I have never felt sorrier for a musical character than I did for Audrey. The poor woman doesn't have any big, lofty goals or ambitions--she just wants a decent life with a loving family and all the creature comforts she can't get in Skid Row. The fact that she doesn't even think she deserves that because she's a "loser" just breaks your freakin' heart.
The sad part is, she could get it, but she's sold on this bizarre American Dream thing she's seen in magazines. She wants this Leave it To Beaver lifestyle, not knowing that it'd be a thousand times worse than Skid Row.
PAMELA TORRES You'd feel pretty weak and helpless if you'd been beaten around by various sadistic sons of bitches and are currently scared out of your mind to leave the one you're with. I do dearly hope you're not blaming her for being in an abusive relationship.
A person who survives psychological and physical abuse is no loser. Her modest desires are those sneered at by those who have no idea what it is to need them. Audrey is the strongest of us all. She is a survivor, beaten but unbowed.
well, the fact that she does find courage within herself largely because of the kindness shown to her by Seymour, and realizes that in Seymour she has found a kindred spirit, for Seymour has also been knocked about by life and so understands what its like to want something better in life than what they currently have. The fact that they do manage to end up together at the end is great, i'm not so much of a fan of the original ending.... WAAAAAY too depressing.
This may be a satire about the American dream, and represented in a tacky way, but that is what a lot of people want to achieve: just a perfect life and a normal home setting. And it just saddens me because I can relate.
that means your either monetary poor or you have a kind heart I think all America is Skid Row unless you live in a gated guarded community the World is a ghetto
To Audrey, this was the better life. When you are in a bad place mentally, your mind will often go to a happy place that seems so much more ideal to the person envisioning it than it really is in real life.
"Somewhere" is perhaps one of the most tragic words in the human vocabulary. Because deep down we know that "Somewhere" means Nowhere as it represents a place we know exists but will never see for ourselves.
I don't see the mockery at all. People often have wild dreams, even crazy dreams. But her dreams are humble and simple because she's never had much and doesn't expect much. A very sweet scene designed to make the audience fall in love with this fragile girl. Escaping the city into green suburbs is a dream shared by large numbers of Americans. That's why most cities have large suburbs.
And I don't think I actually love movies or TV any better on my large color screen, than I did growing up and watching King Kong on a small black & white TV. I mean, you can't go back once you have it, but if young people today are inclined to feel sorry for us back then, don't bother - it was great at the time.
Since Alan Menken wrote the music for this and Audrey has a little animated bird friend in this sequence, I sometimes like to jokingly say that my favorite "forgotten" Disney Princess is Audrey.
+Sierra Spencer "Part Of Your World" has the exact same chord progression and song structure (no true chorus) so during production of The Little Mermaid - Howard Ashman and co called it "Somewhere That's Wet"
***** Thanks for your hints. :) But I guess, there's no difference between a sadist and a semi-sadist, anyway. 'Cause I think either somebody is a sadist or not. In my humble opinion there's no need to use 'semi-', especially if you think about Orin. ;)
Lioness As I said, you must use common sense, not a semantic criteria. If I say "semi-nazi", I mean, in some ways he acts as a nazi or he is a little nazi (maybe racist, vertical, strict, but I don't mean he loves Hitler). Audrey is in love with him, she doesn't want to recognize he is a sadist, so she calls him semi-sadist. Well, I wrote all this because I'm a semi-teacher, have a great day!
That's true. That's what makes actors like her special. In fact, I see the same thing in another actress that I believe would be the best one to play the part of Audrey if they were going to remake Little Shop of Horrors.
If there ever was a remake of Little Shop and another actress was hired to play Audrey, the only one I can see who can do the sweet innocent voice and sing this song so well would be Kristin Chenoweth. Her voice is so perfect for the role.
In the stage version she has a monologue towards the beginning of the song and mentions having a toaster, along with describing the house and living with Seymour. It ends before she sings "A matchbox of our own". "It's a daydream of mine. A little development I dream of just off the interstate. Not fancy like Levittown- just a little street in a little suburb far far from urban Skid Row. The sweetest greenest place where everyone has the same little lawn out front and the same little flagstone patio out back. All the houses are so neat and pretty cuz they all look just alike. Oh, I dream about it all the time. Just me... and a toaster... and a sweet little guy like Seymour."
Everything about this scene is just so crushingly sad...especially the fact that Audrey's modest ambitions are utterly unattainable not only for her, but also for a lot of young adults today...
It's fun to realize how much Alan Menken and Howard Ashman carried the motif of this song forward into The Little Mermaid. Ariel singing "Part of Your World" and dreaming of leaving the ocean is thematically the same as Audrey singing "Somewhere That's Green" while fantasizing about leaving the city. It's no accident that even the music cues are structurally very similar. Couple of geniuses, those guys! ❤
I literally JUST said this on an IG post where a grrl reworded Ariel's song! I came to utube to watch for old times sake and read this!! 🤯 Tysm for sharing!!
It's supposed to foreshadow the original ending, in a horrible sense Audrey gets her dream - she goes somewhere that's green. In the context of the live show the reprise is even more heart breaking, when you remember the song immediately before is Sominex. I interpret this to mean Audrey's injuries aren't severe enough to kill her and she's simply fallen asleep because of the sleeping pills. Meaning she's still alive when Seymour follows her wishes and feeds her to Audrey II.
It’s actually the original ending. And the most commonly used stage ending. The happy ending was written because focus groups didn’t respond well to the black humor of a musical where all the main characters die.
thefonz003 That’s right! I directed the music once for the musical in my town. And I had never seen it before I participated in the production. And yes, everybody dies! I wonder if, one day, they might remake it with that part intact. I mean, hell, they’ll remake anything, right?
I grew up in ‘skid row’. What was in this song was all I ever wanted. As it turns out, I married a guy named Clint Moore -C. Moore, and 25 years ago when we had our house built, I had it painted green. I’m back here today because it finally came time to paint the house, and we went with a light gray. I am SO fortunate though. I GOT my Somewhere that’s green.
Honestly the older this song gets the sadder it gets, cause her standards just get lower and more easily obtainable outside of an abusive relationship. She deserves the best.
I know this song was composed in the context of satire (i.e everything Audrey dreams of could be regarded as materialistic) However my Mother grew up in poverty and she told me as a small boy how she dreamed of living in a low crime area with a green garden and an apple tree where the kids could play, and she worked two jobs, 7 days a week, and she achieved her dream for my brother and I. Bless her.
I don’t really consider it materialistic. There is nothing wrong with wanting to have a clean, safe home for yourself and your family. And nothing wrong with an apple tree. ☺️ Glad your mom got to make that a reality for herself and you. 👏🏻
I come from a poor family. My father hit my mom when I was a child and it was hard to leave that behind. I dream of being an illustrator. Things are starting to happen for me. Today I woke up with this song in my head and the only thing I can think about is that my "somewhere green" is to give a great life for my mother. Little shop hits home real hard and I am glad I discovered it last week
This scene was too well done for the original ending to work. To actually see her dream makes it hard to accept her death. I seriously think Audrey is the main reason the original ending was rejected. They made her so like able and cute to the point where her death couldn't be taken well. Then they play her death for drama and have her cry as she sings the reprise didn't allow the audience to enjoy the movie afterwards
Letting her see the dream that would never be might be cruel, but it was certainly more realistic and not just that, but stuck more to the tone of the original show, which - as any fan could tell you - doesn't have the happiest ending. (Audrey II eats everyone.)
