A Person With A Name I have a really innocent friend so we used to just play that song to her all the time, now she can sing it perfectly and I’ve never been more proud
I was at the stagedoor of Wicked, and an actor came out. Someone beside me thought he played Dr. Dillamond and made a goat noise at him. He didn’t play Dr. Dillamond.
Benjamin Mohr both of the wizard’s songs I always skip bc I can’t stand the character and I’m just not a fan of the songs. It’s my favorite show but that’s just my tea on Wicked
Wizards songs is always a skip... and then I get upset over the fact that Nessa’s little “Wicked Witch of the East” song isn’t a full scored number and not recorded on the Oscar recording.
Schuyler Defeated from Hamilton. When I'm listening on shuffle I get so excited when I hear the Schuyler Sisters intro, only to get hit with "Look! Grandpa's in the paper!"
@@evanhansen724 I miss the whole "Let it go" motif in the drafts/deleted songs, especially Hurricane. I know it was cut for time, but it would've made the show even better, fleshing out Hamilton's character and motivations even more.
Mars Cassidy I agree, they’re definitely slower and it took a while for me to like them as much as the others but you can’t deny the songs are still great (depending on each persons music taste)!
Learning this was very weird because I had this picture book growing up that had the exact same song as all the words in the book and it was all illustrated as a modern clambake, and I only learned through this video that that song was from a musical
okay quick rant. i'm genuinely intrigued as to why they added a heather duke solo in west end. there is a very important reason as to why she did not have any stand alone solos in the original. that is because, her personality is purely based off of following other people. that's why all of her solo lines are just repeats of other people
That’s definitely true, I was just in Legally Blonde (and I was a student in Blood in the Water) and it’s a good song but it’s just not as fun or exciting as the rest of the soundtrack (with the exception of Legally Blonde which is a gut punch song and it’s fantastic)
I like both You’re Welcome and Blue but I personally like Blue more because I like Kurt and Ram’s voices and appearance in the Off-Broadway way more than in the West End - but I think Blue really characterizes Kurt and Ram being stereotypical, perverted (and drunk) teenage boys - but they also aren’t supposed to be good guys so I’m fine with the content of it - that being said You’re Welcome is just a different approach to that situation and is still a good song lol thanks for listening to my TEDtalk lol
Same! I almost never listen to those songs to the point that over the years I have forgotten some of the lyrics. I know they are important on a narrative level, but they are also big time meh songs.
See I don’t like that they gave heather duke a song as the reason why she didn’t have one is because she is a copy, she isn’t original and the only time she gets the “spotlight” is when she’s stealing or copying from other characters.
@@whatok3273 not that I don't like Heather duke it just messes with the colour theory that I absolutely love, the reason why she's green is because she's a copy, like veronica says in beautiful "no discernible personality" she doesn't have a personality, see how veronica is blue, Heather C is red and Heather M is yellow, they're all main colours whilst Heather D is green which is a secondary colour. Green represents jealousy (of Heather C) and quietness, she perfectly represents her colour until she (in the movie) changes to red, red represents rage and power, she goes from a shy bookworm who is secretly jealous to a mean and powerful leader, who will do anything to stay on top even if that means convincing her friend to kill herself. Giving her a song that wasn't a reprise took away all the meaning of jealousy and her having to copy from others.
ppl r dunking so hard on whose house is this from mean girls but i listen to that one on repeat because it's always been hilarious to me how much it sounds like a phineas and ferb song
It just- okay, it serves as a good plot point and needs to be there so we better understand Larry as a man and a father But cmon. Either write it better or make it diALOGUE OH MY GOSH
There’s always at least one “song” like Something Bad, that doesn’t feel like a song, it’s clever exposition set to music, and I have a hard time thinking of those numbers as individual songs.
@@katehaug5635 yeah, Wicked has this really weird thing about spoiling Boq being the Tin Man, Fiyero being the scarecrow and Elphie being alive. Even in the script in the Grimmerie and the pop up story book those bits are left out.
Kate Haug I mean, it’s not like they took care to avoid any of the other spoilers. Once you know that Elphaba is the Wicked Witch of the West and that Nessa is the ruler of Munchkinland, her being the other witch only makes sense.
Alison TheRohirrimWillAnswer it’s more engaging live bc of all the very active choreography and energetic actors, but i agree, the song is very boring to listen to by itself.
My opinion: -Dust and ashes from the great comet emotionally drains me every time -blood in the water from legally blonde is funny but one of the more meh songs from the show (glad you agree) -mooning from grease is pointless except to set up a romantic interest between Jan and t-bird who’s name I don’t remember -blow us all away from Hamilton destroys me and fills me with anxiety because I know what’s coming at the end -step one from kinky boots is vocally good and sets up Lola’s influence on the brand later but the lack of billy porter just makes me uninterested
I had to reply only because my favorite song is actually blood in the water (most likely because I'm in love with Micheal Rupert's voice) but the song I always skip from legally blonde is Ireland and I have no idea why
I usually skip "Magical Lasso", too, and as I was thinking about that, it hit me: The lyrics describe Erik, the Phantom, with the corpse-like appearance he has in the original book, but the stage show used a different design. How messed up is that? It's like, "Sure, we'll throw the source material a bone by referencing it in the lyrics, but we'll go with a half-faced deformity so the Phantom isn't TOO ugly." Now, presumably, they went with a less extreme makeup design because Hal Prince thought a full-faced one, including its mask, would be too hard to act behind. But personally, I think there was more to it than that. There is, sadly, a long history of book characters who are disabled or deformed having their conditions and/or appearances watered down for stage or film adaptations. It's a trend that I call "making a character grotesquely sexy", keeping them disabled/disfigured while also making them JUST conventionally attractive enough so audience members will still swoon over them. And, as a performer and playwright who is disabled myself (visually impaired), I find this trend really disheartening and insulting, not just to the people the characters are supposedly representing, but to audiences as well, as if the only way viewers would care about their fellow humans is if they're somewhat pretty/handsome to look at. It's a topic those of us who are in or appreciate theater should be discussing a lot more, I think.
