Why should lyricists be different from the rest of us?
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I'm also a great admirer of lyricists, especially Stephen Sondheim.
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He mentions Irving Berlin, Cole Porter and several other lyricists.
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All three were written with the lyricists Alan and Marilyn Bergman.
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However, today gentrification has pushed new lyricists into a fragmented DIY scene.
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John was (among many other things) one of the lyricists for Grateful Dead.
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Taylor Swift is one of the most celebrated lyricists of modern pop music.
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Lyricists like Brendon Urie and Sisqo appreciate the value of a good rhyme.
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So I think oftentimes with great lyricists, they're writing the equivalent, but for grownups.
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Initially music was a secondary matter, with clubs spinning Congolese instrumentals with Ivorian lyricists.
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Of all the envelopes [of lyricists' work] to be given, I got his envelope.
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For me, the greatest modern poets were lyricists — Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell.
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Meanwhile, lyricists Benj Pasek and Justin Paul were just grateful to work on such a film.
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Game of Thrones brings the best out the internet and these master lyricists are no exception.
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The guys, who are godawful lyricists, made gay jokes, trans jokes, fat jokes, and slut jokes.
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"Or ask if I'm linked to terrorists / I said, 'Only when it comes to ink and lyricists.'"
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Original "Aladdin" composer Alan Menken and lyricists Benj Pasek and Justin Paul were brought in early during production.
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I have a radio show called C.L.A.W., Collaborative Legions of Artful Womxn, that pairs female-identified producers with lyricists.
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What that means in practicality is that musicians, engineers, lyricists, producers, and liner note writers can all apply to vote.
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Yet the country's problems, exacerbated as they are by predatory and inept leaders, have provided inspiration for generations of lyricists.
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We worked with [composer] Alan Menken from the original movie and then brought in [lyricists] Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.
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Jay may be one of the greatest lyricists of all time, but he also knows how to make a hit.
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In the past decade dozens of singers, managers, producers, lyricists and publicists have been arrested for alleged ties to the Camorra.
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The show is dripping with lively musical comedy thanks to legendary lyricists Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Bernstein's frequent Broadway collaborators.
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Dr. Martens has issued boots in his name, sculptors have cast him in alloy, and lyricists have memorialized him in song.
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But the plots were often too soapy, and he bounced around between lyricists who frequently paired his music with asinine words.
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Female artists who dare unleash their emotions are often labelled "confessional" singer-songwriters, while their male counterparts are seen as "lyricists".
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Mr. Yazbek is one of the few composer-lyricists working today who can set jokes to music and make them pay.
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Halsey, born Ashley Frangipane, is currently one of pop music&aposs brightest stars and most insightful lyricists at 25 years old.
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Like many skilled lyricists, the twenty-five-year-old singer-songwriter Mitski doesn't like her words to be taken too literally.
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The history of musical theater is rich with collaborations between lyricists and composers, who jointly write the songs that power the shows.
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When she eventually won out, the song rose to No. 1 and cemented her reputation as one of the era's greatest lyricists.
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To pick just one example, lyricists must account for various forms of musical stress beyond the relatively straightforward challenge of poetic meter.
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We are, in a sense, music's "professional class" – the thousands of composers and lyricists whose work is listened to and appreciated by millions.
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So it's pretty easy to figure out how he became one of the most respected socially and politically conscious lyricists in hip-hop.
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These lyricists — you have Yip Harburg and Ira Gershwin and Cole Porter — they wrote with great meticulousness, with great art and great craft.
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A few days later, in an Amsterdam bar, I met with Johan van Hattum, Terzij De Horde's bassist and one of its lyricists.
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The studio gave them a list of go-to lyricists and songwriters, and after several meetings, the pair hired Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.
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But like many conflicted emo and indie lyricists, Brock's early Christian indoctrination made it difficult to fully shake the looming risk of eternal damnation.
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In the 90s, the Kaffa House, Bar Nun and State of the Union open mics (among many others) brought lyricists of all types together.
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But on the vocal topline, we're awful lyricists, so it's a long process of trial and error and seeing who we work with best.
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Most are chic bands taking inspiration from French lyricists such as Françoise Hardy, or local rap artists that top the streaming charts in the country.
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Airing one's dirty laundry in verse isn't exclusive to Renaissance rhymesters: the tactic was reused by Romantic and Victorian poets, and especially by modern lyricists.
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Earlier this week, the hip-hop community lost one of its greatest lyricists and storytellers when Mobb Deep's Prodigy passed away at the age of 42.
