Worst Rhyme Ever- Page 3

[Jera]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 8:54am

I'm also not a fan of any use of the name "Mimi" in Rent. The AZT break quote was already mentioned, but here's another one.

"Don't waste your money on Mimi, Me, Me"

Just so everyone knows, I love Rent and Wicked, but my love for them does not blind me of their flaws.

jera

[Cages or Wings]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 11:07am

Kringas I was not trying to come after you, it's just that Rent has many a lyrical issue and I disagreed with that particular one. No offense intended.

[broadwaystar2b]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 11:16am

There's a lyric in "Superlover" that goes something like

BATMAN, I'm gonna steal his car...and when I'm through, I'm gonna do the Boy Wonder!!!

I cringed in the theatre

[BabyJohn]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 11:52am

Would it be all right by you...
If I degreenify you?

[TheEnchantedHunter]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 12:10pm

"enchanted hunter, they don't rhyme at all."

Funny, THE AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY says they do, allowing for both pronunciations, including the Anglicized one that rhymes with "Japan." Don't take on Oscar Hammerstein if you don't know what you're talking about.

"also, what is the deal with enchanted hunter? you sign a different name and location on every post. i don't understand."


What's to understand?


Tilde Kooeck
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

[apdarcey]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 12:24pm

let me rephrase. WHY do you sign a different name and location on every post?

[Kevo711]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 12:59pm

i dont know if this was even supposed to rhyme (and i love rent...but....)
"They call me, they call me, mimi"

it actually makes me laugh

[singingwendy]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 1:13pm

"They call me, they call me, mimi"


This is a direct quote from "La Boheme". Mimi's aria "Si, Mi chiamo Mimi"..translates to "they call me Mimi"

[singingwendy]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 1:19pm

Right now, the rhymes that bug me are from "Spelling Bee":

1. Blame it on your Daddalee and Mammalee
‘Cause depression runs in our family

2. (something like) blossom like a comet,
But my stress has me so stressed, I just want to up and vomit.

[Kringas]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 1:22pm

Cages or Wings, no offense was taken. I just don't buy the Shakespeare argument, because it's not like the entire show (or even the entirety of Benny's character) is written that way. It's the most forced of rhymes in the show, and it takes on a style of speech that is never repeated in the show. It makes no sense for Benny to start speaking like that, and seems like its only there to force a rhyme.

Though I've always been a fan of the show, I do think a lot of the lyrics are cringe-worthy. I always wondered if more of the messy lyrics would have been corrected had Larson lived.

Kevon711, "they call me Mimi" sounds odd to me too, but not really because of the rhyming issue. It's a line directly taken from La Boheme, which is fine, but it becomes a strange turn of phrase in English. It makes me wonder, who are "they," why do "they" call you Mimi, and what is your real name if that's what "they" call you? I guess one could assume that idiomatically Mimi speaks in the style of a romance language, but I think that's stretching it a bit.

[StephanietheStar]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 2:25pm

What I always thought would be better for the DTL "listen Nessa?" part would be

"I've got something to connfess-- THE reason why...." cuz then it's not like you're saying Confessa....lol

[apdarcey]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 2:36pm

currently a couple that annoy me from current musicals are in drs in "like zis/like zat" the whole prance/prince, wance/wince, romance, dince part... it's really funny, but it just annoys me. also, in spelling bee there's a part where they go "we like words, we like words, we like words, we like words, we like words, we like spelling..." now i love bill finn and i love the musical, but come on. if you love words, why do you keep singing the same ones over and over? kids with good vocabularies should be able to come up with something better than that. for real. it just annoys me a lot.

[minimel8817]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 2:43pm

ok, just thought id put in my two cents...not everything is supposed to rhyme, not all lyrics do. sometimes its simply matchin syllables in a way that makes the song flow, not everything is meant to be a rhyme.

[apdarcey]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 2:46pm

thank you for that most obvious statement. i think most everyone here already knows that. what we are talking about are lyrics that are supposed to rhyme and are just bad.

[Mills]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 3:10pm

For bad rhymes just look at Far Pavillions (difficult for most of you, I know!) The only one I can remember was 'She's skittish, he's British' but I know there were some a lot worse than that. It's not often I actually cringe at lyrics in the theatre.

And for the record, just about everyone I know says 'Milan' with the 'an' sound. Maybe it's an English thing. Or maybe I'm just uneducated!

