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Someday... you'll appreciate this (song commentary)
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Queen for a Day (Summer/Moroder/Bellotte), from Once Upon a Time, 1977, Casablanca (Falsetto) |
Donna Summer transformed in a Queen with disco makeup by Bandy as part of a promotional campaign tie-in for "Once Upon a Time," 1977 |
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In the Fairy Tale concept album, this track is #7. By the time we get to this song, we're already tired from the feverish pitch of the journey that's taken us from reality into fantasy and back. In "Queen for a Day," our heroine finds salvation from a night of drudgery while everyone else is out having a ball and transforms into Queen of the Disco at the same time. I'm certain that this song holds a lot of meaning, both for those who have their day in the sun as well as those who celebrate their dance floor reign every Saturday night. Trademark Moroder synthesizers and a solid Bellotte disco beat set the tone for classic and beautifully floating falsetto reminiscent of "I Feel Love" and truly representing the description of her own transformation. Never released as a single, this second thrust into musical fantasy on the album is the watershed moment when our heroine's dreams begin to become reality and is eerily just as appropriate in the original mid-millennium Europe of Cinderella as it is in a late-twentieth century disco. Searching for Prince Charming has long been a quest for young women everywhere. Much to the dismay of the creator of the concept of the Cinderella Syndrome as something unhealthy and oppressive to the role of women as equals, Donna magically demonstrates the dream is alive and well in post-liberation society-and shows us that there's nothing wrong with that.
(Written by David Thornton)
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