Now presenting: The Singles Jukebox Vaudeville Players in… “Extra Large Shoes”! Just 25 cents to see this fantastic spectacle of musical critique sure to dazzle adults and children alike…
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Alfred Soto: Jay essays a Nellie McKay track. One of the few times I wish I had a lyric sheet, for if I’m going to listen to a show tune with pretty keyboard runs then I want to know that the wit is worth appreciating.
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Anthony Easton: Heavily processed calliope is my new favorite instrument, replacing the tuba or accordion. That this calliope comes out sounding like a cheap Casio just makes my interest in kitsch expand.
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Sonia Yang: I love the Charlie Chaplin homage and the fashion fusion (modern K-Pop boyband meets dapper vintage), especially that rainbow array of suits. The vaudeville piano and silly synth are appropriately comical but I seriously doubt Jay Chou has “100% commitment to comedy” because that is the most monotone sing-song rap I’ve heard in a while.
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Micha Cavaseno: Apparently our friends here never quite understood that nobody likes when you try to make the rap scream “clowning around” too forwardly.
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Brad Shoup: Like if Parliament wrote “Flash Light” for a Disney Wild West attraction. This is the corniest music going.
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Megan Harrington: Maybe it’s this B-complex vitamin I’ve started taking, but I’m wild for that ragtime piano breakdown. Meet me at the carnival, we can selfie in the hall of mirrors.
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