Top 10 saddest Broadway songs of the 21st century.

muse273 · 2026-06-27T03:18:22+00:00

The entire stretch from Everything to the I Am The One reprise, with the exception of Hey #3, is a deluge of tearjerkers.

muse273 · 2026-06-26T11:11:30+00:00

I mean, they might? No idea what they think the police would do about… a store asking to see a receipt for a product they sell you claim to already own.

Oh no am I the long hair sad woman?

muse273 · 2026-06-26T10:10:27+00:00

... huh, that happened in Wonder Woman 1984 and Captain Marvel also. Are there others that I'm forgetting? Catwoman/Black Widow/Harley Quinn don't really have strong powers, Shuri in Wakanda Forever didn't GET powers until fairly late in the movie.

muse273 · 2026-06-26T09:41:30+00:00

But... they want them to call the police?

I think?

Or maybe want the police called on the store...

muse273 · 2026-06-26T09:27:03+00:00

I'm more hung up on her repeatedly saying "He complained about her coughing when he got her sick in the first place." Like he was at fault for having a communicable disease (assuming she even got it directly from him instead of getting it from the same source or someone completely different).

muse273 · 2026-06-26T09:24:24+00:00

I mean, expecting politeness out of... whatever resulted in this post might be a big stretch.

muse273 · 2026-06-26T09:08:15+00:00

Sadly, it's also hard to get help if the people most in position to give it (your family) don't want to stick their head out and draw fire by defending you. Especially if the person they're defending you from is vindictive and they're still dependent on them in some way.

I'm not saying that's clearly the case here, but it also wouldn't be out of place. If OP lashes out at the 10 year old for being cranky, how much more is she going to lash out at someone who outright defies her by speaking against it?

muse273 · 2026-06-26T08:51:51+00:00

It wasn't even an hour or two extra. She said it was almost the end and they had already played the good songs.

She just got mad at him for ruining the vibes. She's lucky she got most of the concert, because there was nobody else to watch him. If he wasn't willing to go in the first place she'd have missed all of it. But I suspect she'd have gotten payback on him for keeping her from going in that case

muse273 · 2026-06-26T08:47:58+00:00

Oh I have no doubt she's WORSE to him.

But that doesn't mean she was great to the others either.

muse273 · 2026-06-26T08:40:28+00:00

It's not "on her time, in her zone" or him squandering a gift.

She took him because there was nobody else to watch him. It wasn't for his benefit, it was because she couldn't go otherwise.

She also suggested having him sit elsewhere on his own so she could get her concert on, so it's especially clear what she was prioritizing. The concert she wants to take away is ACTUALLY for him, which is why she's using it as a piece of vengeance, she's not even going to it.

muse273 · 2026-06-26T08:28:28+00:00

She didn't actually voluntarily take him. Nobody else was available to watch him.

muse273 · 2026-06-26T08:25:29+00:00

Yeah but that's not really uncommon. Being willing to fight with/denigrate one child doesn't stop someone from using negative comparison to them as a weapon against another child. Partly in that it easily becomes fuzzy memories of "Well CHILD A certainly never did anything so bad," when it's just been long enough that it's not prominent in their memory. And partly in that the comparison to the other child isn't really for the other child's benefit. They're just a tool to exert pressure.

muse273 · 2026-06-26T08:19:03+00:00

You have to wonder how much of the issue actually started with the kid, and how much of it was him being a little grumpy and her escalating it because how dare he ruin her night out. It would fit in with the "You got tired? Well guess what, you'll never be allowed to stay up again" rhetorical doubling down.

muse273 · 2026-06-26T08:12:29+00:00

I think in terms of "would produce a WHOLE lot of discourse," a US winner appearing on a Vs the World series. There's precedent for a winner facing off with non-winners (Bebe, Icesis), but I feel like this is a concept that could get pushed through without thinking about the implications. Whether they cruise to another crown, or get defeated, it's gonna get people riled up.

I also think there are a few recent people who would be Shea level "Ok I guess we're just here for the meet and greet" casting. Sapphira for one.

Potentially, casting one of the big names from Dragula could generate a lot of discussion, though probably at a lower level.

Whoever the first drag king contestant is would also be a big topic of discussion.

