The song is supposed to be lightly comic, but Dietrich's teutonic gravitas makes it feel like she's singing some grim dirge written by Bertolt Brecht, and that glazed deathly look on her face throughout is like looking into a grave.
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I like the song but Marlene Dietrich didn't give it the right treatment in the film. Later in her career she sang it in a really lazy style which is what the song requires.
shareShe's also extremely stiff in the number we see a bit of before that.
Her singing is pretty wretched...though of course she's a great star.
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You may find it ghastly but she was a number one sex symbol around the world for that style and delivery. Tastes change over decades but your grandfather was hot for her, believe it or not. Dietrich was unique.
Marlene Dietrich was a woman who wasn't ashamed to have a sex drive. She had love affairs and she didn't hide them. In the Thirties, Forties and Fifties it was unheard of for a woman to even admit to enjoying sex. She did so and she didn't apologise for it.
Look her up sometime. She worked for the Resistance against the Nazis. She was an admirable person.
Bored now.