Worst Rhyme Ever

#1

Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/2/05 at 8:04pm

Have you ever seen a musical, or listened to the cast recording, and cringed when you heared a rather uncreative rhyme? Do tell...

I can't stand the part in "Christmas Bells" (RENT), when Roger says "It was bad- I got mad...". It just seems like a two year old could have rhymed bad with mad.

It may be nit-picky, but I would love to hear your least favourite rhyme. If you're stuck, just look up the lyrics for
"The Wizard and I" and you will find plenty.

jera

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#2

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/2/05 at 8:10pm

"Nessa?"
"Yes?"
"Uh, Nessa, I have something to confess - a reason why, well, why I brought you here tonight..."

Oh, and...

"Think of it as personality dialysis! Now that I've chosen to become a pal, a sister [...]"

It took me the longest time to figure out what "palasis teranadvisor" was.

Updated On: 7/2/05 at 08:10 PM

#3

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/2/05 at 8:13pm

"hummers in my Hummer" in Great Big Stuff from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Not a rhyme but ugh

#4

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/2/05 at 8:17pm

Well, what else can you expect from David "low-rent" Yazbek?


Vivian Darkbloom
Ramsdale, New England

#5

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/2/05 at 8:20pm

Dreams, the way we planned 'em
If we work in tandem

Defying Gravity I mean c'mon seriously that dosent even really rhyme LOL

#6

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/2/05 at 8:23pm

Most of the rhymes in Wicked. And DRS.

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#7

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/2/05 at 8:28pm

Oh I love the rhymes in DRS, I think most of them are really ingenious.

Like
"for the fantasy the man to see is you"
I love that line.

But I guess I'm in the minority with my poor taste in musical compositions...

~Jessica

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#8

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/2/05 at 8:28pm

"You are really quite a dish
what a guy might call delish
better than a kenish"

or something to that effect from "Its a Bird Its a Plance Its Superman"

...now THATS pretty bad. not even CLEVER!

#9

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/2/05 at 8:34pm

I don't know. I'm just not a big fan of DRS. Especially its score.

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#10

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/2/05 at 8:37pm

From HAPPY HUNTING:

I don't want to hear about preparations where everything but the kitchen sink went.
Just give me a red-blooded, American juvenile delinquent.

I shudder every time I hear that line.

From HERE'S LOVE:

From Simple Simon, to the Pieman
From the lion to the mo-out
Tenor to soprano
And she tries to drown him out!

Nothing I can't stand more than when a lazy lyricist purposely writes a word mispronounciation to force a rhyme (At least when Ira Gershwin and Cole Porter did it, they were being witty and sophisticated). Shame on Meredith Wilson!

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Updated On: 7/2/05 at 08:37 PM

#11

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/2/05 at 8:38pm

I don't think any of the shows currently on Broadway can hold a candle to Starlight Express when it comes to bad rhymes/lyrics. I mean "freight is great" is the basis of an entire song.

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#12

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/2/05 at 8:43pm

As much as I loved Fred Ebb,I have to include Boom-Ditty-Boom from 70, Girls, 70.

#13

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/2/05 at 8:43pm

Most of the rhymes in Wicked... some in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Some of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' lyrics are really clever ('The way to be to me is French / the way they say 'la vie' is French' gets me everytime) while others just make me groan (broad and Sigmund Fraud? ugh.)

#14

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/2/05 at 8:49pm

"I'll call-- I hate the fall"

I just don't understand that line.

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#15

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/2/05 at 8:49pm

My personal least favorite rhyme in Wicked (not that I know the score very well by any means) is in "Popular"
Instead of being dreary who you were, well, are
There's nothing that can stop you from becoming popular...lar

I kind of like "It was bad- I got mad." It makes sense for him to say that and the short phrases of one syllable words metrically break up the rhythm of the previous lines. I don't think there's anything wrong with simple rhymes. There are some clunkers in Rent, though.

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#16

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/2/05 at 8:52pm

I didn't realize the thread title said Wicked Hatefest. My bad!

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#17

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/2/05 at 8:58pm

Well, if the shoe fits...

Anyway, I haven't heard most of Wicked, so I can't really comment on that. I'd just like to voice my opinion that making up words/syllables for the sake of rhyming is funny the first time, but after that it gets annoying. Erm... I'm sure there were a few things in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, but I don't really feel like looking up the lyrics...

#18

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/2/05 at 8:58pm

I probably shouldn't pick on My Bill but the stress is off on 'not the kind that you would find in a statue'.

#19

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/2/05 at 9:04pm

Did anyone say they hated Wicked? No. Does Wicked have terrible lyrics? Yes. Jeez.

And here's another one from Wicked:

"She is winsome, she wins him."

Last time I checked, winsome and wins him definitely don't rhyme.

#20

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/2/05 at 9:05pm

from March of the Falsettos in please come to our house:

"time to jaw,
first i'll extend my paw!"

I HATE this line, but its pretty much the only one form that show. i LOVE Falsettos!

#21

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/2/05 at 9:11pm

You know, Wicked has its flaws, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't really enjoy it.

That being said, this line makes me cringe:
"Finally for this one night/I'm about to have a fun night."

It narrowly beats out that doozy from Rent:

"With condos on the top/whose rent keeps open our shop."

Who talks like that?

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#22

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/2/05 at 9:12pm

I have to agree with the "Nessa-Confessa" line- Mythus, you beat me to it!! Everytime I hear that line I groan...

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#23

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/2/05 at 9:12pm

Who talks like that?

Shakespeare! He would switch words around a lot to make the sonnets rhyme.

#24

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/2/05 at 9:14pm

Well, yes, but Shakespeare didn't write Rent.

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#25

re: Worst Rhyme Ever

Posted: 7/2/05 at 9:15pm

Most of their show tunes are great, but Kander and Ebb have written some astonishingly bad lyrics for Liza Minnelli's concerts and specials over the years.