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A MINUS Open Mike Eagle + Paul White: Hella Personal Film Festival (Mello Music) Alt-rapper Eagle dominates this meeting of the oddballs, as vocalist-lyricists will.
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But their route to superstardom was interrupted, last year, when Ameer Vann, one of Brockhampton's strongest lyricists and most charismatic members, was accused of sexual misconduct.
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Universal Pictures won a bidding war for an untitled musical comedy starring Josh Gad, with original songs by the composer-lyricists Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz.
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Some of hip-hop's most legendary lyricists talked about their demise in songs and videos, with both Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. doing so in the 1990s.
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Its "making of" story requires four male leads: the composers, lyricists and comedians who created the original "Shuffle Along," one of the first black musicals on Broadway.
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He is one of the most slyly affecting lyricists in hip-hop, and one who sometimes raps about the heavy weight of morality in an amoral world.
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That same year, his first Broadway musical, "On the Town," received a stellar studio recording, with the show's lyricists, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, in the cast.
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Several rows of empty seats at Saturday evening's opening performance of the 92nd Street Y's Lyrics & Lyricists series suggested the lingering hostility of older patrons toward rock 'n' roll.
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In the Nobel lecture itself, Dylan refers to drawing on "folk lingo" in his early songs, pulling from a tradition of musicians and lyricists who had gone before him.
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It's been a little over a month since the hip-hop world lost one of its most talented lyricists when Mobb Deep's Prodigy died at the age of 42.
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To find out, we spoke with Sesame's music director, its writers, its Muppets and Usher, who took what the "Sesame" composers and lyricists gave him and essentially deconstructed it.
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"It's about three composer/lyricists whose work shines a light on the fleeting moments of life, looking back at who we were, and forward to who we hope to become."
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"There were other lyricists involved in the writing of the Grateful Dead canon," he wrote in the foreword to "The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics" (2005; annotations by David Dodd).
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There are the lyricists, the sound system warriors, the pop acts, the damp-looking Bristolians who sleep with fleece-lined trappers on their head and king skins in their pocket.
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Bill Callahan's wry and sardonic writing style, lo-fi approach and commanding baritone have made him one of the most evocative and compelling songwriters and lyricists of the last two decades.
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Bernstein's original collaborator on the operetta was the playwright Lillian Hellman, but she eventually withdrew her libretto, and together they enlisted contributions from lyricists including Latouche, Dorothy Parker and, finally, Richard Wilbur.
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Mr. Chapin, seeking to start his tenure as the Lyrics & Lyricists producer with a bit of excitement, recruited Mr. Groff to kick off the series, which explores the American songbook, in January.
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In addition to being widely recognized as one of the greatest lyricists of his generation, Mr. Lamar is a formidable presence onstage, running through his richly allusive verses with ease and style.
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The task is formidable because, as the lyricists Betty Comden and Adolph Green once put it, "music is better than words," and words can go only so far in explaining music's magic.
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Singh, whose verified Twitter profile calls him a saint, philanthropist, sportsman, actor, singer, movie director, writer, lyricists, and autobiographer, has been photographed with senior BJP leaders including Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar.
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She worked on the song with lyricists Caitlyn Smith and Kate York, and critical buzz says it will likely be nominated — and could win — for Best Original Song at the 2020 Academy Awards.
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Mr. Legrand and the lyricists Alan and Marilyn Bergman had pitched it to Ms. Streisand in the early 1970s, but she did not want to commit to the full project, which was set aside.
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Porter is one of the three great lyricists of invented American speech, with only Chuck Berry in the fifties and Robert Hunter of the Grateful Dead in the seventies his equal in this respect.
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Right now it's just English, but if I do get the chance I would love to—I have some of the best lyricists in my band, and I would love for them to write too.
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"Witchcraft," part of the 92nd Street Y's venerable Lyrics and Lyricists series, focuses on his seldom-heard stand-alone pop songs, many of which are wittier and more refined than his brash, swinging show tunes.
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Chicagoan 21-year-old Adamn Killa has been tuned into the future from the start, blending the laconic, soulful sound of his home city with SoundCloud's new school, iPhone lyricists: brazen, carefree, meticulously auto-tuned.
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When he was first asked if he'd want to play Bobby Darin in an upcoming production in the long-running "Lyrics & Lyricists" series at the 92nd Street Y, Jonathan Groff wasn't sure how to respond.
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Having spent the better part of the last two decades establishing himself as one of hip-hop's most vocab-savvy lyricists, Aesop's tendency for abstract social commentary has in many ways become synonymous with his name.
