The slightly creepy side to Cole Porter music

I was listening to some Cole Porter the other day, and it occurred to me that some of his songs have a rather creepy quality to them.

Stalking love:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuwaE8xTbfo[/youtube]

Obsessive love (yucky recording, but you’ll get the point):

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn8civCI0Zo[/youtube]

And masochistic love:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ablm52o6DxU[/youtube]

And yet they’re all such lovely songs.

Speaking of lovely, here’s the beautiful Cyd Charisse dancing up a storm in Silk Stockings, when people still thought Communism was a bad, oppressive thing:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UvBs6z3xZs[/youtube]