"I'd say most, if not all, of the In the Heights lyrics are pretty damn negligible."
Im not even going to comment on how stupid that statement is
And wow you can tell how old everyone whos posting in this thread is picking shows like Wicked, Legally Blonde, Spring Awakening etc (all of which i think are ok to quite good lyrically)
Really bad lyrics are
"Its a simple little gig you help me kill a pig, and ive got some plans for the blood" Out For Blood - Carrie
"All we ever do is park, then for hours you grope me in the dark, we would go bowling if you really cared" Don't Waste The Moon - Carrie
Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna
"Im not even going to comment on how stupid that statement is "
Actually, I know I'm not alone in this. Isn't the first (or last) time it has been said. While the show is well produced, well cast, and his music is quite good, some of his rhymes are quite amateur in structure, or lack of structure, as it may be.
EDIT: Was just reading some of the lyrics, and I think the first lines of the opening number are a key example of how uninspired these lyrics are.
Lights up on Washington Heights, up at the break of day I wake up and I got this little punk I gotta chase away Pop the grate at the crack of dawn, sing While I wipe down the awning Hey ya'll good morning
Now I'm not say you're not entitled to like them, but calling someone stupid because they disagree with you is not the way to attempt to win an argument (or start one as this case may be).
The Grey Gardens cocktail hour one makes total sense.
And rhyming Concord and unconquered is not the same word. I actually love that lyric.
For all the flaws that Wicked has, I actually think the Nessa/confess - a lyric is quite clever.
I really loved Saved, but some of those lyrics were just cringe-worthy. "Even way back then when we were kids, you used to beat me up. You hit me so hard you made me cry. I thought that was love how screwed was I." and "Figured I got it close enough if it covered your butt little baby. Maybe."
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
Worst lyrics ever? "Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah...-Totally F*cked. This one make "Popular" sound like Sondheim
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
Perhaps Princes are so superlative that they are considered to be outside the category of "human"
I actually really like that lyric. What she's saying is that Rapunzel's only view of the outside world is of perfect "Princes", which she finds to be a skewed perspective and not real, therefore not truly human. By putting it alongside "wolves", she is pointing out the cruelty of humans that Rapunzel doesn't yet know about.
1. "OMIGOD, OMIGOD YOU GUYS" . . . f*ckin' BRILLIANT!!!
2. ALL lyrics from AIDA = Suck. Elton John should be shot. God only knows what has happened with/to BILLY ELLIOT.
Furthermore, Adam Pascal's guttural voice on the OBA doesn't make these already confused lyrics any more understandable.
3. If Sondheim should be put in prison for any of his lyrics, it has to be these from WEST SIDE STORY: (But even Sondheim himself admits these are bad and claims that it was Harold Prince that made him write them!)
TODAY, THE WORLD WAS JUST AN ADDRESS A PLACE FOR ME TO LIVE IN NO BETTER THAN BY FAR
Now, just think how wonderful these lyrics will sound when the SPANISH version of West Side comes to Broadway next year!!!
Oh, and how cool will the SPANISH version of LEGALLY BLONDE be someday:
Ai, dios mio! Ai, dios mio! Ai, mi muchachas!!!
. . . hmmm . . . (purses lips and cocks head to one side) . . . might not work, actually . . .
Elton John can't be shot for the lyrics to "Aida"-- he didn't write them. Tim Rice did. If you want to shoot someone for that, shoot him. Also, isn't the WSS lyric "no better than all right," not "by far?" I've always liked that one.
My least favorite lyric in any show ever--
Marius: Cosette, I don't know what to say. Cosette: Then make no sound!
Tim Rice, love him as I do, is responsible for some of the most horrific lyrics ever. Have a proper listen to 'Joseph', you'll see.
"Greatest man since Noah, Only goes to show-a"
AUGH.
Your Eyes is a song "written" by Roger.
so is Your Eyes intentionally poorly written?
Yes! Bringing Mimi back to life loses the original tragedy of the show, so Larson cunningly snuck in some delayed tragedy. Mimi lives, but Roger's "career" is doomed. It's like the Maria ending of 'Silent Hill 2'. OMG, it's EXACTLY like the Maria ending of 'Silent Hill 2'! XD "Hello, angsty hero. Your squeeze is dead. Oh, but now we've brought her back to life! You can keep her, by the way. BUT YOUR HAPPINESS WILL NOT LAST, MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!". ..... hey, 'Silent Hill 2' is awesome. :P
I personally really love the lyrics of 'In The Heights'. Some of the rhymes are forced, some of the rhymes are amateurish, but it's the guy's first show, and there's some moments there that - while they may not work for everyone - I personally really love.
'Wicked' though... Schwartz and Rice should (if they don't already) get together and have Bad Lyric Writing Tea Parties. Frank Wildhorn is invited too.
Sorry... not trying to step on your toes, but this line is mis-quoted. "I hadn't got to my first shave before the bloody blow." He's saying he wasn't very old when the Egyptians first attacked the palace.
Personally I think some of the worst lyrics I've heard are in Tarzan. My personal favorites are in "Sure as Sun Turns to Moon" "It's nice to see you play with the children Why do you say that? I do it all the time You don't I do You don't I don't? No you don't you know"
That whole song is pretty much a disaster. Well actually that show is pretty much a disaster. Oh, I absolutely love Miss Saigon, but I will agree that it does have some moments of REALLY awful lyrics. My favorite is:
"She is no whore you saw her too she's really...more like the April Moon"