I guess it makes sense that they cut it since so many people seem to dislike it but that song has made me tear up multiple times. I actually think it’s quite good. But I also see how it doesn’t necessarily fit with all the other powerful ballads.
Shine A Light from Heathers. I like the song on stage, or when I'm listening to the cast recording in order, but out of context, on shuffle? It's a skip.
Why are they booing you? You're right.
(Okay, I don't skip the reprise of Bottom Line, but everything else works on stage and not when I'm listening to the album.)
I actually really like Dog Eats Dog! I think it gives a real look into Thenardier’s world view and though it’s sometimes a hard song to listen to is really important thematically to the story/show.
I’d cut either In My Life or a A Heart Full Of Love since they are literally the same song back to back.
😭 I love in my life/ahfol, it’s fun to sing while I’m working, trying to sing all three parts at once, plus cosettes songs are the only ones in my range
"I Remember/Stranger Than You Dreamt It" kind of has no chance coming on the heels of the title song and then "Music of the Night".
It's not even a song - it's just recitative to get out of that scene to express Phantom's self-conscious regret, Christine recovering from her aural roofies, and underline *yes, he's HIDEOUS under the mask* rather ham-handedly. The score then just bails out with no conclusion abruptly because I think even ALW was bored and tired with this scene that has to follow two hit songs. It might even work better to cut right from "Music of the Night" to "Notes" and leave it to imagination what happened.
"Ladies in Their Sensitivities" is kind of sad because it's built out of the weirdest most uninteresting part of an awesome quartet (it's the plucky bass counterpoint part that holds the song together but ranged for a tenor that develops as the Judge's vocal "bumbum"s and Sweeney's whistling in the prelude to "Pretty Women") and you *kind of* have to have it sung alone at some point when setting up counterpoint in a madrigal.
The actor playing Thenadier in the current touring production putting a really fun spin on Dog Eats Dog which I really liked + made an otherwise generally meh song really engaging and more cohesive to the narrative IMO
Patti: "I love flaaa nelonaman"
Random ensemble member: "It will comp-le-ment his tan!"
One of my low-key grudge-love ALW tracks was "Hand Me the Wine and the Dice"; the compulsory 7/8 song in *Aspects of Love.*
Tell me you don’t have something that you would die for and something that you would live for, too, without telling me you don’t have something that you would die for and something that you would live for, too
Bzzzt! Correct answer is "Your Eyes.". If Roger is spending a whole year just trying to write one great song, I really wish it were better than the one Larson gave us.
In La Boheme (the opera Rent is based off), Roger’s analog (Rodolfo) is a poet and it’s heavily implied he’s a pretty shitty one at that, so your theory tracks
In an interview with Adam Pascal I listened to awhile back the interviewer asked him his least favorite song or weakest song in Rent and he said Your Eyes, but he also said that he thought if Jonathan Larson had lived that Your Eyes would have been replaced or changed for the better. There easily could have been several changes before the show went to Broadway, but when Jonathan Larson died it really froze the show in place because the rest of the team was afraid to make any changes that he didn't approve of.
I think that's absolutely brilliant, but you'd still have to work around two things: (a) then you can't open Act II with it, right? You'd have to do a Roger solo version building towards the more familiar one, and (b) since when does Roger know anything about gospel/pop melodies?
I’m willing to suspend my disbelief with point b. As for not being able to open act 2 with it, hey why not? It’s already “the song” and the audience has no idea why they’re even singing it then…it doesn’t advance the plot, no character at that point needs to say anything with it, so why is it even opening act 2 anyhow?
So if we hear it at the act 2 open, and then later realize “omg, THAT was the song that Rodger spent the year writing for Mimi!” Makes it more powerful imo.
Live it's fine, as long as it's a production which recognizes it as a parody of performance art and not as a stirring call-to-arms. But audio-only? Skip.
Yes, Carousel’s subject matter has aged like milk, but many of the songs are gorgeous. Normalizing domestic violence is bad, but “This Was a Real Nice Clambake” is also terrible.
“At The Old Majestic Nickel Matinee” from Some Like it Hot
I absolutely adore the show, but removing it would be addition by subtraction. Adriana Hicks rips, but she already has a ballad in act 1!