@ThatGreenDayFreak I mean, Christine grows to fear Erik for good reason. It isn't that she's bothered by his face, it's that he slowly reveals himself to be a deeply disturbed man who sees her as his salvation, to the point where he disregards her feelings and wants and is willing to blackmail, manipulate, and murder to have her all to himself. For all of Erik's talk of, "The world objectified me and made me into a monster!", he does the exact same thing to Christine, turning her into an object, an angelic servant meant only for him rather than her own person. And that's why, as much as I love the ALW musical, I don't like how it transformed the story from a Gothic mystery to a melodramatic love triangle tale. As much as we may empathize with Erik and pity him, he's not a dashing, darkly seductive figure. He's an abuse victim who, like many, uses his past as an excuse to inflict abuse on others. For me, "Phantom" is a cautionary tale about what can happen when an innocent child, Erik, grows up to believe he has no other choice but to become the villain he's perceived to be. In that sense, he reminds me more of, say, Frankenstein's Creature rather than the "sexy bad boy with a mask" the musical presents him as.
same, just add stay alive reprise, the world was wide enough, it's quiet uptown and wlwdwtys. don't get me wrong, they're masterpieces, I just get to emotional to listen to the depressing ones in public lol
i've never liked fun homes soundtrack very much tbh, it's mostly dialogue and what isn't dialogue is repeated over and over til i just want the song to be done
@@shylahjones950 no but Great Comet is actually SUNG through (and some of the best music I've ever heard) - except for the one emotional moment at the end where the music stops. I often skip songs like And Then There Were None, because as fantastic as it is I can't deal with that much dialogue interrupting the flow of the music listening
I always skip the breaking in the glove song from Dear Evan Hansen. Listened to it once the first time I went through the cast album and that was enough. lol
I was my town's performance of 'Carousel' and I take your dislike of "It's Been a Real Nice Clambake" and raise it a million for one reason. Waltzing. Yep, for some bizzare reason our choreographer decided that we needed to have waltzing couples during the song. I was one of the people chosen to be one of the ones waltzing.
For me, it fits strangely especially since a few minutes ago you heard Lifeboat. While live it is emotional and passionate and reflective and sad. When you’re just blazing through an album it makes sense to skip cuz you want to get back to the story.
Gerald Seixas I actually like that Sweeney ends on such a weird note. Writers seem to have this unwritten rule that the act 1 finale is the highest point of emotional intensity in the show so it has to be this grand sweeping number that leaves the audience spellbound. But it’s old hat. Not bad, just formulaic. So I like act 1 finales that take chances like Sweeney or Next to Normal.
For me I don't mind something bad (even though I usually still skip it) but I will ALWAYS skip sentimental man. sidenote: conspiracy theory Katherine Steele is actually Bruser Woods
I just did Beauty and the Beast at my school, and Kath's description of a "kid's community theater production" described our casting of Maurice perfectly (For reference, he was an 8th grader, Belle was a senior/12th grader. The school is 6-12).
I don’t remember the name of it, but there was one song in “Newsies” where, after hearing it, I just *KNEW* something was gonna happen to Crutchie. And what happened? Something happened to Crutchie.
My skippable song from Newsies is "That's Rich" if I recall right, the boring "ha ha I'm an old man and I'm tbe bad guy" song lol. Edit: I'm wrong, was thinking of "The Bottom Line" haha
i always skip ready set not yet bc it’s so boring and to me it sounds like Barbara and Adam r like “hey let’s sing!” and the beginning but then halfway through they’re like “nope let’s not” and idk y i think of it that way but i just hate that song😂
Who’s house is this- mean girls Blue- heathers Sentimental man- wicked Blood in the water- legally blonde Break in a glove- DEH House of Holbein- SIX Take it from an old man- waitress
"Your Eyes" from Rent. I've been a Renthead for almost 25 years and I can count the number of times I've heard that song on two hands (and given that I've seen the show four times...).
Its honestly so embarrassing that the big song Roger has been working on for the whole damn show is like...the worst song in the musical. I love Rent, but that song is an easy skip, eveeeery time.
Yesss this is the worst song in the musical and it’s so crazy because One Song Glory is one of the best and it’s all about how Roger needs to write this amazing song before he dies and the result is just awful
@@everythingz888 ...I mean it is. Like I've seen it, I have some of the songs on heavy rotation, I don't think we should forget it's existence, but maybe it's the wrong thing having children play it.
@@claudiastutzman6453 I like a fair few DEH songs, and I adore Ben Platt but I can't say I really like the musical. It just feels like half the plot is missing for me?
update: i didn't get the part... but i am still really excited to be in the show because they cut about 100 people and they still saw talent in me so i'm happy with what i got 😉
The “movie” songs from Grease always sound out of place to me in productions. Yes, they are iconic, and are widely considered “better” than the songs they replace. But it’s really obvious they were written in the 70s not by the original team, Hopelessly devoted and the title song in particular. The songs in the original score actually sound like grungy late 50s early 60s rock and share motifs throughout
@@cobaltobject1855 "Sandy" is a dog of a song, and far inferior to "Alone At the Drive-In Movie". Allegedly "Drive-In" was cut because Travolta wasn't able to pull off a decent vocal for it, so they had a new song written that wasn't so hard to sing.
I haven’t watched you video yet but I know it’s going to be great because all of what you post is great and I love you and your work!!! ❤️ QOTD: It’s not necessarily a song I skip but am like always just like oh this song is “It’s Gonna Be Good” from Next to Normal because of the change in type of song and change from Diana’s “I Miss the Mountains” to Dan’s much peppier song even though that is what it intends to do.
The tonal shift thing is so true! I mean, I’ve never watched or listened to the Hunchback of Notre Dame live, but in the movie soundtrack, “A Guy Like You” is a total departure and I honestly forget that it exists when I’m thinking of that movie because it’s just so bizarrely out of left field.
It's a mood shift and it doesn't belong but hot take: that's ironically why I like it. It's a funny song in a tragic, dark Disney movie. And the song is very catchy.
When she added blood in the water from legally blonde I was like ouch I love that song 🤭 but no lie every theatre kid has that one song they just skip lol
i was in carousel 3 years ago, and ‘this was a real nice clambake’ was the most dreaded song of the show. the assistant director also had the nerve to ask us what we FEEL while singing that song. we had to restart many times because we weren’t fully invested in the clambake.
I always skip over The Acrobat Stories in Matilda, like they’re low key boring ngl Also totally agree with the Phantom one, It’s also a number I wanna skip in the musical lmao
Nah you ain’t crazy because when I listened to The full album of Newsies I never listened to The bottom line Reprise or That’s rich idk why I mean they are good songs I just don’t like them as much I don’t skip it that much anymore but i used to all the time Don’t hate me please Btw I wanted to say that in like two hours I have an audition for Alice in Wonderland I’m auditioning for Alice any tips?
