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That inane title song is soooo cruddy

posted 14 years ago by onepotato2
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I enjoy this movie a lot. But I'm watching the dvd from Netflix right now. That infernally stupid title song is under the DVD menu... it's under the credits... Agnes sings it at 3 minute mark, then grandpa!... it's sung by the other two girls in the first 15 minutes. I want to take a razor and slice off my ears.
This is an utterly tuneless piece of garbage!

How did MGM (whose quality is generally pretty high) allow this cruddy, irritating song to stay in the picture?

[–] johnsokw 7 years ago

utterly tuneless? Huh? Has the word tune changed too the way so many words have been mis used? (I'm thinking of outrage which has nothing to do with rage since -age is a suffix as in garage or barrage, or podium which is in truth the platform on which speakers stand.) Tuneless would apply rather to rap or some hip hop which is so percussive, often without time signatures nor key.
Little Drummer Boy and Bye Bye Miss American Pie fill me with dread just as all Beyoncé, but I guess if others enjoy I wouldn't expunge them from the repertoire.