This song hits so hard. He's right, Hedwig always assumed she had to look for someone to make her complete, but he's right. There's no such thing as a "other half", no preassigned perfect person meant for you....you have to be enough. You ARE enough.
I don't know about that...ive always hated myself. Tried to use razors, putting cigarettes out, heroin, crack, drink, womanising to always make the horrible feeling I had inside me just be numb or to forget about it. Then I met someone who felt like every single piece I was missing was filled up... And I won't ever ever ever get over her. And I'm with someone else I love and probably have babies with... And I do adore her... But she's not my other half. The one I still ache for... Like a dull tooth ache in my soul... She's the only thing in these wretched 40 years that I have ever felt like all the love songs make sense... That I was complete when I was waking up with her or we shared a joke or we were together... It's hard to describe but I know I'm not enough. And nobody else will be either.
@@mccarthy5825 you speak real words. my emptiness comes and goes and I'm not arrogant enough to say I understand. I know this sounds corny but what helps me is helping those in worse shape than me. I do little deeds,I do larger deeds that benefit friends and strangers. it really helps. wise men say helping others is why we're here in the first place. idk. peace to you.
...Losing your naivety about love. It is so very hard. Especially for kids who were messed up. This movie is my favourite movie. This song is lately my favourite song. It breaks my heart all the time
We need connection- it is absolutely true, but I find we are always enough AND we can be better people together, both are true; I dont think it's about being alone or without love for others, but discovering what it means to be your own home base and feeling at home in your own skin.
My comfort song. It really speaks to me whenever I feel empty and broken "You think that Luck has left you there, but maybe there's nothing up in the sky but air. And there's no mystical design, no cosmic lover preassigned, there's nothing you can find that cannot be found. Cause with all the changes you've been through, it seems the stranger's always you, alone again in some new wicked little town" The power these words have over me. It feels like I'm healing. Feels like I need to remind myself that I'm whole
This song gives me so much perspective. I grew up in a place I knew early on I wanted to leave. I spent my college years and early 20s trying to figure out where would work for me. And looking for fresh starts when it felt like I accumulated baggage somewhere. Now I’m 2 years into living in the city I intended to call home for the rest of my life when I moved here. It still might be, but I’ve had to temper my expectations. Anywhere can turn into a wicked little town when you associate a place with your problems in life.
I think I looked at the character of Tommy differently after those first few lines. Forgive me, For I did not know. 'Cause I was just a boy And you were so much more He was just a 17 year old when he met Hedwig. He was an angsty teenager who wanted to rebel and knew nothing about how relationships worked. Of course he went and fucked up. Hedwig was in her late twenties, and had been through more than most.
Reminds me of my first relationship, I was 18 with a place of my own. He was maybe 4 years older than I was. We both went to the same university. I lost my v-card to him, he’d visit my place... and since I was naive I thought he wanted to do it everytime he visited. He got annoyed and left, ghosted me just like that.
This is just one of those moments that works so much better for me in the movie than in the stage version. The catharsis and loss are just heartbreaking.
This song was number 24 on a Buzzfeed article called "59 Broadway Songs That Will Make You Sob Uncontrollably" and I couldn't agree more, except for the fact that it should be number 1
Actually the original song by Hedwig before Tommy Gnosis' character stole the song from him is just absolutely beautiful you should check that out if you haven't heard it this song is great but that original is so much better
For me it’s Frances ruffelle “on my own” original cast recording but also midnight radio and both versions of this song, saw JCM perform live in the revival a few years back and sobbed the whole time, tears of catharsis joy & wonder
i’m not attracted to him physically but he has this aura about him that makes him so intriguing and fascinating despite being terrible to hedwig. idk if it’s because he reminds me of my best friend or something else entirely
Forgive me, For I did not know. 'Cause I was just a boy And you were so much more Than any god could ever plan, More than a woman or a man. And now I understand how much I took from you: That, when everything starts breaking down, You take the pieces off the ground And show this wicked town something beautiful and new. You think that Luck Has left you there. But maybe there's nothing up in the sky but air. And there's no mystical design, No cosmic lover preassigned. There's nothing you can find that can not be found. 'Cause with all the changes you've been through It seems the stranger's always you. Alone again in some new Wicked little town. So when you've got no other choice You know you can follow my voice Through the dark turns and noise Of this wicked little town. Oh it's a wicked, little town. Goodbye, wicked little town.
I think they mean even MORE now that I’ve come to understand the meaning better with age & as our society has changed (and thus we all know more than we did when it first came out.)
So the part of this song that makes me lose it that can only be conveyed in the movie is the part where Tommy sings "you know you can follow my voice" but he stops singing and just stares at Hedwig. He's saying "you can rely on me" but his actions are saying "nah, this is just you, it's always been about you". That's always stuck with me. Even when I listen to the soundtrack I think of that part and just start bawling.
This is mad. I used to believe in soulmates and the whole “origin of love” bit. It’s such a beautiful idea but it’s not true. Odds are, there’s always going to be someone better for you out there than the person you end up with it. “There’s no mystical design No cosmic lover preassigned.” I just ended a relationship with someone who I thought was my actual honest-to-God soulmate. So this is really speaking to me right now.