Same with that’s rich I also end up skipping something to believe in and I never planned on you. I think I just don’t really need the romantic storyline in it. I just want to get back to these poor children fighting to get paid XD
Lps Sugar Rose I feel like it’s such a different mood from the bottom line like the Bottom Lines entrance is like sorta happyish and then the bottom line reprise entrance sounds like a sound effect in a horror movie or idk
"Diamond in the Rough" - Aladdin "Hurricane" - Hamilton "Christmas Bells" - Rent "To Break in a Glove" - Dear Evan Hansen "Whose House Is This?" - Mean Girls "March of the Witch Hunters" - Wicked
Some songs like this for me include: -Growltigers last stand from Cats -Once in a while from Rocky Horror Both of these songs absolutely halt the show in its tracks, and are just not my cup of tea
Kate! Yea, I think my problem is that it was deleted from the movie, and since the movie is how I first experienced Rocky, I’ve just never been able to sit through that song. It’s a good song, just not for me
Same oh my gosh! Also Let Him Come for me, it's just too short (Also Inevitable sometimes, I just have to be in the mood) BUT I ADORE CUP OF ROASTED COFFEE AND JOIN US (AND DIE) SO MUCH OK
Ya know what’s a really great act 2 opening song? Falsettoland/About Time. It’s from falsettos and it does the whole here’s a recap and all the people are here, and ooh look here’s some new characters whoohoo, welcome back to our show let’s tell this story and make u both laugh and cry thing very very well. Would recommend
I constantly skip “You Love Who You Love” from Bonnie and Clyde. Don’t get me wrong, I love the musical and I don’t mind the song, but for some reason I never want to listen to it and I can’t explain why?
Hazel Daniels, I read the DEH book and the “to break in a glove” part was great. I highly recommend it if you haven’t read it already. It’s nice to get an inside look at the characters though process (There are some Connor Murphy POV chapters).
Good video and channel. I used to hate musicals, but the new cats movie got me to research the old cats play. Now I am becoming interested in musical theatre as a whole.
Nobody needs to know from the last five years. I can’t listen to it without shriveling up and screaming at Jamie for being such a jerk. It’s too much emotion for me to handle in my daily musical bops
Skipping songs just because they're too emotionally draining
omg YES !!!!
me with at least a quarter of the songs in heathers
Telephone Wire from Fun Home. I can't listen to it very often without feeling super drained so I just skip it 😅
Me with hamilton act 2
YUP
I was singing "i'm a believer" and my friend told me to stop because it was annoying and I thought she was kidding
but then I saw her face
That joke made me laugh way too much smh
Also, I spot an SNL icon 👀
Thank you so much I've never gotten so many likes on a comment
and now you believe her
This needs more likes
“The goat man.”
*flashback*
“gOaTmAn i’M dAnCiNg On YoUr bRiDgE”
CHILDREN WILL TELL TALES OF ME!
Molly Garry you two are my favorite people for knowing that you guys made my day...
THIS IS MY BRIDGE NOW.
Ryan’s not part of his little charade!
Indago Snake FUCCCCKKK YOUUU GOATMAN
I always skip at least one song in each musical, I don’t know why but I always do
Right?! Same!!!
Exactly!
A Person With A Name I have a really innocent friend so we used to just play that song to her all the time, now she can sing it perfectly and I’ve never been more proud
Same honestly!
Me too!
I was at the stagedoor of Wicked, and an actor came out. Someone beside me thought he played Dr. Dillamond and made a goat noise at him.
He didn’t play Dr. Dillamond.
Miri Fried oof
Omg this is the best comment I've ever read.
😂😂
oH NO
oh no 😂
I feel like “Sentimental Man” is the main skip song from Wicked. I almost never listen to it.
Oh my god same
Benjamin Mohr both of the wizard’s songs I always skip bc I can’t stand the character and I’m just not a fan of the songs. It’s my favorite show but that’s just my tea on Wicked
Wizards songs is always a skip... and then I get upset over the fact that Nessa’s little “Wicked Witch of the East” song isn’t a full scored number and not recorded on the Oscar recording.
No lie. I didn't even remember that song existed.
true!! the wizard's songs are MUCH more skippable
“Between Elphaba and... her goat professor.”
So true.
I totally forgot that was a thing in that musical haha
Nice
For me it’s the first song the wizard sings
it's ba-aa-aa-aa-aa-aa-d!!!!
I tend to skip lots of songs, cause they’re boring, or generally not the best.
Amburx same tho
I mean I would but I need the story
m4151e I listen to the entire soundtrack a few times before I skip songs
I always skip Kindergarten Boyfriend from Heathers cuz I like more of the upbeat theme they have
Josselin Sanchez bruh same!
Schuyler Defeated from Hamilton. When I'm listening on shuffle I get so excited when I hear the Schuyler Sisters intro, only to get hit with "Look! Grandpa's in the paper!"
SAME
Sarah P oh god, yes
I miss the draft of it, it’s on YT and gives Eliza a tired mom vibe and shows her kindness, and just :3
@@evanhansen724 I miss the whole "Let it go" motif in the drafts/deleted songs, especially Hurricane. I know it was cut for time, but it would've made the show even better, fleshing out Hamilton's character and motivations even more.
If it was the workshop version, I'd let it slide tbh.
I'm sorry but we have to talk about who's house is this from mean girls.....
its a bop but i get it-it doesn't fit
Big fun -1000000000
true that’s my friends fav song and she likes it bc it’s not a typical musical theatre song but i hate it
Who's House is This is one that's grown on me. Still don't love it but I don't skip it anymore.
@@AllycatlovesAG I've never been a fan of Big Fun either.
i literally have a playlist called “once but without the songs i always skip” bc there are two songs i always skip oops
OH MY GOD THAT IS SUCH A MOOD
im sorry i cantr like the like is 69 sorry
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Alexandra Watkinson LEGITT ABANDONED IN BANDON AND EJ PADA PADA ROSICKA AND IF YOU COUNT THE EXTRA SONG, CHANDLERS WIFE
Six! Is literally the only musical that I don't skip songs in. There are only like 10 songs (including Megasix) and every. single. one. is. a. BOP.
