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re: Something ''Wicked'' this way, reviewed

Posted by:	Chromolume 11:26 am EDT 03/31/14
In reply to:	Something ''Wicked'' this way, reviewed - WaymanWong 10:46 am EDT 03/31/14

"The show's 22 songs were written by Stephen Schwartz, and not one of them is memorable." (Gee, "Popular" and "Defying Gravity" sound memorable to me.) Which again defends the sensible point of view that very few new songs are instantly memorable - aside from jingles and the hook in a pop song, which are really designed to be "earworms." (Though I would argue that the "hooks" involving the titles of both songs you mentioned are, pretty much, instantly memorable). It takes a few hearings of almost anything to really start taking it in. I think "memorable" has become a friendly euphemism for "derivative" - in other words, something isn't "memorable" if it doesn't already sound like a song you've heard before. Which is why, unfortunately, jukebox shows are going to be around for a good long time, I fear - no chance of an "unmemorable" score when you can go in "humming the tunes" before you even buy the tickets. :-(

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