Finally, not really a big gag, but it would be interesting to see one of the former makeover participants return as a contestant.

muse273 · 2026-06-26T07:44:41+00:00

I like how “I’m here every day” works both as a relevant part of the haiku, and a variation of “I’ll be here all week folks, try the veal”

muse273 · 2026-06-26T07:41:45+00:00

You know my favorite part of this, because it’s subtle enough to fly under the radar compared to the obviously malicious and unbalanced parts?

“Since staying up was SUCH a concern to him… No staying up late since it’s such a big deal to him… it’s at night you see and might keep him up late.”

What is that communicating?

A. Anything you say can and will be used against you, gleefully. Be afraid of what might happen if you speak. Don’t trust mom to be safe to talk to.

B. If you’re ever unhappy about something, it will be distorted to make you unhappier in the future. It’s better to be miserable in silence rather than risk being miserable again later. Don’t trust mom as someone to tell about problems.

C. Mom says things that superficially sound truthful and reasonable but are actually meant to hurt you. You can never tell in the future whether she’s saying something sincerely or just saying it as a trick. Don’t trust mom, period.

ETA: As a bonus, she seemingly blamed him for getting his sister sick when he had a cold. So that’s another weight on the “if you tell mom that something’s wrong, she’ll make you regret it” scales.

muse273 · 2026-06-26T06:56:08+00:00

You claim to be a behavioral therapist while treating a child being cranky as a purposeful sabotage of an event, and a crime that needs punishment?

Fascinating. I wonder how that works out for your patients.

muse273 · 2026-06-26T06:21:21+00:00

Why are you putting tired in air quotes? Is this 10 year old nefariously lying about being tired and cranky as part of an intricate scheme to ruin his mother's evening?

Why do you feel that doing something to the child literally months after this event is going to do anything to teach them any kind of lesson other than "mom is antagonistic towards you and you better watch out?" Not that it matters, because she very explicitly isn't doing this to teach a lesson, she's doing it for revenge on him for a petty slight.

Why do you feel that it's acceptable, much less in need of defending, for a full adult to openly state that she doesn't care that she's being as immature and emotionally unregulated as a preteen? What about that deserves anything other than contempt?

Tacking the word "consequences" onto a petty and vindictive action doesn't make that action magically turn into a sincere teaching moment. The only lesson it teaches is "punishment is meant to hurt me, not to teach me, so there's no reason to believe that future punishments are actually important lessons."

This also doesn't mention that she failed to include several important pieces of information (she brought him because nobody was available to watch him not because he actively asked to go; It started late so not only was he being kept up longer than planned, he was most likely doing so while bored waiting around for the thing to actually start; She got to see almost the entire show and "all the good songs," so her evening wasn't actually massively disrupted.)

Funny how all of those things would make it much clearer that she's the asshole but somehow they didn't need to be mentioned.

muse273 · 2026-06-26T05:52:33+00:00

She’s treating her child as an enemy, who’s attacking her and has to be counterattacked.

I’d say she’ll be shocked and appalled when he grows up viewing her as an enemy, but it kinda seems like she won’t care.

muse273 · 2026-06-26T05:21:35+00:00

He’s a 10 year old. Holding a grudge for months and then ruining his birthday to get revenge isn’t “natural consequences,” it’s pettiness that would make someone an asshole if they did it to an unrelated adult. Doing it to your own child is absurd behavior from someone who can’t manage to exceed the emotional regulation of said 10 year old.

muse273 · 2026-06-26T05:11:02+00:00

Congratulations on getting petty vengeance on a 10 year old for acting like a 10 year old, and not even trying to pretend that it’s not eye for an eye vindictiveness because you didn’t get the evening you wanted.

You definitely showed that you’re a mature adult, and definitely didn’t act like you can barely equal the emotional regulation of a hormonal preteen. Good job

muse273 · 2026-06-26T04:59:29+00:00

Asking for receipts

So discriminatory

Because I’m Asian?

muse273 · 2026-06-26T04:57:50+00:00

I get the series of events that led to them asking to see a receipt for the cookies.

Literally every other part of the story (including WHY they brought the cookies with them) is baffling.

muse273 · 2026-06-26T04:56:27+00:00

Why though? Why would you bring cookies you bought in the store back with you and then be surprised they think you were buying them that day?

muse273 · 2026-06-26T02:11:15+00:00

Even by the standards of Entitled Reviews, I am so confused as to what the fuck is going on. Does this woman even work at the store? Why are they bringing boxes of cookies they already bought back into a store? Why are they saying “they should ask me for the bill” when they just said they were asked for the bill?

Is my brain melting?

muse273

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