@Julia Krider I get it, but I kind of love that song. It's prob my second-to-least favorite song in the show, but I love the entire show so
Julia Krider Never skip haus of Holbein
Julia Krider I can see why you’d skip it cause it kinda ruins the mood, but it’s an absolute bop
I can’t listen to Heart of Stone and I Don’t Need Your Love. They’re just so boring in comparison
Mars Cassidy I agree, they’re definitely slower and it took a while for me to like them as much as the others but you can’t deny the songs are still great (depending on each persons music taste)!
“Oh no something bad is going to happen to that kid who’s slightly younger than all the other lead cast members wearing a gray wig” 😂😩
Lauren Windley why did I think this was about the guy who didn’t like musicals at first? 😂
Golden Star same but nobody should skip show stoppin’ number 😂
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omg I saw a production of Carousel where they overly sexualized "That Was A Real Nice Clambake" and it was so WEIRD
How??😂😂😂☠
Learning this was very weird because I had this picture book growing up that had the exact same song as all the words in the book and it was all illustrated as a modern clambake, and I only learned through this video that that song was from a musical
I”M SO HAPPY I”M NOT THE ONLY ONE THAT SKIPS CERTAIN SONGS IN EACH MUSICAL
Jamie Lau I do as well!
on the other hand, there's always that one song that you have to play twice because
a) it's just _that good_ or
b) you didn't appreciate it enough
Charlotte wait for it from Hamilton and literally any energetic song from legally blonde
Dead Girl Walking from Heathers definitely gets this treatment from me.
Me with Seventeen from Heathers, everytime
Seize the day from Newsies. I just love it so much I just want to listen to it over and over again
@@anonymouspumpkin8296 SAME. I haven't binged that song and the other best songs from it in too long, thanks for the reminder
i always skip "to break in a glove" from dear evan hansen
Yes, it's emotional and I find that not to appealing
I love all the songs from Dear Evan Hansen that I don't skip any songs
I know it’s relevant in the story but I feel like if Only Us had a different tune or lyrics maybe I wouldn’t feel the need to skip it
Me too. I hate to admit it because I love DEH but that for some reason I just skip that.
It's my 3rd favorite song. Theres so much symbolism in it.
When Kat said broadway mental breakdowns and internet cults I really felt that
Anyone else click immediately?
Absolutely
I would of, but I was in the middle of a callback for a role. However, I did watch this as soon as I got home.
Irylan Ingram oh, break a leg!
I would've but I was in the middle of rehearsal :(
Only you.
I've decided instead of saying "this off topic but..." I'm gonna say "that was a real nice clam bake, but..."
Alex Naples omg amazing!! 😂
okay quick rant. i'm genuinely intrigued as to why they added a heather duke solo in west end. there is a very important reason as to why she did not have any stand alone solos in the original. that is because, her personality is purely based off of following other people. that's why all of her solo lines are just repeats of other people
I absolutely ALWAYS skip 'To Break in a Glove' when I listen to DEH. It's just not for me
Same!
Same....
sadlystuckinreality Same
I get why it’s in there and the metaphor but it’s just like there I guess.....
@@wyattmichaels4008 Yeah, I totally get the purpose of the song but I just don't personally enjoy listening to it!
I think cause legally blonde is so good as a whole, blood in the water just doesn’t seem as exciting but I think it’s a solid song on its own.
Munksfan1 i love blood in the water but probably because I always wanted to go to law school lol- for me it’s “there right there”
That’s definitely true, I was just in Legally Blonde (and I was a student in Blood in the Water) and it’s a good song but it’s just not as fun or exciting as the rest of the soundtrack (with the exception of Legally Blonde which is a gut punch song and it’s fantastic)
I love blood in the water ngl, but I skip Harvard variations
YES. That and the exercise video song lol
Lily Atk same I LOVE the professor’s (idk how to spell his name) voice in the Broadway recording
*I would like to know Katherine’s thoughts on Blue from Heathers.*
In her Heathers UK video she talked about the replacement song (You're Welcome) and said she preferred Blue.
I couldn’t skip that song, it’s too hilarious. One time I got a friend to sing it in anatomy
Blue really isn’t that bad of a song. It’s content is questionable, but it’s funny, catchy, and the instrumental is actually a serious bop.
I like both You’re Welcome and Blue but I personally like Blue more because I like Kurt and Ram’s voices and appearance in the Off-Broadway way more than in the West End - but I think Blue really characterizes Kurt and Ram being stereotypical, perverted (and drunk) teenage boys - but they also aren’t supposed to be good guys so I’m fine with the content of it - that being said You’re Welcome is just a different approach to that situation and is still a good song lol thanks for listening to my TEDtalk lol
i have have have to skip it omg
I always skip a sentimental man and wonderful, they're just a bit boring imo
Same! I almost never listen to those songs to the point that over the years I have forgotten some of the lyrics. I know they are important on a narrative level, but they are also big time meh songs.
I skip sentimental man but wonderful is fun to sing
YESSSS me toooo.
Maurits Veen i agree
Wonderful contains some of my favourite lyrics and I love it. Sentimental Man is, compared to the rest of the show, just okay.
See I don’t like that they gave heather duke a song as the reason why she didn’t have one is because she is a copy, she isn’t original and the only time she gets the “spotlight” is when she’s stealing or copying from other characters.
She deserved a solo song, the musical did her so dirty. I wished her solo wasn't so upbeat and more threatening like Shine A Light Reprise
@@whatok3273 not that I don't like Heather duke it just messes with the colour theory that I absolutely love, the reason why she's green is because she's a copy, like veronica says in beautiful "no discernible personality" she doesn't have a personality, see how veronica is blue, Heather C is red and Heather M is yellow, they're all main colours whilst Heather D is green which is a secondary colour. Green represents jealousy (of Heather C) and quietness, she perfectly represents her colour until she (in the movie) changes to red, red represents rage and power, she goes from a shy bookworm who is secretly jealous to a mean and powerful leader, who will do anything to stay on top even if that means convincing her friend to kill herself. Giving her a song that wasn't a reprise took away all the meaning of jealousy and her having to copy from others.
i’d maybe like a very short (like one minute long if that) candy store reprise because that’d be like copying heather c ya know
Giving her a solo song fleshes her out, the musical butchered her characterization from the movie so badly
@@emilyruthsoglin Villain songs should never be short
ppl r dunking so hard on whose house is this from mean girls but i listen to that one on repeat because it's always been hilarious to me how much it sounds like a phineas and ferb song
its my happy song
To Break a Glove from DEH I don't know why I just can't get into it. Even when I saw the show I wanted to skip it but obviously couldn't
That is such a skippable song. I agree.
