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| “Monster” is surely the least interesting number ever added for a major character. | |
| Last Edit: Delvino 12:46 am EDT 05/15/18 | |
| Posted by: Delvino 12:43 am EDT 05/15/18 | |
| In reply to: How can the writing on FROZEN be this bad?!? - GrumpyMorningBoy 08:37 pm EDT 05/14/18 | |
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| I’ve posted about my numbed reaction to this song but I can’t get past how uninteresting it is. The bald literalness of its lyric, so on the nose the nose is smashed flat - and Idol-y swoop in the pop melody are startling. Imagine providing Elsa with another color in the second act instead of trying to shatter the ceiling. Imaging if she sang something quieter and ruminative after living alone. It adds no depth or emotional texture. It’s a big loud overstatement of what the audience knows. | |
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| re: “Monster” is surely the least interesting number ever added for a major character. | |
| Posted by: GrumpyMorningBoy 10:46 am EDT 05/15/18 | |
| In reply to: “Monster” is surely the least interesting number ever added for a major character. - Delvino 12:43 am EDT 05/15/18 | |
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| You're totally right, Delvino. To make Elsa temporarily what, suicidal? -- it defies all reason. Hooray for anyone who decides to write a song in seven, but it feels gimmicky here. - GMB |
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| Question for GMB | |
| Posted by: allineedisthegirl 11:57 am EDT 05/16/18 | |
| In reply to: re: “Monster” is surely the least interesting number ever added for a major character. - GrumpyMorningBoy 10:46 am EDT 05/15/18 | |
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| I don't know what it means "to write a song in seven." You mean seven beats to the measure? I haven't heard the score. Thanks. db |
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| What a song "in seven" means | |
| Last Edit: GrumpyMorningBoy 04:54 pm EDT 05/16/18 | |
| Posted by: GrumpyMorningBoy 04:52 pm EDT 05/16/18 | |
| In reply to: Question for GMB - allineedisthegirl 11:57 am EDT 05/16/18 | |
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| Yes, essentially. If you're familiar with the term time signature, we would say that music is "in seven" if the time signature has 7 beats per measure. Most often, it's notated as 7/8, so there are seven beats per measure and an eighth note gets one beat. Technically, it's called septuple time. Within musical theater, Andrew Llloyd Webber is probably most famous for writing songs in seven within his musicals; nearly every show has one. "And the Money Kept Rolling In (and Out)" from EVITA is an easy example. - GMB |
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| Link | Youtube | "Monster" from the Broadway production of FROZEN |
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