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You can watch Love Song here in its entirety. The setting is a desolate rocky landscape and cave. A motley crew of three punk-like rats (voiced by Richard Gray and Bruce Currie) provide the chorus for their buddy, the guitar strumming lovelorn Rat (sung by Paul Livingston). Rat spruces himself up and boldly ventures into the dark lair of the object of his love, the mysterious Pussy (voiced by Miche Bonnett).
Curator’s notes
Rat sings of having a plan when going into battle, while rubbing a gel-like substance on his body. The battle is love and the object is a giant cat. Rat’s courage in serenading Pussy and cajoling her with rare and bizarre gifts is clever and engaging.
Love can be a dangerous game, the animator is saying with some wit, and you are taking a risk upsetting the natural order of things. But if you do, you would do well to protect yourself. It is not until the end that we realise Rat has done just that, by applying hot chilli jam to his body.
