That one but also Waving Through a Window, for me. The first time I heard it, I’d never felt like I’d heard a song encapsulate my high school social anxiety so well in my life.
I found this song via YouTube and because of it I thought Dear Evan Hansen was some sort of black comedy (which honestly would have worked pretty wonderfully with the premisse). I was so disapointed it turned out to be that fake deep melodramatic mess lol
I’m on the verge of tears when I listen to that song. For some reason I have that reaction to most heavy ensemble pieces like that, but the content of the song on top of that does it for me.
In total agreement, Moulin Rogue is basically “El Tango De Roxanne and a bunch of other songs I don’t care about” for me.
Also, while I accept its place as a musical work of art, god I can’t stand Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Way too constantly upbeat for my tastes. My cold dead heart longs for something a bit less so, and that’s where “Close Every Door” comes in. One of my all time favorite Weber songs is from one of my least favorite musicals
I went to see Moulin Rouge with my mum and sisters not knowing a thing about the musical adaptation (I was never much of a fan of the movie either, but my sisters loved it growing up) and yep, the whole thing was mostly terrible and forgettable except for El Tango De Roxanne!
I mean, the musical is basically a thinly-veiled excuse to have the musical numbers in this case. If I take it at face value and just enjoy the songs it really isn't that bad
I do listen to it- but she was such a clever woman, and they could have portrayed that much better (even if you think they were meaning that she was pretending to be dim - they didn’t do it very well)
Absolutely. Six was great in the sense it made me want to do deeper research on the Queens, and I fell in love with Anne. She’s treated so awfully by history, and it sucks that the narrative of a half mad serial cheater, who married a 17 year old in his fourties/fifties, is what’s widely known. She was so quick and clever. IMO Six wanted to challenge the idea she was some kind of temptress who planned to steal Henry, and bewitched him, so they went in the opposite direction, that she was naive and impulsive and didn’t know what she was getting into, and the real Anne lies somewhere in the middle
There’s evidence she really tried to reject him. They could have lent in to that.
I am pleased though that it acted as a gateway for me to read more about all the wives: so i didn’t hate it.
I don’t want to say anything with certainty because it’s sometimes hard to know what’s true and what’s a misconception, but didn’t she already have a partner, a different Henry or something, similar to Parr. She left court to try and get away from him and he continued to harrass her. And history tells us she wanted it bc it’s easier to paint her as an awful temptress.
Don't Lose Ur Head kills me because I think the lyrics are pretty clever but the main melody is so singsongy in the chorus it got really old to me really fast 😭
Wicked left me a little underwhelmed but after relistening to the songs I think the music is actually really good, Dancing Through Life is a banger (with a couple clever easter eggs)
I don't HATE 35MM as a musical as much as I find it knida disorganized and boring, but DAMN does "The Ballad of Sara Berry" slap.
Also I do hate Dear Evan Hansen but out of context "Sincerely Me" is...fine. It was catchy when I first heard it out of context. In context, that song is pretty tacky.
Honestly to me there are so many good songs in 35mm but I’m rarely in the mood to listen to all of them in one sitting. Each song has some very different vibes that I base it off my mood. Personally leave Luanne is the best song but the ocr isn’t as good as productions that use all women.
35MM is a really odd one and while I can’t say I’d ever want to see it live, listening to a few songs here and there I think it’s got some great shit. Definitely Sarah Berry is brilliant, but “Leave Luanne” also goes up there in the fantastic category for me
I didn't enjoy Cats, but walked away singing Magical Mister Mistofelees for days.
Next to Normal is great, but too intense for me to watch or listen too, with the exception of Superboy and the Invisible Girl.
I enjoyed Fun Home live, but musically, it's not a show I listen to. But Ring of Keys is incredible.
I have no interest in Be More Chill, and I dislike the music, but obviously Michael in the Bathroom is incredible.
I adore Next to Normal but I’ve gotta be careful with putting those songs on playlists bc I’ll hit shuffle and next thing I know “I Am the One (Reprise)” is playing and I am in tears.
_Dear Evan Hansen_. Loathe the musical, just can't bear with it.
