JSquared2 said: "The Greatest Showman film grossedjust under half a billionworldwide and the score is by 2 of the most well known and beloved contemporary Broadway writing teams — but sure, you find it “shockingly bad and stupid”. You seem to be slightly “detached from reality”. Perhaps you and Bway Flash should start a cover band and perform only songs written by MJ LaChiusa, Adam Guettel and Jason Robert Brown!
PS —as I’m typing this, in the background I hear “This Is Me” playing as the commercial jingle for Wegovy! "
And as we all know, when something makes money that means it's good and when it doesn't that means it's bad! We really used our critical thinking to come up with that one!
Pasek and Paul write the blandest music in the modern era with no style of their own. They write music to be most the palatable to Middle America Wine Moms and teenage kids. The music that tries to be every genre under the sun to get that one hit and wouldn't you know? See your comment about 'This Is Me' being used to advertise ****ing Wegovy. A song that is LITERALLY "This is me, take or leave it." For a medication LITERALLY for weight loss.
Even divorced from the music, the movie is BAD! It's just bad.