| the "texting" lyric change shows a fundamental lack of understanding of text culture | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 11:34 am EST 02/18/19 | |
| In reply to: re: COMPANY (Mild Spoilers) - Chromolume 07:44 pm EST 02/17/19 | |
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| And I blame both Sondheim and Elliott for letting it go. If memory serves, he sang "text me in the morning or I'll call you to explain". If anything it SHOULD be the reverse - "call me in the morning or I'll text you to explain." Maybe better "and i'll" or even other variations like "call me if you want to but i'll text you to explain" or "look I'll text you in the morning if you need me to explain" ... there are many ways to go if you really want to try to rethink/update the song for current phone culture. The point is that no one today would rather call... the whole thing is to avoid speaking directly and in real time to the person. We youths joke about how calling someone is an act of social terrorism or assault. A young person today, and by young I mean under 35 or even 40, usually avoids direct calling whenever possible, especially if you're explaining why you didn't show up somewhere. And this is a theme/metaphor that works stunningly well for Company as it is written and conceived, it fits right in. So this was really sad to me that they missed this easy part of the update. Made it clear to me, among many other examples, that Ms. Elliott is not the person to be overseeing a modern update of Company. |
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