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Lyrics that have always bugged you
Yorkie1276
Stand-by Joined: 3/12/05
#75re: Lyrics that have always bugged you
Posted: 8/12/05 at 12:24pm
I love Kiss of the Spider Woman, but this lyric from the song "Anything for Him" has always bothered me:
"Soon, I feel it
Soon, somehow
I will have him
Any minute now."
It's very clunky and ackward.
Fosse76
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/05
#76re: Lyrics that have always bugged you
Posted: 8/12/05 at 12:31pm
"OMg the masturbates to a vaudville tart seems so out of place in that show. It is such a crass lyric in an otherwise eloquent show"
It's true to the book, though. There is a subplot they removed from the book regarding Nesbit, Goldman, and Younger Brother.
#77re: Lyrics that have always bugged you
Posted: 8/12/05 at 12:57pm
"Think twice before you poo poo it" (rent-You see boys)
'nuff said
and all that I could do because of you was talk of love...
marebare
Stand-by Joined: 7/6/04
#78re: Lyrics that have always bugged you
Posted: 8/12/05 at 1:48pm
"Comfort and Joy", from Bat Boy:
"Boy, that preacher's a pro
Gives a heckuva show
Just like Seigfried and Roy"
I know Roy and joy end up rhyming, but it always sounds so jarring
roquat
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/25/05
#79re: Lyrics that have always bugged you
Posted: 8/13/05 at 12:19pm
In the spirit of the "bridges crossed" lyric, I offer you Disney's "Pocahontas" (please!), an entire SCORE made up of bad, redundant lyrics.
"You think the only people who are people
Are the people who talk and think like you.
But if you hear the voices of the mountain
You'll learn things you never knew you never knew."
Ugh. I was dying for her to sing, "You think the only people who are people/Are the luckiest people in the world."
And is there a mushier pseudo-poetic phrase than "Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?" It's like something from a bad greeting card.
I ask in all honesty/What would life be?/Without a song and a dance, what are we?/So I say "Thank you for the music/For giving it to me."
another sloe eyed vamp
Stand-by Joined: 8/18/04
#80re: Lyrics that have always bugged you
Posted: 8/13/05 at 12:21pmEvery time I hear "which I don't intend to actually mail to the respondents" in The Speed Test from Thoroughly Modern Millie, I wonder why they didn't write "... actually send". Wouldn't that be better?
#81re: Lyrics that have always bugged you
Posted: 8/13/05 at 12:56pm
"Cinderella's full of them. I already mentioned the "Do I love you because you're beautiful? Or are you beautiful because I love you" on another thread."
What's wrong with that line?!?! I love it!
Then I again, I've been known to have an overly-romantic mind. *whistles innocently*
GypsyRoseLee
Broadway Star Joined: 7/5/04
#82re: Lyrics that have always bugged you
Posted: 8/13/05 at 1:54pm
Every lyric Don Black has ever written!
"Masquerade
paper faces on parade
Masquerade
TURN AROUND THERE'S ANOTHER MASK BEHIND YOU"
WHAT IS THAT?!
Also in Tell Me on a Sunday from Song and Dance,
"Take the hurt out of all the pain"
yes, please take the hurt out of all the pain. I like my pain to feel good. drives me nuts.
"This is what I trained to do, and this is what I love about theater. What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being. And out my own self, to shape and form and fashion a real human being--and to present that in such a way that people see something of themselves or their own understanding in that human being."
--Phylicia Rashad
Sporti2005
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/04
#83re: Lyrics that have always bugged you
Posted: 8/13/05 at 3:25pm
from reading (and laughing through) this thread, i have come to the conclusion that many lyricists have an INCREDIBLY firm grasp on the obvious.
(this post too....it's unnecessarily obvious)
"grace, you're stuffed in a box getting rid of ass plaque. let's face it, this evening is a bust."
#84re: Lyrics that have always bugged you
Posted: 8/13/05 at 3:47pm
Hi freeadmission!
If anyone ever said that line to me, I'd be insulted. You think I'm hot, but then again, maybe I'm only hot 'cause you're hanging around me? *slap*
CurtainUp
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/9/04
#85re: Lyrics that have always bugged you
Posted: 8/13/05 at 4:29pmI actually think that line (though HEAVILY over repeated) is referring to how personality can make someone seem outwardly beautiful. Don't we find our loved ones the most beautiufl? Are you attractive because you're a wonderful person and I love you for that? Or am I simply falling for your beauty?
Rosencrantz: "Be happy - if you're not even HAPPY what's so good about surviving? We'll be all right. I suppose we just go on."
- from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
#86re: Lyrics that have always bugged you
Posted: 8/13/05 at 5:20pm
Exactly. Almost like he loves her too much to know why the hell he loves her.
A feeling I know all to well...
shortydudette
Understudy Joined: 8/12/05
#87re: Lyrics that have always bugged you
Posted: 8/13/05 at 5:28pm
I thought of a new one. Oh, Godspell.
"I'll put a pebble in my shoe,
and watch me walk.
I can walk and walk.
I shall call the pebble 'dare' (I shall call the pebble 'dare').
We will talk
About walking.
Dare shall be carried..."
Etc.