There's a song by (obscure '90s power pop band) The Gladhands called Get Real, and the bridge goes "Gather up the memories, the good the bad, the in-between/ Walk away and learn from all the things we taught each other". Maybe our "soul mates" are only meant to be temporary, catalysts to help us evolve/ learn. I'm still trying to figure out this shit myself....
For me I never believed in the "other half"....IDK but I always felt whole all my first 20 years of existence and then bamm I fell in love.... and from that day on I live with the fear of losing him and be irreparably damaged...is this sad???....
Not ever believing n "pre-assigned" partners until met a guy 14 yrs ago...n he was REALLY ACTUALLY the yen to my yang! Where I fell short socially he covered it! Where he fell short just keepin day to day things together I had to keep him focused! I had boyfriends n he had girlfriends (yep! He was straight"ish" ha) thru out those yrs! But we both seemed to pic each other OVER the others! He died of an opioid overdose 2 yrs ago! Lost my best friend and my soul mate! No one can replace him
I have also just came out of a relationship with someone who I believed for real was my soulmate I still believe they are and I’m hoping in the future they’ll forgive me for making the biggest mistake and she’ll hopefully come back
I watched this movie with one of my gay friend's boyfriends. We stayed up talking about it, and i was bawling my eyes out at the end. Years later, my boyfriend comes out to me as a transgender. She asks me to stay with her. My world falls apart. I come back to Hedwig. I listen to this song over and over. I never forget the words "That when everything starts breaking down you take the pieces off the ground and show this wicked town something beautiful and new, so when you've got no other choice, you know you can follow my voice through the dark turns and noise of this wicked little town." I don't know what is going to happen, but every day I think about singing this song to her, so she doesn't have to be afraid, so the wicked little town means nothing, because she can follow my voice. Goodbye wicked little town.
+An De Can't hold it against someone for being who they are. Nor can you celebrate them for being who they are. Just be with them, for who they are. Make nothing of it... who they are.
"And when you've got no other choice, you know you can follow my voice" and then his lips stop moving 😩 I hate this in life, but it is so true. This movie is true. Genuine emotion, character, performance... I loved it since I was a kid, not even understanding the issue.
"But maybe there's nothing up in the sky but air" damn I used to skip this version when listening to the broadway album, but now I almost like it more than Hedwig's version. Just that line is so relevant to the whole story.
I think its a matter of perspective, possible gained from age. When young we feel like there's a plan, that the world is out and we're looking for our place, and our soul mate. As we get older this version rings more true. There is no grand design, just moments we either handled correctly or regret, and our life is just a combination of those moments and the way we responded to them. Hedwig's version is for the young and hopeful, this version is for the old and acceptance.. At least, that's how I interpret it.
@@altusshow7574 and @david martin: It's a REPRISE--yet Trask's brilliance is in making even this reprise not just a pat reiteration but part of the development of the story leading the way to resolution. It's totally about perspective and particularly knowledge ("Gnosis"), regardless of time/age involved. Whereas "The Origin of Love" was basically Aristophanes' speech from Plato's Symposium, this is more like a dramatization of the philosophy that led to Bloom's taxonomy, if you will--the journey from mere recognition and comprehension of events to their analysis, application... and finally synthesis, once we've incorporated that knowledge into who we are and how/what we create going forward as completely changed/new beings. Sometimes this happens very quickly, and sometimes it may never happen despite our best efforts and regardless of how long we wrestle with something. The transition from the end of this song into "Midnight Radio" illustrates: we go from darkness to light as Hedwig acclimates to her latest update--now with the Gnosis cross on the forehead--and uses "Midnight Radio" as a ballad of transcendence, humility and self-assurance that immediately trickles down to the acceptance if not downright exultation of Yitzhak's freedom of self-expression. ruclips.net/video/iefvEL1E46o/видео.html
I think the thing that breaks my heart is in the stage show, Tommy Gnosis performs this song as a callout to Hedwig, not knowing she's a block away, but manages to hear this after her breakdown. It is performed with Hedwig as Tommy, but that's the story. However, in the movie, this is just a vision, not an actual scene in context. This is part of the weird separation from reality Hedwig has that leads into Midnight Radio. So, while the movie does change the circumstances of their reunion, this catharsis isn't real.
It happened in her head and her heart. Why wouldn't it be real to her? Hedwig can imagine what would happen and being in a happily ever after and loving herself. How is that not real for her?
I'm only watching this movie now as I've only recently heard of it, and wow, I was not prepared for the beauty it was gonna give. This song and that shot of Hedwig starting to cry as Tommy sang about the changes she had to go through and build herself over made me ball. All the songs are so amazing
Tommy and Hedwig are the same person. Ultimately, this scene is the climax of the film, where Hedwig realizes that to be herself, to feel complete, she has to make peace with herself and her gender, rather than finding some "soulmate" or "other half". Hedwig was abusive toward Yitzhak, she maintained a sense of control (a theme set up in the flashback with Hedwig's mother). Hedwig wanted control because she was afraid of exploring herself, which kept both of them from finding out about each other's identity. After she rips up Yitzhak's passport and the two fight on stage, Hedwig starts to look deeper into herself for the first time in years, bringing us to this scene.
There's no doubt Hedwig and Tommy are twin flames. The way they mirror each other and how Tommy teaches Hedwig to face his inner self. Beautifully written and touchy. I always go back to this song whenever I feel like purging fear and doubt. And when I feel self-pity as an unloved and unwanted girl.
