The theme of “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” is teenage lust. It’s about a teenage boy trying to convince a teenage girl to have sex with him in the front seat of a car. Ellen Foley, the female singer who duets with Meatloaf in this song, was also on that National Lampoon tour and she said that many of the songs that became Bat Out of Hell were born on that tour. She also said of [Jim]Steinman, “I don’t want to be a shrink, but I think it was probably him working out his own teenage desires that he hadn’t done in real life…”

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