What do you think is the worst broadway lyric, making no sense or just sounding dumb....i would love to hear what you have to say!
"Join us...leave your cheese to sour."
"Let's go down to the Ozdust Ballroom / We'll meet there later tonight."
I LOVE rent, but I think it has a few lame lines, such as:
"It's what we used to dream about, think twice before you poo-poo it."
shbrtalley44, the one from Pippin was my first choice lol...it really is a bad lyric
like said earlier- i am not a fan of the poo poo line.
"There are bridges you crossed you didn't know you crossed until you crossed." That has got to be the worst Braodway lyric I have ever heard.
romance....sex presented pastoraly....now you have me humming magic to do of all things!
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Don't get me wrong, I love "Magic To Do," but MY CHEESE?
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"An old lady is waltzing in her flat, waltzing with her cat", from DO I HEAR A WALTZ?, lyric by Stephen Sondheim
I groaned in the theater when I heard this lyric.
but the one that strikes me is It's Braves and Giants Two to two.
The pitcher's name is Hub Purdue. from ragtime...anything from that song can be used
Hardly "bad" lyrics guys...Can you be a little more creative???
MFL, do you understand nuance? Oy.
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"Superlover" from BKLYN
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Hardly "bad" lyrics guys...Can you be a little more creative???
Well, they sounded bad to my ears when I hear them in 1965 (at least I think I saw that show in '65). I really did groan when I heard them. They're horrible lyrics, especially when compared to Rodger's great tune.
"For he will do as he do do"
it's not a lyric, but it's a line in BKLYN
"and with our tears, we can water roses"~ brooklyn
...now i know, it isn't eden's fault, and she doesn't choose to say that, she is just paid to say it, but i was sitting within reach of the "give only what you can" sign, and i was tempted to throw it at her!
"I think it was the Korean tour or something. They were all frickin' asian!" -Zoran912
Majorly off topic, but thebestshowshavetransvestites...I so just read your name as:
the best show shave transvestites.
I was like "WHAT?"
Anyway, the one that pops into my head right now is from COMPANY
"Let's hear it for the ladies who luch
Those dinosaurs surviving the crunch."
I don't know what it is but it drives me up the wall.
i totally agree, when i saw brooklyn, i was tempted to like it just because of the music, but after i got the cd and the more i listened to it, the more i realized how randomly absurd some of it is, though i do love once upon a time.
spider - Haha It's a bit worse when I read it that way for half a second, thinking I made a typo in it. Ah, the patheticness of me! *not threadjacking*
"Hairy, scary, straight or bi..." from Taboo... Only because he's supposedly talking about boys, yes? So wouldn't it be, "Gay or bi"? O_o
any song from BKLYN
"you gotta get your seafood mamma,your favorite dish is fish" -wonderful town,but the show is so good...it makes up for it-
Hate to knock my own favorite, but...
"Over at the Frankenstein place..." from RHS, simply because it ISN'T the Frankenstein place... Not that "the Frank N Furter place" would've fit, but... Oh, it's Rocky Horror, who cares! Wee!
...Ahem.
I like the music in Chicago, but here's one bad lyric
"Throw 'em a fake and a finagle
They'll never know you're just a bagel,"
Godspell - "You gotta stay pretty in the city of God."
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