Survivor2002 Thats where you are wrong. Both this song and its reprise in the play are played for comedy which allows the ending to be acceptable by everyday audiences. In the film it is played for drama which gets general audiences hopes too high
This song makes me cry... because I relate to it so deeply... it doesn’t have to be some 1950’s satire of “The Dream” but... I just want a place of my own... I want to feel safe, loved, cared for, protected... 😔😖
I hope you'll get out of whatever personal Skid Row you find yourself stuck in and that you will find your very own place, "somewhere that's green". All the best to you 💚
Ellen Greene is sheer and utter perfection in this role. A perfect marriage of talent and writing... to bad she couldn't find other hit vehicles for herself on Broadway. She deserves to be among the great lights of theater!
after i finished sewing my fifties full circle skirt dress and put it on for the first time, i immediately started singing this song twirling about the room going "there's plastic on the furniture, to keep it neat and clean..."♡
I love this song.The structure is very much like "Part of your World" from "The little Mermaid". But then I found out that Alan Menken wrote it. His style is so emotive.
This is literally what I want in life. I don’t want a big career or fame, I just want to fall in love with a decent man, marry him, raise a family with him, and be a housewife and mother. Not because I’m a woman, but because I want to do it. And no woman should feel inferior for wanting that goal.
I feel like you're missing the point here. Betty Crocker doesn't exist. Donna Reed is an actress. No real home has furniture covered in plastic. Audrey isn't tragic because she wants to be a housewife. She's pitiable because she's been sold a commercial version of suburban life that no real person would even want to achieve.
I think it means she cooked great food (like Betty Crocker) in advance, then would store it for when it was needed (frozen dinners). Many people cook an entire week's food in advance and store it in their fridge until they need it.
When we moved and our kitchen was build in and ready I put on my 50s circle skirt dress and sung this in my beautiful, new orange kitchen. We even did a photo shoot of me highlighting the dishwasher and other stuff, like Audrey does the toaster. My very own dishwasher! I was so proud. This song satiric, but at the same time so very true and pure. I got out of Skid Row 😊
I always loved this song. It reminds me of the song, "Part of your world" from Disney's The Little Mermaid. Which is ironic since the songs in both Little Shop of Horrors and Disney's The Little Mermaid were done by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken.
***** Actually the working title for "Part Of Your World" was "Somewhere That's Wet", because of the underwear setting. Coupled with the fact that both songs share a structure, cord progression and melody.
Interesting that while both songs are ultimately about a longing for love and acceptance, Audrey is poor and puts the material creature comforts on a pedestal in her song, whereas Ariel is the girl who has everything and literally says, "No big deal, I want more". Money doesn't mean much, until you don't have any.
Good comparison! Now that you mention it, "Somewhere That's Green" and "Part Of Your World" DO have a very similar feel! But I guess that's not too surprising because as you said, the songs were both done by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken!
Saw Greene in the original in NYC at St. Mark's Place. One of the most amazing live performances I've ever seen. She embodied everything: comedy and pathos. And that voice - THAT VOICE! In a small off-Broadway house it sent chills through peoples' spines, trust me. The audience went wild over her. And to think she almost didn't get the movie because she wasn't a movie star. Thank God Geffen and company came to their senses and realized Rick Moranis could be enough of a name for this kind of film.
It's the parody of the 50's 60's American dream and you should say: Really? But for some reason, you actually want her dream to come true. It's weird you don't watch her and and Seymour as parody of the horror/romance genre, but actually like them and expect a happy ending because of their struggle in life. Now that I think about it, that's why the original ending didn't work, because Oz made people fall in love with the characters instead of watching them as test dummies like in the play.
Yeah, but do you know why that was the fantasy of the 1950s--World War II? If you were a GI returning from a combat zone or an American family who lived the Depression, that suburban idyll would look pretty damn good. There are plenty of folks living in bad housing that would still find this pretty appealing.
Thats missing the point though. Audrey and Seymor could have had eachother, but they were set on this creepy suburb illusion, an american mirage that never really existed. Skid Row might suck, but atleast its real. They could have walked away and made a life for themselves.
Mary Finn Neither WWII or the Great Depression were in the 50s. Great Depression started in 1929, and WWII lasted from 1939-1945. Next time you want to name negative historical events and dump them on someone's words, at least obtain a basic knowledge of history beforehand.
Doug A true, but adults in the 50’s were children in the 30’s. If we extrapolate from that, seymour and Audery were children who lived through the poverty if the depression and the rationings of WWII as teenagers. Then as young adults, they live in a dense urban slum, riding the poverty line. This scene maybe farsicle or cartoonish in how it represents the suburban dream of the 50’s, but Ellen does a wonderful job of conveying that this simple suburban life is Audery’s dream, and majorly touches the heart. As for the change to the ending, I think the original worked better for the simple matter of staying true to the Faustian archetype that this story draws from.
Emanuel Mayer See, that's why I love it. It makes it that much more impactive... This song is meant to be somewhat humorous, but her death makes your realize just how much of a person she is, especially since she dies with a reprise. Her story is so sad because her dreams were simple, and her happy ending could have been found with ease, if the characters had made better decisions.
+TheHarlequinHatter I'd be okay with her dying, if in the original ending, the plant didn't win in the end? Like seriously you don't just let the thing that killed the love of your life win, lol.
+Emanuel Mayer No one has a "right" to a happy ending, most people end their lives the way they lived them - miserable, filthy and in pain. Its not a matter of right or wrong, its just how it is.
Ellen Greene is stunning. Just stunning. Her investment in the character of Audrey is other-worldly. You cannot help but love her and her simple wishes in a life that's so complicated. It's heartbreaking the way she keeps the voice of Audrey for most of the song, and then occasionally her voice opens into a range and a strength that speaks of something bigger, deeper, and more inside this person, which so perfectly describes who she is, to me, as a musical metaphor.
Lyrics: I know Seymour's the greatest But I'm dating a semi-sadist So I've got a black eye And my arm's in a cast. Still, that Seymour's a cutie Well, if not, he's got inner beauty And I dream of a place Where we could be together at last A matchbox of our own A fence of real chain link, A grill out on the patio Disposal in the sink A washer and a dryer and an ironing machine In a tract house that we share Somewhere that's green. He rakes and trims the grass He loves to mow and weed I cook like Betty Crocker And I look like Donna Reed There's plastic on the furniture To keep it neat and clean In the Pine-Sol scented air Somewhere that's green Between our frozen dinner And our bedtime, nine-fifteen We snuggle watchin' Lucy On our big, enormous twelve-inch screen I'm his December Bride He's Father, he Knows Best Our kids play Howdy Doody As the sun sets in the west A picture out of Better Homes and Gardens magazine Far from Skid Row I dream we'll go Somewhere that's green.
@@Rainbow_Quartz Consider her background( Major Spoiler Alert)...Her father abandoned her and her mother when she was younger, leaving them financially strapped. This is the 50's and 60's era, so landing a great guy was the ultimate goal...Call me crazy, but I think that's how she wound up shackled to Orin Scrivello. She tells her story in the song 'Suddenly Seymour.' She met him in a night club where I guess she was something of a Playboy bunny, in a sense. She and her co-workers learned he was a dentist and thought he was a catch ( which he would be if you were a poor, working -class chick with few decent prospects).
