Mallory Rubin

It's Baudelaire time.

Baudelaire already got a mention in... Yeah.

In the auction.

My guess is that he wrote... It's because, again, this is a word search for Baudelaire inside of Anne Rice.

I didn't find anything.

So this is a show I mentioned, right?

So...

is it because he wrote poems like Le Vampire and The Metamorphosis of the Vampire?

And I read those poems.

And in those poems, the vampire is usually a metaphor for like addiction and self-destruction and all this sort of stuff like that.

So he was like, the vampire symbol is something that Baudelaire was interested in.

He's an early modernist, a lot of symbolistic language.

This poem that they set to this tune, the tune written by Daniel Hart, the words are Baudelaire's and it's from the poem Fountain of Blood.

Le Fontaine de Sang.

And it's the same tune that he was playing over the iPad to Louis in episode one.

And I'm wondering if in the lyrics of Why Do I Have to Feel, the lyrics when he says, I want to write you the prettiest song in the world, but I got distracted.

Like, is this what he means?

I was trying to write you this beautiful Baudelaire song or a beautiful song, you know, but then the fucking book came out and I got distracted.

Daniel Hart in an interview said, like, we wanted to show music that would come from his pre-rock and roll era, more like an art song or a chamber song for the 19th century.

I really enjoyed writing it.