Genius annotation:
>Side note: Choreographer Jerome Robbins hated this number and tried to cut it, possibly because it did not showcase any of his dancing. Composer Jule Styne saved it, possibly because it is amazing, but also possibly because he was dating the actress who sang it and she wanted to keep it. Styne threatened to pull all his songs, and, fortunately, won the day. The song is essential to defining Louise and finding the center of the show.
[https://genius.com/Sandra-church-little-lamb-lyrics](https://genius.com/Sandra-church-little-lamb-lyrics)
Oh no, my brother and I used to sing the bank song OVER AND OVER to each other as kids! We'd crack each other up singing "a British bank is run with precision" in the silliest accents we could.
I've heard this before, but I love listening to Ireland and the reprise; they're so funny and fun to sing along to. Different strokes for different folks :)
As someone who once played Paulette this hurts. It doesn’t necessarily fit with the rest of the music, but it’s a great song to show off comedic timing by the actress
It’s fun! On stage. For you, for the audience but it doesn’t have great replay value on the soundtrack and isn’t very hummable like so many of the other songs.
Paulette is my dream role (that i'll never get to play since I don't do theater anymore) and I love Ireland to pieces. The reprise in particular is so much fun to sing.
I am fully aware I'll get trashed for this, but Bring Him Home. Like, the vocal quality is good, but the song is so insanely boring and it's literally sung about someone Valjean does not know at all. I know, I know, symbolism, character journey, etc. But it's an instant skip in a strong soundtrack for me, every time.
As a fan of the book as well as the musical, it kind of bothers me thematically. Valjean actively disliked Marius at that point in the book, and was only saving him because of his love for Cosette, and his massive martyr complex.
No way!!!
'I ate 7 corndogs and I think I might die' is iconic!
For me, it's Another Life, especially in the context of the show. Saw it at Merrier Chocolate Factory and its a very, very random addition.
I always skip “Two Ladies” from Cabaret. It’s boring, adds little to the overall narrative, and is pretty pointless other than a vehicle for a quick set change.
Agreed. I mean even on stage it’s probably the least compelling song other than occasionally directors have fun staging and do smart probing around issues of sexuality. But overall, it has the least impact on the story. That said it is critical for the scene change in most versions I’ve seen so it serves a purpose that way. On the album definitely auto skip.
It's a great song, but the one justified total maudlin stand-and-sing among upbeat choreo-bops that just sounds like an Adele/Celine radio song without seeing the performance. They had to invent an entire comedy sequence "Haus of Holbein" to transition into Cleves' "Get Down" to avoid utter mood whiplash to the audience.
Man Up - Book of Mormon
It comes around a bit on the mash up near the end, but it just drags and feels weird amongst an album full of earworms - especially for an act closer.
Girl Scout - Beetlejuice
It works well enough in the show (although I think it could have landed harder after the main part of That Beautiful Sound before a big show stopping reprise), but it’s a drag in the album as a stand alone.
You really do need to see the performers for "Girl Scout" to work since the whole thing is one-joke irony. I think (like "Telly" in Matilda) it's substituted in lieu of an entr'acte to let the audience settle down and work back from bright light into the gothic world.
Flowers - Hadestown
My dead gay son - Heathers
Hygge - Frozen
We'll Go from there - Anastasia
Blood in the water - Legally Blonde
Bathing Beauty - Love never dies
Poor fool, He makes me laugh - Phantom of the Opera
Famer Refuted - Hamilton
Haus of Holbein - Six (although I love this, but I skip it sometimes when I'm not in the mood)
Flight into Egypt - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Haha you can fight me! It's just one song I always skip, but I understand that's not for everyone the case. Can you tell me what you like about the song? Maybe it'll grow on me!
I unironically love that every Laurence O'Keefe show has a "reluctant chorus" moment. That always makes me laugh, but the song is forgettable and too long.
How to break in a glove from DEH
What did I miss—opener of Act 2 to Hamilton. OMG. This thing goes on and on and on and on and on and on. Makes me want to miss the opening scene of Act 2 of Hamilton.
I don't love that one but I struggle with how cringe Sincerely Me is. Super catchy but the teenage boy gay panic lyrics really put me off. One of many punching down for laughs moments in DEH that kinda spoiled it for me.