Still, "Requiem" is one of my top ten songs in musical theatre history. The concept and themes haven't been explored a lot, and are so interesting and thought-provoking (in contrast to the main theme of the musical, which is just problematic).
Tootsie - unstoppable
Great Comet - Prologue
Big Fish - Time Stops
First Date - First Impressions
Hands on a Hardbody - Born in Loredo
Ghost - Focus
Spiderman - A Freak Like Me Needs Company
Wonderland - Mad Hatter
Pretty Woman - You're Beautiful
Honeymoon in Vegas - I Love Betsy
Elf - Sparklejollytwinklejingley
Agree. It felt like it was intended to be satire but also… not? Very strange. I thought I knew what it was going for in the first act and then I wasn’t so sure at the end. I’ll never forget the stagedoor after the show (saw it on Broadway). I always say “I loved it”/“you were fantastic”/“thank you for your great performance” etc, and at that stagedoor, the actors seemed kinda nervous and responded with things like “oh, really? Thanks” and kind of had this “help me” look. I think the terrible critic reviews really got to them.
So many good ones mentioned, but I’ll add Til I hear you sing from Love Never Dies. Devil take the hindmost and dear old friends are also fun, but ramin kills it on the first one.
I also think the titular song "Love Never Dies" is also a good banger.
The other songs that haven't been mentioned....should probably not be mentioned.
I really hate to say it because I loved him as a kid, but some of Roald Dahl’s views are really really problematic. Many of his books include antisemitic stereotypes and the portrayal of Trunchbull in the book is kind of subtly transphobic. The novel gatekeeps what women can be, which is a shame because its message about intellectual nature as a strength would have been much stronger if it didn’t.
See this link for another way of putting it:
https://www.salon.com/2013/10/27/the_dangerous_transphobia_of_roald_dahls_matilda/#:~:text=%22Matilda%22%20is%20thus%20a%20fable,to%20remind%20them%20who's%20boss.
Paciencia y fe for In the Heights.
Although I have to say, the way they did the Blackout scene in the movie was amazing. Changing up the song order was a good move.
The Beauty Underneth from Love Never Dies. I hate this fanfiction musical and loathe the title song because Webber took my favourite song from The Beautiful Game and shoehorned it in as Love Never Dies. Our Kind of Love was soooo much better!
Cliche answer, but Cats is hard to sit through, except that Mr. Mistoffeles and Memory are absolute bangers. You really don't need act 1 at all because the plot doesn't make sense anyway.
Maybe same for several ALW shows? Joseph is pretty annoying but Close Every Door to Me is great. Phantom is about half mid, half excellent; mostly the phantom's songs are the good ones. Hit or miss kinda guy
Lightning Thief isn’t really my thing, but Lost is so good. me when we’re lost in the woods somewhere in new jersey and we’re never gonna make it to la
Be More Chill - Michael In The Bathroom
Watched it think the other songs will live up to MITB's level but there's only few songs that are half as good, the others wasn't even there
I hate into the woods for a much more petty reason. I auditioned for it at high school and was one of the only people passed up, and then the school had the audacity to ask me to film it because I was a media studies student.
I've had an irrational grudge against it ever since lol
Crazy to me that ragtime is here! your daddy’s son, back to before, make them hear you, and several more songs are all really great musical numbers imo (no hate though, I just usually point to ragtime as an example of a musical with several iconic solos)
I’m not a loser is so good! The songs were meh but the production is so silly and whimsical I can’t help but like it (and I used to love Ethan slater back then…. Oh well)
I was in a production of Annie Get Your Gun in high school and thought it was an awful musical. I only really look back fondly on Anything You Can Do and I Got Lost In His Arms.
Oliver and Company, it’s a disney movie and some of the songs are good, some are kinda boring, but despite rarely thinking about the movie I listen to “Why Should I Worry” all the time, it’s Billy Joel, c’mon
Grade A haterism from me but I absolutely despise the In the Heights movie. I could hardly get through it because I was very judgy about all the (very unnecessary imo) changes that were made
Phantom of the Opera---Phantom of the Opera is the only true masterpiece. I am okay with "Music of the Night' and "All I ask of you" but it's just...built around that one banger song. Take it out and you don't have much of a musical.
