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The Fastest Songs on Broadway.

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So I was listening to XM radio this morning and heard a song that was extremely fast.  The funny thing about fast songs is that they don’t have to be good to make you want to sing along with them.  Fast songs just have to have a catchy tune that speeds up and challenges you to sing along.  People love funny songs that not only rhyme but also speed up and make you want to try and learn them.

When I was listening to the radio and one of these songs came on I started to think of a few showtunes that not only speed up but cause people to try and sing along by either throwing in words that rhyme or a pace that speeds up.  These songs become some of the most memorable ones from the shows because they are used to not only lighten the mood of the show but also to get people to smile.  Because they create a happy emotion, people tend to like them the most and these are the songs that cause audiences to fall in love with the characters that normally wouldn’t be the stars of the show.  The character that gets to sing these songs usually also gets the first standing ovation during the ending bows at the end of the show.  Here are a few of my favorite showtunes that not only rhyme or get an audience to try and sing along, but they are also some of the most fun to learn and sing along to.

Therapy from Tick Tick Boom.  Therapy starts out nice and slow and starts to speed up.  By the end the audience is usually sitting in shock or getting their tounges twisted by trying to keep up with the characters.  Not only is it a fun song to watch the characters sing, but it is one that people love to learn and sing along to as well.

This next song is called If it Didn’t go Fast from Zanna Don’t.  Just like the name of the song this one starts out slow and starts to speed up.  Not only does it have a tune that gets stuck in your head but it makes you want to play it over and over until you are able to try and sing along without messing up the words.  Although the song wasn’t one of the famous ones from the show, it is definitely an audience favorite.

The last song and probably the fastest song on Broadway has to be I am the Model of Modern Major General from the Pirates of Penzance.  Not only is this song almost impossible to keep up with but TV shows, movies and cabaret shows have used it to get audiences to liven up for years.  Anyone who can sing this song and perform it well will not only win my respect, but I encourage you to shoot a video of yourself singing it and I might post it on this blog.

If you have a favorite fast song or showtune, feel free to leave a comment and include a link to it below.

Tick Tick Boom – Therapy

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So I had a falling out with my exbest friend of over a decade this year and recently I found out my ex best friend is not doing very well.  Sure most of what I have heard is rumors and from semi reliable sources but the reality is that what they are saying also happens to be the same reasons why I no longer wanted to talk to or spend time with my ex best friend.

Although the falling out was on good terms and neither of us hate the other or wish bad things on each other, we also don’t want to talk to each other and what is going on in our lives is no longer eachother’s business.  When I heard that my e best friend may be having a hard time with something though my first reaction was to want to call him.  Unfortunately I also knew that that would be a bad thing.

Yes I am concerned for my ex best friend because of how long we had been friends but at the same time I know how my ex best friend would react…which is why I am also not making any actual references in this blog about gender, name, etc…  Although I wish I could call my ex best friend, it is no longer my business.  What is funny though is that our mutual friends each say that we ask about each other but they also understand that neither of us wants to be friends again.  Its kind of one of those odd situations where we still care for each other because of how long we were friends but we also know that we are better off not being friends any longer.  I do miss my ex best friend and when I was thinking about a song or two to add in to this blog tonight I came across a show I had almost completely forgotten about called Tick Tick Boom.

Tick Tick Boom was a show from the creator of Rent and unfortunately never got to take off or got the chance to take off like Rent did.  The music, the score and the characters are phenominal and the song Therapy from Tick Tick Boom stood out to me because it is about two friends talking on the phone or wanting to talk to each other on the phone but neither one will call or if they do be able to talk about what they wanted to talk about.  Therapy from Tick Tick Boom is an awesome song and one that is almost impossible to sing without lots of practice on the lyrics.  Wait until you see the tounge twisting lyrics from the song and because it is a tounge twister it sort of fits into the theme of if you did call that person and they did answer, what happens if your tounge gets twisted.  Anyways I love the song and the show so here is Therapy from Tick Tick Boom.  Please feel free to leave a comment below or to hit the green tweet or retweet button above if you would like to share this song with your friends on twitter.