Or maybe you should aplogise and shut the fuck up, Donny.
I appreciate the
Big Lebowski reference and I apologise if anyone was genuinely offended by anything I've said as it was not my aim to offend anyone or hurt them so if that occured, then I apologise. However, I will not apologise for having an opinion nor will I shut the fuck up.
I feel that the musical genre, as a whole, is insipid, saccharine and formulaic. You may call this a generalization, and it is, there are musicals that defy the sugar sweet trappings of musical-dom, but they are few and far between. The aforementioned
Hedwig,
Cannibal and
Spamalot. And while we're talking about
Spamalot, can someone who actually likes musicals please tell me why it is acceptable to take a bunch of songs from an artist's repertoire and mish-mash them into a "musical?" Billy Joel's
Movin' Out, for example?
All of the discussion in this thread has made me confront my musicalphobia and I think I've figured out why I hate them so much. There are always happy endings in musicals. Even endings that aren't what one might call traditionally "happy," such as
Les Miserables, still have a sort of happy ending because the loose ends are tied up.
Hell, even
RENT, where one of the characters dies of AIDS and you'd think would have a little big of harsh reality, has a happy ending because the character that dies tells the character that almost dies not to die and to go back.
I never intended to give it this much thought, frankly, and now that I'm off work and home, that's about all the thought I'm going to give it for tonight. I'm an unforgivable bastard with the brass of a riverboat gambler who types fast, that's it. I'm sarcastic as fuck but I'm not mean. What Jeph said made me laugh my ass off and I thought it deserved its own thread, so I made one.
The funniest part of this whole thing to me is that
Anyways suggested I make a thread about music I like, so I did and that thread has six replies while this thread has 55 replies... that is negative reinforcement, kids.
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