Worst Rhyme Ever
Worst Rhyme Ever
#0Worst 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
"It's not a problem, it's just a challenge, it's a challenge, to resist temptation."
Mythus
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/04
#1re: 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
milliemarch
Stand-by Joined: 3/26/05
#2re: 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
TheEnchantedHunter
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/27/05
#3re: 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
Depaultheatrekid
Stand-by Joined: 1/6/05
#4re: 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
#5re: Worst Rhyme Ever
Posted: 7/2/05 at 8:23pmMost of the rhymes in Wicked. And DRS.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
ProducersFan
Broadway Star Joined: 7/25/04
#6re: 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
"If you start from a place of joy and charm, you can get away with a lot in the second act. It may be that that's my life. I'm not sure."
~Roger Bart
Act4ever
Broadway Star Joined: 4/12/04
#7re: 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!
#8re: Worst Rhyme Ever
Posted: 7/2/05 at 8:34pmI don't know. I'm just not a big fan of DRS. Especially its score.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
#9re: 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!
Praying Decca Broadway will put "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" on CD!
Updated On: 7/2/05 at 08:37 PM
zbigner
Stand-by Joined: 12/10/03
#10re: Worst Rhyme Ever
Posted: 7/2/05 at 8:38pmI 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.
Pass it on - Take a kid to a show.
nmartin
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/3/05
#11re: Worst Rhyme Ever
Posted: 7/2/05 at 8:43pmAs much as I loved Fred Ebb,I have to include Boom-Ditty-Boom from 70, Girls, 70.
#12re: Worst Rhyme Ever
Posted: 7/2/05 at 8:43pmMost 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.)
Over_the_Moon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/22/05
#13re: Worst Rhyme Ever
Posted: 7/2/05 at 8:49pm
"I'll call-- I hate the fall"
I just don't understand that line.
"what have we learned? Don't smoke... don't do drugs and don't sing 'Defying Gravity'." -CATSNYRevival
#14re: 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.
"WHEN is the winter of our discontent?"
"NOW is the winter of our discontent!"
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#15re: Worst Rhyme Ever
Posted: 7/2/05 at 8:52pmI didn't realize the thread title said Wicked Hatefest. My bad!
"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."
Elizabeth_DeBris
Broadway Star Joined: 1/29/05
#16re: 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...
nmartin
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/3/05
#17re: Worst Rhyme Ever
Posted: 7/2/05 at 8:58pmI probably shouldn't pick on My Bill but the stress is off on 'not the kind that you would find in a statue'.
Mythus
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/04
#18re: 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.
noahrp3
Broadway Star Joined: 2/7/05
#19re: 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!
Kringas
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/05
#20re: 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?
"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey
stonewall2
Broadway Star Joined: 9/12/04
#21re: Worst Rhyme Ever
Posted: 7/2/05 at 9:12pmI have to agree with the "Nessa-Confessa" line- Mythus, you beat me to it!! Everytime I hear that line I groan...
"I'm mad, you're mad. we're all mad"...
The Cheshire Cat
Mythus
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/04
#22re: 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.
Kringas
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/05
#23re: Worst Rhyme Ever
Posted: 7/2/05 at 9:14pmWell, yes, but Shakespeare didn't write Rent.
"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey
#24re: Worst Rhyme Ever
Posted: 7/2/05 at 9:15pmMost 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.
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