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| re: K-ra-zy For You - throwaway | |
| Posted by: B_Rabbit 11:22 am EDT 07/07/17 | |
| In reply to: re: St Bridget - throwaway - Chromolume 05:30 pm EDT 07/06/17 | |
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| To me, it's particularly ironic that the song, K-ra-zy For You is completely misinterpreted in the musical known as Crazy For You. Ira Gershwin's lyric makes fun of slang, and how contemporary speakers seem to willfully mispronounce plain English. You've chosen a good way to type the title: The first word is supposed to be three syllables. Which is kind of funny. Except in Crazy For You it isn't and it isn't. Cray. | |
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| re: K-ra-zy For You - throwaway | |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 11:34 am EDT 07/07/17 | |
| In reply to: re: K-ra-zy For You - throwaway - B_Rabbit 11:22 am EDT 07/07/17 | |
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| I imagine that the bit of the song that's there was only included by the creative team because they wanted to use the title CRAZY FOR YOU for their show. They probably didn't care what the intent was, only that they could find a place to shoehorn in it. | |
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| re: K-ra-zy For You - throwaway | |
| Last Edit: Chromolume 12:40 pm EDT 07/07/17 | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 12:35 pm EDT 07/07/17 | |
| In reply to: re: K-ra-zy For You - throwaway - JereNYC 11:34 am EDT 07/07/17 | |
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| I imagine that the bit of the song that's there was only included by the creative team because they wanted to use the title CRAZY FOR YOU for their show. They probably didn't care what the intent was, only that they could find a place to shoehorn it in. I agree. (And B_Rabbit, just to make sure we're on the same page, the song as listed in the score is indeed printed as "K-ra-zy" - that wasn't my doing.) The other irony about the title is that Madonna's song with the same name as the show was a huge hit only a few years earlier. I know that you can't copyright titles, but when I first heard of the show as it was being developed, my mind went to that pop hit, not to anything by Gershwin, lol. (Similarly, when the show Never Gonna Dance came out, my instinct was to think of George Michael, not Kern.) ;-) |
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