I was in a production of this many years ago playing Ronette. Our Audrey (who was magnificent btw) sang this to us three girls while we all sat on the stoop in Skid Row. Embattled mistreated kind-hearted Audrey painted this beautiful picture for us beneath a flickering streetlamp and all our characters - four poor girls from Skid Row - escaped for a moment and we took the audience with us - before settling wistfully back on our grimy stoop in our harsh reality. It made the audience cry every night. I'll always love this song. Audrey asks for so little - and yet for so much, given the disadvantage she comes from. ❤️
It's funny to hear a Menken/Ashman song that isn't in a Disney movie xD but this shows,yet again,how gifted these two are/were(RIP Howard Ashman). You wouldn't think Audrey's dream would be this simple, just looking at her. All she wants is a normal,quiet life with this guy she loves. And I think that speaks to a lot of people,myself included. You get to really care for and sympathize with Audrey in a way you probably wouldn't if this song hadn't been written.
Howard Ashman always said the "I want" song was one of the most important in a musical because it helped you connect with a character. It's really true.
As someone who grew up in the suburbs and dreamed for years of moving to a city, romanticizing it like she romanticizes suburbia, this song was very poignant for me. brings a tear to me even through the terrible melodrama, satire and irony of it
This was my least favorite song when I was a kid but after living a life of hardship, poverty, homelessness, and addiction it speaks to my very soul. All I want is a place to call my own where I can be happy with the people I love. We don’t need much; food, companionship, autonomy, yet it all seems so out of reach for so many of us. Things like having a toaster and both a washer and a dryer shouldn’t be such lofty goals but I feel Audrey in my soul when she yearns for this and I know many of you coming to listen to this song years later are my kindred spirits. Maybe one day we’ll all find somewhere that’s green
After my wife and I bought our house I had to start mowing the lawn, and I would sing this song while doing it. Of course, I felt a bit silly when it got to the line about looking like Donna Reed. But the fact that I live in a house built just after WWII feeds into the stereotype.
I had tears rolling down my eyes the first time I saw this scene. This actress managed to stay in character and bring such longing to this song, and, my God, can she sing!!! I still tear up today.
GOOD LORD MAN, I remember when my local small town did a production of Little Shop when I was 12 and this song got me a little even back then... going on 30 next year, I now know several people who were abused all their lives (and still are) who are some of the nicest people I've ever met. I just heard it again for the first time since 2006 probably and it carries so much more weight now. I've been sniffling for a while
It's kind of why I prefer the studio's ending. I get that the Audrey II is supposed to be representative of Seymour's greed and that Audrey II consuming both him and Audrey is representative of how greed can destroy the things you love, but in the film version I never felt Seymour was portrayed as all that greedy of a person. Most of what happens seems to just kind of fall upon his lap. He never seemed to really indulge in his success and his wrongdoings are mostly result of emotional manipulation more than a deeply instilled greed. That and I feel the original ending gets a little over indulgent in itself, which is good fun I suppose, it's definitely cool to see isolated. I just feel like it effects the pacing a bit negatively when placed into the film.
For me personally, I prefer the original ending because Little Shop feels like a reimagining of the story of Faust, with Seymour as Faust and Audery II as Mephistopheles. Sure, Seymour is horrified at what he’s doing to keep Audery II alive, but he’s still making a “deal with the devil” and for a story like that it needs to lead to his destruction, otherwise it kinda feels like an ass-pull.
+Ree Jones Me too!!!! It's hard for a song to get me to cry but when I saw why this song actually got written for this musical, I lost it. My heart broke. Poor Seymour and Audrey... Also I can't help but feel bad for these two adorable kids who will never exist???
I saw this move for the first time when I was between 3-5 and rewatching it as an adult it’s truly amazing how deeply this song ingrained itself into my psyche and helped form my dreams of adulthood.
The end of this song reminds me so much of “Part Of Your World” from The Little Mermaid. Thank you Alan Menken and Howard Ashman for giving us these amazing soundtracks!
We were watching this movie in Drama class and these scene actually made me cry. Nothing else in the movie was moving enough to bring me to tears, but how much the song picks up during her fantasy and drops when she snaps back to reality is so sad..
I start to say this sounds very Disney but it’s really just Alan Menken at his best. He changed the sound of Disney in the 90s and beyond with his infectious musical style. Give that man another Oscar please. Btw The Family Guy parody fits perfectly
I’ve sang this song for years and years. I am finally married. We just finished building our track house with community action. We put our blood sweat and tears into this home. In the laundry room I have a decal with the first two parts of the song. 0:45-1:20 is on the wall. Living 10 years with out my own washer this is a dream come true.
It’s so adorable how all she wants is just a simple life. Her life is just so horrible, she doesn’t care if she isn’t crazy rich. She just wants a family. She wants a loving husband, kids, and just the most normal life you can think of. ;-;
I watched this movie as a child. As an adult with all of the pressures, disappointments and stresses of adulthood, this song hits completely differently. Beautifully sad. Sadly beautiful.
This I feel is the quintessential version of "Somewhere That's Green" ever performed or recorded. Everything about it is perfect to me; Ellen Greene's vocals, the instrumental parts and backing... it all just works. Now all that's missing at the end is Sebastian falling inside the mug and crashing into some random objects! (And yes, I know the songwriters Alan Menken and Howard Ashman went to work for Disney as well.)
Audrey is and Seymour is my favorite character throughout the movie because they care about each other when he seen that Audrey was being abused on he did something. She is so pretty though and I love this song and Suddenly Seymour
This is middle class in the 50’s. Middle class right now in 2018 is very similar to the lower class. Middle class people rn are working 50+ hours to make ends meet. Back then you didn’t even need a degree to get this life and the woman didn’t even work. A lot has changed
When I was a kid I thought this song was campy. As am adult I find it sweet and sad. You envision the life you would like to have with someone who you know that you will probably not be with, and then you are reminded of how your life actually is and that they are not in it. It is nice to dream tho even if you know deep down it probably won't happen.
I think quite a few people miss the subtext that nearly every single thing Audrey dreams about (except Seymour and the kids) is a heavily advertised commercial product. Yeah, it's a sweet fantasy about settling down with Seymour, but it's also conflating consumerism with personal satisfaction.
As a man who never sought that life and hasn't built one yet, this loving tribute literally brought tears to my eyes. I know they play it to be silly yet what's silly about it really? A functional family in a well kept home? That's beautiful, not laughable! Apart from Seymour's look after checking in on the perfect mini-me kids and Mommy & Daddy's censor-friendly single beds which crack me up every time.
I had to take a pause in my cleaning day to admire this video. I cannot think of another song where someone wanted something so bad. 😢 Just a simple life.
This song breaks my freaken heart. It's really quite odd to type this comment in on my phone while watching this film on a 65 inch with my microwave burrito, because everything that is normal and common for me, in spite of my family never being wealthy, is far more luxurious than her simple desire to marry a kind guy and have her own home and family.
+PyroGothNerd That's the joke. "He rakes and trims the grass. He loves to mow and weed" alluding to Seymour's soon to be hatred of the Plant and wanting it to die.