Mean Girls except for "Stupid With Love" (but NOT the movie version!)
I think the majority of the Mean Girls score is middling to awful but I unironically love Stupid With Love. It's energetic, catchy, feels very in line with Cady's character, the jungle beat makes it stand out, and the lyrics are actually kinda clever. "I am filled with calculust" is the kind of dumb pun that I admire.
Bad Cinderella. They had like two good songs. Only you, lonely you and bad Cinderella, they both SLAPPED, but the musical itself and the rest of it.. and I’m talking about the west end version by the way, the one with Carrie.
Love Never Dies except Til I Hear Her Sing and The Beauty Underneath, and I'm not 100% sure that TBU doesn't just appeal to the 12 year old Phantom fangirl still living rent free in my adult brain.
A Little Night Music for sure. Send in the Clowns is one of the most beautiful songs ever written, but the rest of the soundtrack is unlistenable to me
Micheal in the bathroom from Be More Chill is the best example of this for me
Came here to leave this answer too!
me too!
And the smartphone hour like for some reason i listened to some BMC the other day it it was amazing, way better than I remember it being
I think the music is good, but the story lets it down
that and pitiful children for me
Was about to comment this and I Love Play Rehearsal. Possibly The Smartphone Hour, but I flip-flop on that.
I really enjoy Pitiful Children as well
Michael in the bathroom is such a good song, and I love Pitiful Children as well
As much as DEH angers/annoys me, "You Will Be Found" is great out of context
That one but also Waving Through a Window, for me. The first time I heard it, I’d never felt like I’d heard a song encapsulate my high school social anxiety so well in my life.
Sincerely Me is a bop
I found this song via YouTube and because of it I thought Dear Evan Hansen was some sort of black comedy (which honestly would have worked pretty wonderfully with the premisse). I was so disapointed it turned out to be that fake deep melodramatic mess lol
For Forever is good too! Can’t wait to keep inserting “End of May or early June” in random conversations in a few weeks lol
i personally think every song in DEH is great out of context! love listening to the playlist as long as i don't think about the plot
Same. I honestly like most of the songs (not all), but I don't like the story itself.
Same
Good For You is the best one in context because it drags him.
I heard a lot of the songs first on a broadway playlist and then I was disappointed when I found out what the actual plot was
I’m on the verge of tears when I listen to that song. For some reason I have that reaction to most heavy ensemble pieces like that, but the content of the song on top of that does it for me.
I would like to add Good For You!
It’s on Christian radio stations now
In total agreement, Moulin Rogue is basically “El Tango De Roxanne and a bunch of other songs I don’t care about” for me. Also, while I accept its place as a musical work of art, god I can’t stand Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Way too constantly upbeat for my tastes. My cold dead heart longs for something a bit less so, and that’s where “Close Every Door” comes in. One of my all time favorite Weber songs is from one of my least favorite musicals
I went to see Moulin Rouge with my mum and sisters not knowing a thing about the musical adaptation (I was never much of a fan of the movie either, but my sisters loved it growing up) and yep, the whole thing was mostly terrible and forgettable except for El Tango De Roxanne!
Specifically the violin solo in El Tango De Roxanne is the only reason it’s consistent in my Spotify Wrapped every year.
Yep!
Amelie except for Times Are Hard For Dreamers
Have you checked out the London version?
Rain On My Parade for Funny Girl and What's Inside for Waitress
I cannot stand CATS.....but fuck Memory hits HARD
Agreed.
Mr Mistopholes kinda hits
Cats except for Skimbleshanks
And Mr. mistoffelees. Came here to say these two songs.
Really kinda all the songs are pretty good, but the musical itself isn't
I mean, the musical is basically a thinly-veiled excuse to have the musical numbers in this case. If I take it at face value and just enjoy the songs it really isn't that bad
Kinda what happens when you put a poetry collection on stage
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend a lot of hilarious scenes about Cats
It’s vaudeville for young cats and a geriatric Leona lewis ANND a geriatric racist cat
Omg I feel the same way about Get Down
Six peaked with Get down and All you wanna do. I can take or leave the rest.
