To not understand what kind of person hates musicals

[CrotchBurn]

Love them. Love all musicals. I just don't understand how you can have people who like stories, and who like music, and they have this hatred of musicals.

There's also so many different types of musicals from Cabaret to Blood Brothers to Cats to Sound of Music, how could you dislike them ALL?

Is it about the singing preventing you from engaging with the story? Because it feels artificial? But surely all films and plays feel artificial? I just think there's no better way of getting huge amounts of info across quickly than in musicals. This scene from Les Mis for example, in one song you understand the conflict, both characters' motives and back stories.

Also isnt there a bit of snobbery here - theres no difference between opera and musicals except musicals are more fun.

Clearly I meant abusive.

Why do you feel the need to stick the knife in?

@Brumplescruff

Why didn’t she put it in chat or music? Or put lighthearted in the title?

I took the question at face value. But then. I do that. In real life too.

Put lighthearted in the title of a thread about musicals, which the title already makes clear is about musicals?

I quite like some old Hollywood musicals, Top Hat etc, but generally I find them a bit shite. (Notable exceptions include West Side Story, which is fantastic imo, and Porgy & Bess).

I have a particular loathing of anything emanating from that Lloyd Webber creature, and once dumped a boyfriend who told me he was taking me to the theatre and took me to see Cats. It was the worst hour or so of my life (I pleaded headache and we left at the interval) and I was bitterly disappointed as I'd been hoping for something at the National or the Old Vic.

But I've enjoyed all the operas I've ever seen. I've been trying to work out what the difference is, and I think it's because the music is paramount in opera, whereas in musicals it often seems like a mediocre afterthought in a pretty shite play.

I like ballet and contemporary dance too.

I absolutely loathe them. Hate the songs themselves, hate the delay in telling the story while the songs are going on. In my innocence I didn't know Moulin Rouge was a musical and had to walk out when the singing started....

Musicals are in my blood. I saw my first musical in 1984, an off-Broadway production of Little Shop of Horrors, and I was hooked. My mother played piano and bought a music book of show tunes. She would call out from the living room, “I’m taking requests!” 😁

I grew up around musicals and lots of different types of music. I enjoyed them in my younger years as a kind of entry level music and still have occasional nostalgia for some, although I universally detest all the offerings of Andrew Lloyd Webber -something about the musical composition I find very formulaic. As an adult I have expanded my interest in opera, choral works etc and I find those avenues more rewarding. I still hold a love of the Sondheim back catalogue and was so lucky to see the recent UK revival of Follies twice. But I tried with the Netflix version of Hamilton recently out of curiosity and had to stop watching as it was not my thing at all. No thanks.
Each to their own -some hate musicals some love them and some like me ultimately grow out of them and onto other musical interests,

@CrotchBurn there's nothing casual about your thread! You sound v intense. People are different.

There is nothing worse than telling someone you don't like something and that person going on about how you'd like it if you tried X or Y.

I'm very "meh" about musicals. Saw the Lion King this time last year and loved it but that was more about the spectacle of the whole thing and when you've got people pretending to be lions and other animals it's not so hard to suspend belief when they burst into song too.

The VERY worst I ever saw was about Buddy Holly, the acting was dire, the plot was thin, and at the end the cast commanded everyone to get up and dance and show what a super time they were having. Just NO.

Put lighthearted in the title of a thread about musicals, which the title already makes clear is about musicals?

Yes because look at the title. It’s not a thread about musicals. It is a thread about what sort of people don’t like musicals.

[quote Palavah]@CrotchBurn there's nothing casual about your thread! You sound v intense. People are different.

There is nothing worse than telling someone you don't like something and that person going on about how you'd like it if you tried X or Y.[/quote]
This.

It’s horrible. I don’t like musicals. I will never like musicals. Telling me to try this one or that one just spikes my anxiety and makes me upset even more.

When someone tells you something, believe them. If they say I don’t like them they make me feel sick and upset. Stop there. Don’t go “relax by listening to xyz musical”

"because in real life no one stops what they are doing & sings a loud song"

Speak for yourself 😂🤣

[quote LadyPenelope68]@CrotchBurn
Brumplescruff I think you are taking this thread massively to heart for some reason. Relax. Maybe with a good musical?
What a nasty response [/quote]
Oh give over. It was a joke. She wasn’t to know there was another issue in play. 😡

Blimey

This has turned into a RL

....Little shop, little shop of horrors

I grew up watching things like South Pacific and Oklahoma, and West side story is one of my favourite films . I loved the romance of people bursting into song in the street and wished real life was like that !

I also used to enjoy going to contemporary musicals in the 80's/90's. Haven't for many years now though although would happily watch any musical film on TV.

I can totally get why others wouldn't like musicals though .

@Brumplescruff

Put lighthearted in the title of a thread about musicals, which the title already makes clear is about musicals?

Yes because look at the title. It’s not a thread about musicals. It is a thread about what sort of people don’t like musicals.

With respect, this thread seems to be upsetting you and yet you’re still reading and commenting. I believe it was meant to be lighthearted in a “What sort of person doesn’t like Maltesers?” sort of way.

They're so cheesy!They make me cringe!

I don't like musicals, just find it distracting from the plot when they start singing and the songs are usually rubbish/corny!
Saying that I don't enjoy live bands/singing either! Just find it really dull 🤷‍♀️

People are surely not being serious about having a trigger warning on this thread? Surely to god?

I get that Brumplescruff has been upset but it literally says it’s about musicals in the title!
Do we need trigger warnings on threads about dogs? Beaches? Christmas trees etc? Everything can be “triggering” to someone

With good actors it's just not true all films feel artificial. Throw in someone bursting into a clearly studio recorded, mixed and edited song and yeah, it does feel artificial.

@Brumplescruff

This thread isn't about you.

This thread has taken a bit of a turn!

Anyway op if you're still there I love musicals but I get why people don't. I have what I think is the same reaction to talent shows and karaoke. I feel so embarrassed for whoever is performing. Really makes me cringe.

In answer to the OP ..... you probably are being unreasonable not to understand that people have different tastes ....... since that's what you ask ....

But I'm not sure this thread needed to turn so weird ....

I get that Brumplescruff has been upset but it literally says it’s about musicals in the title!
Do we need trigger warnings on threads about dogs? Beaches? Christmas trees etc? Everything can be “triggering” to someone

Yes, apparently we do, because Brumplescruff identified this thread as very upsetting and said she would hide it, and then continued to hang around reading and replying to comments and making herself more upset.

South Pacific is one of my favourite musicals...

Happy happy happy talk!!!! 🎶🎶Talk about things you like to do🎶🎶

Love it❣️❤️👌

I find some musicas cringey in the suddenly bursting onto song, but I do like plenty of them and love all sung through musicals, which are just like modern opera: Les Mis, Miss Saigon, JCS, Evita etc.

How could anyone hate Blood Brothers?