+PyroGothNerd Its also a parody of how families were portrayed on television in the early decades. Anything that even hinted at sex wasnt allowed, which included married couples sharing a bed.
+DefoNotObsessed It was a spoof of what was shown on TV during the 50s, you see on TV couples weren't allowed to share the same bed, even if they did, one character had to be standing, or have one leg on the ground. I mean during the 50s, any mention of sex was considered very taboo.
I first heard this song when I saw this movie and as far as I’m concerned, no one has done it better than Ellen Green. She is so talented in so many areas:)
It is a melancholic and sweet song at the same time, showing the perfect place and the best dream house of people. She sang it with a lot of feeling, passion, dedication in body and soul.
This song is both hilarious and heartbreaking. Her dream isn't to marry a super star, jet the world, be rich and famous and own a giant villa... her dream is just a cozy little suburban home with a nice garden, neighbors, friends, cute kids and a husband that adores and cherishes her as much as she cherishes him. That something so humble is so far out of her reach is just tragic and it's interesting to see her dream being framed between her mentioning dating a sadist that caused her to carry her arm in a sling on one hand and that last dolly shot of skid row at the end. Poor Audrey.
I have never felt sorrier for a musical character than I did for Audrey. The poor woman doesn't have any big, lofty goals or ambitions--she just wants a decent life with a loving family and all the creature comforts she can't get in Skid Row. The fact that she doesn't even think she deserves that because she's a "loser" just breaks your freakin' heart.
The sad part is, she could get it, but she's sold on this bizarre American Dream thing she's seen in magazines. She wants this Leave it To Beaver lifestyle, not knowing that it'd be a thousand times worse than Skid Row.
She was weak though. She had no backbone.
PAMELA TORRES You'd feel pretty weak and helpless if you'd been beaten around by various sadistic sons of bitches and are currently scared out of your mind to leave the one you're with. I do dearly hope you're not blaming her for being in an abusive relationship.
A person who survives psychological and physical abuse is no loser. Her modest desires are those sneered at by those who have no idea what it is to need them. Audrey is the strongest of us all. She is a survivor, beaten but unbowed.
well, the fact that she does find courage within herself largely because of the kindness shown to her by Seymour, and realizes that in Seymour she has found a kindred spirit, for Seymour has also been knocked about by life and so understands what its like to want something better in life than what they currently have. The fact that they do manage to end up together at the end is great, i'm not so much of a fan of the original ending.... WAAAAAY too depressing.
If you've been mostly poor all your life, but you have dreams, this scene will really resonate with you.
And if you had to fight like a marine on a World War 2 beach head for every ounce of happiness too.
Rahbinah Rastaban I know your comment is about 4 years old, but I hope you found all of your dreams to be a reality. I am lucky that I did.
Have everything I ever wanted as a kid. So I’m fine.
I'm mostly wealthy and also have dreams
It’s also about dreaming about having love and a family if you have been abused a lot.
This may be a satire about the American dream, and represented in a tacky way, but that is what a lot of people want to achieve: just a perfect life and a normal home setting. And it just saddens me because I can relate.
that means your either monetary poor or you have a kind heart I think all America is Skid Row unless you live in a gated guarded community the World is a ghetto
Cinnameon this right here, this is how you can really make America great again.
One day I’ll have my tradwife and we’ll live in whitopia, Idaho
It's not presented in a tacky way, in fact minus animated birds it's presented a way that's very real and true to the time when the movie is set.
To Audrey, this was the better life. When you are in a bad place mentally, your mind will often go to a happy place that seems so much more ideal to the person envisioning it than it really is in real life.
"Somewhere" is perhaps one of the most tragic words in the human vocabulary. Because deep down we know that "Somewhere" means Nowhere as it represents a place we know exists but will never see for ourselves.
gutz1981 too deep
Exactly how I feel when know I left my fucking car keys SOMEWHERE around here.
gutz1981 Wow you went a little to deep in the emotion pool but I believe sometimes we need to leave the shallow end in order to understand others
gutz1981 Wow yeah depression can be a bitch but you’ll get through it my friend stay strong
Fucking nerd
My dream in life is to be even half as loved as that toaster was...
xDDDDDD
A toaster big enough to fit two bagels
Namron9797 I'm crying 😂😂😂😭
Namron9797 me two
I was listening to the soundtrack and came to watch this scene literally for the toaster.
I love how this Is both a mockery and a tribute to the American Dream. Both at the same time
Good call. That's exactly what it is.
The writer knew what he was doing
Wasn't a bad dream. Too bad we killed it.
I don't see the mockery at all.
People often have wild dreams, even crazy dreams. But her dreams are humble and simple because she's never had much and doesn't expect much. A very sweet scene designed to make the audience fall in love with this fragile girl.
Escaping the city into green suburbs is a dream shared by large numbers of Americans. That's why most cities have large suburbs.
I wouldn't mind living a dream like that uwu
I'm kind of ashamed that I saw the family guy parody before I saw this lol.
lol same
Same dude :D
but after watching this vid i watched the movie and lol my new fav movie is little shop of horrors, thank you family guy
Just saw it again last night...that's what brung me. Subtitled, "Fantasy on A Young Fat Boy."
David Johnsen me too
"On our big, enormous, 12 inch screen" XD
That line get's funnier every year, with our largest flat screen being 110 inches Lol
It was meant to be funny even back then.
I know, all I was saying is that it gets funnier as time goes by XD
And I don't think I actually love movies or TV any better on my large color screen, than I did growing up and watching King Kong on a small black & white TV. I mean, you can't go back once you have it, but if young people today are inclined to feel sorry for us back then, don't bother - it was great at the time.
that is just what she would have been happy with
Rhyno Bullraq Yeah but remember this is 1980's so 12 inch was considered big back then
Since Alan Menken wrote the music for this and Audrey has a little animated bird friend in this sequence, I sometimes like to jokingly say that my favorite "forgotten" Disney Princess is Audrey.
+Sierra Spencer "Part Of Your World" has the exact same chord progression and song structure (no true chorus) so during production of The Little Mermaid - Howard Ashman and co called it "Somewhere That's Wet"
GoAway LeaveMeAlone Alan really tried hard to shake that name off, for all of the obvious reasons.
Sierra Spencer you sir are a genius
The instrumental break sounds like BATB
GoAway LeaveMeAlone that sounds wrong
It's a little sad how Audrey fantasized about having decent housing and a kind husband.
It's what happens to a lot of people.
Sad part is alot of women pretend they want the kind husband, but the reality is that it's the last thing they truly want
Actually a lot of girls these days don't even want a husband.
well Audry are and Seymour get marred to one another or no? signed Katelynn thanks
Ryan Patrick many just dream with a simple kind of life, No one can blame her for that.
"But I'm dating a semi-sadist." Uh, no, honey, pretty sure he's a full-on sadist.
Lmao...so true
By the way, is there any linguistic difference between a sadist and a semi-sadist? I've tried to search it in Google but I've haven't found anything.
Use criteria.
***** Thanks for your hints. :) But I guess, there's no difference between a sadist and a semi-sadist, anyway. 'Cause I think either somebody is a sadist or not. In my humble opinion there's no need to use 'semi-', especially if you think about Orin. ;)
Lioness As I said, you must use common sense, not a semantic criteria. If I say "semi-nazi", I mean, in some ways he acts as a nazi or he is a little nazi (maybe racist, vertical, strict, but I don't mean he loves Hitler). Audrey is in love with him, she doesn't want to recognize he is a sadist, so she calls him semi-sadist. Well, I wrote all this because I'm a semi-teacher, have a great day!