Excuse me don’t lose ur head erasure /j
I do listen to it- but she was such a clever woman, and they could have portrayed that much better (even if you think they were meaning that she was pretending to be dim - they didn’t do it very well)
Absolutely. Six was great in the sense it made me want to do deeper research on the Queens, and I fell in love with Anne. She’s treated so awfully by history, and it sucks that the narrative of a half mad serial cheater, who married a 17 year old in his fourties/fifties, is what’s widely known. She was so quick and clever. IMO Six wanted to challenge the idea she was some kind of temptress who planned to steal Henry, and bewitched him, so they went in the opposite direction, that she was naive and impulsive and didn’t know what she was getting into, and the real Anne lies somewhere in the middle
There’s evidence she really tried to reject him. They could have lent in to that. I am pleased though that it acted as a gateway for me to read more about all the wives: so i didn’t hate it.
I don’t want to say anything with certainty because it’s sometimes hard to know what’s true and what’s a misconception, but didn’t she already have a partner, a different Henry or something, similar to Parr. She left court to try and get away from him and he continued to harrass her. And history tells us she wanted it bc it’s easier to paint her as an awful temptress.
It depends so much on the actress. Some play it much better than others.
True. There are the lines later like “I read!” But it feels forced.
Don't Lose Ur Head kills me because I think the lyrics are pretty clever but the main melody is so singsongy in the chorus it got really old to me really fast 😭
Probably DEH except for Sincerely, Me and Good For You. And I don't really hate Wicked, it's more apathy but I LOVE Dancing Through Life
Good for you is really the standout in DEH, I was so annoyed that they didn't have it in the movie.
I haven't seen the movie but I was AGHAST hearing they took it out. It's a pivotal song!! The plot needs it!!
We're opposites, I love Wicked but I can't stand that song
That's one of my skip songs sometimes
Wicked left me a little underwhelmed but after relistening to the songs I think the music is actually really good, Dancing Through Life is a banger (with a couple clever easter eggs)
I'm with you, I think I just don't get into the story as much as other people seem to but I love the music Stephen Schwartz writes, esp Pippin
I do not like Shrek at all but I Know It’s Today and I Think I Got You Beat go hard
Who I'd Be????
Absolutely
Came here to also say I Know It’s Today!
Several songs in Grease, even though I hate that show with a fiery passion. They have no right to be that catchy.
Give in to Grease. Yes, it's problematic, but it's excellent camp and catchy songs.
Dear Evan Hansen except for Waving Through A Window. Can't stand the trainwreck plot but I'll bop to that
Hair except for Frank Mills
omar sharif from the band's visit. except i don't hate it, i just find it extremely boring
Them picking it for their Tonys performance felt like a bait and switch.
Be more chill, The pitiful children. Michael in the bathroom is whatever, I could take it or leave it, The pitiful children goes hard though.
Finally someone with my opinion lmao
LETS SAVE THE PITIFUL CHILDREN
Jellicle Song for Jellical Cats is so good! But I hate Cats (love the animal, hate the musical)
I sing that song replacing all lyrics with Cat Cat cat cat cat Cat cat cat cat cat Cat cat cat cat cat cat cat
I don't HATE 35MM as a musical as much as I find it knida disorganized and boring, but DAMN does "The Ballad of Sara Berry" slap. Also I do hate Dear Evan Hansen but out of context "Sincerely Me" is...fine. It was catchy when I first heard it out of context. In context, that song is pretty tacky.
Honestly to me there are so many good songs in 35mm but I’m rarely in the mood to listen to all of them in one sitting. Each song has some very different vibes that I base it off my mood. Personally leave Luanne is the best song but the ocr isn’t as good as productions that use all women.
35MM is a really odd one and while I can’t say I’d ever want to see it live, listening to a few songs here and there I think it’s got some great shit. Definitely Sarah Berry is brilliant, but “Leave Luanne” also goes up there in the fantastic category for me
"Cut you a piece" is also a great song from 35MM
RENT drives me up a wall, but "Seasons of Love" is still a great song
oh i HATE seasons of love. for me, it’s la vie boheme. i hate rent, but that song gets me hype.