[jasonf]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 3:25pm

One that always makes me cringe, not that it's a false rhyme, but just because it sounds so stupid is in "I Want To Go To Hollywood" from Grand Hotel:
"With little soap
And with hardly any hope..."

Jane Krakowski, who's AWESOME in this - I got to see her in it before she was famous - even sounds like she knows it's a dumb line on the OBC.

There are two from West Side Story. First, "I Feel Pretty":

"Keep away from her
Send for Chino
This is not the Maria we know"

This never sat right with me -- I think the accent on Maria is wrong. It took me forever to figure out what the heck they were saying there.

The other one that bothers me:

"A boy who kills cannot love,
A boy who kills has no heart.
And he's the boy who gets your love
And gets your heart."

Ok, first of all, Sondheim managed to rhyme heart with -- HEART? He can do better than that!
Second, these lines never made sense anyway -- does Anita know that Bernardo killed Riff first? If so, isn't she just a huge hypocrite?

[Holliwoodblonde]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 4:24pm

From Millie:

"Since the only possibility is that your wax is rancid
I request a full refund of all the money we advan-ced"

That line irritates me so much for some reason.

[BwayBoy25]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 4:30pm

whats wrong with the comet/vomit from "woe is me" in spelling bee?

Updated On: 7/3/05 at 04:30 PM

[TheEnchantedHunter]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 5:04pm

"This never sat right with me -- I think the accent on Maria is wrong."

The imaginatively syncopated accent honors the normal scansion of the line while also emphasizing the inner rhymes of 'the'/'Ma' and 'we'/'ri.'

"Ok, first of all, Sondheim managed to rhyme heart with -- HEART? He can do better than that!"

He did. He rhymes it with smart in the next line.

"Second, these lines never made sense anyway -- does Anita know that Bernardo killed Riff first? If so, isn't she just a huge hypocrite?"

She may be but it's irrelevant. Her man has just been killed and, understandably, she's lashes out at Maria for consorting with the murderer. That's all ye need to know.

Milt C. Okedoke
New York, New York

[actor465]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 5:58pm

Singingwendy,

"Si, mi chiamo Mimi" directly means "Yes, I call myself Mimi" or "My name is Mimi." There's no "they" in there at all. It's like in French (Je m'appelle Mimi) or Spanish (Me llamo Mimi).

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 6:13pm

I am not dead yet, I can dance and I can sing, I am not dead yet, I can do the highland fling! I am not dead yet, no need to go to bed, no need to call the doctor cause I'm not yet dead!

My name is Lancelot, I'm big and strong and hot! Occasionally I do some things that I should not.

I want to be a knight, but I don't like to fight. I'm rather scared I may simply run away.

I'll be right with you, Robin, through and through and through, so stick with me and I'll tell you what I do. We'll remain good friends, you'll teach me how to dance. We're going to enlist, I'm Robin and I'm Lance.

Basically, that entire song....but that's why I like it.

[eatlasagna]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 6:22pm

i of course LOVE miss saigon but that "this little girl we could be in the sack for what it cost me to buy a big mac" has got to be one of the stupidist lines i've ever heard...aaarggh...

as for wicked... i hate the lines in the MARCH OF THE WITCH HUNTERS where they say "brave witch hunters i would join you if i could." It sounds like there's too much words in one beat and it annoys the crap out of me... and another line from it... someone PLEASE explain it to me because i just don't get the lyrics at all... they say at the end of the same song "wickedness must be punished but good..." but good what??? i don't get it... maybe i'm stupid but can someone explain that to me???

[MyDreamsRecurring]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 6:52pm

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

"And nobody in all of Oz
No wizard that there is or was"

i think the "analysis and "pal, a sis" is a good rhyme!
schwartz does that a lot..kinda like in pippin with
"Journey to a spot ex-
citing, mystic and exotic"

[MyDreamsRecurring]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 6:57pm

"I could say life is just a bowl of Jell-o
and appear more intellegint and smart, but i'm stuck like a dope in the thing called hope and I can't get it out of my head...."

sweetie, the lyric is "heart" not "head"

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 7:02pm

I think the Spamalot lyrics are supposed to be bad. It's partly what makes the show so funny. Here's one from Millie:
"I won't stand by while critics praise ya
You're getting shipped to Southeast Asia."

And anotehr Millie one (and I love the show):
"Life is a holiday,
I'm talking June through May.
A lively setup show,
And baby, I'm front row."