Lyrics in musicals that make you itch — Page 3

I caught this the first time I heard it and it still bugs me.

The Little Mermaid- "She barely sticks her toe in down at the tidal pool" in "She's in Love"...

Yeah, She doesn't have toes. She's a little mermaid.

Updated On: 6/25/08 at 04:16 AM

Much as I love Tim Rice, this thread is making me think we need to revoke his knighthood.

"Greatest man since Noah
Only goes to show-a"

OUCH. XD

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Updated On: 6/25/08 at 07:10 AM

Aida:


"RE: Another Pyramid"

There's a quick one in In the Heights:

"That's Abuela,
She's not really my abuela..."

I just wince and giggle each time, but Sonny makes up for it with his Chita Rivera line.

From Bare:

"Hey little boy would you like a ride, a lollipop, a puppy?
How about a baseball bat? – there’s one in my pants"

So horrible.

"That's Abuela,
She's not really my abuela..."

What's wrong with that? I used to have an Uncle Bob. He wasn't really my uncle, but he was a very good friend of the family. *shrugs*

But yes, the Chita Rivera line pwns. :3

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I think that my least favorite one would have to be "there are bridges you didn't know you crossed until you crossed." That not only makes no sense but it was just so poorly written. I could say that for a lot of they lyrics.

I do find it interesting that the first time I had see The Little Mermaid the musical I had never seen the move before. So I couldn't point out which songs were from the movie and which ones were written for the show. Of course there were the obvious like Part of Your World and Poor Unfortunate Souls and Under the Sea which are songs that I know are Disney standards etc. But, other then that I had trouble figuring it out. However, I was able to tell by the lyrics. The ones with the bad lyrics I figured out were not from the movie and were done by Glenn Slater. The ones with good lyrics I found out were done by Ashman.

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"there are bridges you crossed, you didn't know you crossed until you crossed"

that does make sense...it's basically saying 'sometimes you do/say something without realizing you've done/said it, until its too late'.

the 'as someone told me lately' line isn't grammatically correct, but it does make sense. you get what she's saying...'recently the wizard said to me that everyone deserves the chance to fly'...doesn't really flow as well.

to be honest, Wicked has several words that are entirely made up so its not surprising that they would have lyrics that don't technically make much sense, but at the time you get what they're meaning which is the most important thing.


em...what else have people said, oh yeah the 'every time he looks at me its totally proposal eyes'. i thought she was saying 'totally proposalized' for ages, guess not haha.

but the 'proposal eyes' line does sort of make sense. just saying he looked like he was going to propose..


if we're going to criticize lyrics, how about we go for almost the entire of 'We Go Together' from Grease.

'ramalamalamagadinkyitydinkidonk' or something. grrrreat lyrics.

CHESS does have so many, but Tim Rice has so many flaws in his lyric writing that you know he thought was so clever at the time (and perhaps when he wrote them), but I think that's what I find interesting about his lyrics.
"And the appeal, partner
of this deal, parter
is that we both stand to win
we'll bring back the golden era"
I just happen to think that it might not be crap, just interesting writing.

And I happen to think Nan Knighton (Saturday Night Fever--some adjustments, Scarlet Pimpernel and Camille Claudel) writes some really creative lyrics, and just some really crappy ones.

In "Into the Fire" she rhymes the second and last lines, example:
Hand & Stand
Hell & Tell
Night & Fight
..and then she tries to rhyme:
Scale and Sail?

And then of course all of those "BOYS!" thrown into that song.

Also, it seems like she ran out of something to fill in, so wrote, cleverly and then just ($&#*&$?? !:
"See the moon slink down in the sky, darling
Let your fantasies fly, darling"
"Just see how virtue repays you
You turn and someone betrays you
Betray him first
and the game's reversed."

That last part just seems well WHAT? Obviously.

There's a bunch more from just about EVERY Frank Wildhorn show, with the exception of Camille Claudel, but no one's really heard any of that!

a nice majority of Wicked's lyrics
I don't like Stephen Schwartz's lyrics. It always sounds like he's trying to smush a bunch of words into one line and it just doesn't sound right to me.

Ryan4, that one always gets me too. "In those dreams were hidden dragons"? Eek.

I second "proposal eyes" from Legally Blonde. It took me a very long time to figure out what the heck she was actually saying.

**Shudder**

Just goes to show, Yip Harburg knows when it's time to rhyme with 'Oz', and Schwarz knows it's always rhyme-time.
With anything.