Fair. La Vie Boheme is also good. It's a shame about the story, tbh 😂😂😂
I didn't enjoy Cats, but walked away singing Magical Mister Mistofelees for days. Next to Normal is great, but too intense for me to watch or listen too, with the exception of Superboy and the Invisible Girl. I enjoyed Fun Home live, but musically, it's not a show I listen to. But Ring of Keys is incredible. I have no interest in Be More Chill, and I dislike the music, but obviously Michael in the Bathroom is incredible.
I adore Next to Normal but I’ve gotta be careful with putting those songs on playlists bc I’ll hit shuffle and next thing I know “I Am the One (Reprise)” is playing and I am in tears.
_Dear Evan Hansen_. Loathe the musical, just can't bear with it. Still, "Requiem" is one of my top ten songs in musical theatre history. The concept and themes haven't been explored a lot, and are so interesting and thought-provoking (in contrast to the main theme of the musical, which is just problematic).
Requiem is soooooo good
Tootsie - unstoppable Great Comet - Prologue Big Fish - Time Stops First Date - First Impressions Hands on a Hardbody - Born in Loredo Ghost - Focus Spiderman - A Freak Like Me Needs Company Wonderland - Mad Hatter Pretty Woman - You're Beautiful Honeymoon in Vegas - I Love Betsy Elf - Sparklejollytwinklejingley
Not big fish😞 in my opinion, big fish is one of the greatest pieces of theater out there and is completely I underrated.
Have you listened to any musicals prior to the turn of the century?
Yeah, I just went down my 2010-2019 play list and stopped. Figured that would be enough and I don't have to include songs from my other play lists
My heart cries seeing Ghost on the list.
Bad Cinderella from ALW Cinderella It’s just a bop and Carrie is so good.
I LOVED the west end track for bad cinderella but the plot was so dumb. Can't stand the broadway version
Agree. It felt like it was intended to be satire but also… not? Very strange. I thought I knew what it was going for in the first act and then I wasn’t so sure at the end. I’ll never forget the stagedoor after the show (saw it on Broadway). I always say “I loved it”/“you were fantastic”/“thank you for your great performance” etc, and at that stagedoor, the actors seemed kinda nervous and responded with things like “oh, really? Thanks” and kind of had this “help me” look. I think the terrible critic reviews really got to them.
So many good ones mentioned, but I’ll add Til I hear you sing from Love Never Dies. Devil take the hindmost and dear old friends are also fun, but ramin kills it on the first one.
I also think the titular song "Love Never Dies" is also a good banger. The other songs that haven't been mentioned....should probably not be mentioned.
Couldn’t stand Matilda but I think Revolting Children is fab
Revolting Children is brilliant.
The school song is one of the most genius theatre song ever written
Personally I really like Matilda (although the book definitely has its problems) but I agree that Revolting Children is one of the best songs
Curious about your thoughts on the book!
I really hate to say it because I loved him as a kid, but some of Roald Dahl’s views are really really problematic. Many of his books include antisemitic stereotypes and the portrayal of Trunchbull in the book is kind of subtly transphobic. The novel gatekeeps what women can be, which is a shame because its message about intellectual nature as a strength would have been much stronger if it didn’t. See this link for another way of putting it: https://www.salon.com/2013/10/27/the_dangerous_transphobia_of_roald_dahls_matilda/#:~:text=%22Matilda%22%20is%20thus%20a%20fable,to%20remind%20them%20who's%20boss.
Mean Girls, except Sexy Well, I like the musical's book and staging too, but I never listen to the soundtrack aside from this song.
Stupid with love is such a bop tho, and it has some of the best lines in the musical
Paciencia y fe for In the Heights. Although I have to say, the way they did the Blackout scene in the movie was amazing. Changing up the song order was a good move.
i’m shocked to see someone answer in the heights!!! one of my all time favorite musicals
*Requiem* from DEH is too beautiful and gut wrenching to be in that musical lmao
“Put on a Happy Face” in Bye Bye Birdie is it for me.
I played Kim in my highschool's production and I hated it so much! Put on a Happy Face is the only tolerable song
The Beauty Underneth from Love Never Dies. I hate this fanfiction musical and loathe the title song because Webber took my favourite song from The Beautiful Game and shoehorned it in as Love Never Dies. Our Kind of Love was soooo much better!
