for some twists in the family rivalries. They’re the devil to write for, though. They ain’t in my usual style and I’ve never gone in for “clutch envy”, myself.)
The truth is that “Mommy Songs” can give a singing operative a twitch. Nearly everything has a mother and they’ve usually got strong feelings about her. It’s great for hot numbers toward the end of a Gig, but the details of some relationships are enough to make to you want to stay in your own dimension and padlock the portals.
The more intelligent the cast are the more likely they are to have a whole repertoire of "Mommy Songs". I've heard a biologist sing that the more evolved a creature is the longer it takes to develop.
(I've also heard psychologists sing that man needs his long and vulnerable childhood “to develop his mighty brain”. Yeah, well, it’s a matter of opinion. A lot of creatures do make that trade-off.
Of course, most of the creatures that're built like that need their mighty brains to have any chance of getting over all the things that get done to them in their long and vulnerable childhoods. I hear a lot of songs about that - but that's entertainment.
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Demons sing about their mothers, too. (Okay, the Drokken types may tend to warble about how they got away when she ate the rest of the litter - but we all have our separate lifestyles, don’t be narrow-minded. Pyleans tend to have some interesting “Mammy Songs,” too – not that most of them sing, exactly; they chant. They dance, though. You can get some real fireworks from a Pylean with a mother complex, and most of them have real hang-ups. Then there’s the Llarians. They normally have at least two mothers and it makes for some twists in the family rivalries. They’re the devil to write for, though. They ain’t in my usual style and I’ve never gone in for “clutch envy”, myself.)
The truth is that “Mommy Songs” can give a singing operative a twitch. Nearly everything has a mother and they’ve usually got strong feelings about her. It’s great for hot numbers toward the end of a Gig, but the details of some relationships are enough to make to you want to stay in your own dimension and padlock the portals.
The more intelligent the cast are the more likely they are to have a whole repertoire of "Mommy Songs". I've heard a biologist sing that the more evolved a creature is the longer it takes to develop.
(I've also heard psychologists sing that man needs his long and vulnerable childhood “to develop his mighty brain”. Yeah, well, it’s a matter of opinion. A lot of creatures do make that trade-off.
Of course, most of the creatures that're built like that need their mighty brains to have any chance of getting over all the things that get done to them in their long and vulnerable childhoods. I hear a lot of songs about that - but that's entertainment.
Muse, Sweet the Singing Demon
Fandom BTVS
Words, 382