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Least Favourite Line?
#50re: Least Favourite Line?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 5:11pm
Ooh, yeah. Never liked that one. And I hate a lot of the lyrics in "The Legend of Miss Baltimore Crabs." The lyrics seem so lazy.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#51re: Least Favourite Line?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 5:18pmThe plate-spinning line is bad.
Formerly SirNotAppearing - Joined 3/08
#52re: Least Favourite Line?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 5:21pm
"If a plate they would spin in a dance."
Yeah, I hate it when people Yoda-ize their sentence structure. It's like saying, "I don't think I could live/If me a pony you didn't give." And I hate when Amber says, "These steps are perfect ammunition," (What does that even mean?) and a host of other lines from that song.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
Acaila
Featured Actor Joined: 8/28/08
#53re: Least Favourite Line?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 9:52pm
"'Cause the houses 'round here
Are all flashy and swank,
An' the front bit
Is what's called a façade!"
from Jekyll and Hyde.
Just....ewww
#54re: Least Favourite Line?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 10:02pm
Legally Blonde... just... no.
and of course Zanna, Don't!-
It looks like love
and it sounds like love
and it seems like love
and it feels like love
and it walks like love
and it talks like love
and it runs like love
and it skips like love
and it hurts like love
dissappoints like love
dissappears like love
reappears like love
and it shouts like love
and it seems like love
so guess what my friend I think. I think I got love.
A triumph.
broadwayboy522
Leading Actor Joined: 5/6/06
#55re: Least Favourite Line?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 10:42pm
Im surprised this hasn't been posted yet
"You funneled all that beer,
I held your head when you hurled."
-Legally Blonde
Really? I love the show but that one line....
#56re: Least Favourite Line?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 10:45pm
Oh, I rather like that line... because the way she sings it so tenderly is hilarious, especially in front of Warner's posh friends.
However, I hate the part that goes, "I'll be there on Monday nine o'clock, and we will see who wants a walk." (I assume those are the words? They just don't make sense.)
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
#57re: Least Favourite Line?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 11:10pm
Schmerg, regarding David Zippel, you're absolutely right. His lyrics are incredibly witty and clever in City of Angels, a score where the puns in the lyrics are as fast and impressive as the vocalese-style melodies.
~Steven
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#58re: Least Favourite Line?
Posted: 11/1/08 at 11:52pmThat "Big Mac" line from Miss Saigon makes me laugh because Kim cost $50. What kind of McDonalds has Chris been going to??
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
#59re: Least Favourite Line?
Posted: 11/2/08 at 12:01am
I love the show. And hey, I kind of even love the song. But really:
Good morning starshine
The earth says hello
You twinkle above us
We twinkle below
Good morning starshine
You lead us along
My love and me as we sing
Our early morning singing song
Gliddy glub gloopy
Nibby nabby noopy
La la la lo lo
Sabba sibby sabba
Nooby abba nabba
Le le lo lo
Tooby ooby walla
Nooby abba naba
Early morning singing song
Singing a song
Humming a song
Singing a song
Loving a song
Laughing a song
Singing a song
Sing the song
Song song song sing
Sing sing sing sing song
#60re: Least Favourite Line?
Posted: 11/2/08 at 12:33amWasn't the line, Schmerg, "See who walks the walk"? I wouldn't have any idea, anyway, you're probably right. xD
Current Avatar - Sutton Foster, accepting the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Velociraptor.
#61re: Least Favourite Line?
Posted: 11/2/08 at 7:59am
No, no, turns out you're right.
Looks like we have another addition to that misheard lyrics thread!
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
Sondheim_Geek
Broadway Star Joined: 2/20/07
#62re: Least Favourite Line?
Posted: 11/2/08 at 1:29pm
Quite a few from Next to Normal, unfortuantely.
Especially after the You Don't Know (Reprise)
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Diana: I don't even remember marrying this man....I'm not some sexually frustrated soccer mom.
Dr.Madden: Interestingly, the underlying challenges are similar.
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Kills the scene.
#63re: Least Favourite Line?
Posted: 11/4/08 at 5:53pm
"Find My Way"
The ones who thought I'd fall
WHO SHOWED ME HOW TO FAIL!!!!!!!!!!
Who helped me to prevail
Makes no sense. Who showed her how to fail? Those stupid sorority sluts did, so why the hell would she be thanking them? She should thank Emmett for showing her NOT to fail, but that sounds weird. It makes NOOOOOO sense whatsoever. One of the most atrocious lyrics that Broadway has ever seen.