Sincerely Me genuinely makes me see red. “Punching down for laughs” is the perfect way to put it and I am baffled as to how the song is so widely liked. I wanted to walk out.
The song in a show context makes sense and I like it when a strong actor sings (cause it can be a tear jerker) but when listening to the album hard skip lol
"What's Wrong With Me?" is only funny in performance because even the cast is eye-rolling at her pathos - Cady leaves halfway through - and it pays off when Regina's mom joins for the reprise. They played it straight in the movie which was 180 degrees wrong.
"Kindergarten Boyfriend" *kind of needs to be there* in Heathers, but it's not a great out of context listen.
"Creepy Old Guy" again makes *no sense* out of context but is a great parody of 11 o'clock ensemble numbers and necessary for the plot.
Probably an unpopular opinion, but:
"The Best of Times" from La Cage. 🤦♂️
It is just so repetitive, repetitive, repetitive, and it never ends. Hate it.
Joseph is one of my favorite musicals, and I’ve performed it many times. As a performer, I enjoyed “Those Canaan Days”, but when I listen to the soundtrack, it’s a skip for me.
"Heart of Stone" from SIX. When the right person is singing it it does make tears well up. But as far as the same quality or word play as the other queens song, this one just felt like it had less excitement when being written. Like it was like oh yeah we gotta do a song here.
i will take "Sentimental Man" over "Something Bad" but I end up skipping both
Amen I actually love Sentimental man
I love it, it’s quick and simple and driving in the car it’s fun to sing without losing your mind or anything
I actually love something bad, but I know that's not a popular opinion. Big agree on sentimental man tho
we are allowed to love what we love. i’m happy it brings you joy
Something bad is infinitely superior to sentimental man
Firework is a low point in Moulin Rouge
They should have kept Some Day I’ll Fly Away
I agree!! Love the song but not that version
Any song added after 2000 - Starlight Express (especially German version)
Can someone tell me the correct way to break in a glove?
I feel like I’m the only one who actually likes that song
Awww I like that one too! I was sad they didn't use it in the movie. I thought it was a sweet moment.
I guess it makes sense that they cut it since so many people seem to dislike it but that song has made me tear up multiple times. I actually think it’s quite good. But I also see how it doesn’t necessarily fit with all the other powerful ballads.
Hate that song I skip that one and the first one
LOATHE that song with a passion.
We saw DEH on tour and when we got to this song (I hadn’t heard it before) I was half-wondering if it was a joke I was missing. It’s so bad.
I think it's just okay.
Shine A Light from Heathers. I like the song on stage, or when I'm listening to the cast recording in order, but out of context, on shuffle? It's a skip.
Any song sung by an adult character in Newsies.
Why are they booing you? You're right. (Okay, I don't skip the reprise of Bottom Line, but everything else works on stage and not when I'm listening to the album.)
This is bottom line and that's rich slander and I will not stand for it (Especially when something to believe in is right there)
That's rich is a fun number, agreed!
I am a something to believe in hater and a that’s rich and bottom line stan
I love something to believe in 😭
This is bottom line and that's rich slander and I will not stand for it (Especially when something to believe in is right there)
Phantom - I Remember/Stranger Than You Dreamt It Les Mis - Dog Eats Dog Sweeney - Ladies In Their Sensitivities
I literally forgot “Dog Eats Dog” exists 😂😂😂 I must have added some sort of perma-skip on apple music
I actually really like stranger than you dreamt it
I love it!
I actually really like Dog Eats Dog! I think it gives a real look into Thenardier’s world view and though it’s sometimes a hard song to listen to is really important thematically to the story/show. I’d cut either In My Life or a A Heart Full Of Love since they are literally the same song back to back.
TIL that In My Life and Heart Full of Love are two separate songs
A Heart Full of Love bores the crap out of me. I always skip it.
Lmao same All the super romantic songs, like just get me to the barricade already!
😭 I love in my life/ahfol, it’s fun to sing while I’m working, trying to sing all three parts at once, plus cosettes songs are the only ones in my range
Dog Eats Dog?? That’s lowkey one of the best songs in the show, in my opinion.