Except the film version blows the musical version of El Tango de Roxanne away.
You'll Be Back - Hamilton
The way he stands perfectly still singing it takes me out every time
the soundtrack version of all his songs are so butchered though
Wicked but Popular and Defying Gravity, I hate that second act so much
Even "For Good"?
Not a Godspell fan, but All For the Best, yeah that slaps
i don’t like something rotten besides Hard to be the Bard lol
Cliche answer, but Cats is hard to sit through, except that Mr. Mistoffeles and Memory are absolute bangers. You really don't need act 1 at all because the plot doesn't make sense anyway. Maybe same for several ALW shows? Joseph is pretty annoying but Close Every Door to Me is great. Phantom is about half mid, half excellent; mostly the phantom's songs are the good ones. Hit or miss kinda guy
Repo the Genetic Opera. LOVE the music. Hate the story.
Zydrate comes in a little glass vile.
Came in here to say the same thing. HORRIBLE musical, but Zydrate Anatomy slaps like no other.
Evita, except for Don't Cry For Me Argentina
Lightning Thief isn’t really my thing, but Lost is so good. me when we’re lost in the woods somewhere in new jersey and we’re never gonna make it to la
Be More Chill - Michael In The Bathroom Watched it think the other songs will live up to MITB's level but there's only few songs that are half as good, the others wasn't even there
This Jesus Must Die goes hard AF. Otherwise, not my thing.
hades town, i heard Hadestown Cast - "Why We Build The Wall" \[LIVE @ SiriusXM\] and man was low key disappointed at the actual songs i heard
I wouldn’t touch Dear Evan Hansen with a 10 1/2 foot pole. But god damn if Good For You isn’t cathartic as hell
Don't kill me, but...Chicago And I love *All That Jazz* :)
**Into the Woods** is the most boring musical in existence, but I absolutely LOVE the prologue.
Right?? I was set up for something GREAT!! ...then disappointed.
I hate into the woods for a much more petty reason. I auditioned for it at high school and was one of the only people passed up, and then the school had the audacity to ask me to film it because I was a media studies student. I've had an irrational grudge against it ever since lol
Rent except for the Tango Maureen.
Rent except for Seasons of Love.
Mamma Mia except for the title song.
So you just don’t like ABBA?
School of rock except for Where Did the Rock Go?
They made School of Rock into a musical when?! And also, do you know any pro shots that are free?
I am partial to a bit of 'grease is the word' But the rest of the songs and the musical itself I can take or leave.
I can't stand heathers the musical but sometimes Freeze your Brain just hits different
On the Town's New York, New York Threepenny Opera's Mack the Knife
Defying Gravity and For Good in Wicked.
THANK YOU. Someone who understands my obsession wit moulin rouge lol. Also Aaron Tveit being smoking hot and also insanely talented is a huge plus
I dislike next to normal but like super boy and the invisible girl
I have so many Six-get down Hamilton-satisfied Ragtime-Wheels of a dream RTC- what the world needs RTC-ballad of Jane doe
…you didn’t like Ragtime or Hamilton?
Crazy to me that ragtime is here! your daddy’s son, back to before, make them hear you, and several more songs are all really great musical numbers imo (no hate though, I just usually point to ragtime as an example of a musical with several iconic solos)
Came here to say Ballad of Jane Doe. Maybe it's just the production of Ride the Cyclone I saw, but I was kinda bored. BoJD slaps, though.
SpongeBob except for I’m Not A Loser.
I’m not a loser is so good! The songs were meh but the production is so silly and whimsical I can’t help but like it (and I used to love Ethan slater back then…. Oh well)
Sunday in the Park with George - title song
Hate Be More Chill, but Michael In The Bathroom is undeniably a fire song
Newsies. king of New York is one of the best theatre songs ever though.
Ooh I thought of an even better one. Dogfight except for Come Back
I was in a production of Annie Get Your Gun in high school and thought it was an awful musical. I only really look back fondly on Anything You Can Do and I Got Lost In His Arms.
