52 Here Lies Love more than to assuage the pain of a single person’s unhappy past.” 6 Ibid, 9. 7 Before the release of the album, parts of “Here Lies Love” were performed at the Royal Adelaide Showground (March 2006) and in Carnegie Hall, New York (March 2007). The rock musical “Evita” has been staged several times in theater productions and has been adapted into a film starring Madonna in 1996. 8 There is a long list of albums and theater productions that qualify as rock opera, such as “Jesus Christ Superstar.” Some popular rock opera albums include The Who’s “Tommy,” David Bowie’s “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars,” and Green Day’s “American Idiot.” 9 Byrne, Interview “On the Imelda Marcos Inspired New Album,” in Clash Music, accessed March 28, 2011, http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/david-byrneinterview, published May 6, 2010. 10 For links to reviews of “Here Lies Love,” see http://www.davidbyrne.com/here_ lies_love/press/index.php. 11 All lyrics cited are from the official website of the album. See “Here Lies Love: Lyrics,” http://www.davidbyrne.com/here_lies_love/lyrics.php. 12 Solano Avenue was where Imelda lived in a garage with her brother, mother, and Estrella. See Pedrosa, 71-82. 13 See Kate McGeown, “An audience with the one and only Imelda Marcos,” http:// news.bbc.co.uk/2/mobile/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8708324. stm, accessed 28 March 2011. REFERENCES Adorno, Theodore. 1991. “On the Fetish Character in Music and the Regression in Listening.” In The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture. Ed. J.M. Bernstein. London: Routledge. Attali, Jacques. 1977/2009. Noise: The Political Economy of Music. Trans. Brian Massumi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Balance, Christine Bacareza. 2010. “Dahil Sa Iyo: The performative power of Imelda’s song, Women & Performance.” A Journal of Feminist Theory, 20:2, 119-140. Barthes, Roland. 1973/2006. “Myth Today.” In Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader. 3rd edition. Ed. John Storey. Essex: Pearson Education Limited, 293-302. Byrne, David and Fatboy Slim. 2010. “Here Lies Love.” Album. Todomundo/ Nonesuch Records, released 6 April. ---. 2010. About Here Lies Love. Internet Document, http://www.davidbyrne. com/here_lies_love/index.php, accessed 28 March 2011. Coronel, Shiela S. 2006. “Imelda Marcos.” Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism. 2 February. Online Magazine. http://pcij.org/stories/imeldamarcos/, accessed 8 February 2011. Diaz, Ramona. 2003. “Imelda: The movie.” Makati City, Philippines: Unitel