The worst song from a musical you've ever heard — Page 4

Personally I think Over the Moon is annoying unless experienced live. It's a "performance piece" more than a song. I personally believe "Contact" is meant to have deep symbolic meaning, but that symbolism feels a little forced as it is placed in the show. That said I do thoroughly enjoy the song and buy the forced symbolism, but that may be because I agree with what it stands for (at least in my own interpretation). Again it is better when experienced live. Plus I do love the contrast between contact and the eulogies that follow.

Superlover (along with a great deal of the score) from brooklyn is terrible.

The stupid rap song they added to the last scene of "Footloose", along with "Learning to be Silent" ("I'm...becoming a mime." ????!!!!) and all the Reverend's songs. "I Confess" steals part of its melody from "Rainbow Connection" and is far inferior to it.

I also have to say "Happy Talk" from "South Pacific". It sounds like something written to be delivered by Barney the Purple Dinosaur.

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It's that show's "Dreamgirls" shout-out.

Speaking of Brooklyn--I always hear "Street Singer" and that annoys me..it's like gospel-ee and it sounds like their doing a "sing off". Who can ruin their voice before the end of the song?

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I think I am the only person that hates "Memory" from CATS.

The rap song from FOOTLOOSE is called "Dancing Is Not a Crime". Maybe so but that song sure is. He's some sample lyrics (Heaven help me, I actually own the CD!):

So dancing doesn't always make you do the nasties
Look at the book of Ecclesiastes

H didn't like math or geography
But check this out: He loved choreography!

So he would dance
Every time he had the chance
Whatever the season or circumstance
He found a reason to throw a party in his pants
And he would dance!

No wonder this was one of the few shows in Broadway history to run over 500 performances and STILL not get nominated for a Best Musical Tony!

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Some of the best musical songs are from Wicked.

But sadly some of the worst - Dancing Through Life is unbearable.

I know it was a while back, but the worst song for me is Clambake from Carousel - such a pretty score -- and then a song about eating seafood. Ugh.

I'm surprised so many people don't like Dancing Through Life - it's one of my favorites from Wicked

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Don't just say you HATE a song or even a whole show... tell us why you think it is so terrible.

A song that you hate because it gets stuck in your head seems to indicate that the song is what people call "memorable" or "hummable." Some songs have been done to death ("Memory", "Tomorrow", etc) but these were considered great songs when they were introduced and they do not become bad songs simply through overexposure. You may have grown tired of hearing them, but that has nothing to do with their quality as songs.

I suspect a lot of people are getting tired of WICKED based on the sheer number of copies that are popping up in used CD stores these days.

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"Shipoopi" - "The Music Man" (I think this one takes the cake for me)
"Amazing" - "Little Women"
"Dancing Through Life" - "Wicked"
"Masquerade" - "Phantom of the Opera" (absolutely neverending)

I don't like A Real Nice Clambake for a couple of reasons. First, plain and simple, I don't like the melody. It grates on my nerves every time I hear it. Second, the lyrics are the most ridiculously over-the-top exaggerations -- FOR FOOD! Who describes their food as "fit for an angel's choir?" On top of that, they're rhapsodizing about a feast they JUST ate (or 'et, if you go by the lyrics). Now, I don't know about you, but if I just ate a big ass meal of lobsters and clams and crabs etc. I would NOT be in a mood to sing a song about how great the meal was -- I would be full and ready to sleep! As for the argument about setting mood - why use lyrics so ridiculous when the absolutely brilliant Carousel Waltz sets up the mood perfectly at the top of the show without so much as a word sung? Clambake is a far way away from that...

Now, someone PLEASE tell me what is so awful about Dancing Through Life -- especially when you compare it to drek like Something Bad!??

Jason

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SEUSSICAL! It's so terribly annoying...
"Oh the thinks you can think" is a drag

"Something Bad" is pretty bad too.

"Dancing through life" scares me...

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wonderful from Wicked.

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