Wildhorn takes a lot of abuse, but I think his scores are mostly brilliant. What a lot of people make fun of about his songs are the lyrics. Wildhorn doesn't write the lyrics. He writes exciting, singable, hummable tunes that reach great momentous (that's right, you heard me) climaxes. Wildhorn takes a lot of abuse for good reason. His tunes meander terribly and reach many anti-climaxes before hitting somewhat of a high at the end, but you can't recognize it because he beat it out of you with the anti-s...
In my earlier post I said "not to mention" the insipid lyrics, because those are awful too, but also to keep the focus on the bloated, flabby score.
And as one detractor, I couldn't care less if the fella is in the songwriter's hall of fame, or even if he ascended into the heavens as an immortal lyricist, the lyrics are still stilted, on-the-nose, rudimentary, and insipid...
Not to say there aren't some good moments in the score, but they are few and far between, and getting from on to the next is painful, sorry to say...
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