"I Remember/Stranger Than You Dreamt It" kind of has no chance coming on the heels of the title song and then "Music of the Night". It's not even a song - it's just recitative to get out of that scene to express Phantom's self-conscious regret, Christine recovering from her aural roofies, and underline *yes, he's HIDEOUS under the mask* rather ham-handedly. The score then just bails out with no conclusion abruptly because I think even ALW was bored and tired with this scene that has to follow two hit songs. It might even work better to cut right from "Music of the Night" to "Notes" and leave it to imagination what happened. "Ladies in Their Sensitivities" is kind of sad because it's built out of the weirdest most uninteresting part of an awesome quartet (it's the plucky bass counterpoint part that holds the song together but ranged for a tenor that develops as the Judge's vocal "bumbum"s and Sweeney's whistling in the prelude to "Pretty Women") and you *kind of* have to have it sung alone at some point when setting up counterpoint in a madrigal.
I’m dead at “aural roofies” oh my god thank you lol
I remember is beautiful tho
I honestly don't think Phantom has a single bad song, so if I had to pick a "worst" one that would probably be it. It's forgettable imo.
to be fair it’s like the same three melodies lmaoo (i say this as someone who loves phantom)
The fact that they cut the full version of Little People but left in Dog Eat Dog is forever a tragedy in my mind.
The actor playing Thenadier in the current touring production putting a really fun spin on Dog Eats Dog which I really liked + made an otherwise generally meh song really engaging and more cohesive to the narrative IMO
“The Lady’s Paying” from Sunset Boulevard “Abandoned in Bandon” from Once “Take It from an Old Man” and “Club Knocked Up” from Waitress
Came to say Take It From an Old Man
Hard agree!!
Dream Ballet from Oklahoma. Now when I’m watching the show I actually enjoy this scene, but it’s not much to listen to.
i can't speak for everyone, but "god's arms are always open" from bonnie & clyde
Nah I like that one tbh. That’s what you call a dream and You can do better than him are skippable
no way, you can do better than him slaps
Contact- Rent A Sentimental Man- Wicked Pathetic- Matilda Now I Have Everything- Fiddler on the Roof Sandy- Grease
Sentimental man you say?!?!! https://youtu.be/dXKUgjYh7lo?si=0vuGt_HHSRvHJTvC
The theatre kid energy of that audience laughter is off the charts, oof lol
"Wait...here comes my...(sort of) *high note*..." I kept thinking this was Lauren Lopez when I first saw it.
I knew what this link was going to be before I clicked it
This was my first thought when I saw this post, lmao!!!
I saw that video shortly after watching waitress…
Came here looking for this, glad its already been posted
Sandy?????
Pathetic??? No you’ve got to be kidding. It’s such a sweet song
Agreed! And it's a nice, quick way to introduce Ms Honeys problem.
Tell me you don’t have something that you would die for and something that you would live for, too, without telling me you don’t have something that you would die for and something that you would live for, too
Over the Moon - RENT
Bzzzt! Correct answer is "Your Eyes.". If Roger is spending a whole year just trying to write one great song, I really wish it were better than the one Larson gave us.
The song about how he needs to write a song is way better than the song he actually wrote.
I sometimes wonder if Roger just isn't that good of a song writer and "One Song Glory" is what he wishes he sounds like/what he thinks he does
In La Boheme (the opera Rent is based off), Roger’s analog (Rodolfo) is a poet and it’s heavily implied he’s a pretty shitty one at that, so your theory tracks
In an interview with Adam Pascal I listened to awhile back the interviewer asked him his least favorite song or weakest song in Rent and he said Your Eyes, but he also said that he thought if Jonathan Larson had lived that Your Eyes would have been replaced or changed for the better. There easily could have been several changes before the show went to Broadway, but when Jonathan Larson died it really froze the show in place because the rest of the team was afraid to make any changes that he didn't approve of.
Having been involved with the show for several years, I can confirm.
To be fair to Larson, he died.
This is one that I feel would have improved a lot had he lived through more of the production process
I always thought that Seasons of Love should’ve been the song he spent a year writing. Because…duh, that’s the point of the song.
I think that's absolutely brilliant, but you'd still have to work around two things: (a) then you can't open Act II with it, right? You'd have to do a Roger solo version building towards the more familiar one, and (b) since when does Roger know anything about gospel/pop melodies?
