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"Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
"And when Idina Menzel is singing, I'm always slightly worried that her teeth are going to jump out of her mouth and chase me." - Schmerg_the_Impaler
its not a rip off. If anything it had to do with his inspiration. Lin took all the music that he loved infused it into a broadway show, I think it's genius.
he says "like my man cole porters" not "like my friend"
<-- Gwen Stewart, SOLoist at the last show of RENT Cages or wings?
Which do you prefer?
Ask the birds.
Fear or love, baby?
Don't say the answer
Actions speak louder than words.
(Tick, Tick... BOOM!)
"They seem to be on total opposite ends of the spectrum to me." 170 blocks away... plus avenues, so I'd say around 9 miles apart.
Also there are so many pscyhopaths on this board that I don't even know who's joking and who isn't anymore!
Also he lyKe Oh Em GeE coPiEd DuKe ElLiNgSuMtHiNg!!!!
<-- Gwen Stewart, SOLoist at the last show of RENT Cages or wings?
Which do you prefer?
Ask the birds.
Fear or love, baby?
Don't say the answer
Actions speak louder than words.
(Tick, Tick... BOOM!)
<-- Gwen Stewart, SOLoist at the last show of RENT Cages or wings?
Which do you prefer?
Ask the birds.
Fear or love, baby?
Don't say the answer
Actions speak louder than words.
(Tick, Tick... BOOM!)
<-- Gwen Stewart, SOLoist at the last show of RENT Cages or wings?
Which do you prefer?
Ask the birds.
Fear or love, baby?
Don't say the answer
Actions speak louder than words.
(Tick, Tick... BOOM!)
What an annoying and ridiculous thread. Trying to make it seem like Lin is "stealing" or being completely unoriginal because of possibly coincidental similarities, or actual samplings, is asinine, and beneath all of us.
I'm not sure about the Mos Def comparison (it seems coincidental to me), but as a matter of fact, there *are* samplings from other songs in the score of In The Heights, but most people don't notice cause they don't know sh*t about latin music. It's not sketchy. It's an homage, plenty of artists do it, and Lin gladly owns up to all of it. You're trying to make a big deal out of nothing.
And as for Larson, not to disparage Rent, because I happen to love that show, but say what you will about ITH, it has no rhyme as awful as "You wanna produce films, write songs/you need somewhere to do it/it's what we used to dream about/think twice before you poo poo it"
Humbert has made it very clear before that he didn't like the show and seems to be looking for something to complain about.
http://www.beintheheights.com/katnicole1 (Please click and help me win!)
I chose, and my world was shaken- So what? The choice may have been mistaken,
The choosing was not...
"Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
"And when Idina Menzel is singing, I'm always slightly worried that her teeth are going to jump out of her mouth and chase me." - Schmerg_the_Impaler
"Robin De Jesus has issues"~ JANET DACAL
"Yeah, and that's putting it lightly"~ ANDREA BURNS
"If you watched CBS on June 15th , I was nominated for a Tony... And I was in Camp"~ ROBIN DE JESUS
"...but I ^&#$@*% made you believe I was Italian!"~MATTHEW MORRISON
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