It just- okay, it serves as a good plot point and needs to be there so we better understand Larry as a man and a father
But cmon. Either write it better or make it diALOGUE OH MY GOSH
Because I’m not overly happy or overly sad...
I always skip this one.
In This House We Stan King Herod's Song
Razbuten right! It’s a vaudeville number that makes fun of Christ.
Jesus is rock n roll
King Harod is obviously gonna be a different genre.
Whos house is this from meangirls, i can’t with that one.
Punto Alegría same, I was listening to the soundtrack for the first time while doing some work, and I was like “why is this a song”
I always skip that and Fearless
Cuptain Capcake i feel like fearless is not as bad as do this thing, i... truly dislike that song (but yea i skip fearless too)
Damien’s songs, revenge party , the plastics songs(Regina’s songs Karen’s songs ect) and it Roars are probably the only songs I don’t skip
Omg like Big Fun on Heathers, I always skip that one too
There’s always at least one “song” like Something Bad, that doesn’t feel like a song, it’s clever exposition set to music, and I have a hard time thinking of those numbers as individual songs.
They put ‘Something Bad’ on the album... But left out Wicked Witch Of The East........
^THIS!!!
I think that was because they felt Wicked Witch of the East would give away too many huge spoilers about the show.
@@katehaug5635 yeah, Wicked has this really weird thing about spoiling Boq being the Tin Man, Fiyero being the scarecrow and Elphie being alive. Even in the script in the Grimmerie and the pop up story book those bits are left out.
Kate Haug I mean, it’s not like they took care to avoid any of the other spoilers. Once you know that Elphaba is the Wicked Witch of the West and that Nessa is the ruler of Munchkinland, her being the other witch only makes sense.
@@chloebutler8438 Elphaba is from the west and Nessa from the East.
Has to be "Over the Moon" from Rent. I love Rent, I love Maureen and I love Idina Menzel, but "Over the Moon" is just too weird!
Yes yes!!! I absolutely love Rent and all of the songs are amazing but that one is weird but I have grown to like it lol.
Omg yes! Rent is one of my faves but I cannot stand Over the Moon and I love Idina too
I completely agree. I was very confused the first time I listened to that musical.
That song and contact
I love how weird it is, the other day I was listening to it at my dad’s car and suddenly he’s like “Are they mooing??”😂
I have a playlist called “musicals (-the songs that are annoying)”
Omg I love that so much
Please share it
Yeah, post a link!
The pants song from be more chill makes me irrationally angry
smartphone hour does that for me. i just don't want the stretched-out-yness of it.
Alison TheRohirrimWillAnswer it’s more engaging live bc of all the very active choreography and energetic actors, but i agree, the song is very boring to listen to by itself.
RayTheGay yes that and Halloween
I love all these songs...
kandyappleview Halloween is a bop to me but to each there own ✌🏻
“that makes me sound like a chihuahua , but i kinda am a chihuahua ”
-katherine 2019
I'm never usually this person, but I don't want people to be mean to you: it's Chihuahua*
Sandra Caraballo lol i was struggling so hard to spell it it just wasn’t coming to me 😂
What tf is a chuwawa I-
chi hua hua (say it like that and you’ve got it)
exelent _ elefent dont wanna be that guy but chihuahua
The ‘something bad’ one hit differently. How does this completely relate to me? I feel physically SICK thinking about that song HAHA
I feel like Beetlejuice is the only musical where I don’t skip songs because they are all glorious
yessssssss
Can’t argue with that
preach
unpopular opinion: i feel SUUUUUUUUUUUUPER guilty about this but i usually skip That Beautiful Sound 😅
Not gonna lie- I almost always skip The Whole Being Dead Thing Reprise, and often skip Fright of Their Lives 😀
Magical Lasso, or as I like to call it: the only proof that alw read the book
[Red Death noises]
@The Phantom in The Basment what the heck..
no one:
absolutely no one:
seriously not one chorus girl, stage manager or opera diva:
joseph buquet: like yellow pARCHMENT is his S K I N
surprisingly enough...the only time the phantoms book appearence is ever mentioned
Finally the phantom comment I was looking for!
And this is why he's dead
@@indie267 oh, hello
*Erik mulhiem has entered the chat*
ExcUSE YOU BLOOD IN THE WATER IS SUCH A FUN SONG RUUUDE
blood in the water is okay, it’s just that callaghan is in it and everyone hates him.
I hate that song too
@@bananakid2850 He's the villain, you're SUPPOSED to hate him
If you hate them, he’s doing his job 😌
My opinion:
-Dust and ashes from the great comet emotionally drains me every time
-blood in the water from legally blonde is funny but one of the more meh songs from the show (glad you agree)
-mooning from grease is pointless except to set up a romantic interest between Jan and t-bird who’s name I don’t remember
-blow us all away from Hamilton destroys me and fills me with anxiety because I know what’s coming at the end
-step one from kinky boots is vocally good and sets up Lola’s influence on the brand later but the lack of billy porter just makes me uninterested
I had to reply only because my favorite song is actually blood in the water (most likely because I'm in love with Micheal Rupert's voice) but the song I always skip from legally blonde is Ireland and I have no idea why
misfit admittedly I skip Ireland too but I still kind of love the song because it just feels random for Paula’s character but also is kinda funny
1 2 3 4 5 6 7-
ms.marvelous 815 step one is my favorite song from kinky boots.........
@ms.marvelous 815
Jan’s love interest was Putzie.
THE LAST TIME I WAS THIS EARLY , SIX (the musical ) DIDNT EXISIST
Edit: WoW ThAnKs FoR ThE LikEs
Sherbet Bear wow girl. YOUR EARLY NOW. I’m super late 😂
@@lavender70113UwU this is the first time im early
Sherbet Bear I’m never early 😂 Good job!
@@lavender70113 UwU Thanks
Last time I was this early Peggy was still relevant
I usually skip "Magical Lasso", too, and as I was thinking about that, it hit me: The lyrics describe Erik, the Phantom, with the corpse-like appearance he has in the original book, but the stage show used a different design. How messed up is that? It's like, "Sure, we'll throw the source material a bone by referencing it in the lyrics, but we'll go with a half-faced deformity so the Phantom isn't TOO ugly."