It just reminds me of the very first time I was in love and that horrible pain when it really ends It's literally the most empty feeling.. it's a Wicked Little Town...
Everyone’s already said this but this song really does make me cry. It’s beautiful and wonderful. Even though I have a love-hate relationship with Tommy, I can’t deny the beauty of this scene and song. It’s my favorite part of the whole film
+andyt1313 I am certain that it is Stephen Trask's voice as well. Stephen Trask plays Skszp in the movie as he did in the play. He sang The Long Grift himself in the play - the song Tommy Gnosis is working on with Hedwig while she's trimming his eyebrows - but that is Michael Pitt's voice. Just to be sure, I checked imdb and it also says that Stephen Trask sang the vocals for Michael Pitt. It's a great movie and my favorite song from Hedwig and The Angry Inch no matter what format. I'm not trying to be a know-it-all, so please don't take it that way. I'm just a dorky HedHead.
I watched this movie late at night with my mom because we wanted to watch it and she thought it was a weird movie but I loved it and still do, I really want to see the show sometime
Yes! The first time I watched this movie I was around my early twenties. It blew my mind completely and when I found out it was originally an off-Broadway musical it was a mind supernova. Glad you're validating your gut. That's a nice path to peace.
As much as I dislike Tommy Gnosis' character I have respect for him coming up with these lyrics. I don't think these lyrics resonate with me as much as others but there's just something about the song that makes me want to cry and smile at the same time.
+Thirdy Saruca Yeah, I agree. When I think of this song though I just imagine that after Exquisite Corpse, Hedwig stumbled into another room that was playing this on the radio and this is what he imagined in his head. But if you're implying Hedwig imagined the whole song lyrics up along with the scene that'd make sense too. This whole part is great regardless ^_^
+ClemmencyTiger From the way the play and movie makes the scene, this was all made-up by Hedwig as a way to accept that there's no "other half" she's been looking for and to let go of Tommy (especially after she gained her success from him).
chapsticky00 - haha, same here... tho it was “silent films (Chaplin, Keaton etc), old sci-fi, Japanese films and anime and *weird* films” to “broadway and drag”... tho these days I’m back to the silent films and sci-fi... this is still in my *Top 10 films* tho which is saying something !!!
Scienide72 - I felt the same way when I met john...what an absolute sweetheart he was. Just wonderful! He even gave me a hug and a kiss and I got to tell him how Hedwig got me through one of the hardest times I've ever gone through. It felt so good to connect with him, it won't be forgotten.... Then he watched me perform as Magenta in the Rocky Horror Picture Show here in Tucson! :)
Long ago, I fell for a guy, hard, and he left me for someone else and broke my heart. I look back on it now and I know it was the wrong time for us, we still had growing to do, etc., but still, it hurt, and I still love him a little after all this time. Sometimes I wish he could apologize for the hurt but I know it would be a scene kind of like this, with him telling me he's sorry but I gotta be whole myself.
I saw this live in Dallas back in the day (different cast/ touring cast) and it was absolutely amazing. I went and talked to the guy playing/singing hedwig right after and he was covered in sweat and almost shaking. What an intense performance. Beautiful
A few months ago one of my friends told me she is transexual (she was born as a boy) and sometimes is hard for me to feel like I'm saying the right thing to her, i didn't knew what to say not because I wasn't ok with it just because it was all new to me. And I know that what I feel about it is not as important as how she feels while going through her transition. But still it was like I didn't knew how to be her friend anymore. But then I educated myself. I read a lot, a talk a lot to transexual people, I asked the stupid questions like: "what bathroom do you use" and I watched a few movies and speacilly this one remind me of something. After I broke up with my last boyfriend I had this fantasy dream in which he would just appear out of nowhere to tell me he was sorry and that he wanted me back. It was basically the same idea of the lyrics in this song, specially the part of "And now I understand how much I took from you" My friend watched it with me, and she told me that line was heartbreaking for her. And it hit me, I am not transexual but I do feel like I have the same heart that Hedwig has. I feel like I have the same heart that my friend has. In many ways I thought this would mean a big change in our friendship but she is just the same crazy person only happier. And maybe some people who has transexual friends feel the same because is just new information... but if anybody is reading this, i'm telling you to remind yourself we all have the same heart, we all share at least one similar experience, we are all humans. And your friend knows that so you better learn it too. I think it's important to have more movies, songs and books that talk about this because otherwise it would always look like a strange thing that needs to be assimilated. For me is just my friend who is still the biggest slut in the planet, and now we get to share clothes and use the same bathroom (we use the same before too, but now is like "allowed") So thanks for this movie, and for all the ones that came before my friend, without you she would've been unhappy and I would've been an ignorant asshole.
I feel that. I'm trying to figure out how best to help my friend too, and maybe not even help, just be there. Cause she's amazing and beautiful and all I want is to see her happy. But I'm straight, and cis, and normal, and I don't understand exactly, but I love her, and I'm trying to be the friend she needs/deserves. Thank you so much for sharing!
Too many people see the poster for the movie, play/musical, or even the videos here on youtube and refuse to listen to the music. This music is just so amazing.