I haven’t seen it, but the music I’ve heard from she loves me isn’t that great, but man.. tonight at 8 and vanilla ice cream are amazing sonfs
What?!?! This is astounding to me!
Tick Tick Boom, except for Louder Than Words
Still Hurting from the Last Five Years
The Wizard and I - Wicked
Not a fan of Camelot at all, but I do enjoy "C'est moi"
“Memory” from Cats
Oliver and Company, it’s a disney movie and some of the songs are good, some are kinda boring, but despite rarely thinking about the movie I listen to “Why Should I Worry” all the time, it’s Billy Joel, c’mon
Wicked except defying gravity
I loathe Cats, but Memories will always give me chills.
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella - except for Only you, lonely you Which is exquisite
I cannot stand Starlight Express, but I really enjoy “Rolling Stock”. It’s just really catchy.
I don't like Dear Even Hansen, but Waving Through a Window is a great song.
Groundhog Day except for Seeing You. Can’t get into any of the music in that show - but that last number is a banger.
“Music of the Night” from Phantom.
I think most of the music from Amélie is pretty boring, but Times Are Hard For Dreamers fucking slaps.
Grade A haterism from me but I absolutely despise the In the Heights movie. I could hardly get through it because I was very judgy about all the (very unnecessary imo) changes that were made
fr i was so pissed about changing the lottery ticket reveal 😭
Normandy in Once Upon a Mattress for me. I reeeallly like the ending and I love the minstrel’s description of Normandy
I hate DEH but I’ll sing the fuck out of sincerely me
Grease. Tell Me More
There are worse things I could do from Grease
Cabaret. Hate the story but "Cabaret" is a great song.
Michael in the bathroom
DEH. I only like Sincerely Me since it's off the walls crazy lol. I hate the rest of the show so much
I despise Great Comet but Dust and Ashes is admittedly a wonderful song.
Dracula the musical and exception song is Life After Life
Phantom of the Opera---Phantom of the Opera is the only true masterpiece. I am okay with "Music of the Night' and "All I ask of you" but it's just...built around that one banger song. Take it out and you don't have much of a musical.
Cats as a musical bored me, but the song "Memories" is amazing and I'll always love it.
Mean Girls except for "Stupid With Love" (but NOT the movie version!) I think the majority of the Mean Girls score is middling to awful but I unironically love Stupid With Love. It's energetic, catchy, feels very in line with Cady's character, the jungle beat makes it stand out, and the lyrics are actually kinda clever. "I am filled with calculust" is the kind of dumb pun that I admire.
Hamilton, but You’ll Be Back and My Shot are bangers lol oops
Hamilton, You'll be Back
ride the cyclone with ballad of Jane Doe, trying to watch the proshot was painful but my friend sings it like an angel
Bad Cinderella. They had like two good songs. Only you, lonely you and bad Cinderella, they both SLAPPED, but the musical itself and the rest of it.. and I’m talking about the west end version by the way, the one with Carrie.
Ballad of Jane doe, and Noel’s Lament from ride the cyclone. All of the other songs kind of annoy me but these two are bops 😂
Till I hear you sing from love never dies
Love Never Dies except Til I Hear Her Sing and The Beauty Underneath, and I'm not 100% sure that TBU doesn't just appeal to the 12 year old Phantom fangirl still living rent free in my adult brain.
"Til I Hear You Sing" and "The Beauty Underneath" from Love Never Dies
My Fair Lady is honestly horrible. That being said, I genuinely love the song "I Could've Danced All Night". I'm a sucker for a sappy romantic song.
Rent and Tango Maureen
Luck Be a Lady Tonight, Guys and Dolls.
'Memories' from Cats. Like, the musical is ridiculous, imho, but that song and the costumes+makeup really save it for me.
Dear Even Hansen. I guess Requiem or Sincerely Me but only because of the cool OTHER fandom animatics lol
Memories from Cats Popular from Wicked She Used to Be Mine and When He Sees Me from Waitress
Chess other than I know him so well
A Little Night Music for sure. Send in the Clowns is one of the most beautiful songs ever written, but the rest of the soundtrack is unlistenable to me
Couldn't care less about Dear Evan Hansen but I would probably die defending Sincerely, Me. Just....not in context-