[00:00.70]So, I'm a Long Island girl
[00:02.02]Long Island, New York.
[00:03.45]And I went to uh, thank you.
[00:10.01]I went to New York University and I studied theater.
[00:14.33]And I took this class down in the village,
[00:21.93]Lafayette and Asterplace
[00:23.88]It was a musical theater workshop thing
[00:26.11]And they called it song interpretation
[00:28.24]I had this huge crush on my professor, who was gay
[00:35.78]But freshman girls in college never know that
[00:40.18]I don't know why but he gave us this assignment
[00:44.58]to bring a Cole Porter song to class
[00:47.97]and approach it like a monologue
[00:50.38]So I picked the sexiest Cole Porter song I could find
[00:56.27]Which was Love For Sale
[00:58.33]I figured I was gonna kill two birds with one stone
[01:00.86]I'm going to seduce my teacher and fulfill the assignment sometime
[01:07.51]So I get up in front of class and I've worn
[01:12.42]You know, we used to get really seriously back
[01:14.50]then so I dressed for the role,
[01:16.45]I wore some sexy lingerie under my college clothes
[01:20.08]and I wear some trashy makeup
[01:22.36]and I get up in front of class and I start singing
[01:26.21]and I get just a couple lines in
[01:28.37]and he abruptly stops me and says,
[01:30.87] "Woah, what are you doing?"
[01:32.77]And I just stood there and I said,
[01:34.12] "I'm singing Love For Sale Cole Porter",
[01:36.28]and he says,
[01:37.00]"Have you even given any thought to what this song is about?
[01:39.87]What the lyrics are saying?",
[01:41.71]and I thought I was just gonna burst into tears and he said,
[01:47.31]"This is about a woman
[01:49.82]who's out on the street in the middle of the night being objectified
[01:57.02]and harassed and God knows what with all of these men,
[01:59.23]she doesn't know where she's gonna get her next meal from
[02:01.63]or how she's gonna pay her rent, she's lonely,
[02:08.08]she's desperate and she's scared"