The story is ultimately what happens when fucked up people meet others and fuck them up, too. It happened when Hedwig was Hansel, and Hedwig in turn did it to Tommy. Circles and cycles of abuse, non-matching spoons... it can fuck us all up, and we make mistakes we simply cannot take back. That's Hedwig.
I cry every time I this song appears in the movie. I own a copy and will now have to bring it out. We are all just as God made us. Unfortunately some people are just not a part of God's World. Big difference. Accept your children for who they are. Tough love and patience, LOTS of patience). Thank you.
Even the biggest cities can turn into one's own "wicked little town". I took that away from this. It's up to us not to be the stranger and search for things new and beautiful to us.
If you watch the actually broadway show this song is sung by the man playing Hedwig. It has so much more meaning when it’s live. Then going right into Midnight Radio, your heart will be shook.
When it shows them from far away as blue and red they look like two planets in the sky. It's so beautiful. Those songs help me pull through life. When I'm in shit I turn to them and just build on believing there is good out there for me too. Good and funny and goofy situations. I love that Hedwig has a salad when the public throws tomatos.
There's no formula. What works for one person may not work for another. We go through life We take our shots, sometimes we get lucky and we hit the bullseye early sometimes we spend our whole life trying to perfect our aim and we end up missing everything around us cuz we're worried about that one thing I don't know, I think maybe I'm at a point where I'm finding more happiness just focusing on things that really excite me and make me happy and I'm just going to let everything else take care of itself. Instead of looking for love I'm going to be the love that I seek. As far as I can tell that's the only way to avoid disappointment You know what they say, if you want a job done right, you've got to do it yourself Well I think that goes for love too
This song hits so hard. He's right, Hedwig always assumed she had to look for someone to make her complete, but he's right. There's no such thing as a "other half", no preassigned perfect person meant for you....you have to be enough. You ARE enough.
I don't know about that...ive always hated myself. Tried to use razors, putting cigarettes out, heroin, crack, drink, womanising to always make the horrible feeling I had inside me just be numb or to forget about it.
Then I met someone who felt like every single piece I was missing was filled up... And I won't ever ever ever get over her. And I'm with someone else I love and probably have babies with... And I do adore her... But she's not my other half. The one I still ache for... Like a dull tooth ache in my soul... She's the only thing in these wretched 40 years that I have ever felt like all the love songs make sense... That I was complete when I was waking up with her or we shared a joke or we were together...
It's hard to describe but I know I'm not enough. And nobody else will be either.
@@mccarthy5825 you speak real words. my emptiness comes and goes and I'm not arrogant enough to say I understand. I know this sounds corny but what helps me is helping those in worse shape than me. I do little deeds,I do larger deeds that benefit friends and strangers. it really helps. wise men say helping others is why we're here in the first place. idk. peace to you.
...Losing your naivety about love. It is so very hard. Especially for kids who were messed up.
This movie is my favourite movie. This song is lately my favourite song. It breaks my heart all the time
Amyn. ❤
We need connection- it is absolutely true, but I find we are always enough AND we can be better people together, both are true; I dont think it's about being alone or without love for others, but discovering what it means to be your own home base and feeling at home in your own skin.
it seems the stranger's always you...
Alone again in some new, wicked little town..
+rannierunsfast AAAAAAaaahhh....
...through the dark turns and noise of this wicked little town...
I felt that
@@rannierunsfast pala
My comfort song. It really speaks to me whenever I feel empty and broken
"You think that Luck has left you there, but maybe there's nothing up in the sky but air.
And there's no mystical design, no cosmic lover preassigned, there's nothing you can find that cannot be found.
Cause with all the changes you've been through, it seems the stranger's always you,
alone again in some new wicked little town"
The power these words have over me. It feels like I'm healing. Feels like I need to remind myself that I'm whole
This song gives me so much perspective. I grew up in a place I knew early on I wanted to leave. I spent my college years and early 20s trying to figure out where would work for me. And looking for fresh starts when it felt like I accumulated baggage somewhere.
Now I’m 2 years into living in the city I intended to call home for the rest of my life when I moved here. It still might be, but I’ve had to temper my expectations.
Anywhere can turn into a wicked little town when you associate a place with your problems in life.
I think I looked at the character of Tommy differently after those first few lines.
Forgive me,
For I did not know.
'Cause I was just a boy
And you were so much more
He was just a 17 year old when he met Hedwig. He was an angsty teenager who wanted to rebel and knew nothing about how relationships worked. Of course he went and fucked up. Hedwig was in her late twenties, and had been through more than most.
I thought Hedwig was close to 40. Not that it matters much either way.
That is actually disgusting
@@newglappy2389 He was still the age of consent tho.
The entire movie is this scene, as I see it.
Reminds me of my first relationship, I was 18 with a place of my own. He was maybe 4 years older than I was. We both went to the same university. I lost my v-card to him, he’d visit my place... and since I was naive I thought he wanted to do it everytime he visited. He got annoyed and left, ghosted me just like that.
That faintest little heartbroken smile before they say goodbye. It kills me every time
They are the same person.
Stephen Trask is a genius.
He totally is
Absolutely.
This is just one of those moments that works so much better for me in the movie than in the stage version. The catharsis and loss are just heartbreaking.
I appreciate this comment, having not seen it on stage. This is such an emotional scene.
