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

Posted by:	WaymanWong 12:45 am EDT 04/01/14
In reply to:	re: Something ''Wicked'' this way, reviewed - ryhog 12:04 pm EDT 03/31/14

Whether a tune is ''memorable'' or ''hummable'' will always be a subjective call. I personally find Kitt's tunes from ''Next to Normal'' AND ''If/Then'' more appealing than some of Green Day's stuff. Yet for all of Green Day's worldwide success selling millions of records and winning Grammy Awards, somehow that still didn't translate into a Broadway hit. When ''West Side Story'' opened, there were critics who called the score ''unhummable.'' As Sondheim has said, it took radio airplay from the soundtrack of ''West Side Story'' to turn those tunes into the mainstream songs they are. Just as John Lahr branded Schwartz's songs to ''Wicked'' unhummable, time has proven that some of them are wildly popular.

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

Posted by:	ryhog 01:38 am EDT 04/01/14
In reply to:	re: Something ''Wicked'' this way, reviewed - WaymanWong 12:45 am EDT 04/01/14

I don't think there is any air between your view and mine on this memorable/hummable nonsense (even if we don't agree about Kitt's own work vs the Green Day). It's pretty simple to me-people like what they like. No one is going to convince any of us to like music that doesn't speak to us personally, and that's not a bad thing.

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