Worst Broadway Lyric ever?- Page 18

[leon1489]

Posted: 8/12/06 at 5:14pm

The whole part in filipino at the reprise of Wedding Singer makes me cringe every time. Mind you, I like the show.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 8/12/06 at 5:44pm

One song in Ari, musical of Exodus , was a rhyming contest involving flowers I believe

Absolutely dreadful

Posted: 8/12/06 at 5:46pm

I agree with Cruel - "You...me....Miiimiiii" has always annoyed me.

But the one that comes to mind?
Pretty much all of "Anything Goes". I just did this show. I cringed every single night:
"Some get a kick from cocaine. I'm sure that if I took even one sniff, That would bore me terrific'ly too ...Yet I get a kick out of you."

or how about

"It's friendship, friendship, Just a perfect blendship, When other friendships have been "forgate" Ours will still be great! "

[PaintWordPictures]

Posted: 8/12/06 at 7:15pm

"Marius, what's up today?"

Sung? Really? ...Um....


(In some pathetic attempt to explain the awful lyrics to NDdP, it was translated from french, and in some places, the translation sounds like it was done by a computer program. Sheesh. Only a few of those songs turned out okay.)

[stonewall2]

Posted: 8/12/06 at 7:17pm

Add in the "Nessa-confess a" from "Wicked", please, if no one else has come up with it!

[Renthead#1]

Posted: 8/12/06 at 7:22pm

Tomorrow

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 8/12/06 at 7:30pm

"Marius, what's up today?"

No, it's "Hey, Eponine, what's up today?"

[PaintWordPictures]

Posted: 8/12/06 at 7:52pm

Don't the students ask Marius that? "Whats up today- you look as if you've seen a ghost..." In any case, I could be losing my mind, but that line still is awful.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 8/12/06 at 8:03pm

"Marius, you're late. What's wrong today? You look as if you've seen a ghost."

[Color and Light]

Posted: 8/12/06 at 8:10pm

I always cringe at this one:

She's such a lovely girl,
With a lovely little voice!
And I've heard that she's pro-choice,
Though still a virgin!

I shiver every single time I hear it. It's forced and unfunny. I rather enjoyed Spelling Bee, but it has some major clunkers in it.

[LadyLizaElliott]

Posted: 8/12/06 at 9:39pm

As much as I loved Woman in White, yes, that had some of the most horrible lyrics I have ever heard, totally agree with

"You may dine on any single thing you wish, though I'd wait for dinner we are serving fish"
but worse was
"Though he's a baronet, he is steeped in debt"
and all of the silly phrases they used, like bark is far worse than his bite, rather ridiculous

I agree with all the Wicked lyrics, but I do like some of them.

I'm listening to Sweeney Todd over and over for the first time and there are a few that are standing out: "When a girl's emergent probably it's urgent"

[americanboy99]

Posted: 8/12/06 at 9:53pm

I just feel like La vie Boheme in RENT except for Mark's opening solo is just a rhyme fest. It's just random words that happen to rhyme. It sounds like but it isn't fulfilling at all.

[ThankstoPhantom]

Posted: 8/12/06 at 10:01pm

Although I adored WIW , i have another one (that they thankfully changed) was:

Glyde:
My dearest friend Count Fosco
shall act as our best man.
You'll see he has no better
-when you meet tonight-
and there's no better plan.

To this day I do not understand how they could phrase something so stupidly...plus it makes no sense...

They were trying to say Fosco doesn't have a better plan...plan for what? The evil plot? Well...the audience is totally lost with their attempt at foreshadowing.

[Mattay015]

Posted: 8/12/06 at 10:22pm

Rent:

"Ill call. I hate the fall."

[BlueStarGirl]

Posted: 8/13/06 at 12:13am

From Rent's "Light My Candle":

"I know I've seen you out and abOUT
When I used to go OUT
Your candle's OUT"

It drives me crazy when they use the same word to rhyme and to do it 3 times (because many Roger's definitely emphasize "abOUT") just makes me cringe *every* time.

[lilprima2b]

Posted: 8/13/06 at 12:22am

"Every endeavor I have made - ever"

from "This is the Moment" in Jekyll and Hyde. I mean, the whole song is pretty bad lyric-wise, but that one just... augh. It makes my ears bleed.

