I really like watching this but it is sad

Okay not going to lie this scene kind of creeped me out when I was a kid. Because I didn't know anything about Death Row

SO GOOD, GOLDEN, HEART-RENDING, HARD-DRIVING AND HAUNTING! 😁😁😁😁😁😂😂😂😂😂😎😎😎😎😎😍😍😍😍😍😭😭😭😭😭💖💖💖💖💖😍😍😍😍😍🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🏄🏄🏄🏄🏄🌇🌇🌇🌇🌇🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

One of the best performances ever known to exist! I loved this so much as a kid. Even the slanted walk and steps to the beat. Just wow. Unreal.

This song plays rent free whenever I feel like doing my makeup hahaha

This song still gets stuck in my head on a regular basis! Finally I googled it to learn the real words and was shocked that they even Had the clip from the movie. Thank you for this clip

This is my favorite part of the movie, and I love that 30+ years later, many people have different interpretations of the song's meaning. I always got two different takes: for starters, the music is obviously evocative of a major industrial plant (very probably a steelworks), as evidenced by some of the lyrics and the fire in the stage play's background. The lyrics are from the point-of-view of the industrialist (seemingly an 1860-1900 robber baron) who created the plant, calling it his "shrine", "manor", and "wife". It seems he's likely at the end of his career/life and looking back on his legacy (mostly with sadness/regret) for causing pollution, pain, hunger, and his lack of faith, charity, etc. He's beginning to realize what his greed has done to the world around him. His company is still going strong , but the wind, the sky, the rivers, and the cities are polluted or in ruins. Now what will happen to him? What was it all worth in the end? It could be based on Andrew Carnegie, who built a steel empire, then sold it off and spent the rest of his life on philanthropy. Or it could also be Henry Clay Frick, chairman of Carnegie Steel and the "most hated man in America", due to his breaking the strikes of steel workers. Charles Schwab is another candidate, involved in the WWI effort, accused of profiteering, later squandered his huge fortune and died impoverished. My second take: she was singing about the Hollywood/entertainment industry. How someone who's reigned supreme over Hollywood for so long, is now having their downfall, whether it be because of age, illness, changing tastes or even death. I always felt like it was about the legacy they left behind, and wondering if it was really worth anything in the end. That artful, sudden self-awareness once our life's work is complete. Will I be forgotten? What's it all worth? I did what I thought was right, and maybe still do, as part of the larger machine. And how when you're just at the top, you'll eventually fall down.

Whenever I see new apartments building and old mom and pop stores breaking down I think of this song

2023 still here loving this. I want to see this on Broadway.

Love this song.

Her voice in this song oh gosh siren ❤ absolutely wow.

This would be a great play to see if it existed. Bette Midler is such an iconic talent! She can do it all! An incredible actress, singer and dancer, she is the true triple threat! ❤ ✌🇨🇦❤

I have no reason to lie they have plenty of motive and jealousy desperation pulse

I grew up at peanuts and rage all gays need to marry in record numbers 2024

Trust me get married you will see the change and improvement right away

West hollywood will be like this again we'll have more money every one gets married no trust me I can fix our lives easy with all of you married

Happy 77th birthday, Bette Midler.

La industria de cigarrillo y otros productos en su universidad causó mortandad global por cancerígenos La idea concebida por Dios Creador fué vida natural para todo ser viviente

I absolutely adore her and her voice.

This is literally my sister every single morning 😋

I WISH THEY SHOWED MORE OF THAT BLACK 🖤 JACKET 🧥 AND 👗 DRESS OUTFIT IT CHANGED MY LIFE MY FAVORITE OUTFIT IN THE MOVIE OTHER THAN INDUSTRY.👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑

SOONER OR LATER PEOPLE WON'T WANT TO PAY ATTENTION TO YOU ANYMORE PERFECTLY SAID SHE HAD TO GET HER DAUGHTER TO SEE THAT SHE WAS A NARCISSIST THAT NEEDED TO CHANGE GO MOM.

THE DIVINE MISS BETTE, IS JUST SOOO COOL ON EVERY LEVEL 🤩

💜this song & movie unfortunately I lost my best friend

This is probably one of the most Avant garde songs that Bette had a hand in writing, let alone singing.

Carbon Footprint, Carbon Negative, Carbon Neutral, Carbon Offset, Carbon Budget, Decaronization, and CarboniB :-D just kiddin on that last one. It's not real.

This always creeped me out 🤣

Why was I singing this today…in November…of 2021??? 💜💜💜

God I love this. Such talent.

Seems so relevant now.

Fun fact: Georgette has a picture of Professor Ratigan. It's @ 1:30. The far left on the top row.

I really love the animation of her walking down the stairs.

Children today don't have movies to look back on like this. I sang these songs as I skipped rope, started my first lemonade stand, and rode my bike. Big Business is always on one movie source playlist or another. I acted this out so many times. I even whipped out Otto Titsling for a VERY unsuspecting auditorium of 5th graders and their parents...all of which politely (or raucously) applauded... none thought my parents unsuitable. They nurtured my artistic side. I'm lucky. This.. will always be close to my heart...and close to thousands of other 80s kids who wanted to be CC Bloom! ♡

oh wow the full track of this from the soundtrack is really good! its way better than this small clip in the movie

"he hates my hair"

Same!! This brings back major childhood Déjà vu 🖤 🎼 "⛓Industry. 🌱charity. 🪨faith. 🌎Hope."

Very Cirque du Soleil

still relevant

2:24 played in my nightmares for awhile as a kid. Here I am looking for my nightmares lol

favorite part of movie

If I had a time machine I think I would go after Bette

Oh Bette

Surprised if this wasn't a real Broadway piece, because it would have been a lot of time (writing the song, choreography, singing) and money (stage set) spent for a couple minutes in a movie. It was very well done.

This is still a Banger in 2020 🔥💯✌

I love this part, along with the titsling song

@ 1:38 Hillary looking @ John like he's a Big Mac with a side of fries 🍟and a shake

@ 1:21 John is looking @ Hillary like she's a stack of hot buttered pancakes with syrup look how his eyes are lusting

Shadow people

That performance scared me as a kid

I ᴜsᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ʙᴇ ᴛᴇʀʀɪғɪᴇᴅ ᴏғ ᴛʜɪs ᴡʜᴇɴ I ᴡᴀs ᴀ ᴄʜɪʟᴅ. ;>;