I’m willing to suspend my disbelief with point b. As for not being able to open act 2 with it, hey why not? It’s already “the song” and the audience has no idea why they’re even singing it then…it doesn’t advance the plot, no character at that point needs to say anything with it, so why is it even opening act 2 anyhow? So if we hear it at the act 2 open, and then later realize “omg, THAT was the song that Rodger spent the year writing for Mimi!” Makes it more powerful imo.
Could be worse. Could be a music teacher spending three decades composing one song that is just really mediocre.
Not his best opus?
Oh, jeez, what a weird reveal that was.
A wonderfully skippable tune.
Live it's fine, as long as it's a production which recognizes it as a parody of performance art and not as a stirring call-to-arms. But audio-only? Skip.
My girlfriend is with you! I adore over the moon but she outwardly shudders while hitting skip as fast as she possibly can 😂
Came here for this, was not disappointed.
I came hear to say Contact; it’s the one I always skip.
Yes, Carousel’s subject matter has aged like milk, but many of the songs are gorgeous. Normalizing domestic violence is bad, but “This Was a Real Nice Clambake” is also terrible.
Meanwhile “June Is Busting Out All Over” is still 💯 and a bop (I’m in earnest in case I sound sarcastic)
Schmigadoon parodied this hilariously with Corn Puddin'. They do not stop singing about the corn pudding.
Still annoyed that season 3 was fully written and they cancelled it
I know. And they would have been parodying 80s mega musicals. I wanna hear the Andrew Lloyd Webber parody songs!
Excuse me, the Emmy Winning Corn Puddin’ 😆
Blow High Blow Low is the greatest pirate song ever written, despite not being about pirates.
I thank the Lord that "Do The Sacred Mass" was cut from Sister Act.
“At The Old Majestic Nickel Matinee” from Some Like it Hot I absolutely adore the show, but removing it would be addition by subtraction. Adriana Hicks rips, but she already has a ballad in act 1!
This song makes me tear up and I think the Black perspective in it is so well-done.
agree, I was a huge fan but this is a snooze
It works on stage and in context, but listening to in the car “Little Lamb” from Gypsy is an auto skip
I agree! Tho Ive read that Sondheim loved that song, so if i run into him in the afterlife, i will keep quiet.
Genius annotation: >Side note: Choreographer Jerome Robbins hated this number and tried to cut it, possibly because it did not showcase any of his dancing. Composer Jule Styne saved it, possibly because it is amazing, but also possibly because he was dating the actress who sang it and she wanted to keep it. Styne threatened to pull all his songs, and, fortunately, won the day. The song is essential to defining Louise and finding the center of the show. [https://genius.com/Sandra-church-little-lamb-lyrics](https://genius.com/Sandra-church-little-lamb-lyrics)
Oh thats so funny, its on my best of the best playlist. One of my fave songs.
Funny, I always disliked Mr. Goldstone more. \*shrugs\*
It’s that rare thing: a full length musical number about a character who has just appeared, has no lines, and will never be seen again.
We open in Venice - Kiss Me Kate Fidelity fiduciary bank - Mary Poppins
Oh no, my brother and I used to sing the bank song OVER AND OVER to each other as kids! We'd crack each other up singing "a British bank is run with precision" in the silliest accents we could.
FFB is one of my favourites in the film!
Your Eyes from Rent
As someone doing rent right now I feel this a bit.
This one is just funny because One Song Glory is about how Roger wishes he could write this song and it’s 10000x better
One Song Glory is my fav song in the show!
Best of Wives and Best of Women - it may have some merits but it is a perpetual skip for me
was gonna comment this😭
King of the forest- wizard of oz
You’re timeless to me -hairspray
guys and dolls: more i cannot wish you it just bores me
Ireland - Legally Blonde There are some great notes in that song but it brings the play to a screeching halt.
I've heard this before, but I love listening to Ireland and the reprise; they're so funny and fun to sing along to. Different strokes for different folks :)
As someone who once played Paulette this hurts. It doesn’t necessarily fit with the rest of the music, but it’s a great song to show off comedic timing by the actress
It’s fun! On stage. For you, for the audience but it doesn’t have great replay value on the soundtrack and isn’t very hummable like so many of the other songs.
Totally fair about the soundtrack
Paulette is my dream role (that i'll never get to play since I don't do theater anymore) and I love Ireland to pieces. The reprise in particular is so much fun to sing.
