Ugh. They turned it into the kind of power ballad that I think Sing transcended. No. Just...no.
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Comedy 1: A Little Song, a Little Dance, a Little Seltzer Down Your Pants
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Frankenbuddha - Feb 11, 2011 4:54:49 pm PST #3647 of 8625
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
smonster - Feb 12, 2011 7:13:49 am PST #3648 of 8625
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
In the context of the album, it's darkly defiant. And not really about singing.
Frankenbuddha - Feb 12, 2011 12:36:11 pm PST #3649 of 8625
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
In the context of the album, it's darkly defiant. And not really about singing.
Agreed. You could have had "yell", "shout", "scream" or even "fight" instead of "sing" and the song would have meant the same thing. However, in the context of an album about music as rebellion it really did have to be "sing".
Jesse - Feb 13, 2011 2:32:06 pm PST #3650 of 8625
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OK, I only just started watching it, but Mr. Sunshine won me over with the theme music.
Hil R. - Feb 15, 2011 3:38:07 pm PST #3651 of 8625
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Wow. That is a really out-of-context "Take Me Or Leave Me."
quester - Feb 15, 2011 3:41:57 pm PST #3652 of 8625
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Yeah, it took me awhile to even identify the song and the show.
Hil R. - Feb 15, 2011 3:43:25 pm PST #3653 of 8625
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I knew the song immediately, but the staging and the switching around of who sang which lines seemed designed to un-lesbianize it, and I couldn't figure out what sense it was supposed to make this way.
Fred Pete - Feb 16, 2011 4:50:59 am PST #3654 of 8625
Ann, that's a ferret.
Nice to see the nod to New Wave with "I Know What Boys Like," even if Lauren sold the song better than she sang it. I especially like Lauren's comfort within her own skin.
"Sing" seemed to cover the same thematic ground as the Carpenters' song of the same name, or Mama Cass Elliott's "Make Your Own Kind of Music." Not so much defiant as out and proud. Or at least out and nonchalant about it.
I wouldn't have expected Sue to stop at forcing a diva-off. I'm not familiar with the show, so I can't comment on the context of "Take Me or Leave Me." But vocally, it seemed to be one of those duets where each singer inspired the other to go further and further.
megan walker - Feb 16, 2011 5:50:56 am PST #3655 of 8625
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Much of my dislike of modern musicals is that the songs aren't universal, that if you pull them out of the show they make no sense (or, worse, have no real melody). I didn't think that was the case with "Take Me or Leave Me." I just assumed it wasn't originally meant as a duet.
Hil R. - Feb 16, 2011 6:01:06 am PST #3656 of 8625
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
"Take Me or Leave Me" is a duet, but not the way they did it -- they skipped around the verses a bunch, and most of what both of them sang was Maureen's part, with just a few lines of Joanne's part here and there. This is the original cast at a tenth-anniversary concert performance: [link]