Now, presumably, they went with a less extreme makeup design because Hal Prince thought a full-faced one, including its mask, would be too hard to act behind. But personally, I think there was more to it than that.
There is, sadly, a long history of book characters who are disabled or deformed having their conditions and/or appearances watered down for stage or film adaptations. It's a trend that I call "making a character grotesquely sexy", keeping them disabled/disfigured while also making them JUST conventionally attractive enough so audience members will still swoon over them. And, as a performer and playwright who is disabled myself (visually impaired), I find this trend really disheartening and insulting, not just to the people the characters are supposedly representing, but to audiences as well, as if the only way viewers would care about their fellow humans is if they're somewhat pretty/handsome to look at. It's a topic those of us who are in or appreciate theater should be discussing a lot more, I think.
Alicia Nyblade the song that describes ALW DIDNT read the book :D
(It’s a joke, I do t wish to offend ALW In any way)
@ThatGreenDayFreak I mean, Christine grows to fear Erik for good reason. It isn't that she's bothered by his face, it's that he slowly reveals himself to be a deeply disturbed man who sees her as his salvation, to the point where he disregards her feelings and wants and is willing to blackmail, manipulate, and murder to have her all to himself. For all of Erik's talk of, "The world objectified me and made me into a monster!", he does the exact same thing to Christine, turning her into an object, an angelic servant meant only for him rather than her own person.
And that's why, as much as I love the ALW musical, I don't like how it transformed the story from a Gothic mystery to a melodramatic love triangle tale. As much as we may empathize with Erik and pity him, he's not a dashing, darkly seductive figure. He's an abuse victim who, like many, uses his past as an excuse to inflict abuse on others. For me, "Phantom" is a cautionary tale about what can happen when an innocent child, Erik, grows up to believe he has no other choice but to become the villain he's perceived to be. In that sense, he reminds me more of, say, Frankenstein's Creature rather than the "sexy bad boy with a mask" the musical presents him as.
I skip the rap battles on Hamilton a lot, like they're fun and funny on stage, but in my house I mostly just want to belt along to Burn and Satisfied
same, just add stay alive reprise, the world was wide enough, it's quiet uptown and wlwdwtys. don't get me wrong, they're masterpieces, I just get to emotional to listen to the depressing ones in public lol
I gotta disagree, i love the rap battles
I love the rap battles (especially cabinet battle 1) but I have to agree about just wanting to belt Burn and Satisfied😁 (too bad I can't sing)
Goremaid the Aaron Burr songs are the ones I don’t skip uwu
I’d have to say the opposite
I enjoy chewing on a brown paper sack while listening to "Something Bad" .
"I tend to skip songs that are mostly interstitial dialogue" I get the idea you would be very frustrated by Fun Home's soundtrack
i've never liked fun homes soundtrack very much tbh, it's mostly dialogue and what isn't dialogue is repeated over and over til i just want the song to be done
@@Foxwish3221 I love it, I just have to skip half of it haha
ngl i am too but come to the fun home is a TUNE and no one can deny that. also changing my major is iconic
@@shylahjones950 Especially The Duel XD
@@shylahjones950 no but Great Comet is actually SUNG through (and some of the best music I've ever heard) - except for the one emotional moment at the end where the music stops. I often skip songs like And Then There Were None, because as fantastic as it is I can't deal with that much dialogue interrupting the flow of the music listening
I always skip “Take it from an old man” when I listen to waitress
sameeeeeer
Broken heart 💔 that one is one of my very favorites. It reminds me of dancing with my grandpa.
I always skip the breaking in the glove song from Dear Evan Hansen. Listened to it once the first time I went through the cast album and that was enough. lol
It's a super duper cute song, but I mean yeah same. It's not the type of song to jam to. At least not by my definition.
it’s really good when you’re seeing it acted out, but a little boring while listening to it
I AGREE I DONT LIKE IT
airbear320 i thought it was boring in person too
Me, after seeing the title of this video:
“Please let her include that terrible clambake song from Carousel.” 🤮
Thank you!
I was my town's performance of 'Carousel' and I take your dislike of "It's Been a Real Nice Clambake" and raise it a million for one reason. Waltzing. Yep, for some bizzare reason our choreographer decided that we needed to have waltzing couples during the song. I was one of the people chosen to be one of the ones waltzing.
Had to do something to work off those clams! And to wake up after the break....
In the production I did we got to all lie down leaning against each other on the stage haha
I am really shocked to see that so many people skip Kindergarten Boyfriend, for me it always was one of the strongest numbers in Heathers.
Vanguard255 I agree completely tbqh
For me, it fits strangely especially since a few minutes ago you heard Lifeboat. While live it is emotional and passionate and reflective and sad. When you’re just blazing through an album it makes sense to skip cuz you want to get back to the story.
Yes.
I love it
Vanguard255 it is but low key makes me sad
“Clambake” made it into Carousel only because Sondheim wasn’t yet ready to contribute “A Little Priest”.
Gerald Seixas I actually like that Sweeney ends on such a weird note. Writers seem to have this unwritten rule that the act 1 finale is the highest point of emotional intensity in the show so it has to be this grand sweeping number that leaves the audience spellbound. But it’s old hat. Not bad, just formulaic. So I like act 1 finales that take chances like Sweeney or Next to Normal.
"That was a real nice clambake. What was in it?"
I really thought the first one would be "To Break In A Glove" lmao
That’s the one I always skip lol. DEH is my favorite musical but that one just...idek
For me I don't mind something bad (even though I usually still skip it) but I will ALWAYS skip sentimental man.
sidenote: conspiracy theory Katherine Steele is actually Bruser Woods
maggie anne SAMMEEE I skip sentimental man but I also don’t like something bad....
@@AW-tv6nq I always skip Something Bad and March of the Witch Hunters
I've never listened to Carousel at all, but when you said the song title I LOST IT.
"Take it from an old man" from "Waitress" whenever I hear the first 3 seconds I'm like "nope, not going to happen" and immediately change the song
Same lol
For me it’s “you will still be mine” it’s just an awkward song (on purpose) but listening to it out of context just isn’t enjoyable
I skip contraction ballet
Cami Balk contraction ballet just makes me uncomfortable
anna it's just breathing lol
I just did Beauty and the Beast at my school, and Kath's description of a "kid's community theater production" described our casting of Maurice perfectly (For reference, he was an 8th grader, Belle was a senior/12th grader. The school is 6-12).