I love how she worships the toaster
YesIAmPickleGerard NowGoAway i love your ysername smh
twenty one potatoes panic at the potato peeler
:D
I think it's supposed to be a symbol of the simple domestic happiness she craves. I'm sure there's lots of ways to look at it, though.
@@nina1522 Or she just has a thing for toasters.
What makes Ellen special isn't just her voice, it's how she channels the character
That's true. That's what makes actors like her special. In fact, I see the same thing in another actress that I believe would be the best one to play the part of Audrey if they were going to remake Little Shop of Horrors.
+K Mars Especially when you think how hard it is to sing in character, if you're putting on a voice..
If there ever was a remake of Little Shop and another actress was hired to play Audrey, the only one I can see who can do the sweet innocent voice and sing this song so well would be Kristin Chenoweth. Her voice is so perfect for the role.
100%!! You can hear the power in her voice, but she's keeping it light and 'floaty' in line with her character. So well done
It sure as hell isn’t her voice😂😂😂
I cried as soon as she started singing lol. But for some reason the toaster gets me every time. Her petting the toaster makes me burst With tears.
In the stage version she has a monologue towards the beginning of the song and mentions having a toaster, along with describing the house and living with Seymour. It ends before she sings "A matchbox of our own".
"It's a daydream of mine. A little development I dream of just off the interstate. Not fancy like Levittown- just a little street in a little suburb far far from urban Skid Row. The sweetest greenest place where everyone has the same little lawn out front and the same little flagstone patio out back. All the houses are so neat and pretty cuz they all look just alike. Oh, I dream about it all the time. Just me... and a toaster... and a sweet little guy like Seymour."
BRUH SAME
For me it's the "ironing machine"
Hang in there!!
I know I’m 5 years late, but me too! Her petting the stupid toaster is heartbreaking
Everything about this scene is just so crushingly sad...especially the fact that Audrey's modest ambitions are utterly unattainable not only for her, but also for a lot of young adults today...
It's fun to realize how much Alan Menken and Howard Ashman carried the motif of this song forward into The Little Mermaid. Ariel singing "Part of Your World" and dreaming of leaving the ocean is thematically the same as Audrey singing "Somewhere That's Green" while fantasizing about leaving the city. It's no accident that even the music cues are structurally very similar. Couple of geniuses, those guys! ❤
I literally JUST said this on an IG post where a grrl reworded Ariel's song! I came to utube to watch for old times sake and read this!! 🤯 Tysm for sharing!!
I just watched Alan sing this while playing piano, and in the last few bars it hit me that it was similar to Part of Your World. ❤
Ashman would jokingly refer to Part of your World as "Somewhere that's Wet"
@@CalicoJackal 🤭
@@daydreamstitcher2020 exactly the part that tipped me off to it too!!
This song is actually really sad if you take the alternate ending into account.
It's supposed to foreshadow the original ending, in a horrible sense Audrey gets her dream - she goes somewhere that's green.
In the context of the live show the reprise is even more heart breaking, when you remember the song immediately before is Sominex.
I interpret this to mean Audrey's injuries aren't severe enough to kill her and she's simply fallen asleep because of the sleeping pills. Meaning she's still alive when Seymour follows her wishes and feeds her to Audrey II.
Yeah. In the alternet ending she did not get her little house or dreams because she died.
It’s true, she ends up somewhere that’s green
It’s actually the original ending. And the most commonly used stage ending. The happy ending was written because focus groups didn’t respond well to the black humor of a musical where all the main characters die.
thefonz003 That’s right! I directed the music once for the musical in my town. And I had never seen it before I participated in the production. And yes, everybody dies! I wonder if, one day, they might remake it with that part intact. I mean, hell, they’ll remake anything, right?
I think this is probably one of the most desperately lonely song I've ever heard. Beautiful...
This goes through my head every time I set foot in my own home
I grew up in ‘skid row’. What was in this song was all I ever wanted. As it turns out, I married a guy named Clint Moore -C. Moore, and 25 years ago when we had our house built, I had it painted green. I’m back here today because it finally came time to paint the house, and we went with a light gray. I am SO fortunate though. I GOT my Somewhere that’s green.
Honestly the older this song gets the sadder it gets, cause her standards just get lower and more easily obtainable outside of an abusive relationship. She deserves the best.
I’m a grown ass man and this part of the movie still makes me shed thug tears. 😭
Me too man
Me too I remember one time this whole song play in my head and it is one of my favorites
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Nah if you’re not crying you aren’t human
I know this song was composed in the context of satire (i.e everything Audrey dreams of could be regarded as materialistic) However my Mother grew up in poverty and she told me as a small boy how she dreamed of living in a low crime area with a green garden and an apple tree where the kids could play, and she worked two jobs, 7 days a week, and she achieved her dream for my brother and I. Bless her.
😭
I don’t really consider it materialistic. There is nothing wrong with wanting to have a clean, safe home for yourself and your family. And nothing wrong with an apple tree. ☺️ Glad your mom got to make that a reality for herself and you. 👏🏻
You mother was a small boy?
My heart 😭❤️
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I come from a poor family. My father hit my mom when I was a child and it was hard to leave that behind. I dream of being an illustrator. Things are starting to happen for me.
Today I woke up with this song in my head and the only thing I can think about is that my "somewhere green" is to give a great life for my mother.
Little shop hits home real hard and I am glad I discovered it last week
😭same I just want acceptance from my family and to find love
I'm sorry you had to go through that. Really happy things are starting to happen for you! Love from uk ❤️
@@anjealousanaconda9692 Hope you can find it
Hugs
@@helenchelmicka3028 thank you! Hugs from Brazil
It has been four years since you posted this. I hope things are going good for you and your mom. ❤
Ellen Greene is such an amazing performer. In the midst of the campiness of this scene, she makes you feel real emotion.
+Tanya S 2:01-2:39 those parts are unfortunately not heard in the soundtrack version
I honestly get teared up at this song.
Every time I think I'm gonna make it through the song without tearing up, it's always the 'far from skid row' line that destroys my last defenses.
@@toonbat Ellen Greene is the original broadway star of audrey(if you already knew that)
She has a very sweet voice and a very lovely personality!
This scene was too well done for the original ending to work. To actually see her dream makes it hard to accept her death. I seriously think Audrey is the main reason the original ending was rejected. They made her so like able and cute to the point where her death couldn't be taken well. Then they play her death for drama and have her cry as she sings the reprise didn't allow the audience to enjoy the movie afterwards
Professor Wright But that's why she should have died. Like ability shouldn't keep characters alive because that's not how it works.
Anubis She was too likable for the general audience to leave feeling satisfied
Letting her see the dream that would never be might be cruel, but it was certainly more realistic and not just that, but stuck more to the tone of the original show, which - as any fan could tell you - doesn't have the happiest ending. (Audrey II eats everyone.)
Survivor2002 Thats where you are wrong. Both this song and its reprise in the play are played for comedy which allows the ending to be acceptable by everyday audiences. In the film it is played for drama which gets general audiences hopes too high
Really? Because most versions play it for laughs and it is written for that
This song makes me cry... because I relate to it so deeply... it doesn’t have to be some 1950’s satire of “The Dream” but... I just want a place of my own... I want to feel safe, loved, cared for, protected... 😔😖
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Same❤
I hope you'll get out of whatever personal Skid Row you find yourself stuck in and that you will find your very own place, "somewhere that's green".