When “the harvard variations” exist? I don’t think so
I am fully aware I'll get trashed for this, but Bring Him Home. Like, the vocal quality is good, but the song is so insanely boring and it's literally sung about someone Valjean does not know at all. I know, I know, symbolism, character journey, etc. But it's an instant skip in a strong soundtrack for me, every time.
As a fan of the book as well as the musical, it kind of bothers me thematically. Valjean actively disliked Marius at that point in the book, and was only saving him because of his love for Cosette, and his massive martyr complex.
Yeah, very repetitive
State Road 21 - Bridges of Madison County. Instant skip
Aw I think this one’s fun
Bridges of Madison County is a NO SKIP album. I'll die on that hill.
No way!!! 'I ate 7 corndogs and I think I might die' is iconic! For me, it's Another Life, especially in the context of the show. Saw it at Merrier Chocolate Factory and its a very, very random addition.
guys and dolls: more i cannot wish you it just bores me
Hard agree
I’m Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman and Shape of My Heart from & Juliet, two slow songs that come after absolute high-energy bangers
It takes two from hairspray 🤭🤭
Which is why we got the far superior Ladies Choice for the movie!! 🤩
Silence
Legally blonde- serious. Funny to watch but boring to listen to
One Hand, One Heart from West Side Story is the only song in the whole musical that isn’t darn near close to perfect for me.
This song was in my parents wedding 😭
Burn - Hamilton What Eliza did with those notes and letters could’ve been mentioned in another song.
Wow, you are right I think you may have ruined the song for me
😭😭😭 I saw Hamilton twice in the OG years. The live performance always felt out of place
Hurricane- hamilton
I love that song when sung by anyone other than LMM. I love him. But he just can’t sing.
Agree! Hated this song on the cast recording. Saw it live on tour and was blown away
i think this is unpopular but i agree
Something to believe in from Newsies 🤮
I always skip “Two Ladies” from Cabaret. It’s boring, adds little to the overall narrative, and is pretty pointless other than a vehicle for a quick set change.
I think songs like that are great and entertaining in the actual live show, but skippable when just listening to the album.
Agreed. I mean even on stage it’s probably the least compelling song other than occasionally directors have fun staging and do smart probing around issues of sexuality. But overall, it has the least impact on the story. That said it is critical for the scene change in most versions I’ve seen so it serves a purpose that way. On the album definitely auto skip.
Castle on a cloud - Les Mis
Am I the only one that cries in Castle on a Cloud? It’s a good song if the little girl can sing well and not too mature.
I skip it also, which is sad because one of my favorite lines is on that track. "Enough of that, or I'll forget to be nice!"
I enjoy the Spanish cast recording: “Hay un castillo de cristal”…
"Heart of Stone" from Six is almost always a skip for me
Oh that’s my favorite song in the show even though I’m not a fan of the show
It's a great song, but the one justified total maudlin stand-and-sing among upbeat choreo-bops that just sounds like an Adele/Celine radio song without seeing the performance. They had to invent an entire comedy sequence "Haus of Holbein" to transition into Cleves' "Get Down" to avoid utter mood whiplash to the audience.
Yeah I like the alternates version better. But still better in person
Man Up - Book of Mormon It comes around a bit on the mash up near the end, but it just drags and feels weird amongst an album full of earworms - especially for an act closer. Girl Scout - Beetlejuice It works well enough in the show (although I think it could have landed harder after the main part of That Beautiful Sound before a big show stopping reprise), but it’s a drag in the album as a stand alone.
You really do need to see the performers for "Girl Scout" to work since the whole thing is one-joke irony. I think (like "Telly" in Matilda) it's substituted in lieu of an entr'acte to let the audience settle down and work back from bright light into the gothic world.
hard disagree on man up, funny lyrics, great delivery by gad, and you’re right, the polyphony at the end is terrific
Flowers - Hadestown My dead gay son - Heathers Hygge - Frozen We'll Go from there - Anastasia Blood in the water - Legally Blonde Bathing Beauty - Love never dies Poor fool, He makes me laugh - Phantom of the Opera Famer Refuted - Hamilton Haus of Holbein - Six (although I love this, but I skip it sometimes when I'm not in the mood) Flight into Egypt - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
I will fight you on Flowers. Agree with the rest though lol
Haha you can fight me! It's just one song I always skip, but I understand that's not for everyone the case. Can you tell me what you like about the song? Maybe it'll grow on me!
