Madonna - The Actress Hasn't Learned The Lines (You'd Like To Hear) Lyrics

Lets enjoy the sounds of silence!

Great scene. You say traditionally they asked the First Lady to be president of their organizations in the description but wasn’t Evita the very first, First Lady that Argentina ever had? I could be wrong, so I’m just asking.

No, she was not the first. Juan Perón was the 29th president of Argentina.

There are so many levels to tjis scene, every time I watch. Notice how she shows up late for the event: did they intentionally give her the wrong time, so that they'd have to interact with her as little as possible? Did she come late on her own because she knew they hated her? Her sitting alone in the chair symbolizes the whole song: she was an outsider to the Argentine gentry.

She’ll simply take control
As you disappear
Lol

2:23 starts one of my absolute favorite scenes. Goose bumps all the way through. I love this movie so much. 😱💓

2019 version: The bartender hasn't mixed the drinks you'd like to drink.

The Actress Hasn't Learned The Lines (You'd Like To Hear)

Andrew Lloyd Webber

THE ACTRESS HASN'T LEARNED THE LINES (YOU'D LIKE TO HEAR) LYRICS

[Aristocrats]
Thus all fairy stories end
Only an actress would pretend
Affairs of state are her latest play:
Eight shows a week, two matinee
My, how the worm begins to turn
When will the chorus girl ever learn?
My, how the worm begins to turn
When will the chorus girl ever learn?

[Eva]
The chorus girl hasn't learned the lines you'd like to hear
She won't go scrambling over the backs of the poor to be accepted
By making donations just large enough
To the correct charities
She won't be president of your wonderful societies of philanthropy
Even if you asked her to be
As you should have asked her to be

The actress hasn't learned the lines you'd like to hear
She won't join your clubs, she won't dance in your halls
She won't help the hungry once a month at your tambolas -
She'll simply take control as
You disappear

[Che]
Forgive my intrusion, but here in this neat little can:
I have a product to change your conception of man
A brand new insecticide, a remarkable chemical feat
Instantly rendering other insecticides obsolete

[Eva]
Licensing slaughter of insects is hardly my mission!

[Chorus]
Goodnight and thank you, whoever!
We've no time for you, but one thing we do emphasize:
It's an ill wind that blows nobody good
The news may be bad for one Argentine lad
But it's good news for Argentine flies

If I ever watch this again, it will be mainly so I can see a young Antonio Banderas.

Easily one of the best songs in the whole Evita soundtrack and often so overlooked. It sums up perfectly the contradiction between how Eva was completely morally in the right in terms of her views on the poor in comparison the oligarchic women of Buenos Aries, but at the same time her political tactics were morally dubious (some may even say morally bankrupt) with that eerie threat "as you disappear..."

Eva Person sought power in the disguise of caring for the poor. It's not an uncommon theme under any governing body; man is prone to go stray and use good intention for evil.

We met an Argentine family about 20 years ago in my city. Evita had just come out and we loved the music and thought Eva was a great person. We brought her up to the family and I'll never forget the response we got. The mother looked intensly at us and said, "That was a very evil woman."

Silly us, we had no clue. This mother did; she lived it.

Love Che's bit! Or was it Peron's.

The staging and body language of the aristocracy in this scene is excellent. The stiff body posture and grim faces represent how they actually felt about Evita, which was contempt and disapproval. For them, she was the wrong social class and a long history of lovers. Nothing she ever did would win their approval. Nothing.

Maurice Rivers I love Evita. She had to have been a strong person to live with so much hatred against her.

Madonna's acting and singing on this soundtrack is deeply emotive, sonorously melodic and pitch perfect. Antonio's is apotheotic Che revolutionary, aptly fierce and bitingly bitter in its irony. Oscar and Grammy calibre performances of all songs, scenes and roles by her, Antonio Banderas and Jonathan Pryce and all the stellar cast.

THE UNJUSTICE AND JEALOUSY OF THEIR [FRIENDS] FROM HOLLYWOOD, THE ACTRESSES WERE SO JEALOUS AND THE VOTE WAS FOR EVERYBODY EXCEPT HER, , BUT YOU RIGHT , AND IM TOTALLY AGREE ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE OF ALL OF THEM.

And I personally far prefer Madonna's smooth and clear voice to Patti LuPone's scratchy one, even though I can tell LuPone has enormous talent

💞💞

Che! Your ruined Eva's peace and quiet!

i love this song has to have the best lyrics ever

I'd love for her to do this on the next tour.

Alejandro Morales I think it would be awesome if she includes something related to Evita besides "Don't Cry For Me, Argentina".

those weird days when you watch a video, realize you've already seen it and commented on it four years ago.

Where was Madonna's Oscar nomination for this?

theres none twat

I think this song is the only place in the movie where Madonna actually "comes into her own" with the material. She sings it really beautifully.

"designed to hid new imperialism & colonialism. "

Believe me, I was once very strongly anti-American once, and still resent strongly resent hegemony.

But Iraq does have indeed something quite valuable -- not the oil, but its intellectual capital. The country is still one of the most literate Middle Eastern nations in the world, other than Israel. In the cities, the literacy rate for females outcompete males, and the competition is easier between males in Iraq's engineering schools.

except that the west keeps touting it as a "democracy"...in a country under foreign occupation?
all that talk about democracy & human rights are just talks...designed to hid new imperialism & colonialism.
next time someone try to lecture about democracy & human rights, you should know that they have their own agendas behind them.
Agendas that you wouldn't like...

Iraq isn't a democracy -- there's a difference between what is de jure and de facto (the cultural institutions)

this is funny how old money acts
when they meet new money
[money is money]

love this movie!

what about Stalin??? he always seems to get lost in the shuffle. he's got 30mil.deaths to hitlers 12 XD!!!!!!!

Why? So i can be a clone like you? No thanks.

madonna the greedy capitalist cash cow is the lowest form of life and so were the Perons. It's populism and socialism for guilty European revisionists and corporate jingoists.

I know my history to the tune of a masters degree. You have YOUR interpretation and I have MINE.

Peron's complete control of the Argentine press/media was gradual. Don't think that in those five years La Prensa wasn't harrassed in some way before it was finally dismantled. Oh, and Hitler's absolute control of Germany didn't exactly happen overnight, either.

BTW: One of the banners the protesters are holding says "Los argentinos queremos una prensa libre!" ("We Argentines want a free press!"

I always get chills during the bit where the police is arresting La Prensa staff. La Prensa was an independent newspaper which critized the Peron administration. As a result, they were harrassed by the Perons until they were finally shut down.

I love this sound

Amazing musical and fantastic movie. Thanks for posting and the extra info!