Lyrics or lines that made you cringe!- Page 6

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 7/13/04 at 4:17pm

Really? I LOVE it when Colm Wilkinson does that. He has a very angelic voice, and all those little things just make him all the more unique.

[ponine24601]

Posted: 7/13/04 at 4:27pm

yes, his voice is unique. it just kinda bugs me. it's really all a matter of opinion.

[marlomanners]

Posted: 7/14/04 at 8:58pm

Two minutes left to execute our plan
Where's everyone else?
Playing Spiderman

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 7/14/04 at 9:02pm

SPIDER-MAN. WOO WOO

[J.]

Posted: 7/15/04 at 1:14am

Every line in CAROLINE, OR CHANGE even though I have not seen the show. I'm just guessing. lol I hate "If were work in tandem" Who says that? How many people use the word tandem?

[Delphine]

Posted: 7/15/04 at 2:38am

I love RENT, but the lyrics from the NYTW production were simply ghastly. You can read them here:

http://members.aol.com/crazywrld5/rent1.html

That song, "You're A Fool"- oh Lord. I simply do not comprehend.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 7/15/04 at 2:40am

OH LORD!!! I was trying to sing the new lyrics with the existing music and it wasn't working. THANK YOU JONATHAN FOR CHANGING THOSE LYRICS

[Delphine]

Posted: 7/15/04 at 3:21am

THANK YOU SPIDER! I was trying that all night and it was impossible! Some of those lyrics, really, they just make me sad. Some of them make me laugh too, like the duet between Mark and Maureen in place of the Tango, but still... gah.

[insomniak]

Posted: 7/15/04 at 1:45pm

Yes, I've never been more thankful for the final version. I don't mind the Spiderman line, I think it's a nice change from Roger's usual scowliness. It's cute!

"If we work in tandem" from Wicked. Who says that? I know it rhymes, but it sounds so contrived, like they were really desparate for something to put there.

[jonartdesigns]

Posted: 7/15/04 at 1:56pm

one from nine- send me your love that will mend me with love

Posted: 7/15/04 at 3:19pm

Colm is an aquired taste as is... Mandy Patinking.
Love him in DEAD LIKE ME
Hate his singing styles.

[Jo Jo Mandingo]

Posted: 7/15/04 at 4:12pm

Swear to GOD, you people are all on CRACK!

What's with all the "Wicked" bashing???? Because a lyric is the least bit clever and (*GASP*) rhymes, it makes you cringe?? You want recitative? Go to the Opera. Broadway songs Rhyme - and if Bad/Sad, Moon/June is the best you can do, you deserve to be sneered at. Analysis/Dialisis/pal-a-sis.. makes me smile; Nessa/yes, uh/fess-a is just plain cool. That's what Schwartz DOES ... clever rhymes. YOU all try to wright lyrics that a) rhyme, b) flow and c) MEAN something.

Regarding the whole Bridges thing, first, get the lyric right, and in context: Commenting on getting everything that you want ...

there's a kind of a, sort of cost,
there's a couple of things get lost,
there are bridges you cross you didn't know you'd crossed
until you crossed

means something to me, flows great (even in 5/8 meter - YOU try that) and fits perfect. What's the problem?

Soundheim (another legendary rhymer) broached the same subject in Into the Woods - and THIS is my very FAVORITE Lyric from any show:

Only 3 more tries
and we'll have our prize,
when the end's in sight you'll realize,
if the end is right it justifies
THE BEANS

4 Rhymes, 1 internal Rhyme, and a damn funny Pun

My most Cringe worthy?

We're not gonna pay,
we're not gonna pay,
we're not gonna pay,
last year's rent,
this year's rent,
next year's rent,
rent, rent, rent, rent, rent,
we're not gonna pay rent,
'cuz everything is rent

Gee ... can anyone guess the title of the show?

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 7/15/04 at 4:13pm

Is it WE'RE NOT GONNA PAY?"

[BWayBoy88]

Posted: 7/15/04 at 4:27pm

Jo Jo- I agree with you completly. Schwartz is a very cleaver song writter and people just dont understand that.

[Jo Jo Mandingo]

Posted: 7/15/04 at 6:07pm

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and there's this one word in "Magic to Do" from Pippin that no matter where you breathe or how you try to say the darn thing it always comes out as two words - i think it's "journey, journey to a spot eh-exciting, mystic and exotic..."

DRIVES ME NUTS!!!
_____________________________________________________________

GAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!

Are you serious??????

For the luv a ....

"Journey to a spot ex-
citing, mystic and exotic"

You don't see the cleverness in that lyric????

You don't see that he MEANT exciting to sound like 2 words???

HE RHYMED "a spot ec ..." WITH "exotic"

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What's the point of brilliance if it's wasted on people like this?

Sheesh.

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 7/15/04 at 6:17pm

Go, Jo Jo, Go!

[insomniak]

Posted: 7/15/04 at 6:54pm

Chill, Jojo. I can and will have my opinion. Whining isn't going to change it.

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 7/15/04 at 9:00pm

Oh no, a Wicked fanatic has purpetrated the thread!

[insomniak]

Posted: 7/15/04 at 11:06pm

I actually like Wicked quite a lot. When the songs are good, they're very good. For Good had me a bit teary.

[marebare]

Posted: 7/16/04 at 1:14am

I love Idina but whenever she talk-whispers I go crazy. Rent: "Moo with me", Wicked "Come with me...to the Emerald City". It just sounds so cheesy!

[broadwaysweetheart]

Posted: 7/16/04 at 9:01pm

I always get chills when I listen to "I still believe" and "I'd give my life for you" from Miss Saigon. The whole Rose's Turn and Les Miz's Come to me and A Little Fall of Rain

[Mr. Tuttle]

Posted: 7/16/04 at 10:19pm

Not lyric but from the "Annie" script:

Grace to Warbucks when he's throwing an adoption party for Annie:

"Cheese. Don't forget the cheese!"

[propspony]

Posted: 7/16/04 at 10:52pm

Hmm a couple of my err.... favorites. I'm going to preface this by saying I have nothing but respect for these guys, just that to me... these particular lines...well...

you know...

Miss Saigon:
John- I'm gonna buy you a girl.
Chris- You can buy me a beer.

I laugh every time I hear that one, and you know I don't think it's supposed to be funny in the manner in which I find it.

and my number one...

King David
Johnathon- This is the time for you,
you have it all.
You can do anything,
you're standing tall.

Love Tim Rice and all, but that lyric was like a frying pan upside the head. Maybe it was a time crunch or something... LOL

[Sister George]

Posted: 7/17/04 at 10:28am

Stop that man,
He's the Hunchback of Notre Dame!

Notre Dame de Paris


Translated by the man who wrote the lyrics for My Heart Will Go On ~ very bad ~ but then to respond to earlier posts I think Camp is a work of ironic genius!

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 7/17/04 at 11:04am

Good call, Tuttle.
I believe that Grace has more than one line about cheese.
Strange, really.