Worst Broadway Lyric ever?- Page 11

[ohhoney_]

Posted: 2/26/06 at 4:09pm

"So tell them we'll sue, but a settlement will do
Sexual harassment, civil rights, too.
Steve, you're great. NO, YOU CUT THE PAPER PLATE!"

EXACTLY.

i used to hate the "i've got something to confess-a" line until i took it into context that he's stuttering

"listen nessa, uh, nessa, i've got something to confess, uh, ..."

although my opinion does change daily!

[Josh Freilich]

Posted: 2/26/06 at 4:14pm

It's not just stuttering... it's

"Uh, Nessa, I've got something to confess...
A reason why...well...why I asked you here tonight..."

The "confess" was preceding the word used before the singular noun to show what he's saying.

[ohhoney_]

Posted: 2/26/06 at 4:17pm

true enough :)

[jv92]

Posted: 2/26/06 at 4:29pm

I haven't read this entire thread but if it isn't on here yet-

"Paris is so sexy
Riding in a taxi
Gives me apoplexi"

Is pretty awful as is most of the non-moive lyrics from VictorVictora, the egriciously (sp?) overlooked musical (being sarcastic there)

[WickedGeek28]

Posted: 2/26/06 at 4:35pm

The whole song "I Hope You'll Like It Here" from WIW..... oh my gosh.... For example... "We're thrilled that's indisputable,
I hope your rooms are suitable, your sentence is commutable"

"I told you to get out!
I simply can't go on
My nerves are fraying...
What was I saying?
Oh, mostly I desire
A quiet atmosphere
As silent as a sepulchre
No utterance about a purr
Just nod you head
If you concur
I trust you'll like it here." what the hecK?

It's supposed to be wordy and rediculous. Alas the reason she says her sister would call her "verbose." Verbose meaning extremely wordy with "verbage" shall we say lol. It's not intended to be amazing.

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 2/26/06 at 4:36pm

I believe the paper plate was used as a prop to represent the moon in Maureen's performance. Right? I thought something along those lines.

[WickedGeek28]

Posted: 2/26/06 at 4:38pm

No if I recall there was an actually moon. It was a big round ball hanging throughout the show. I could be totally wrong because I saw the show a while ago.

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 2/26/06 at 4:43pm

From Hairspray:

It mmust be the low-watt institutional lighting!- Without Love

Link, I love you and this prison smells!- Good Morning Baltimore Reprise

Love this show, hate these lyrics.

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 2/26/06 at 4:44pm

WickedGeek, I know that, but I think Maureen had originally intended to have a paper plate to use. Something. I don't know where I heard that... but I guess it makes sense, cutting a paper plate to make a crescent moon?

[ohhoney_]

Posted: 2/26/06 at 4:48pm

Link, I love you and this prison smells!

*ears bleed*

[jasonf]

Posted: 2/26/06 at 4:49pm

"Every prince has got to have his swan" is a reference to Swan Lake, probably the most famous ballet ever. It's a beautiful line that fits PERFECTLY in the song.

I also like the Schmuel line -- the rhymes are intentionally obvious there.

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 2/26/06 at 4:51pm

And the Hairspray lines are tongue in cheek bad, so you can't really call them the worst lyrics ever.

[Act4ever]

Posted: 2/26/06 at 4:55pm

the ENTIRE score of big, the musical.

[EverythingIsRENT]

Posted: 2/26/06 at 5:11pm

come on people, be more creative than just listing some slightly-less-than-stellar RENT lyrics. 'Cut the paper plate" means Maureen was gonna use a paper plate in her show, but she cut it, as in, not using the plate anymore.

AND I LOVE I Should Tell You because it is SUCH a pretty song that captures the excitement and fear of starting a new relationship...Roger and Mimi are scared of the baggage they both have...they want to express themselves but can't, and at the end of the song they just decide to go for it and be with each other. It is beautiful! And I Hate The Fall is a double meaning...it is fall, and Roger also means "fall" as in, things tarted falling apart. I know people dislike the show but RENT lyrics are HARDLY the worst ever. *whew* *steps off soap box*

As for REAL worst lyrics, one word: CATS

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 2/26/06 at 5:14pm

Yeah, T.S. Eliot is such crap.

[jv92]

Posted: 2/26/06 at 5:22pm

Yep, legendary British poets are like dog crap compared to Jonathan Larson.

Now I have to stop being sarcastic.

EverythingisRENT, what really cheapens Cats is the awful music. Maybe you didn't know a legendary poet penned the lyrics.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 2/26/06 at 5:24pm

I probably posted somewhere in this thread, but I don't want to go through pages to find it. In Wicked, they say "she's a terror, she's a tartar..."

For some reason I think that icky green tartar sauce you get with fish...ew!

[jv92]

Posted: 2/26/06 at 5:27pm

Schwartz's lyrics mention odd things like "tarter" which make them kind of bad (I do like his songs though). If he were to find some normal references, I'm sure we'd stop complaining.

[thevolleyballer]

Posted: 2/26/06 at 5:29pm

"So God damn continental" from WHAT WAS A WOMAN TO DO in DRS.

Nobody's ever laughed at it when it was performed, I've never laughed at it when listening to the CD, it's just not funny, and it makes NO SENSE AT ALL. Gosh.

[rent1988]

Posted: 2/26/06 at 5:30pm

"you want to produce films and write songs?/you need somewhere to do it/it's what we used to dream about/think twice before you poo-poo it"


ouch

[EverythingIsRENT]

Posted: 2/26/06 at 5:30pm

British poet or not, a song that goes "jellicle songs for jellicle cats....jellicle songs for jellicle cats...jellicles can and jellices do..." is just plain crap.

[jv92]

Posted: 2/26/06 at 5:32pm

There's Lloyd Webber cheapening the poems.

Really, the poems with out the Webberisms are quite nice.
Updated On: 2/26/06 at 05:32 PM

[jv92]

Posted: 2/26/06 at 5:33pm

"So goddamned continental" isn't supposed to be especially funny compared to the other things in the song.

[ohhoney_]

Posted: 2/26/06 at 5:51pm

"Yep, legendary British poets are like dog crap compared to Jonathan Larson."

*rises out of chair and starts applauding slowly*

[jv92]

Posted: 2/26/06 at 5:59pm

No, wait, we must applaud Larson on taking the time to to count the 525,600 minutes in a year and for writing a pretty damn clever parody of Sunday in the Part with George (See Tick, Tick, Boom or Broadway: The American Musical).