| re: But "Doorway To Where" isn't a nonsensical **title**. (And btw "Shipoopi" does not have a nonsensical lyric.) | |
| Posted by: keikekaze 08:46 pm EDT 05/11/23 | |
| In reply to: yeah but DO a lot of songs in musicals have "nonsensical titles" like Doorway to Where? - Chazwaza 01:20 pm EDT 05/11/23 | |
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| I don't know anything about the lyrics of "Doorway To Where" (I don't watch TV), but there's nothing nonsensical about the title. It's no more nonsensical than "Dancing On the Ceiling," "Paper Moon," "Orange-Colored Sky," "I've Got the World On a String," "Younger Than Springtime," and hundreds and hundreds of other Broadway and pop songs. Those titles are metaphorical, not nonsensical, and to my way of thinking any good song lyric should be at least a bit on the metaphorical side. What it should not be is straightforward, everyday prose that just happens to be sitting on notes. As to "Shipoopi," which is brought up by others and discussed at some length below, there's nothing nonsensical about the lyric: It makes perfect sense in its context. One may or may not agree with the deliberately archaic sentiments being expressed (deliberately, and they were archaic in 1957 too), but that doesn't make it nonsense. |
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