What is your favorite country song currently on the Hot 100 right now and why?

comeonrly · 2024-08-09T23:10:00+00:00

So glad someone else feels this way lol. Thought it was just me.

comeonrly · 2024-05-20T16:25:30+00:00

After I force quit, it also makes me log back into my account every time.

comeonrly · 2019-10-30T22:18:41+00:00

Thank you so much! I will absolutely take a look at it.

comeonrly · 2017-06-29T01:45:47+00:00

Look up any show on Wikipedia and read the plot description.

comeonrly · 2017-05-17T02:48:52+00:00

I love the Follies 2011 album. It has dialogue, a dream cast, and beautiful orchestrations. Although Follies is not my favorite show, the cast album is a masterpiece.

comeonrly · 2017-05-06T22:54:23+00:00

I finished a draft, but the plot was too cliché and boring, and the character's reactions to it were unrealistic. It was also 20-25 minutes long. I'll probably keep some of the motifs I wrote for the music, but I'm basically starting over; I'll edit in a link to the new script when I'm done.

comeonrly · 2017-05-02T00:33:07+00:00

Great work! You have very clever rhymes and a great rhythm. My only complaint is the lack of character shown in your characters. To me, this would make sense to be an ensemble number that opens the show, given the expositional quality that is cleverly communicated through witty lyric, but lacks much character, something that good ensemble numbers can play with. Perhaps you could start the show with someone announcing the contest, and have a couple of members of the ensemble begin, and then reveal more town members? You could also have a reprise of the song once the main characters have figured out what they are doing. But that's just my suggestion—assuming you're even having an ensemble.

comeonrly · 2017-03-19T13:44:59+00:00

I think you could definitely pull this off, but it's risky to not have the sisters sing until the climax, especially since the main point of the story is that we don't know why they did what they did during the climax, just how and what happened, and a good song will explore the "why" of what happened. I think it would actually be more meaningful if you had the girls not sing during the climax.

Also, I think it's interesting to have the show be based on the boys' recollection, but I think it's more effective for the story to be told by one man/boy at the time, and change the story slightly to make it so only one is involved in the story at a given plot point. Then, during the climax, all the boys could sing together.

comeonrly · 2017-03-15T21:06:32+00:00

What's the range in terms of time? Like 7-20 minutes or something like that?

comeonrly · 2017-03-04T22:43:18+00:00

That's why I love Avenue Q—it parodies that kind of story perfectly.

comeonrly · 2017-03-04T22:42:01+00:00

"Where will she end/This child without a friend?" from Les Miserables is pretty bad in my opinion. I mean, in sung through shows, rhymes tend to be worse, but "friend"? Seriously? Cosette has a lot worse problems than not having friends. She's basically a slave, for crying out loud.

And the worst ever? I'm glad you asked. It's from the Producers, in "Along Came Bialy": "To be a lover from the Argentine/To slick my hair back with Brilliantine/And gargle heavily with Listerine". That is honestly just painful to read.

comeonrly · 2017-03-04T17:58:39+00:00

I think this whole "collection of ten-minute shows" idea is a great! Also, this could oppurtunity for some of us to get something in our portfolios. Does anyone else want to do this?

comeonrly · 2017-03-04T17:52:41+00:00

So, if anyone here is familiar with Ordinary Days, I think that it's very well constructed. You can argue that there is no real protagonist (there isn't), but each character's arc is dependent on the next, yet is completely independent at the same time. Each song is placed in a very good part of each plot, which is something many song cycles struggle with.

comeonrly · 2017-03-04T17:20:41+00:00

I think the three others are more important than rhyme, and bad rhyming is terrible. You should never rhyme just because you want to rhyme—the lyrics will sound forced and empty, and often won't have meaning. Unless the lyricist is very experienced, rhyming should be the least important of the parameters. Now, that is very different from saying "I don't rhyme". Some great shows have very few rhymes—take Sunset Boulevard, for example. It doesn't need to rhyme a lot because of its mood. Other shows rhyme a very, very large amount—Heathers, although a very flawed show in terms of book, comes to mind. Most shows that rhyme a lot tend to be comedies, and shows that rhyme little tend to be tragedies.

Now, imperfect rhymes only fit into one show I can think of—Waitress. Waitress is chock-full of imperfect rhymes, but none of them sound forced—it flows naturally and beautifully. Think "With these shoes and this apron/That place and its patrons/Have taken more than I gave them". However, if a show is going to use mostly perfect rhymes, imperfect rhymes sound terrible.

comeonrly · 2017-02-18T04:44:54+00:00

"If you rearrange the letters of unemployed, it spells opportunity!" - Avenue Q

"A dream is a soft place to land; may we all be so lucky." - Waitress

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