@@thelostronin Tommy is played by the same actor on the stage version 😢
@@theOGofREDS The same actor as Hedwig?
@@crazycatladyjo2688 yes
This song was number 24 on a Buzzfeed article called "59 Broadway Songs That Will Make You Sob Uncontrollably" and I couldn't agree more, except for the fact that it should be number 1
i hate buzzfeed so much - 59? why not just find one more and make it an even 60 - their lists are always random numbers like that
Actually the original song by Hedwig before Tommy Gnosis' character stole the song from him is just absolutely beautiful you should check that out if you haven't heard it this song is great but that original is so much better
Fuck Buzzfeed. Hedwig is far too great to be in the same sentence as buzzfeed
For me it’s Frances ruffelle “on my own” original cast recording but also midnight radio and both versions of this song, saw JCM perform live in the revival a few years back and sobbed the whole time, tears of catharsis joy & wonder
This scene never fails to bring me to tears😢
It was the best scene in the movie.
Thats so, everytime
Something about Tommy is so intriguing and attractive to me. No idea why. I guess because he's so grungy and raw, so punky.
He's that roaring hot combination of totally gorgeous, vulnerable, traumatized, talented, and horny! Holy smokes, what's not to love?
Oh hell yes he is otherworldly in every film he does
Michael Pitt is beautiful. I’d sell a cousin for that man. Lol
i’m not attracted to him physically but he has this aura about him that makes him so intriguing and fascinating despite being terrible to hedwig. idk if it’s because he reminds me of my best friend or something else entirely
It's the punk/rockstar aura, I fell for someone like that so I can confirm that.
Forgive me,
For I did not know.
'Cause I was just a boy
And you were so much more
Than any god could ever plan,
More than a woman or a man.
And now I understand how much I took from you:
That, when everything starts breaking down,
You take the pieces off the ground
And show this wicked town
something beautiful and new.
You think that Luck
Has left you there.
But maybe there's nothing
up in the sky but air.
And there's no mystical design,
No cosmic lover preassigned.
There's nothing you can find
that can not be found.
'Cause with all the changes
you've been through
It seems the stranger's always you.
Alone again in some new
Wicked little town.
So when you've got no other choice
You know you can follow my voice
Through the dark turns and noise
Of this wicked little town.
Oh it's a wicked, little town.
Goodbye, wicked little town.
After all these years, these words still rip my heart out.
I think they mean even MORE now that I’ve come to understand the meaning better with age & as our society has changed (and thus we all know more than we did when it first came out.)
This song is hurting me, I can feel all the Hedwig's pain.
I mean, this is very emotive.
Dalia Pinto me too. its sad:(
Jacob Mendoza Yes, I know :(
He is really emotive here. This is the best scene in the movie, IMO
Dalia Pinto - the next song, *Midnight Radio,* is the one that always kills me... it’s the combination of these two songs that gets me every time !!
come 2 me
So the part of this song that makes me lose it that can only be conveyed in the movie is the part where Tommy sings "you know you can follow my voice" but he stops singing and just stares at Hedwig. He's saying "you can rely on me" but his actions are saying "nah, this is just you, it's always been about you". That's always stuck with me. Even when I listen to the soundtrack I think of that part and just start bawling.
same here as tears stream down my face watching this.
This whole scene wrecks me.
And this song is so beautiful. It slays
Yes, I felt it as "It's not my voice... it's yours".
And then he says "Goodbye."
UGH. 💔💔💔
every time Tommy stops mouthing the lyrics/words during 'you know you can follow my ----' i die every time. genius.
This is mad. I used to believe in soulmates and the whole “origin of love” bit. It’s such a beautiful idea but it’s not true. Odds are, there’s always going to be someone better for you out there than the person you end up with it.
“There’s no mystical design
No cosmic lover preassigned.”
I just ended a relationship with someone who I thought was my actual honest-to-God soulmate. So this is really speaking to me right now.
There's a song by (obscure '90s power pop band) The Gladhands called Get Real, and the bridge goes "Gather up the memories, the good the bad, the in-between/ Walk away and learn from all the things we taught each other". Maybe our "soul mates" are only meant to be temporary, catalysts to help us evolve/ learn.
I'm still trying to figure out this shit myself....
For me I never believed in the "other half"....IDK but I always felt whole all my first 20 years of existence and then bamm I fell in love.... and from that day on I live with the fear of losing him and be irreparably damaged...is this sad???....
Not ever believing n "pre-assigned" partners until met a guy 14 yrs ago...n he was REALLY ACTUALLY the yen to my yang!
Where I fell short socially he covered it! Where he fell short just keepin day to day things together I had to keep him focused!
I had boyfriends n he had girlfriends (yep! He was straight"ish" ha) thru out those yrs! But we both seemed to pic each other OVER the others!
He died of an opioid overdose 2 yrs ago! Lost my best friend and my soul mate!
No one can replace him
I have also just came out of a relationship with someone who I believed for real was my soulmate I still believe they are and I’m hoping in the future they’ll forgive me for making the biggest mistake and she’ll hopefully come back
Welcome to adulthood. Relationships are what you make them, nothing is preordained but the idea makes for nice fairy tales.
Why am I watching this? I can’t even hear this song without crying.
