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| - Jim Steinman has this to say about the song: "...Selena Kyle, aka Catwoman secretly, was a witness to the murder of Bruce Wayne's parents. A street urchin who happened to see it all, hidden away. The brutal murders haunt both Bruce and Selena. But both respond totally different to their traumatic bruising. Bruce learns to vow revenge and becomes the avenging knight, Batman. But Selena is mostly mentally scarred by realizing how easily things that are precious can be taken from you. (Mrs. Wayne's pearl necklace is ripped from her throat.) So Selena grows up, craving precious jewels, & obsessed with holding onto them! (She never wears them outside, shes a plain mousy woman, but she hoards them in chests.) Only when she transforms into Catwoman are her love of danger & lust for precious jewel
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| - Jim Steinman has this to say about the song: "...Selena Kyle, aka Catwoman secretly, was a witness to the murder of Bruce Wayne's parents. A street urchin who happened to see it all, hidden away. The brutal murders haunt both Bruce and Selena. But both respond totally different to their traumatic bruising. Bruce learns to vow revenge and becomes the avenging knight, Batman. But Selena is mostly mentally scarred by realizing how easily things that are precious can be taken from you. (Mrs. Wayne's pearl necklace is ripped from her throat.) So Selena grows up, craving precious jewels, & obsessed with holding onto them! (She never wears them outside, shes a plain mousy woman, but she hoards them in chests.) Only when she transforms into Catwoman are her love of danger & lust for precious jewels & 'crime' what dominates her. Its the secret total possession of them that drives her, not the public display. So both 'witnesses' to the crime of the Waynes' horrific murder by Joker has mutated two little 'observers': Bruce became Batman, Selena became Catwoman. Two little 'lost' children have mutated through their own complex reactions to a numbing loss, and in fact fall in love, with a dark, somewhat 'kinky' S&M like undertow. This is new to the Batman world. Catwoman sings her song alone in a jewelry store, an orgiastic revel in the glinting glittering jewels, piled up around her. She smashes glass cases and dances as erotically as Salome with the severed head of John the Baptist. I think you'll recognize my best use of the 'chorus' here: "I need all the love I can get and I need all the love that I can't get to(o)."[1]
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