All the best to you 💚
Ellen Greene is sheer and utter perfection in this role. A perfect marriage of talent and writing... to bad she couldn't find other hit vehicles for herself on Broadway. She deserves to be among the great lights of theater!
Amen!
Absolutely true.
I was on a tv show called “Pushing Daisies” with Miss Greene. She is so lovely.
Pushing Daisies is one of my favorite shows! She was wonderful on the show ❤️
after i finished sewing my fifties full circle skirt dress and put it on for the first time, i immediately started singing this song twirling about the room going "there's plastic on the furniture, to keep it neat and clean..."♡
LOL I really like the fashions of the late 50's-mid 60's. I love the elegant femininity of that era.
I love this song.The structure is very much like "Part of your World" from "The little Mermaid". But then I found out that Alan Menken wrote it. His style is so emotive.
If we listen very carefully to
Far from Skid Row,
I dream we'll go,
You will hear the melody there to Part of Your World!
This is literally what I want in life. I don’t want a big career or fame, I just want to fall in love with a decent man, marry him, raise a family with him, and be a housewife and mother. Not because I’m a woman, but because I want to do it. And no woman should feel inferior for wanting that goal.
I have the same goal, girl!!!!
I feel like you're missing the point here. Betty Crocker doesn't exist. Donna Reed is an actress. No real home has furniture covered in plastic. Audrey isn't tragic because she wants to be a housewife. She's pitiable because she's been sold a commercial version of suburban life that no real person would even want to achieve.
Making babies is what animals do. Can you be better than a monkey?
@@playlistofsongs wow you think that all housewives do is make babies? How interesting. Is that what you think of your parents?
@@playlistofsongs Putting down people’s dreams is what assholes do. Can you be better than a dick?
"I cook like Betty Crooker"
"We eat our frozen dinners"
Huh?
Swanson Dinners made every housewife Betty Crocker.
Sonnera That was confusing to me as well
To me it sounded like she cook her dinner early in the day and then store it on the fridge
I think it means she cooked great food (like Betty Crocker) in advance, then would store it for when it was needed (frozen dinners). Many people cook an entire week's food in advance and store it in their fridge until they need it.
In the 50s/60s, even though cooking at home was expected, eating frozen dinners in front of the TV was kind of the "in thing" to do.
When we moved and our kitchen was build in and ready I put on my 50s circle skirt dress and sung this in my beautiful, new orange kitchen.
We even did a photo shoot of me highlighting the dishwasher and other stuff, like Audrey does the toaster.
My very own dishwasher! I was so proud.
This song satiric, but at the same time so very true and pure.
I got out of Skid Row 😊
Congratulations
Awwww, that's awesome! Hope you're loving it! 😊
You deserve it.
I always loved this song. It reminds me of the song, "Part of your world" from Disney's The Little Mermaid. Which is ironic since the songs in both Little Shop of Horrors and Disney's The Little Mermaid were done by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken.
***** Actually the working title for "Part Of Your World" was "Somewhere That's Wet", because of the underwear setting. Coupled with the fact that both songs share a structure, cord progression and melody.
Definitely get what you’re saying but that’s kind of the exact opposite of irony. That actually makes a lot of sense
Interesting that while both songs are ultimately about a longing for love and acceptance, Audrey is poor and puts the material creature comforts on a pedestal in her song, whereas Ariel is the girl who has everything and literally says, "No big deal, I want more".
Money doesn't mean much, until you don't have any.
Good comparison! Now that you mention it, "Somewhere That's Green" and "Part Of Your World" DO have a very similar feel! But I guess that's not too surprising because as you said, the songs were both done by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken!
Saw Greene in the original in NYC at St. Mark's Place. One of the most amazing live performances I've ever seen. She embodied everything: comedy and pathos. And that voice - THAT VOICE! In a small off-Broadway house it sent chills through peoples' spines, trust me. The audience went wild over her. And to think she almost didn't get the movie because she wasn't a movie star. Thank God Geffen and company came to their senses and realized Rick Moranis could be enough of a name for this kind of film.
Cyndi Lauper almost got the part. She was too busy with True Colors.
That’s so cool! :)
@@osahju914 Plus Cyndi is from Queens. Ellen is from Brooklyn.
I just got cast as Audrey in a production of Little Shop and I still can't believe I get to sing this song onstage!
Wonderful!
That’s cool. How did it go?
@@daughterofolaf One of the best theatrical experiences of my life
That's amazing. I hope to one day play Audrey in a real production, and not a one woman show in my bedroom. It would be a dream come true.
It's the parody of the 50's 60's American dream and you should say: Really? But for some reason, you actually want her dream to come true. It's weird you don't watch her and and Seymour as parody of the horror/romance genre, but actually like them and expect a happy ending because of their struggle in life. Now that I think about it, that's why the original ending didn't work, because Oz made people fall in love with the characters instead of watching them as test dummies like in the play.
Yeah, but do you know why that was the fantasy of the 1950s--World War II? If you were a GI returning from a combat zone or an American family who lived the Depression, that suburban idyll would look pretty damn good. There are plenty of folks living in bad housing that would still find this pretty appealing.
Thats missing the point though. Audrey and Seymor could have had eachother, but they were set on this creepy suburb illusion, an american mirage that never really existed. Skid Row might suck, but atleast its real. They could have walked away and made a life for themselves.
Bingo. This here.
Mary Finn
Neither WWII or the Great Depression were in the 50s. Great Depression started in 1929, and WWII lasted from 1939-1945. Next time you want to name negative historical events and dump them on someone's words, at least obtain a basic knowledge of history beforehand.
Doug A true, but adults in the 50’s were children in the 30’s. If we extrapolate from that, seymour and Audery were children who lived through the poverty if the depression and the rationings of WWII as teenagers. Then as young adults, they live in a dense urban slum, riding the poverty line. This scene maybe farsicle or cartoonish in how it represents the suburban dream of the 50’s, but Ellen does a wonderful job of conveying that this simple suburban life is
Audery’s dream, and majorly touches the heart.
As for the change to the ending, I think the original worked better for the simple matter of staying true to the Faustian archetype that this story draws from.
I can’t unhear Herbert
thats the reason I never liked the original ending of that movie. She had the right to get a happy end!
Emanuel Mayer See, that's why I love it. It makes it that much more impactive...
This song is meant to be somewhat humorous, but her death makes your realize just how much of a person she is, especially since she dies with a reprise.
Her story is so sad because her dreams were simple, and her happy ending could have been found with ease, if the characters had made better decisions.
+Emanuel Mayer The best musicals are always somewhat dark.
Rent
Les Miserables
Little Shop Of Horrors
West Side Story
Wicked
Chicago
+TheHarlequinHatter I'd be okay with her dying, if in the original ending, the plant didn't win in the end? Like seriously you don't just let the thing that killed the love of your life win, lol.
tacoblocko Seymour doesn't let the plant win, he tries to fight it and loses!! By which I mean, he gets eaten..
+Emanuel Mayer No one has a "right" to a happy ending, most people end their lives the way they lived them - miserable, filthy and in pain. Its not a matter of right or wrong, its just how it is.