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There's J. Cole, of course, as well as respected lyricists such as Rapsody and King Mez, Driicky Graham of "Snapbacks and Tattoos" fame, and the true-school formalists Phonte and 9th Wonder, formerly of Little Brother.
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Adding to the effect: the Vines selected for the clip line up fairly well with the words to the song, which makes sense because Chance the Rapper is one of the best visual lyricists of our time.
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In 1997, The Hot Boys—yes, the guys who invented "bling bling" and who nobody north of the Mason-Dixon line took seriously as lyricists—were talking about many of the same issues that we face today.
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Eight years ago, a showstopping verse on Kanye West's "Runaway" helped mainstream pop fans see what hip-hop nerds had already known for almost a decade — namely, that Pusha T was among the genre's most incisive lyricists.
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Lil Wayne is one of the most talented rap lyricists of all time, and his bars cover topics that span from obscure sports references to clever boasts about how high he's found himself to his passion for skateboarding.
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I think it has something to do with the co-lyricists James Rado and Gerome Ragni's perfect melding of story and antiwar sentiment with Galt MacDermot's music, some of which might remind you of Sonic Youth's controlled disarray.
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Conceived and written by Emmanuel Wilson, with contributions from numerous composers and lyricists, the show, first staged in 2004, features funny and fast-paced numbers on subjects both timeless (quizzes, crushes, cafeteria seating, sibling rivalry) and 21st-century.
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After Obama got a face full of freestyle earlier this week, the TMZ newsroom chose their respective coasts and selected their most-liked lyricists ... and we put together a gallery of our highest rated rappers for your viewing pleasure!
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And one with a lauded pedigree, including star Hugh Jackman (Oscar-nominated for Les Misérables) and composers Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (lyricists for last year's La La Land, which earned them an Oscar for Best Original Song, "City of Stars").
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Theaters from Atlanta to Seattle have signed on, agreeing to make unsold tickets available, on the day of a performance, to student and professional writers who belong to the Dramatists Guild, a national association of about 7,000 playwrights, composers and lyricists.
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This documentary is about the weird, earnest world of industrial musicals, which are the sometimes full-scale productions written by Broadway composers and lyricists to gin up enthusiasm among the employees of, say, a shoe retailer or bathroom-fixtures company.
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It's funny ... the Everyday crew tries to convince him otherwise -- that he's not wack and actually contributed a lot to the game -- but he remains firm, explaining his hip-hop idols are hardcore lyricists like Nas, KRS-One and others.
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Soon after a pair of experienced lyricists turned down the project in 1955, Laurents ran into Stephen Sondheim, who was then only 25, at a party and remembered having heard him play a few songs from an unproduced musical shortly before.
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More than 40 theaters around the country allow student and professional writers who belong to the Dramatists Guild, a national association of about 7,000 playwrights, composers, lyricists and librettists, to get unsold tickets for free on the day of a performance.
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Disney, which released a teaser trailer on YouTube to spread the word of its new production, said the film score includes new songs as well as re-recordings of the original songs written by Alan Menken and lyricists Howard Ashman and Tim Rice.
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Although the civil-rights movement did a lot to change how black life was dramatized on the American stage in the fifties and sixties, white composers and lyricists often still rely on familiar tropes when it comes to representing black women in musicals.
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Like the induction of N.W.A earlier this year, the honoring of Shakur — still revered as one of hip-hop's fiercest and most gifted lyricists — could give the broadcast a moment of excitement, although it is unclear who would accept the award for him.
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Chip – "Peri Peri Sauce" Meet Chip — he is one of the best lyricists in the UK and also the most hilarious battle MC. This year, Chip and Yungen have been going at it, and for quite some time, we thought the dust had settled.
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A seasoned playwright, he was approached by composer and lyricists (and now Oscar winners) Benj Pasek and Justin Paul to collaborate with them and write the book (aka the non-singing script) for what would become the now major Broadway hit Dear Evan Hansen.
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The well-known composers and lyricists represented included Steven Lutvak ("A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder"), Alan Menken and Mr. Schwartz (the Disney movie "Enchanted"), Tom Kitt ("Next to Normal"), Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens ("Ragtime") and Jason Robert Brown ("The Bridges of Madison County").
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"As an industry, we producers are finding that the talent pool of the traditional theater writers — librettists and composers and lyricists — has not really expanded," said Scott Sanders, the producer of "The Color Purple," who is considering several female singer-songwriters for an upcoming project.
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Otten, too, opened his home to those who had fallen out of favor with the state, including, in 1959, Nadezhda Mandelstam, the widow of the poet Osip Mandelstam, one of the great lyricists of the twentieth century, who disappeared into the gulag in the thirties.