I've been dreaming about it and I had to get the emotions out so I watched it again. 😅 😭😭😭
When Hedwig starts crying, I just wanna give her a hug 💔
same 💔
I watched this movie with one of my gay friend's boyfriends. We stayed up talking about it, and i was bawling my eyes out at the end. Years later, my boyfriend comes out to me as a transgender. She asks me to stay with her. My world falls apart. I come back to Hedwig. I listen to this song over and over. I never forget the words "That when everything starts breaking down you take the pieces off the ground and show this wicked town something beautiful and new, so when you've got no other choice, you know you can follow my voice through the dark turns and noise of this wicked little town." I don't know what is going to happen, but every day I think about singing this song to her, so she doesn't have to be afraid, so the wicked little town means nothing, because she can follow my voice. Goodbye wicked little town.
Beautiful
+An De Can't hold it against someone for being who they are. Nor can you celebrate them for being who they are. Just be with them, for who they are. Make nothing of it... who they are.
that is beautiful i hope one day i can find someone like you
you just made me cry. as a fellow transgender person, i'm wishing both of you the best of luck and good fortune
"And when you've got no other choice, you know you can follow my voice" and then his lips stop moving 😩 I hate this in life, but it is so true. This movie is true. Genuine emotion, character, performance... I loved it since I was a kid, not even understanding the issue.
"But maybe there's nothing up in the sky but air" damn I used to skip this version when listening to the broadway album, but now I almost like it more than Hedwig's version. Just that line is so relevant to the whole story.
This version is 1000 times better then Hedwig's
I think its a matter of perspective, possible gained from age. When young we feel like there's a plan, that the world is out and we're looking for our place, and our soul mate.
As we get older this version rings more true. There is no grand design, just moments we either handled correctly or regret, and our life is just a combination of those moments and the way we responded to them.
Hedwig's version is for the young and hopeful, this version is for the old and acceptance.. At least, that's how I interpret it.
This is a struggle, but beautiful
@@altusshow7574 and @david martin: It's a REPRISE--yet Trask's brilliance is in making even this reprise not just a pat reiteration but part of the development of the story leading the way to resolution.
It's totally about perspective and particularly knowledge ("Gnosis"), regardless of time/age involved. Whereas "The Origin of Love" was basically Aristophanes' speech from Plato's Symposium, this is more like a dramatization of the philosophy that led to Bloom's taxonomy, if you will--the journey from mere recognition and comprehension of events to their analysis, application... and finally synthesis, once we've incorporated that knowledge into who we are and how/what we create going forward as completely changed/new beings. Sometimes this happens very quickly, and sometimes it may never happen despite our best efforts and regardless of how long we wrestle with something. The transition from the end of this song into "Midnight Radio" illustrates: we go from darkness to light as Hedwig acclimates to her latest update--now with the Gnosis cross on the forehead--and uses "Midnight Radio" as a ballad of transcendence, humility and self-assurance that immediately trickles down to the acceptance if not downright exultation of Yitzhak's freedom of self-expression.
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The Christian teen Rockstar is bathed in an angelic blue light and poor headwig the hooker in a hellish red light. Every scene is so well done.
One of the BEST reprises in musicals history
I think the thing that breaks my heart is in the stage show, Tommy Gnosis performs this song as a callout to Hedwig, not knowing she's a block away, but manages to hear this after her breakdown. It is performed with Hedwig as Tommy, but that's the story.
However, in the movie, this is just a vision, not an actual scene in context. This is part of the weird separation from reality Hedwig has that leads into Midnight Radio. So, while the movie does change the circumstances of their reunion, this catharsis isn't real.
The thing is, she does need him to apologize to have that catharsis. She’s a whole person on her own
It happened in her head and her heart. Why wouldn't it be real to her? Hedwig can imagine what would happen and being in a happily ever after and loving herself. How is that not real for her?
I love Stephen Trask's voice....
@Gan Len the person who wrote and sang the song (Michael Pitt is lip syncing)
I'm only watching this movie now as I've only recently heard of it, and wow, I was not prepared for the beauty it was gonna give. This song and that shot of Hedwig starting to cry as Tommy sang about the changes she had to go through and build herself over made me ball. All the songs are so amazing
Tommy and Hedwig are the same person. Ultimately, this scene is the climax of the film, where Hedwig realizes that to be herself, to feel complete, she has to make peace with herself and her gender, rather than finding some "soulmate" or "other half".
Hedwig was abusive toward Yitzhak, she maintained a sense of control (a theme set up in the flashback with Hedwig's mother). Hedwig wanted control because she was afraid of exploring herself, which kept both of them from finding out about each other's identity.
After she rips up Yitzhak's passport and the two fight on stage, Hedwig starts to look deeper into herself for the first time in years, bringing us to this scene.
There's no doubt Hedwig and Tommy are twin flames. The way they mirror each other and how Tommy teaches Hedwig to face his inner self. Beautifully written and touchy. I always go back to this song whenever I feel like purging fear and doubt. And when I feel self-pity as an unloved and unwanted girl.
Love that for her
It just reminds me of the very first time I was in love and that horrible pain when it really ends It's literally the most empty feeling.. it's a Wicked Little Town...
