Lyrics that strike you as odd or disgust you — Page 5

Dan would never say "pic".

I never knew him that well.

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I dislike the word "snack" so much that it borders on pathology. I Book of Mormon, the lead-in for Spooky Mormon Hell Dream has a line about eating a snack. In a show that is pretty colorful lyrically when it wants to be, why end on a word like "snack"? Yes, I know, it sets up a rhyme with "Jack," but it really, really grates each and every time I hear it. Am I the only one?

Jesus Christ Superstar - "To conquer death you only have to die".
Ummm...isn't dying giving into death, not conquering it? Living would be conquering death.

"'it's what we used to dream about, think twice before you poo-poo it' from Rent. that lyric just stands out like a sore thumb to me."

"I SO agree with this one, and I love Rent. Eery time I thread like this pops up, that has been my answer!"


It's actually "pooh-pooh it" with an H. To pooh-pooh something means to express contempt about it. It has nothing to do with sh!t.

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Jesus Christ Superstar - "To conquer death you only have to die".
Ummm...isn't dying giving into death, not conquering it? Living would be conquering death.

you can't come back from the dead until you have died.

In regards to the Nessa confessa, line, I always heard it as a tentative pause, like, "Nessa, I have something to confess...uh......"

I ADORE Grey Gardens, but I don't like and never really understood the racist song Big Edie sings, 'Hominy Grits'. I took offense because I get they were trying to show Big Edie lacking the decorum of a lady at that time, but as a Grey Gardens buff, there has never been any indicators of Big Edie being racist. Actually she was known to be pretty accepting of diverse people. The lyrics of that song are just offensive and I think it paints Big Edie in a less sympathetic light and its untrue and unfounded.

"Remember, you're an old time Mammy-poor as dirt, true, but rich in the wisdom of the ages."

"Once ya done yer picking, you get fried chicken!"

"Next to watermelon, there ain't no tellin'. Thems the bestest vittles us colored folks gits."

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double post

Updated On: 6/26/11 at 12:02 AM

"The hallways always smelled like chicken soup." - Invisible, WOTV

Completely out of left field.

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Valjean says to the Innkeeper:
I will pay in advance...

And the Innkeeper gives him a choice:

You leave my house!
Or feel the weight of my rod.


p.s. But then, before he has time to actually choose,
Valjean is thrown out of the inn.

I've never liked "Clambake" either. Probably the worst song in any R&H classic.

Listening to "Book of Mormon" this weekened--were they really trying to rhyme "Kevin got caught playing hooky" with "super spooky-wooky" in "Spooky Mormon Hell Dream"? There are several false rhymes in the show, but that has to be the worst. (I still love it, though.)

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"The "Hominy Grits" routine in "Grey Gardens" does not show Edie as a racist (except maybe incidentally) so much as show the inherent racism in the culture of the time. She isn't singing that song specifically to make a personal attack on blacks, she's singing it because so called "coon songs" were the popular styles of the day. Were they racially insensitive? Yes, but no one had really said so yet. By singing one, Edie is no more specifically racist than white people today who sing along to gangsta rap and don't blanch at the repetition of "nigga" in the lyrics."

Having read that it makes even less sense to the story. If its not illuminating the characters but rather the racist beliefs of the time they were living in its an even farther shot in the dark and takes from the story. I think the show focused on women's expectations and roles at the time, not people of color.

And I disagree, if Big Edie would gleefully sing that song to children with such bravado, joy, and colorful affect then she is inherently racist and culturally insensitive especially as Brooks Senior is roaming the background.

That to me supports nothing I know about the Beale women.

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