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Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
ahhrealmonsters
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/11/10
#25Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/20/11 at 11:11pmIt's not the words exactly, but in "A Way Back to Then" from [title of show], I find "Kool-Aid mustache and butterfly wings" very forced and does not flow at all with the music.
#26Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/20/11 at 11:22pm
Most of the lyrics in The Book of Mormon strike me as odd.
There, I said it.
#27Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/21/11 at 12:38am
Don't get me wrong: I love The Book of Mormon as much as everyone else, and Sal Tlay Ka Siti is one of my favorite songs from the show.
But, sadly, unicorns don't fly.
EVEN WORSE, from Baptize Me . . .
Moths flutter, but not in their cocoons. Keeping them from fluttering is kinda the whole point of their confinement.
Why couldn't she just sing, "like a moth from a cocoon?"
:-/
#28Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/21/11 at 1:00amI think that as a whole Hasa Diga Eebowai is completely vile.
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#29Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/21/11 at 2:34am
Most of his lyrics for Wicked are pretty puzzling and random.
"Nessa I must confessa". Really Schwartz? He does better with lyrics when someone else writes the music.
And I don't think you're supposed to get a warm, fuzzy feeling during "Hasa Diga Eebewoi". It's meant to make you uncomfortable.
The Koolaid line in title of show has always made my skin crawl.
Oh and anything from The Wedding Singer...
"Broadway...I'll lick you yet!"
#30Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/21/11 at 2:59am
^ To be fair, the actual lyric is...
"something to confess, a..."
There IS a comma, but it's still a stupid lyric.
#31Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/21/11 at 3:17amI was surprised when I read that was the actual lyric.....I don't understand why performers don't take a slight pause between "confess"" and "a". (I guess it would be written that way through)
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#32Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/21/11 at 8:47amThe first thing that came to mind was Hasa Diga Eebowai. Don't mean to be inflammatory to fans of the show, because actually I find that this song is stuck in my head a lot, but I cannot believe that a song (and score) like Book of Mormon has become such a tremendous success, because it's so very crude and at times revolting. I hope this isn't the future of Broadway scores...
#33Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/21/11 at 9:14amWhen people are criticizing Hasa Diga Eibowei, are they doing so because of the content or because of the actual songwriting? I guess people can be offended (I personally think it's hilarious), but as a piece of songwriting I don't see anything particularly wrong with it.
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Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#34Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/21/11 at 9:16am
>"If you want my gravy, pepper my Ragu." - Chicago
Damn line gives me monkey nerves, every time!<
The Chicago lyric is "if you want my gravy, pepper my ragoût," meaning the stew, not ragu, the bolognese sauce and definitely not Ragu, capital R, the jarred spaghetti sauce.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
#35Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/21/11 at 9:54am
haha! I did know that Smaxie. I was just being lazy copy/pasting.
>But, sadly, unicorns don't fly.<
to be fair, it isn't the writer claiming that unicorns fly. It's a character relating that their mother believes that unicorns fly. Characters are allowed to sing their own misguided beliefs without it being considered the songwriter's error.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.
philly03
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
#36Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/21/11 at 9:56am
Don Black's great lyrics from DRACULA, the musical:
"I wish I had wings, no that's not true. If I had wings how could I help flying straight to you." - Mina, the female lead... what?! so random!
"To trample on a flower, to catch a butterfly and then just tear off its wings. It's worse then all of these things." ("Before the Summer Ends") This is sung by Mina's husband.
#37Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/21/11 at 10:07am
Not disgusting, just an odd lyric "Don't Look At Me" in Follies:
"So just look at us/fat, turning gray/still playing games, acting crazy"
"still playing games acting crazy" just strikes me as odd, because they aren't playing games nor are they acting crazy. They just saw eachother for the first time in 30 years, there wasn't time for game playing or crazy actin'.
"I chose and my world was shaken--so what? The choice may have been mistaken, the choosing was not. You have to move on"
EvelynOakleigh
Understudy Joined: 4/23/11
#38Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/21/11 at 10:19amI think most of the lyrics on the concept album of Love Never Dies are just bad, that being said there are a couple exceptions here and there...
#39Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/21/11 at 11:17am
"So just look at us/fat, turning gray/still playing games, acting crazy"
Surely this is more about party small talk and character self-deception, especially on the part of Sally.
#40Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/21/11 at 11:32am
What jasonf said. I especially love the lines about not telling another culture what to do before living a few days in their shoes.
As for other weirdo lyrics, is Miss Saigon's "if you want to die in bed" actually a saying? And does it mean during sex or being shot in your own bedroom? I may be dense.
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
#41Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/21/11 at 11:42amLizzie, I've always taken it to mean, die peacefully at home, rather than as the victim of war/crime/political assassination, etc.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.
temms
Broadway Star Joined: 7/21/04
#42Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/21/11 at 11:50am
Going back a page, I'm going to disagree and suggest that Cole Porter knew EXACTLY what he was writing when he wrote "You're The Top". This the same man who invites his lovers to taunt and hurt him, who wrote songs so dirty and lesbianic Ethel Merman flat-out refused to sing them.
Not sure which he identified as, but I'm fairly certain that he and every other gay man in the audience in 1934 (and a few hip straights, I'm sure) got the in-joke.
#43Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/21/11 at 11:53am
I have maggots in my SCROTUM.
Book of Mormon...nuff said.
#44Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/21/11 at 12:01pm
From "With Anne on My Arm":
"We start a conflagration that's cause for alarm."
Who uses the word 'conflagration' over something like 'wild fire' or the like?
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#45Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/21/11 at 12:05pm
because they aren't playing games nor are they acting crazy.
She sings at him for two minutes before she'll let him look at her.
Updated On: 6/21/11 at 12:05 PM
#46Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/21/11 at 12:08pmFunny, I think "Hasa Digga Ebowai" is the best song in Mormon. And I don't love the show.
#47Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/21/11 at 12:08pmHmmm...ok, that explanation makes sense to me!
"I chose and my world was shaken--so what? The choice may have been mistaken, the choosing was not. You have to move on"
#48Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/21/11 at 3:22pmI'm not criticizing the songwriting; as I stated in my post, I find the song to be catchy! I find if repulsive because it's blasphemous, and while I'm not entirely religious, I know it's highly offensive to many!
#49Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you
Posted: 6/21/11 at 3:46pm
I have no sympathy for anyone who complains about Book of Mormon offensive. It has warning signs, and it is printed on the ticket about the content. There are more things to worry about in life than being offended by a song in a musical.
I agree about the Wicked Lyrics, they are a bit random, but then they kinda work with the show. It wasn't written to be analysed like we all love to.
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