This must’ve seemed like a silly and banal dream in 1986, but this is totally an aspirational song for Millennials now.
One of the all-time great "I Want" songs, written and sung perfectly. What more can you ask from a musical than this?
If you don’t cry or get a little teary-eyed listening to this then you aren’t human.
Ellen Greene is stunning. Just stunning. Her investment in the character of Audrey is other-worldly. You cannot help but love her and her simple wishes in a life that's so complicated. It's heartbreaking the way she keeps the voice of Audrey for most of the song, and then occasionally her voice opens into a range and a strength that speaks of something bigger, deeper, and more inside this person, which so perfectly describes who she is, to me, as a musical metaphor.
That little sound she makes when she is is told that he namend the plant after her. Brilliant!
Lyrics:
I know Seymour's the greatest
But I'm dating a semi-sadist
So I've got a black eye
And my arm's in a cast.
Still, that Seymour's a cutie
Well, if not, he's got inner beauty
And I dream of a place
Where we could be together at last
A matchbox of our own
A fence of real chain link,
A grill out on the patio
Disposal in the sink
A washer and a dryer and an ironing machine
In a tract house that we share
Somewhere that's green.
He rakes and trims the grass
He loves to mow and weed
I cook like Betty Crocker
And I look like Donna Reed
There's plastic on the furniture
To keep it neat and clean
In the Pine-Sol scented air
Somewhere that's green
Between our frozen dinner
And our bedtime, nine-fifteen
We snuggle watchin' Lucy
On our big, enormous twelve-inch screen
I'm his December Bride
He's Father, he Knows Best
Our kids play Howdy Doody
As the sun sets in the west
A picture out of Better Homes and Gardens magazine
Far from Skid Row
I dream we'll go
Somewhere that's green.
"So i got a black eye and my arms in a cast" I like how she so nonchalant about it.
I love her accent she says that. It's so cute.
@@Rainbow_Quartz Consider her background( Major Spoiler Alert)...Her father abandoned her and her mother when she was younger, leaving them financially strapped. This is the 50's and 60's era, so landing a great guy was the ultimate goal...Call me crazy, but I think that's how she wound up shackled to Orin Scrivello. She tells her story in the song 'Suddenly Seymour.'
She met him in a night club where I guess she was something of a Playboy bunny, in a sense. She and her co-workers learned he was a dentist and thought he was a catch ( which he would be if you were a poor, working -class chick with few decent prospects).
I was in a production of this many years ago playing Ronette. Our Audrey (who was magnificent btw) sang this to us three girls while we all sat on the stoop in Skid Row. Embattled mistreated kind-hearted Audrey painted this beautiful picture for us beneath a flickering streetlamp and all our characters - four poor girls from Skid Row - escaped for a moment and we took the audience with us - before settling wistfully back on our grimy stoop in our harsh reality. It made the audience cry every night. I'll always love this song. Audrey asks for so little - and yet for so much, given the disadvantage she comes from. ❤️
Ellen Greene moves me every time. She really knew Audrey well.
It's funny to hear a Menken/Ashman song that isn't in a Disney movie xD but this shows,yet again,how gifted these two are/were(RIP Howard Ashman). You wouldn't think Audrey's dream would be this simple, just looking at her. All she wants is a normal,quiet life with this guy she loves. And I think that speaks to a lot of people,myself included. You get to really care for and sympathize with Audrey in a way you probably wouldn't if this song hadn't been written.
Had Ashman lived, he would have handled Frozen.
Howard Ashman always said the "I want" song was one of the most important in a musical because it helped you connect with a character. It's really true.
As someone who grew up in the suburbs and dreamed for years of moving to a city, romanticizing it like she romanticizes suburbia, this song was very poignant for me. brings a tear to me even through the terrible melodrama, satire and irony of it
This was my least favorite song when I was a kid but after living a life of hardship, poverty, homelessness, and addiction it speaks to my very soul. All I want is a place to call my own where I can be happy with the people I love. We don’t need much; food, companionship, autonomy, yet it all seems so out of reach for so many of us. Things like having a toaster and both a washer and a dryer shouldn’t be such lofty goals but I feel Audrey in my soul when she yearns for this and I know many of you coming to listen to this song years later are my kindred spirits. Maybe one day we’ll all find somewhere that’s green
Ellen green was the true Audrey the way she could go from sounding so sweet and innocent to deep and moving is amazing
I remember watching this as a kid and thinking it was boring. Now in my 30s, I'm trying not to cry. Strange what time does to you.
After my wife and I bought our house I had to start mowing the lawn, and I would sing this song while doing it. Of course, I felt a bit silly when it got to the line about looking like Donna Reed.
But the fact that I live in a house built just after WWII feeds into the stereotype.
I haven’t seen Little Shop of Horrors in YEARS yet this made me cry so hard
2:23
Not the Tupperware Party!
My mom tells me they used to do that all the time back then. I guess it must have been like an Avon meeting.
I had tears rolling down my eyes the first time I saw this scene. This actress managed to stay in character and bring such longing to this song, and, my God, can she sing!!! I still tear up today.
GOOD LORD MAN, I remember when my local small town did a production of Little Shop when I was 12 and this song got me a little even back then... going on 30 next year, I now know several people who were abused all their lives (and still are) who are some of the nicest people I've ever met. I just heard it again for the first time since 2006 probably and it carries so much more weight now. I've been sniffling for a while
I think this number is what ruined the original ending, we're really rooting for Audrey and Seymour, only for them to die horribly and tragically
***** Well Orin killed himself actually
+pokemonmanic3595 That's true, however Seymour tricked Mr. Mushnik into the plant.
Fox Teen Not really. He warned him last minute.
It's kind of why I prefer the studio's ending. I get that the Audrey II is supposed to be representative of Seymour's greed and that Audrey II consuming both him and Audrey is representative of how greed can destroy the things you love, but in the film version I never felt Seymour was portrayed as all that greedy of a person. Most of what happens seems to just kind of fall upon his lap. He never seemed to really indulge in his success and his wrongdoings are mostly result of emotional manipulation more than a deeply instilled greed.
That and I feel the original ending gets a little over indulgent in itself, which is good fun I suppose, it's definitely cool to see isolated. I just feel like it effects the pacing a bit negatively when placed into the film.
For me personally, I prefer the original ending because Little Shop feels like a reimagining of the story of Faust, with Seymour as Faust and Audery II as Mephistopheles. Sure, Seymour is horrified at what he’s doing to keep Audery II alive, but he’s still making a “deal with the devil” and for a story like that it needs to lead to his destruction, otherwise it kinda feels like an ass-pull.
I'm addicted to this song now. I don't know why lol.
Adam Ziggy same here.
It's cuz we r broke
In my childhood I've always tought this song was Beautiful , now that I speak English I know it is .
some guy just killed this at my local karaoke night we're all in tears
I would’ve loved to see that!
This is the saddest song I know.
+Ree Jones Listen to Gloomy Sunday, you'll have a new saddest song then. Dx
+Ree Jones Listen to Gloomy Sunday, you'll have a new saddest song then. Dx
+Morgan Palmer ha that's nothing compared to purple summer
+Ree Jones Listen to almost any vocaloid song, especially one that's part of "The Series of Evil"
+Ree Jones
Me too!!!! It's hard for a song to get me to cry but when I saw why this song actually got written for this musical, I lost it. My heart broke. Poor Seymour and Audrey... Also I can't help but feel bad for these two adorable kids who will never exist???
she is so adorable...