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It serves as both a showcase for Broadway hits and as an opportunity for children ages 4 through 11 to play — to participate in theater games, sing songs and even go onstage — as they learn about composers and lyricists and watch an abbreviated musical.
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With a few exceptions (see the epic "Ladies Night" remix in 1997 featuring Lil' Kim, Missy Elliott, Left Eye, Da Brat, and Angie Martinez), we usually see female lyricists going head-to-head: There was Queen Latifah versus Foxy Brown back in the day, Khia vs.
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While composer and lyricists Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman mostly do a very good job of keeping the songs in the same early-20th-century style as those in the first film by the Sherman brothers, the songs quite simply fail to be memorable at all.
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But he was less excited about his individual success than about the nods for the whole "La La Land" ensemble, including best acting spots for Mr. Gosling and Emma Stone, and two song nominations for the composer Justin Hurwitz and the lyricists Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.
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But it's worth mentioning because I have always seen these three as spiritual kin: quirky regional rappers who were easy to dismiss as unserious lyricists because of their subject matter but who, in fact, perfected the craft in far more idiosyncratic ways than almost any MCs ever.
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But 2 Chainz and Wayne are interesting because they are perhaps the most recent inductees into this class of MC and, other than Andre 3000, some of the only Southern artists accorded the respect that has always been assumed for rap's great lyricists from New York and California.
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The whole thing felt like something out of a dream: Here was one of Canada's most iconic lyricists singing our song—one for which, admittedly, I'm not 100 percent sure the words ever made complete sense—to a crowd of people where maybe only half of them had heard our band.
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The 23-year-old L.A. native — movie fans may know him as Benji from Pitch Perfect — is currently playing to sold-out-crowds and earning rave reviews for his emotionally raw performance in Dear Evan Hansen, the new musical from composers Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (the lyricists for the Golden Globe-winning film La La Land).
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" [ Bob Dylan wins the Nobel Prize in Literature | Our pop critic on Dylan, the musician | Our book critic on Dylan, the writer ] "One of the coolest things is learning about Bob Dylan from a world expert on Virgil," said Ethan McCollister, 18, from East Montpelier, Vt. "Both are poets, and both are lyricists even more than that.
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As for me: I'm a former editor of the Literary Guild; the author of "Upward Nobility," a corporate satire published in 1979 under the pseudonym "Addison Steele"; an alum of the Advanced BMI Composers and Lyricists Workshop; and a lyricist whose songs have been performed in New York City cabarets but not, alas, on a Broadway stage near you.
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Splish, splash: Jonathan Groff has agreed to sing the songs of Bobby Darin for five performances to kick off a revamped Lyrics & Lyricists series at the 92nd Street Y. The series, a staple for musical-theater aficionados since it was established in 1970, has a new and well-known (in the theater industry) leader: Theodore S. Chapin, the president and chief creative officer of Rodgers and Hammerstein.
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Even before 1953, when the United States National Hurricane Center's move to give storms human names provided clever lyricists with new ways to decry those storms' capriciousness, iconic songs and singers in the Caribbean were hymning the power of hurricanes — to make or break leaders, to wreck industries, to force the vulnerable or devastated, at a weekend's notice, to flee their homes and hunt new ones.
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Originally written for Nellie Forbush to sing in "South Pacific," it was titled "Suddenly Lovely," then renamed "Suddenly Lucky," before it was dropped and later equipped with new lyrics for "The King and I." Such tidbits dear to the hearts of theater historians enlivened Saturday evening's opening season show, "A Funny Thing Happened: Songs From the Road to Broadway," of the 92nd Street Y's Lyrics and Lyricists series.
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Sorrendguy remains one of the best lyricists in punk rock and Facades address a number of issues including the generation gap "Wrap Yourself in Me" ["Thanks for your suffering, and the paving the way for me, What could you possibly know"] and gay identity politics "They Tell Me" ['They created a box, To squeeze all queers in, Their definitions have flattened us, Stay fucked and never go in'].
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And he'd like to know why Trump, whom he calls "Agent orange," didn't respond publicly but reveals that there was some private outreach, saying: "But I think it's worth it / These verses are makin' him a wee bit nervous / And he's too scurred to answer me with words / 'Cause he knows that he will lyrically get murdered / But I know at least he's heard it / 'Cause Agent Orange just sent the Secret Service / To meet in person to see if I really think of hurtin' him / Or ask if I'm linked to terrorists / I said, "Only when it comes to ink and lyricists.
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