Wicked Little Town (from the film Hedwig and the Angry Inch)

Wicked Little Town is a song from the soundtrack of the off-Broadway show and film, Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Composed by Stephen Trask, the song is a poetic reflection on the doomed love between the characters, Hedwig and Tommy Gnosis.

The original song is basically about a person who falls in love with someone in a wicked town that seems to be impossible to escape. In the story of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Hedwig first sings it as a love song to Tommy. In the film Hedwig sings a low-fi version of the song to Tommy when they meet in a donut shop, and a full, rock ballad reprise version was created for later in the film for Tommy to sing to Hedwig. Now a rock icon with his career imploding after his relationship with Hedwig was revealed, Tommy sings that he is sorry for how much he has hurt Hedwig, that he never understood she was "more than a woman or a man" and that now he finally sees how much he took from her by stealing her songs. He also tells her that her ideas about soulmates and cosmic destiny are preventing her from moving on ("Maybe there's nothing up in the sky but air...") and then, wishing her well, he slips away into the darkness, leaving Hedwig in tears.

It is notable that a line in the song, "If you've got no other choice, you know you can follow my voice" is literally played out in the story, as Hedwig stalks Tommy around the country from concert to concert, "following his voice". It could also be said that Tommy followed Hedwig's voice, given his hero worship of her, his taking on the Tommy Gnosis persona she devised, and his theft of her songs.

The actual town referenced in the song's title is supposedly Grinnell, Iowa.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_Little_Town

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[harley4press]

I remember the first time watching this movie. It was so beautiful.

[hawkwind5]

Absolutely, without a doubt, Hedwig's most beautiful wig...the two-tone deserves two thumbs up!

[Scottaytay]

love the "shroud" reference. GENIUS!

[MrUndenied]

This live performance is the best version of this song.

[KUROTOCAGE]

このシーン、この曲　本当大好きです！！（＾3＾）

[VercingetorixXIII]

Hedwigs version of Wicked Little Town is so much more better... i need to take a class on this to get everything here, I know there is so much more than i can see, im a stupid girl, someone has to explain to me... I feel its there though and I want to know...

[VercingetorixXIII]

@bbfuller1 Maybe you should learn to love yourself before you look for another... This will sound so stupid to you because you are still in the mindset, you need someone else to make you happy, but you dont, listen to Hedwigs version of wicked little town... much more meaningful than tommies....

[SalesPres2009]

love it!

[bbfuller1]

I was asked if it is better to love and to lose than never love at all. I am still searching for my love.

[bbfuller]

People wiil do what pleases them. i woke up one time and ny friend was sucking my penis. That was really surprising, but i did not complain

[LipsLikeSugar78]

I totally agree. I had never laughed so hard AND been moved to tears by the same movie. Such genius... ;)