I saw this move for the first time when I was between 3-5 and rewatching it as an adult it’s truly amazing how deeply this song ingrained itself into my psyche and helped form my dreams of adulthood.
The end of this song reminds me so much of “Part Of Your World” from The Little Mermaid. Thank you Alan Menken and Howard Ashman for giving us these amazing soundtracks!
We were watching this movie in Drama class and these scene actually made me cry. Nothing else in the movie was moving enough to bring me to tears, but how much the song picks up during her fantasy and drops when she snaps back to reality is so sad..
I start to say this sounds very Disney but it’s really just Alan Menken at his best. He changed the sound of Disney in the 90s and beyond with his infectious musical style. Give that man another Oscar please. Btw The Family Guy parody fits perfectly
He totally deserves his EGOT status. Love Alan!
I always loved Ellen Greene, and this enormous voice just brimming beneath the surface.
I’ve sang this song for years and years. I am finally married. We just finished building our track house with community action. We put our blood sweat and tears into this home. In the laundry room I have a decal with the first two parts of the song.
0:45-1:20 is on the wall. Living 10 years with out my own washer this is a dream come true.
OMG Happy tears
It’s so adorable how all she wants is just a simple life.
Her life is just so horrible, she doesn’t care if she isn’t crazy rich. She just wants a family.
She wants a loving husband, kids, and just the most normal life you can think of.
;-;
And acceptance...acceptance and being loved is the two key points of her character
Absolute genius, from the concept through composing and lyrics, casting, production, and amazing performance. In top 10 all time of musical numbers.
Well as they say, the seaweed is always greener in somebody else's lake.
Haha under the sea
Family guy brought me here!!! But wow! This scene is making me cry like a baby!!! I thought this song was only a family guy thing!!! 😭😭😭
My all time favourite movie.
I watched this movie as a child. As an adult with all of the pressures, disappointments and stresses of adulthood, this song hits completely differently. Beautifully sad. Sadly beautiful.
I just love that opening note, not so much the words but how she sings it, very beautiful
This I feel is the quintessential version of "Somewhere That's Green" ever performed or recorded. Everything about it is perfect to me; Ellen Greene's vocals, the instrumental parts and backing... it all just works. Now all that's missing at the end is Sebastian falling inside the mug and crashing into some random objects! (And yes, I know the songwriters Alan Menken and Howard Ashman went to work for Disney as well.)
Audrey is and Seymour is my favorite character throughout the movie because they care about each other when he seen that Audrey was being abused on he did something. She is so pretty though and I love this song and Suddenly Seymour
Don't you find it interesting that she dreams of a simple middle class life that chances are most of us today have and take for granted?
I find it nauseating.
Most people do not live like this, not even in the US
This is middle class in the 50’s. Middle class right now in 2018 is very similar to the lower class. Middle class people rn are working 50+ hours to make ends meet. Back then you didn’t even need a degree to get this life and the woman didn’t even work. A lot has changed
I'm not middle class.
Well this is set in a time period where that dream was an affordable reality.
This is one of the sweetest songs I've ever heard
When I was a kid I thought this song was campy. As am adult I find it sweet and sad. You envision the life you would like to have with someone who you know that you will probably not be with, and then you are reminded of how your life actually is and that they are not in it. It is nice to dream tho even if you know deep down it probably won't happen.
I think quite a few people miss the subtext that nearly every single thing Audrey dreams about (except Seymour and the kids) is a heavily advertised commercial product. Yeah, it's a sweet fantasy about settling down with Seymour, but it's also conflating consumerism with personal satisfaction.
I agree with you when you said that Ellen Greene is the person who best sings this song.
The way she sings it is heart breaking and personal.
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As a man who never sought that life and hasn't built one yet, this loving tribute literally brought tears to my eyes. I know they play it to be silly yet what's silly about it really? A functional family in a well kept home? That's beautiful, not laughable! Apart from Seymour's look after checking in on the perfect mini-me kids and Mommy & Daddy's censor-friendly single beds which crack me up every time.
her voice just took me places when I was younger, still does. gotta admire such a clean sound
I had to take a pause in my cleaning day to admire this video. I cannot think of another song where someone wanted something so bad. 😢 Just a simple life.
A home and a family to love and cherish, that's all I want as well. Somewhere someday, maybe only in my wildest dreams.
For such a kitschy show, the songs are seriously touching.
This song breaks my freaken heart. It's really quite odd to type this comment in on my phone while watching this film on a 65 inch with my microwave burrito, because everything that is normal and common for me, in spite of my family never being wealthy, is far more luxurious than her simple desire to marry a kind guy and have her own home and family.
Audrey deserves the entire universe I'm convinced
"omewhere that's green" like inside Audrey 2's belly?
+PyroGothNerd Didn't she get eaten and die in the original ending?
+Tarou Myaki yeah
Tarou Myaki That's what I was alluding to. Heck, the whole song was leading up to, "Well, Audrey 2 is green..."
+PyroGothNerd That's the joke. "He rakes and trims the grass. He loves to mow and weed" alluding to Seymour's soon to be hatred of the Plant and wanting it to die.
I prefer the theatrical version.
3:20 separate beds.. so romantic
+DefoNotObsessed Separate beds used to be considered a sign of wealth
+PyroGothNerd Its also a parody of how families were portrayed on television in the early decades. Anything that even hinted at sex wasnt allowed, which included married couples sharing a bed.
+Henrik Magnusson but they have kids
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I never said the censorship standards were consistent
+DefoNotObsessed It was a spoof of what was shown on TV during the 50s, you see on TV couples weren't allowed to share the same bed, even if they did, one character had to be standing, or have one leg on the ground. I mean during the 50s, any mention of sex was considered very taboo.
I first heard this song when I saw this movie and as far as I’m concerned, no one has done it better than Ellen Green. She is so talented in so many areas:)
The lyrics "Somewhere that's green" is the same tune as "Part of your world" from The Little Mermaid. Alan Menken is just stealing from himself!
Same amount of syllables that’s why it sounds similar but it’s completely different notes
Actually, for this very reason during production "Part of Your World" was jokingly referred to as "Somewhere That's Wet" !
Well. Both did want to change where they lived. 💗
Honestly goals
Somewhere that’s green is the most sad place ever because it means a place that we always want to be but will never be
It's sweet, sad and funny all wrapped up in one song. Nothing else quite like it.
It is a melancholic and sweet song at the same time, showing the perfect place and the best dream house of people. She sang it with a lot of feeling, passion, dedication in body and soul.
This song is both hilarious and heartbreaking.
Her dream isn't to marry a super star, jet the world, be rich and famous and own a giant villa... her dream is just a cozy little suburban home with a nice garden, neighbors, friends, cute kids and a husband that adores and cherishes her as much as she cherishes him. That something so humble is so far out of her reach is just tragic and it's interesting to see her dream being framed between her mentioning dating a sadist that caused her to carry her arm in a sling on one hand and that last dolly shot of skid row at the end.
Poor Audrey.
ever since Family guy did a spoof of this song on an episode i never not once knew the origin of it.... nice to know where it actually came from now