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Listen to ‘Teeth’ From the Musical Teeth
It’s about … teeth.
Dawn’s going through one type of transformation, while the Promise Keeper Girls are getting radicalized in a different way, thinking this all might be a sign of a coming apocalypse. As you can hear in the song, the soundscape of Teeth ranges from imitation Christian rock to what Jacobs, who wrote the music and collaborated on the book with Jackson, describes as “an ancient feminine Tori Amos meets Stravinsky pagan ritual music.” “Teeth,” the song, slides toward the pagan end of the spectrum — though Jacobs and Jackson promise there’s music later in the show that goes even further — while other songs will more resemble your average unsettlingly chipper puriteen energy. Jackson, who wrote the lyrics, was drawn to the idea of adapting Teeth in the first place because it captured his fascination with the tensions between religion and sexuality (see also: A Strange Loop).
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