[CurtainUp]

Posted: 8/13/06 at 12:30am

Actually, the most of the lyrics to La Vie Boheme are EXTREMELY relevant. Sure, a few are forced but there are several fan sites that go through each word of the song. They ARE all parts of the bohemian culture.

Updated On: 8/13/06 at 12:30 AM

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 11:10am

Yes, camp_actor, those were bad lyrics. Honestly, Madame Morrible gets saddled with the worst lyrics in the show.

And Ruffhousin' Mit Shuffhouzen (I don't care if I spelled that wrong) is my least favorite song from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 'cause the lyrics are so bad.

[sideshow13]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 4:10pm

Producer2
Kiss Me Kate-"Gone with the wind" as "wind" is pronounced like "wind a watch"

Cole Porter actually meant for this to be a joke about Shakespeare's questionable rhyming and accenting of words. It is also apparent in "I Hate Men" when Kate rhymes "brassy" with "democracy"

iheartgeek
Wicked-"I wasn't born for the rose and the pearl"

This line wasn't written only for rhyming purposes (although it would sound that way at first) It means that Elphaba believes, based on her appearance, she was never meant to recieve extravagant things from a loved one ("rose" meaning flowers, of course, and "pearl" being jewelry)


Now for my picks for worst lyric(s)!

As awesome as "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" is, it has some really, uh...well, the lyrics are are kinda'...well, yeah...

"The I Love You Song"
(beautiful song, but seriously...)

"Start from the beginning, when you were a beginner..."

"Blame it on your daddily and mammily, 'cuz depression runs in our family..."

"God we loved the way you grew, since you were born..."



Oh Spelling Bee...how you make me laugh when I'm not supposed to...


OH! And also...

"The Pajama Game"

"There once was a ma-AAAN, who loved a wo-MAAAN..."

had my best friend and I laughing for days...


...FOR DAYS...

[wickedfan]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 4:43pm

Everyday, I just pray, every move I make is right
Where I go, who I know, how I wwar my hair come Saturday night.
And I worry, what if all my ends just split?
I worry, what can I possibly do?

To fit in, smack, right on track,
What comes close to that?
Until you fit in you ain't where it's at.
'Cause when you're out, it's just the pits, you can never win.
There's no doubt that life just doesn't begin until you're in.
-"In" from Carrie.
The lyrics go down hill from there in the song. And continually get worse throughout the high school sequences.

Another bad one, from "Do Me a Favor": There's something Carrie White just has to learn.
If she's going to play with fire, she's gonna get burned.
I want her to pay for al that she's cost me.
And make her good and sorry that she ever crossed me.

[MaronaDavies]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 5:04pm

this little girl, we could be in the sack
for what it costs me to buy a big mac
John, it's time to go back -
you know what I mean. -- Miss Saigon

Another vote for Carrie, particularly "Out for Blood" with the "pigs' blood" chorus.

Just about anything written by Leslie Bricusse, for instance:

Chicago Illinois is like a shiny toy... -- Victor/Victoria

To kill outside St. Paul's requires a lot of balls.-- Jekyll & Hyde


Updated On: 8/28/06 at 05:04 PM

[Born2cthelightsofbway]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 5:57pm

Dracula:
"Fresh blood a pillow, don't call it a sin, a mere pecadilo"

[BreatheInTheTheatre]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 6:37pm

I recently did Jane Eyre the musical and I'd have to say the worst lyrics lie in this musical
Here goes nothing...
"If I had a string under my ribs knotted to you connecting our frames. I'd be afraid that many a mile might sever the tie and I would take to bleeding inwardly"

Holey moley! If thats not morbid I dont know what is. And how on earth does a musical theatre performer emote that physically? hahaha

Oh well. Just thought I'd share.

[jasonf]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 7:16pm

I THINK that odd string thing in Jane Eyre is from the book. I seem to remember when I read the book after I saw the show thinking "Oh, THAT'S why they did that..."

But maybe I'm thinking of something else, because it is a VERY strange image.

The daddily and mammily line in Spelling Bee - it's weird, but it's grown on me -- I like that part.

[Matthewjames]

Posted: 8/28/06 at 7:46pm

held in such high esteem
when people see me they will scream
for half of oz's greatest team

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