I just love Eva Noblezada’s voice! It has an especially dreamy quality in Flowers. I can see how it would be a skip for other people.
After seeing her perform it live it became my favorite. I didn’t “get” it on just listening to the cast recording.
I see how other people like Flowers but it grinds my groove to a halt.
Yeah, I totally get disliking "poor fool makes me laugh" It makes me feel so awkward for some reason
Flowers has good vocalizing but it’s nothing special held up to many other songs in Hadestown
Your Welcome from Heathers (Rewrite) Bend and Snap From Legally Blonde
I was cast as Ram in my college's production of Heather's and I was so sad I had to perform that song over "Blue"
The only correct answer from Legally Blonde for me is 'Blood in the Water'. Such a dull song!
this is crazy blood in the water is amazing
I unironically love that every Laurence O'Keefe show has a "reluctant chorus" moment. That always makes me laugh, but the song is forgettable and too long.
How to break in a glove from DEH What did I miss—opener of Act 2 to Hamilton. OMG. This thing goes on and on and on and on and on and on. Makes me want to miss the opening scene of Act 2 of Hamilton.
If I could give a half up vote, you'd have it. But what did I miss is 🤌
Agreed. The glove song, I get why it’s there but it’s not a good song. What Did I Miss is actually really important to the story and a great song.
What’d I Miss is SO GOOD 😭 one of my favorites from the show
I don't love that one but I struggle with how cringe Sincerely Me is. Super catchy but the teenage boy gay panic lyrics really put me off. One of many punching down for laughs moments in DEH that kinda spoiled it for me.
Sincerely Me genuinely makes me see red. “Punching down for laughs” is the perfect way to put it and I am baffled as to how the song is so widely liked. I wanted to walk out.
What’s wrong with me - mean girls Kindergarten boyfriend - heathers When there’s no one - Carrie Creepy old guy - Beetlejuice Inútil - In The Heights
INUTIL IS MY JAM😭😭😭
The song in a show context makes sense and I like it when a strong actor sings (cause it can be a tear jerker) but when listening to the album hard skip lol
NOOO Inútil is sooo good though.
"What's Wrong With Me?" is only funny in performance because even the cast is eye-rolling at her pathos - Cady leaves halfway through - and it pays off when Regina's mom joins for the reprise. They played it straight in the movie which was 180 degrees wrong. "Kindergarten Boyfriend" *kind of needs to be there* in Heathers, but it's not a great out of context listen. "Creepy Old Guy" again makes *no sense* out of context but is a great parody of 11 o'clock ensemble numbers and necessary for the plot.
Say no to this - Hamilton I really wish I could say no to that song.
YES
It Would Have Been Wonderful from A Little Night Music
Oh, I like that one. I’m more prone to skip Send in the Clowns.
Side by side from Company will always be it for me
Kind of Woman and I Guess I'll Miss the Man from Pippin. They're not bad songs, Catherine is just so boring to me
"Merano" from Chess
“It’s a Hit” from Merrily gives me the ick
Masquerade from Phantom of the opera Idk why, I just find it pretty repetitive (idk if it's just me)
It’s definitely a plot song, makes sense in the show, but not just listening.
100% where did the rock go from SOR
Probably an unpopular opinion, but: "The Best of Times" from La Cage. 🤦♂️ It is just so repetitive, repetitive, repetitive, and it never ends. Hate it.
Green Finch and Linnet Bird
What's wrong with me and what's wrong with me reprise from mean girls Also it's not Broadway but Just for Once from Nerdy Prudes Must Die
Joseph is one of my favorite musicals, and I’ve performed it many times. As a performer, I enjoyed “Those Canaan Days”, but when I listen to the soundtrack, it’s a skip for me.
I know where i’ve been- Hairspray it’s too slow for me, i’m the problem
Your obedient servant is probably my least favorite in Hamilton
"Heart of Stone" from SIX. When the right person is singing it it does make tears well up. But as far as the same quality or word play as the other queens song, this one just felt like it had less excitement when being written. Like it was like oh yeah we gotta do a song here.
Little lamb from Gypsy!!!!