🖤 yes audrey ii is a metaphor for capitalistic greed. yes i am dating him and kissing him. yes i know him personally. my ability to analyze media does not go away just because one of the characters is my boyfriend who i love so very much <3

in little shop of horrors, the song "don't feed the plants" is a metaphor for not buying into the capitalistic system

audrey ii is a metaphor for greed, yes, but he's also a metaphor for taking advantage of the people around you so you can move up in the world. you feed the plant and get more of what you want. this is central to capitalism, the whole crux of getting richer. if you want to be truly wealthy and successful, you're going to have to underpay and mistreat a lot of people: feeding them to the plant

and seymour wanted a better life, so much so that he was willing to hurt people. and honestly, a lot of people perpetuating these systems are people who think this is how they get a better life. they want to maintain the lifestyle they have, they can't stop feeding the plants

in the end, they plants take over and the world is eaten whole. it's like an apocalypse, and the way capitalism is destroying our ecosystem it's not hard to make connections to how our world could be if we keep indulging them

there's a line in this song: "if we fight it, we've still got a chance". this is a call to action, to me. no matter what, don't stop fighting for a better world. we still have a future, even if it seems bleak. if humanity can come together and refuse to drop another ounce of blood, we can survive

hold on we need to make some gifs

something we've never been able to stop thinking about is a certain line in "suppertime"

I swear on all my spores
When he's gone the world will be yours

audrey ii sings this as he convinces seymour to feed mushnik to him, but the important thing here is that he is not referring to seymour

he is looking directly in the mirror during this line; he's telling himself that the world will be his once mushnik's gone. and by all accounts he's right: once mushnik is gone, there's nothing more standing in twoey's way except for a meek little seymour

-🖤 vurren (it/they)