This song/scene make me cry big ugly tears such a good movie
Everyone’s already said this but this song really does make me cry. It’s beautiful and wonderful. Even though I have a love-hate relationship with Tommy, I can’t deny the beauty of this scene and song. It’s my favorite part of the whole film
This is when my obsession with Michael Pitt began …. Bully, The Dreamers, Finding Forester, and so many more a talented beauty
Funny Games rocks
The best scene in the movie. And it's a GREAT movie!
That last look, that last silence shared, than last good bye... it´s a tremendous scene... chills all over...
that goodbye kills me every time
This song actually makes me cry every time I hear.
Not sure why this beautiful song doesn't have more views. Actually sung by the composer of the song and lip-synched by the actor from what I recall.
+andyt1313 I am certain that it is Stephen Trask's voice as well. Stephen Trask plays Skszp in the movie as he did in the play. He sang The Long Grift himself in the play - the song Tommy Gnosis is working on with Hedwig while she's trimming his eyebrows - but that is Michael Pitt's voice. Just to be sure, I checked imdb and it also says that Stephen Trask sang the vocals for Michael Pitt. It's a great movie and my favorite song from Hedwig and The Angry Inch no matter what format. I'm not trying to be a know-it-all, so please don't take it that way. I'm just a dorky HedHead.
Young Blues it is not but check out pagoda for pitts voice
It's def Stephen Trask
@Daniel no it's not
There is nothing you can find that cannot he found. Damn
I watched this movie late at night with my mom because we wanted to watch it and she thought it was a weird movie but I loved it and still do, I really want to see the show sometime
Yes! The first time I watched this movie I was around my early twenties. It blew my mind completely and when I found out it was originally an off-Broadway musical it was a mind supernova. Glad you're validating your gut. That's a nice path to peace.
if you search on youtube"HATAI" its bound to come up, its a great show watch it asap
Gunnar Rorholm was dragged ton the show with Darren C by my girlfriend and so glad she did. Awesome performance and music.
this is one of the most beautiful scenes there is, the way hedwig looks at tommy i'm crying
As much as I dislike Tommy Gnosis' character I have respect for him coming up with these lyrics. I don't think these lyrics resonate with me as much as others but there's just something about the song that makes me want to cry and smile at the same time.
I always thought this reprise of Wicked Little Town was just all happening in Hedwig's head
+Thirdy Saruca Yeah, I agree. When I think of this song though I just imagine that after Exquisite Corpse, Hedwig stumbled into another room that was playing this on the radio and this is what he imagined in his head. But if you're implying Hedwig imagined the whole song lyrics up along with the scene that'd make sense too. This whole part is great regardless ^_^
+ClemmencyTiger From the way the play and movie makes the scene, this was all made-up by Hedwig as a way to accept that there's no "other half" she's been looking for and to let go of Tommy (especially after she gained her success from him).
Cette scène est si belle et si importante..mon coeur se brise encore même des années après. Merveilleux...
This film was my introduction to the LGBT community and I instantly fell in love.
chapsticky00 - haha, same here... tho it was “silent films (Chaplin, Keaton etc), old sci-fi, Japanese films and anime and *weird* films” to “broadway and drag”... tho these days I’m back to the silent films and sci-fi... this is still in my *Top 10 films* tho which is saying something !!!
the second time i watched this show, this song hit me like a ton of bricks. So much meaning and emotion, sad but true, and hopeful.
This song will forever break my heart.
this made the whole musical a thing to cherish...I am so glad that in the end Hedwig realized that he is whole and was never a half of someone...LOVE
1:55 is my favorite part of this song. Absolute beauty.
Scienide72 - I felt the same way when I met john...what an absolute sweetheart he was. Just wonderful! He even gave me a hug and a kiss and I got to tell him how Hedwig got me through one of the hardest times I've ever gone through. It felt so good to connect with him, it won't be forgotten.... Then he watched me perform as Magenta in the Rocky Horror Picture Show here in Tucson! :)
WOW! Cool!
I met John too!!!
It's so beautiful damn
Shit hits hard
Welp, here come the waterworks.
I cry every time 😔
And theres no mystical design
No cosmic lover preassigned
가슴을 때리는 정도가 아니라 영혼을 때리는 가사다
I grew up on hedwig, but after all these years it still hits.
2:18 - 2:20 : the deepest two seconds of my life.
wow, how deep 2 seconds.
This song makes me cry every time I listen to it! It's one of my favorites. That and sugar daddy and wig in a box:) Love Hedwig and the angry inch
One of the greatest musicals in history...
Long ago, I fell for a guy, hard, and he left me for someone else and broke my heart. I look back on it now and I know it was the wrong time for us, we still had growing to do, etc., but still, it hurt, and I still love him a little after all this time. Sometimes I wish he could apologize for the hurt but I know it would be a scene kind of like this, with him telling me he's sorry but I gotta be whole myself.
I think reprise version is much better than orginal version
The reprise version is more emotional and goes against all the Bulls the "Origin of Love" talks about
The reprise is a response to the original. It's not impactful without the first part. They are two halves of the same.
Me too
same
2년전이면 군대도 전역하고 남았을듯
Awesome song, achingly beautiful lyrics about being different.
What an amazing master piece. Simply amazing. Can't stop watching it.
What a film, how much in it, and that music... A Masterpiece.
Aaaaaaaaaaand cue the waterworks.
