| re: SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD: the new recording with the City Center cast is incredible. | |
| Last Edit: Chromolume 12:12 am EST 01/28/19 | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 12:12 am EST 01/28/19 | |
| In reply to: re: SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD: the new recording with the City Center cast is incredible. - ilw 10:25 pm EST 01/27/19 | |
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| I can certainly go with what you said, but I still find many of the songs to be way too self-pitying to me - or preachy (I've never ever heard a performance of "If I Didn't Believe In You" that didn't make me feel lectured at, for instance. Same with "She Cries" from New World - which to me is perhaps the most misogynistic song he's ever written, along with the endlessly-banging "I can write a way cool vamp" piano part, lol). I tend to think that if JRB had waited until now, perhaps, to write L5Y, with more life experience behind him and more distance from that specific relationship, he might have come up with something more intriguing and mature, instead of what I feel is often (pardon me) masturbatory. To me, it's what I tend to call a "therapy musical" - something I've seen a number of young composers try to do - take a subject way too emotionally close to themselves, and try to write their way out of their own personal pain. It may be good therapy for them, but it leaves me cold. (I had a college classmate write a musical about his parents' divorce and his father's mistress, for instance - it was absolutely excruciating even though the songs themselves were full of talent. Why we needed to see a musical about his childhood guilt and private family struggles was beyond me - it was nothing but embarrassing.) But again, who am I to complain when so many people seem to love L5Y, lol? I guess it's just that - to quote New World - that river won't flow for me...;-) |
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