I’m just dying to see this movie. I know I shouldn’t want to. I shouldn’t be vulnerable to the cheap and tawdry pastiche of pop culture, historical dramatizations, and romantic melodrama.
And yet…
I’ve watched the trailer about fifteen times…
I bought the soundtrack last night and I’ve listened to it about six times already…
I know it’s bad that I am currently grooving on Lil Kim and Ms. Aguillera doing Lady Marmalade and I just can’t stop….
I know it’s bad that Ewan McGregor’s operatic rendering of Elton John’s Your Song has reduced me to tears multiple times with the sublime power of its romantic scope and breathlessness…
…and I’m resisting the urge to buy and read the script before I see the movie because I don’t want to ruin the first time I see it.
I know, it’s bad.
Pray for me now and at the hour of my death.