Congratulations, you can walk with a pebble in your shoe. And you can name it.
And you talk to your pebble. That's healthy.
theatre.
CurtainUp
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/9/04
#88re: Lyrics that have always bugged you
Posted: 8/13/05 at 5:59pmI hope this doesn't come across as condescending, but it's...figurative langauge.
Rosencrantz: "Be happy - if you're not even HAPPY what's so good about surviving? We'll be all right. I suppose we just go on."
- from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
#89re: Lyrics that have always bugged you
Posted: 8/13/05 at 9:36pm
Shipoopi, Shipoopi, Shipoopi,
The girl who's hard to get.
Shipoopi, Shipoopi, Shipoopi,
But you can win her yet.
Walk her once just to raise the curtain,
Then you walk around twice and you make for certain.
Once more in the flower garden,
She will never get sore if you beg her pardon.
Do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, do,
Si, la, sol, fa, mi, re, do.
Squeeze her once when she isn't lookin'.
If you get a squeeze back that's fancy cookin'.
Once more for a pepper-upper,
She will never get sore on her way to supper,
Ummmm..yeah....?????
#90re: Lyrics that have always bugged you
Posted: 8/13/05 at 9:40pm
We used to say:
"There's a little shipoopi in every musical"
meaning every good musical has one crappy song in it.
"Clambake" in Carousel...
"Now I Have Everything" in Fiddler...
etc.
#91re: Lyrics that have always bugged you
Posted: 8/13/05 at 9:51pm
I completely agree.....we would just sit there, sing, and think, 'thank god the kids are dancing, maybe they won't' listen to the words"...of course, I was sitting there in a toga..so that added to the absurdity of the situation!
Funny thing is that the next show I was thinking of auditioning for was "Carousel"...LOL
jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#92re: Lyrics that have always bugged you
Posted: 8/13/05 at 10:03pmthe juggernaut from lippa's wild party is pretty much that shows shipoopi it is by far the worst song in that show simply because it is pretty much 3 sentences repeated over and over again
"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel
#93re: Lyrics that have always bugged you
Posted: 8/13/05 at 10:08pm
I've wondered about that jaded faded mandaring thing forever. What IS that???
And I know I've brought this up in other threads, but the lines from A Boy Like That where Anita says:
"A boy who kills cannot love
A boy who kills has no heart"
has always driven me crazy. Her boyfriend did JUST that, so it's awfully hypocritical of her to say that.
Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.
#94re: Lyrics that have always bugged you
Posted: 8/13/05 at 10:20pm
ok..you all forced me to do research...lol
>>>What does Judas mean when he calls Christ a "jaded Mandarin"? [Judas is accusing Jesus of being an worn out public official, someone that perhaps has to be ousted out of office. from www.movie mistakes.com
and
>>Jesus' desire to remain consistent to the Messianic prophecies prompts Judas to betray Him. The verses, "If you knew why I do it" and "You wanted me to do it!," prove that Judas did not conceive of this act. Judas is merely a vehicle which allow God's will to be carried out. Judas also mentions the popular misconceptions of society concerning his guilt. His reputation is one of a "jaded mandarin." A mandarin is an individual who sits in the presence of an elite group. Judas being one of the twelve, makes him a mandarin in the Jesus group. The worst thing for Judas to accept is that he will be blamed for Jesus' death when it was not his plan to begin with.
That's from someone's religious studies thesis on the portrayal of Judas in films
#95re: Lyrics that have always bugged you
Posted: 8/13/05 at 10:26pm
"grew up in a cootie zoo, i bet her two ton mammas got em too and thats for you" -cooties, hairspray
"gimme a bottle of bourbon and half a chicken and i'll conquer the world!"
shortydudette
Understudy Joined: 8/12/05
#96re: Lyrics that have always bugged you
Posted: 8/13/05 at 11:25pmOuch, CurtainUp. I know it's figurative. It still bothers me. I understand the pebble + shoe = enduring hardship for piety analogy, but what the freak is analogous to naming the pebble? Naming the hardship? Becoming friends with the hardship? Hello being poor, let's hang out!
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CurtainUp
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/9/04
#97re: Lyrics that have always bugged you
Posted: 8/13/05 at 11:30pmIt is a crazy analogy that im not even sure I understand. I always thought that the hardships-the pebbles in the shoe-would then help the person be daring, thus calling the pebble dare. But I could be SO absolutely wrong so if anyone knows, correct me.
Rosencrantz: "Be happy - if you're not even HAPPY what's so good about surviving? We'll be all right. I suppose we just go on."
- from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
#98re: Lyrics that have always bugged you
Posted: 8/13/05 at 11:45pm
"We'll make a perfect pair/Rather like my thighs!"-"Me" from Beauty and the Beast
and "I'm their savior/That's what they call me/So Lauren Bacall me"-"Rainbow High" in Evita
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
shortydudette
Understudy Joined: 8/12/05
#99re: Lyrics that have always bugged you
Posted: 8/14/05 at 12:26amYou're probably right about calling the pebble "dare" having something to do with being daring by undergoing the pebbleshoe hardship. By why would you then talk to your newly-named hardship about the hardship itself? That's the job of the its analyst.
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