Crappy Lyrics — Page 3

As mentioned earlier Miss Baltimore Crabs is just terrible. It's the only song in the show I don't like. I hate these two rhymes in particular. It's so out of character for her to say those things.


I would say
Oy gevalt!

and

Of course not
But u can bow and exalt

I enjoyed Totally F***ed from Spring Awakening up until they started doing the whole "BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH" thing. Ruined the song for me, honestly.

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I didn't caught this on Thursday when I saw Aladdin, but I caught it this last night, when I listen to the CD. But, in the finale, the Genie sings, "It's the plot that you knew/With a small twist or two./Though the changes we made were slight."

Now, I hate fourth wall jokes unless they're actually funny or actually have a reason (like the Genie's character) and Aladdin has a lot of funny fourth wall jokes, but this was really, really pushing it with the fourth wall jokes. And also, the lyric is so totally pointless. Like thank you, Alan Menken to point us something that we clearly know. While you're at it, can you point to us that Jonathan Freeman was Jafar in the movie or you did the music or the sky is blue and the sun is hot? That one part is not only stupid, but really unnecessary and it took me out of the rest of the song.

"Except that no one would ever say than an overpowering smell is "high."

Actually, that usage is not uncommon in British English. (Or at least, it has been used a lot in British English throughout the 19th and 20th century).

Google "a high smell.""

That would be a very good defense of the lyric except for the fact that the characters singing it are American.

Most of Tim Rice's lyrics for Jesus Christ Superstar are pretty abysmal, but a few in This Jesus Must Die stuck out in particular.

First of all, the song starts with two rhyming couplets that rhyme You with You, then Here with Here.

But the most cringe-worthy lyric? The one I couldn't believe I'd heard?

Caiaphas: 'One thing I'll say for him - Jesus is cool.'

REALLY?

But there are a few other musicals for which the lyrics are, generally speaking, pretty terrible:

Big Fish
First Date
The Wild Party (Lippa's version)
Wicked
Bonnie and Clyde
Carrie
Ghost
Les Miserables
Spring Awakening

Updated On: 5/25/14 at 03:42 PM