I don’t remember the name of it, but there was one song in “Newsies” where, after hearing it, I just *KNEW* something was gonna happen to Crutchie. And what happened? Something happened to Crutchie.
My skippable song from Newsies is "That's Rich" if I recall right, the boring "ha ha I'm an old man and I'm tbe bad guy" song lol. Edit: I'm wrong, was thinking of "The Bottom Line" haha
I almost always skip kindergarten boyfriend just because it’s SO BORING compared to the rest of heathers.
Em H i love the song? I live her vocal cords
yes so it’s not just me
Miyori GachaStudio her perspective just seems so insignificant compared to the plot; like there’s MURDER and then we just have elementary angst
Agreed. I’m obsessed with Meant to Be Yours,Candy Store,Big Fun :>
me: *listens to beetlejuice soundtracks*
katherine: *posts*
me: i’m ready for the ranting!
My new obesstion!!
"Bettlejuice is sexy"
😂😂
the 2 songs i usually skip over are ready set reprise and no reason. because i just love the transition from invisible to say my name!!
exelent _ elefent yESS BeEtALJOICE
i always skip ready set not yet bc it’s so boring and to me it sounds like Barbara and Adam r like “hey let’s sing!” and the beginning but then halfway through they’re like “nope let’s not” and idk y i think of it that way but i just hate that song😂
Who’s house is this- mean girls
Blue- heathers
Sentimental man- wicked
Blood in the water- legally blonde
Break in a glove- DEH
House of Holbein- SIX
Take it from an old man- waitress
Yes
Other than house of holbien yes
I just skip Blue bc I don’t want my family to hear me listening to a song abt balls🤣
Yes blue very awkward
when you’re just listening to the soundtrack, Break in a Glove, sounds really unnecessary. but when you see the show it’s a kinda powerful moment😂
I'm ready for the rants...
@@lilydavis8209 I saw the video posted when it was 15 seconds old. Just happened to be refreshing my subs page. 😂😂😂
"Your Eyes" from Rent. I've been a Renthead for almost 25 years and I can count the number of times I've heard that song on two hands (and given that I've seen the show four times...).
Its honestly so embarrassing that the big song Roger has been working on for the whole damn show is like...the worst song in the musical. I love Rent, but that song is an easy skip, eveeeery time.
@@sandracaraballo9830 It killed me, especially compared to how GOOD I find "One Song" to be.
Yesss this is the worst song in the musical and it’s so crazy because One Song Glory is one of the best and it’s all about how Roger needs to write this amazing song before he dies and the result is just awful
i skip every song that pertains to the weird "Chinese white-slavery ring" b-plot in thoroughly modern millie lol
Lol, agreed. It’s still my favorite show. TMM, is drastically underrated and I wish it was as popular as some of the more recent musicals.
TMM is a fantastic classic show but gosh am I uncomfortable with the white slavery songs.... tho "they dont know" is fantastic
Your actual Mother My school was gonna do TMM in 6th grade but they didn’t, because “itS RaciSt”
@@everythingz888 ...I mean it is. Like I've seen it, I have some of the songs on heavy rotation, I don't think we should forget it's existence, but maybe it's the wrong thing having children play it.
Blasphemy!! Muqin is the best song ever because when the Chinese boys start singing "mammy" in English, the subtitles on the screen are in Chinese LOL
Yes! I love Dear Evan Hansen but like... I don’t LOVE the finale which is weird I know
It's underwhelming
I always skip to break in a glove tbh
@@claudiastutzman6453 I like a fair few DEH songs, and I adore Ben Platt but I can't say I really like the musical. It just feels like half the plot is missing for me?
i'm auditioning to be a stepsister next week and i'm so so so nervous, please pray for me
Josie Faith good luck!
Maddie xx thank you!!
update: i didn't get the part... but i am still really excited to be in the show because they cut about 100 people and they still saw talent in me so i'm happy with what i got 😉
Josie Faith well done for getting in
legally blonde- whipped into shape; GIVES ME MAJOR PTSD FROM MY JR YEAR PERFORMANCE WITH THOSE JUMP ROPES AND SINGING
I was a senior and was in the same scene and played Chutney using my real hair. I hated the two-show day.
6:05 that is the most accurate description of a minor character in a high school play I’ve ever heard
Heyyy where are my fellow mental breakdowns🙋🏼♀️😂
heyo! 🙋🏼♀️
Legit just had one today haha
Here! Had one 5 seconds again
Katherine Steele I love u kat😭💕
The “movie” songs from Grease always sound out of place to me in productions. Yes, they are iconic, and are widely considered “better” than the songs they replace. But it’s really obvious they were written in the 70s not by the original team, Hopelessly devoted and the title song in particular. The songs in the original score actually sound like grungy late 50s early 60s rock and share motifs throughout
Finally, someone says it! I don't care what anyone says, alone at the drive in is WAY better than sandy
@@cobaltobject1855 "Sandy" is a dog of a song, and far inferior to "Alone At the Drive-In Movie". Allegedly "Drive-In" was cut because Travolta wasn't able to pull off a decent vocal for it, so they had a new song written that wasn't so hard to sing.
I haven’t watched you video yet but I know it’s going to be great because all of what you post is great and I love you and your work!!! ❤️
QOTD: It’s not necessarily a song I skip but am like always just like oh this song is “It’s Gonna Be Good” from Next to Normal because of the change in type of song and change from Diana’s “I Miss the Mountains” to Dan’s much peppier song even though that is what it intends to do.
Same. It’s a bop, but like.. it doesn’t fit lol
It fits in the context and is meant to be very optimistic in contrast but just sounds weird listening only to the album
Wyatt Michaels exactly!
The tonal shift thing is so true! I mean, I’ve never watched or listened to the Hunchback of Notre Dame live, but in the movie soundtrack, “A Guy Like You” is a total departure and I honestly forget that it exists when I’m thinking of that movie because it’s just so bizarrely out of left field.
It's a mood shift and it doesn't belong but hot take: that's ironically why I like it. It's a funny song in a tragic, dark Disney movie. And the song is very catchy.
I always skip “Club knocked up” from Waitress.... it’s just kinda meh.
