![]() Just as Janet falls into the virgin/whore dichotomy, Eddie's your stereotypical bad boy. But when he threatened your life with a switch-blade knife… FRANK: What a guy! JANET: Makes you cry. ALL: When Eddie said he didn't like his Teddy, you knew he was a no-good kid. NARRATOR: He was a low down cheap little punk! SCOTT: Taking everyone for a ride. ![]() They're extra horrified by Eddie's fate.īefore his body is revealed, though, the characters sing about him being a "no-good kid" and a "low down cheap little punk." Scott is Eddie's uncle, and Columbia is his ex. Frank literally serves Eddie for dinner, using him as a tool to get back at everyone. ![]() There is no room for Eddie's square sincerity in a genre that wants its performers to be larger than life, plastered with makeup, and dressed up in crazy clothes.Īfter being killed with a pickax, Eddie's still mined for a bit more drama. He had a certain naive charm, but no muscle.Įven though Eddie is barely on screen for more than five minutes, critic Emily Asher-Perrin sees him as an allegory for the death of old-school rock 'n' roll and the rise of glam rock in the 1970's. Those two words aren't in Frank's vocabulary.)įRANK: One from the vaults. In the brief moment we see Eddie, he seems sweet and genuine. Eddie is Frank's failed experiment, Columbia's ex, and a really good singer…not just for a dead guy, but for live guys too.
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