#long face

[lioncourtz]

Long Face

[kaleidoscope-vol2]

[virginiaisforvampires]

These are actual headlines…..

I’m sorry this is just so hilarious. Lestat would love this.

[toscrollperchancetomeme]

One thing about „Long Face” I haven’t seen discussed yet is its “perfectly premeditated flaw”. While it’s obviously primarily meant to bait Louis, it does so in a very smart way.

The writers have gone out of their way to make us understand that Louis has built himself up to be this super posh art dealer. He’s a connoisseur, he has “ze eye”, he is extremely distinguished in his tastes. Or, as Lestat probably sees it: He’s super pretentious, “like every pompous art student” he’s ever eaten. (I think he gets it from his mum, but that would be a whole essay.) And a part of this is: He does not like camp. This is quite evident from the way he talks about “Lestat’s tastelessness on the float” in episode 1x7, but also reflects in his reaction to the “weirdness” of the Paris theatre.

Except - I think he secretly does like it, because otherwise he would not love Lestat. Him being in denial of his love for Lestat and of his enjoyment of “camp” art almost seem to stem from the same place within him - he is still denying parts of himself.

So, Lestat writing a song for him, that is this camp? That literally says “Come appraise me” to his art dealer husband? That says “see me for what I am and stop lying to yourself and pretending that you don’t love me and that you don’t enjoy having fuuuuuuun”? The lack of metaphor has never been more striking. I’m so here for this.

[byronicbisexuals]

A vinyl of Long Face and Your Biggest Fan with a lyric sleeve

[kblupeach]

Prince Lestat in color! 🥵🔥

[the-breath-in-air]

For folks wondering why "Black Licorice" keeps being referred to as a better song...imo it's because Lestat didn't write it. Satan's Night Out had already written the song before they ever met Lestat. Lestat claims he made a change to the chord progression, but did he really? And for sure some of the lyrics are his, but also the chorus almost certainly isn't (imo).

"Long Face" is his song. "Black Licorice" is not.

So when people tell him how much they hate "Long Face" but love "Black Licorice," it's actually, secretly, a source of pain and shame for him. Just further erosion of his self-esteem.

And then to add onto the meta layer, "Black Licorice" was a song Daniel Hart had already written and recorded over a decade ago. He didn't even write it for Lestat (although the lyrics are changed). Which is just such a *chef's kiss.*

[notfeelingthyaster]

the song is soooooo bad, 'i'm piano, you're forte" shitty, shitty lyrics, generic chorus. louis hates it. armand hates it. daniel for sure fucking hates it. i am in love with it. put it on spotify.