The song is a description of a young femme fatale, plain and simple. She's an enticing, promiscuous woman who makes prospective partners work for it, but has all the charms it takes to make them put that effort in. Still she moves on once she's made her conquest. It would be over-stating it to call her "evil" though. All the song says she does to the men she entices is make them sad she doesn't stay.
It might be significant that Harlow gold sounds almost like "hollow gold". Maybe not though. Harlow played a lot of femme's fatale. I don't think the song is about Marilyn Monroe rather than an imaginary woman. Monroe's on-screen presence wasn't mysterious and film noiresque and the woman in this song has nothing of the woman-child about her.
It's less than that. It's more specific. It's about the embrace of both the femme fatale you elude to as well as the specific figure, in the tint of kim carnes, specifically. your generalization is not wrong per se, but way off.
This is about an artists' embrace and expression of an iconic figure. It's well done by human standards.
It's less than that. It's more specific. It's about the embrace of both the femme fatale you elude to as well as the specific figure, in the tint of kim carnes, specifically. your generalization is not wrong per se, but way off.
This is about an artists' embrace and expression of an iconic figure. It's well done by human standards.
The song is a description of a young femme fatale, plain and simple. She's an enticing, promiscuous woman who makes prospective partners work for it, but has all the charms it takes to make them put that effort in. Still she moves on once she's made her conquest. It would be over-stating it to call her "evil" though. All the song says she does to the men she entices is make them sad she doesn't stay.
It might be significant that Harlow gold sounds almost like "hollow gold". Maybe not though. Harlow played a lot of femme's fatale. I don't think the song is about Marilyn Monroe rather than an imaginary woman. Monroe's on-screen presence wasn't mysterious and film noiresque and the woman in this song has nothing of the woman-child about her.
It's less than that. It's more specific. It's about the embrace of both the femme fatale you elude to as well as the specific figure, in the tint of kim carnes, specifically. your generalization is not wrong per se, but way off. This is about an artists' embrace and expression of an iconic figure. It's well done by human standards.
It's less than that. It's more specific. It's about the embrace of both the femme fatale you elude to as well as the specific figure, in the tint of kim carnes, specifically. your generalization is not wrong per se, but way off. This is about an artists' embrace and expression of an iconic figure. It's well done by human standards.