#64re: Least Favourite Line?
Posted: 11/4/08 at 6:01pm
Uh, I don't know about you, but when I'm feeling down, I like to take whatever little comforts I can find. If the only comfort I have is "at least I have my health", "at least I'm not stupid", "at least I'm not THAT person who I don't think very much of", then it may be small, but I'll still seize hold of it with both hands.
Sometimes it's perfectly possible to attribute your successes to people who didn't help you in any real way. Have you never had someone say "you're a failure, you'll never succeed at [task]", causing you to reply "well I'll show YOU, skipper!" and go right ahead and succeed anyway?
It shows a generosity of spirit and an awareness of self and others to be grateful to some "stupid sorority sluts" for helping her succeed, even though all they really did was demonstrate what failure would be like.
#65re: Least Favourite Line?
Posted: 11/4/08 at 6:05pmThat's a great interpretation, Weez... I never thought about it that way. I always just assumed Elle was being sarcastic! You're right, your version makes a lot more sense in context.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
#66re: Least Favourite Line?
Posted: 11/4/08 at 6:06pm
That's interesting, Weez. However, I think that a better lyric there would be
"Who told me that I'd fail." That goes along with what you were saying MUCH better.
#67re: Least Favourite Line?
Posted: 11/4/08 at 6:15pm
"However, I hate the part that goes, "I'll be there on Monday nine o'clock, and we will see who wants a walk." (I assume those are the words? They just don't make sense.) "
I had assumed the line was "and we will see who walks the walk". As in, talk the talk, walk the walk.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#68re: Least Favourite Line?
Posted: 11/4/08 at 6:28pmYeah, someone told me that a few posts later... and I was deeply ashamed. I always seem to be doing this; Joe Biden is pretty gaffe-free compared to me.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
#69re: Least Favourite Line?
Posted: 1/10/09 at 5:43pm
Bumping this back to life with some lyrics from "Side Show." I just discovered this show, and while I love the cast and several of the songs... the lyrocs just make me a bit sick.
In "Come Look At The Freaks:"
Come see our elegant geek
Refined but deadly
Chicken necks delight his incisors
Their heads decorate the mud
His favorite cocktail drink?
It's warm chicken blood!
Ew.
In "More Than We Bargained For"
"I thought they were performers
In a sad, bleak show
But here I am
I fit right in
Into a freak show"
And
I think Violet's sweet on me
Sweet's very hard to ignore
Daisy mentions you with glee
I think we're getting more
Than we bargained for
In "Feelings You Have Got To Hide:"
Why do you feel that way?
Feelings aren't for display
Let's announce love today
And enough rhyming 'bride' with 'hide' and 'guy' with every single word that rhymes with it!
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
brochatkid
Stand-by Joined: 5/10/08
#70re: Least Favourite Line?
Posted: 1/10/09 at 7:00pm
If I were a salad, I know I'd be splashing my dressing.
I hate that line with a passion.
fizzthelibertine
Understudy Joined: 4/30/08
#71re: Least Favourite Line?
Posted: 1/10/09 at 7:43pm
From Rent
"I'll just get fat/ It's the one vice left when you're dead meat."
Uhh, really now?
#72re: Least Favourite Line?
Posted: 1/10/09 at 7:44pmBrochatkid-- YES! I always cringe whenever I hear that line. It just sounds so... wrong.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
heo1128
Broadway Star Joined: 7/9/08
#73re: Least Favourite Line?
Posted: 1/10/09 at 8:09pm
Is this exclusive to lyrics? If not...
I HATE in Wicked:
After Fiyero rolls on stage in response to "you're sleeping", when he says "Of course, it's daytime." It's so awkward. Nobody laughs. Is that really the best they could come up with?
And whomever said from RENT "It's a candy bar wrapper", agreed. Also an awkward line.
Updated On: 1/10/09 at 08:09 PM
#74re: Least Favourite Line?
Posted: 1/10/09 at 8:47pm
I think the line of:
'Nessa, uh, Nessa, I've got something to confess-a reason why'
would flow a lot better if there was a bigger pause, so it clearly wasn't 'confessa', just 'confess....a reason why'.
I don't really get 'sooner buy Defying Gravity'.
However, I really like 'there are bridges you crossed you didn't know you crossed until you crossed' as a line. Some people obviously don't get what they mean of not being aware of something before it's too late and it's happened, but I think it's quite clever.
One of the few times in Wicked when the 'trying too hard to be creative' lyrics pay off.
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