#but I wanna be in this hoi polloi genuinely pisses me off
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So much of the charm of wicked for me is the multitude of lyrics that could have been written by a precocious teen even though they were actually just written by stephen schwartz. “All helpful urges should be circumvented” “If she’d let him fighthisownbattles whenhewasyoung hewouldntbeacoward TODAAAAY” “like some terrible green blizzard throughout the land she flies” “I wanna be in this hoi polloi”
#most of these truly delight me / it is not a crime to phrase something awkwardly for the sake of a rhyme#but I wanna be in this hoi polloi genuinely pisses me off#it’s not as if ‘for the day we’ll wander and enjoy’ is some kind of brilliant irreplaceable line that NEEDED the rhyme#he should have simply gone back to the drawing board but we can’t all be Lyricist Steve. that’s a different stephen
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