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When she added blood in the water from legally blonde I was like ouch I love that song 🤭 but no lie every theatre kid has that one song they just skip lol
I feel like Starkid shows are the ONLY times where I don’t skip a song, they’re just all _bops_
i was in carousel 3 years ago, and ‘this was a real nice clambake’ was the most dreaded song of the show. the assistant director also had the nerve to ask us what we FEEL while singing that song. we had to restart many times because we weren’t fully invested in the clambake.
Why am I the only one that likes who’s house is this 🥺
I loveloveLOVE who s house is this
yes
I don’t like it. It’s literally just a mean girls big fun
SlipperyCats i guess I kinda get it
I LOVE IT! Let Kevin G shine, plz&thnx.
Skipping magical lasso is a mood
I always skip over The Acrobat Stories in Matilda, like they’re low key boring ngl
Also totally agree with the Phantom one, It’s also a number I wanna skip in the musical lmao
I was in a production of Matilda (I was a doctor at the start and a school child) and I always found that bit of the show really boring...
Oh rants...
MY FAVORITE TYPE OF VIDEO!!!
Magical lasso is the song I skip without hesitation and without remorse
Nah you ain’t crazy because when I listened to The full album of Newsies I never listened to The bottom line Reprise or That’s rich idk why I mean they are good songs I just don’t like them as much I don’t skip it that much anymore but i used to all the time
Don’t hate me please
Btw I wanted to say that in like two hours I have an audition for Alice in Wonderland I’m auditioning for Alice any tips?
I like That's Rich but I don't really like The Bottom Line Reprise, agree lol
Same with that’s rich I also end up skipping something to believe in and I never planned on you. I think I just don’t really need the romantic storyline in it. I just want to get back to these poor children fighting to get paid XD
Lps Sugar Rose I feel like it’s such a different mood from the bottom line like the Bottom Lines entrance is like sorta happyish and then the bottom line reprise entrance sounds like a sound effect in a horror movie or idk
YES YES YES THE BOTTOM LINE. I love that's rich tho
Same!!!
"Diamond in the Rough" - Aladdin
"Hurricane" - Hamilton
"Christmas Bells" - Rent
"To Break in a Glove" - Dear Evan Hansen
"Whose House Is This?" - Mean Girls
"March of the Witch Hunters" - Wicked
Steven Shaw what I love hurricane
Noooooo why
I like who’s house is this but I really do not like the stars song lol
@@katie9985 I See Stars is a bop bro
@@shaylalynn2030 It's just boring to me. Especially compared to a lot of other Hamilton songs.
YES HURRICANE! I skip that every time I honestly thought it was just me
I basically always skip kindergarten boyfriend from heathers
Gigi Katz and we can’t forget about blue... 😳😂
Everyone does I feel like 😂😂 bruh that song is so just no
Yo same
That beautiful sound from Beetlejuice musical adaptation.
I like it but at sometimes I just skip it when I am alone. Also sometimes creepy old guy.
I usually skip That Beautiful Sound because of all the dialogue and how it drags on forever
Some songs like this for me include:
-Growltigers last stand from Cats
-Once in a while from Rocky Horror
Both of these songs absolutely halt the show in its tracks, and are just not my cup of tea
Ya Boi Ayden YOU SKIP ONCE IN A WHILE
Kate! Yea, I think my problem is that it was deleted from the movie, and since the movie is how I first experienced Rocky, I’ve just never been able to sit through that song. It’s a good song, just not for me
Ya Boi Ayden oh my god i absolutely cannot listen to Growltiger’s Last Stand or Gus the Theatre Cat i always skip them
Ya Boi Ayden oh my god i absolutely cannot listen to Growltiger’s Last Stand or Gus the Theatre Cat i always skip them
oh my god i absolutely cannot listen to Growltiger’s Last Stand or Gus the Theatre Cat i always skip them
When you brought up That Was a Real Nice Clambake, I giggled so aggressively? lol
Let's be honest, songs like Something Bad work incredibly in the context of the musical, but really don't need to be on the album...
Tied up my heart in Tgwdlm
Same oh my gosh! Also Let Him Come for me, it's just too short (Also Inevitable sometimes, I just have to be in the mood)
BUT I ADORE CUP OF ROASTED COFFEE AND JOIN US (AND DIE) SO MUCH OK
YES ANOTHER TGWDLM FAN
OMG!!! I love that one but I absolutely HATE Not Your Seed, which is annoying because it’s the one that’s stuck in my head all the time
Wtf thats the best song
Oh my god yes, I always skip because I just don’t like the energy in that song it feels off to me, sometimes I skip inevitable but not always
“Something Bad” is literally the song I thought of when I saw this video. And “Sentimental Man”.
Ya know what’s a really great act 2 opening song? Falsettoland/About Time. It’s from falsettos and it does the whole here’s a recap and all the people are here, and ooh look here’s some new characters whoohoo, welcome back to our show let’s tell this story and make u both laugh and cry thing very very well.
Would recommend
I constantly skip “You Love Who You Love” from Bonnie and Clyde. Don’t get me wrong, I love the musical and I don’t mind the song, but for some reason I never want to listen to it and I can’t explain why?
Emily Ann omg no way! That’s actually one of my faves 😂
But we can all agree, This World Will Remember Me/Us are the best songs
I never can get to the end of your videos, so I understand this. Many of the skip songs in older musicals are just there for costume or set changes.
How do you feel about “break in the glove” from dear Evan Hasen because seriously no one needs that song
It’s not the best song, but it does have some p great symbolism and shows that Connors dad did what he could to help him.
@@thethinkingpug1566 I partially agree and I love the idea behind the symbolism but the execution feels really forced tbh
Hazel Daniels, I read the DEH book and the “to break in a glove” part was great. I highly recommend it if you haven’t read it already. It’s nice to get an inside look at the characters though process (There are some Connor Murphy POV chapters).
@@thethinkingpug1566 ooo that's interesting, I'll try to read it when I have the chance
aww i love to break in a glove 🥺
NOT crazy Kat. We all have those songs we skip over but we also know we should listen to but we just aren't feeling them... like ever...
Completely accurate.
Good video and channel. I used to hate musicals, but the new cats movie got me to research the old cats play. Now I am becoming interested in musical theatre as a whole.
Nobody needs to know from the last five years. I can’t listen to it without shriveling up and screaming at Jamie for being such a jerk. It’s too much emotion for me to handle in my daily musical bops