*sobs*
I saw this live in Dallas back in the day (different cast/ touring cast) and it was absolutely amazing. I went and talked to the guy playing/singing hedwig right after and he was covered in sweat and almost shaking. What an intense performance. Beautiful
I will always love you
A few months ago one of my friends told me she is transexual (she was born as a boy) and sometimes is hard for me to feel like I'm saying the right thing to her, i didn't knew what to say not because I wasn't ok with it just because it was all new to me. And I know that what I feel about it is not as important as how she feels while going through her transition. But still it was like I didn't knew how to be her friend anymore.
But then I educated myself. I read a lot, a talk a lot to transexual people, I asked the stupid questions like: "what bathroom do you use" and I watched a few movies and speacilly this one remind me of something.
After I broke up with my last boyfriend I had this fantasy dream in which he would just appear out of nowhere to tell me he was sorry and that he wanted me back.
It was basically the same idea of the lyrics in this song, specially the part of "And now I understand how much I took from you"
My friend watched it with me, and she told me that line was heartbreaking for her.
And it hit me, I am not transexual but I do feel like I have the same heart that Hedwig has. I feel like I have the same heart that my friend has. In many ways I thought this would mean a big change in our friendship but she is just the same crazy person only happier.
And maybe some people who has transexual friends feel the same because is just new information... but if anybody is reading this, i'm telling you to remind yourself we all have the same heart, we all share at least one similar experience, we are all humans.
And your friend knows that so you better learn it too.
I think it's important to have more movies, songs and books that talk about this because otherwise it would always look like a strange thing that needs to be assimilated.
For me is just my friend who is still the biggest slut in the planet, and now we get to share clothes and use the same bathroom (we use the same before too, but now is like "allowed")
So thanks for this movie, and for all the ones that came before my friend, without you she would've been unhappy and I would've been an ignorant asshole.
I feel that. I'm trying to figure out how best to help my friend too, and maybe not even help, just be there. Cause she's amazing and beautiful and all I want is to see her happy. But I'm straight, and cis, and normal, and I don't understand exactly, but I love her, and I'm trying to be the friend she needs/deserves. Thank you so much for sharing!
"tommy gnosis sucks!".. i wrote that on my school's bathroom stall FYI
Too many people see the poster for the movie, play/musical, or even the videos here on youtube and refuse to listen to the music. This music is just so amazing.
John Cameron Mitchell IS Hedwig. Born to play this role IMO
this song breaks my heart every time i listen to it:(
The story is ultimately what happens when fucked up people meet others and fuck them up, too. It happened when Hedwig was Hansel, and Hedwig in turn did it to Tommy. Circles and cycles of abuse, non-matching spoons... it can fuck us all up, and we make mistakes we simply cannot take back. That's Hedwig.
I cry every time I this song appears in the movie. I own a copy and will now have to bring it out. We are all just as God made us.
Unfortunately some people are just not a part of God's World. Big difference. Accept your children for who they are. Tough love and patience, LOTS of patience). Thank you.
Cant stop watching.
Even the biggest cities can turn into one's own "wicked little town". I took that away from this. It's up to us not to be the stranger and search for things new and beautiful to us.
Cause of all the changes youve been through...it seems the strangers always you....felt like that many times and i still do.....
by far the best song in the whole movie/play and these lyrics are incredible
brilliant song, brilliant show, brilliant movie!
If you watch the actually broadway show this song is sung by the man playing Hedwig. It has so much more meaning when it’s live. Then going right into Midnight Radio, your heart will be shook.
i remember watching this on ifc when i was 13 or 14
When it shows them from far away as blue and red they look like two planets in the sky. It's so beautiful.
Those songs help me pull through life. When I'm in shit I turn to them and just build on believing there is good out there for me too. Good and funny and goofy situations. I love that Hedwig has a salad when the public throws tomatos.
Hedwig... burned thru my fkn soul - nvr th same since. thnku XXX!!!
And Stephen Trask has the fragging coolest voice !
How do his pants stay up? Are they glued on??
The best part about this song is that it's about how Hedwig make amazeballs out of the shittiest hand someone could imagine being dealt.
Beautiful
1:54 the harmonies are so good
There's no formula. What works for one person may not work for another. We go through life We take our shots, sometimes we get lucky and we hit the bullseye early sometimes we spend our whole life trying to perfect our aim and we end up missing everything around us cuz we're worried about that one thing I don't know, I think maybe I'm at a point where I'm finding more happiness just focusing on things that really excite me and make me happy and I'm just going to let everything else take care of itself. Instead of looking for love I'm going to be the love that I seek. As far as I can tell that's the only way to avoid disappointment You know what they say, if you want a job done right, you've got to do it yourself Well I think that goes for love too
i can't make it through this song without crying
Literally bawling no one look at me
This got me to stay the whole night long.
i love this song such depth its heart breaking !
❤❤❤ sadest song ever...
You had me at aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!
I cry so hard when I hear this song. Both versions but mostly this one
NOBODY makes Hedwig cryy!!! :'(
absolutely gorgeous and heartbreaking
Wish all music has meaning like this song does
Love it
Sometimes we can lose our feels.
This is where you can go to get them back.
And when everything starts breaking down...you take the pieces off the ground...
His voice is amazing