Another season of the darkly brilliant series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has come to an end, and now, as has happened twice before, it falls to me the doughty task of sorting its original songs — 25 of them, this year — into a clear-eyed, dispassionate, purely objective, precision-engineered ranking that gleams with the cold light of surgical steel. Another season of the darkly brilliant series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has come to an end, and now, as has happened twice before, it falls to me the doughty task of sorting its original songs — 25 of them, this year — into a clear-eyed, dispassionate, purely objective, precision-engineered ranking that gleams with the cold light of surgical steel. The hair! in the car, try not to do it when stopped at a traffic light. Nathaniel Gets the Message! in an old-school, vaudeville-by-way-of-Tin-Pan-Alley way. Admit it. Point is! I mean, listen to the beautiful, understated work going in the opening seconds, the seamless shift: "Do I have to sing an inspirational musical-theater song right now 'cause I just can'tWHAT DOES THE FUUU-TURE HOLD". The supreme confidence of a line like "It really made me drop my jaw"! This song, Josh's blithely naive expression of his own personal, thick-headed theology, is only the latest example. 16. Again, the explicit version is worth it. And that, people, is why "The Moment is Me" has earned its spot here, as King of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Season Three Mountain. $19.99 ; View in iTunes. This song starts off as a pleasant enough hippie-dippie consciousness-raising opposite-of-love-fest ("Love's a real time-suck/It really get's your mind stuck/On things that, later on/You'll be like, "why? But this song is legit smart about the distinction between lives tidily shaped by narrative conventions, and our actual, much messier, lived lives. No, yeah, sure, it's just one looooong dookie joke, but it's delivered with agreeable gusto by Valencia (Gabrielle Ruiz), and you just have to admire the dogged determination of the show's songwriters to double down on the double-entendre. This song starts off as a pleasant enough hippie-dippie consciousness-raising opposite-of-love-fest ("Love's a real time-suck/It really get's your mind stuck/On things that, later on/You'll be like, "why? That swooping melody is what would happen if Les Miz met Phantom in a cheap motel for a quickie, but listen to McMillian's plaintiveness, here. Ties Set To Deliver Poem At Biden Inauguration. It can do so with a lyrical insight, an arresting musical phrase or a clever metafictional flourish. Crucially, wonderfully, she doesn't sell out the character once that transition kicks in. Whom. Those horns sound great, and the lyrics get a point boost for high degree of difficulty: "So tell me 'bout your sins/And shock me with their luridness/Let me be your pupil/Let me choke on your cocksuredness/INN-U-EN-DO!". Those of you surprised to see this cheese-tastic, psuedo-inspirational, goth-girl-goes-theater-kid anthem perched atop this chart just haven't been paying attention. But the premise of its first verse is simply — very simply — iterated in subsequent ones. This season, as always, the show's commitment to squeezing the writing, scoring, rehearsing, recording, choreographing and performing of this many full-bore, pull-out-the-stops musical numbers into a rushed television production schedule is nothing short of remarkable, and should be lauded (and rewarded with a fourth season). But before we get to the ranking, let's tick off the. in an old-school, vaudeville-by-way-of-Tin-Pan-Alley way. There. That's not something you expect to get handed to you on The CW at 8:00 on a Friday night. This one's a real by-the-book book number. “Duh!” (season 2, episode 8) Over four seasons and more than 100 songs, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has parodied nearly every possible topic and musical genre. You go, show. Yowza. Oh Nathaniel, It's On! Everything works, here. Even those numbers languishing near the bottom of this ranking represent distinct feats of musical logistics. Listen to Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: Season 3 (Original Television Soundtrack) by Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Cast on Deezer. Whom. — then stands back and lets us bask in the discomfiting cognitive dissonance. Lyrically solid, but in the end, unexceptional. Leans — hard -- into the theatricality of its musical-theatricality, down to a locution ("Oif oi wuz 'er, oid keel mesoilf!") Never mind! Well, yeah, sure. If this song was even just a little longer, it would have clawed its way higher up the list, despite the simplicity of its Chicago-tinged arrangement, for two reasons: Michael. That's the challenge, and she nails it. Neurotic lawyer Rebecca bumps into her high school boyfriend on the street and pursues him across the country on a misguided quest for true love. — then stands back and lets us bask in the discomfiting cognitive dissonance. This one's a real by-the-book book number. Find all 306 songs featured in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Soundtrack, listed by episode with scene descriptions. This season, as always, the show's commitment to squeezing the writing, scoring, rehearsing, recording, choreographing and performing of this many full-bore, pull-out-the-stops musical numbers into a rushed television production schedule is nothing short of remarkable, and should be lauded (and rewarded with a fourth season). Songs from season 3 of the show "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend". It's sweet, and gratifyingly mean, but its ambitious are modest. Not for nothing? But here, the execution is what sells it. "Maybe She's Not Such a Heinous Bitch After All". But the deliberate hackiness of repeating the last word in the previous line gets a lot of fun play here — I could listen to Groban sink his teeth into the very, very stupid line, "Role-oh-ole-oh-OLE" all damn day. HD; CC; Comedy; 2017; $19.99; View in iTunes. After three seasons it's patently self-evident that this show can pull off an old-school Hollywood musical pastiche in its sleep. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: Season 3 Recap - Duration: 42:12. All 12 songs featured in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend season 3 episode 2: To Josh, With Love, with scene descriptions. Donors make that happen, and every donor counts. Can COVID Long-Haulers Access Disability Benefits? Saison 3 de Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. This song wraps some very dark, and troubling, and just really no-good sentiments inside a lovely and (very deliberately) conventional Broadway melody — like a delicious but poisonous show-tune burrito! The guitar licks are lickable enough, fittingly, for this 80s buddy-cop-movie-theme pastiche, but without the visuals (Donna Lynne Champlin's Paula dragging her feet, her whole body, her very bone-weary soul through Rebecca's Bad Boys II-ish shenanigans) this does what it needs to, and little more. Her Dr. Akopian is always welcome, particularly when she gets to bust out those golden pipes as she does here, offering a song of resolve, and hope, and self-confidence, and not-taking-insurance. Crucially, wonderfully, she doesn't sell out the character once that transition kicks in. "When we exit a pool/We do it in slow motion!" The fourth and final season of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend premiered on The CW on October 12, 2018 and ran for 18 episodes until April 5, 2019. As always, you may disagree with this ranking, in whole or in part. At last, a perennially downtrodden cohort of the populace gets a chance to be heard — the genetically and muscularly privileged male. Ask questions and download or stream the entire … And while the visuals of this song are ... a sop to my own personal Cerberus, the utter cheesiness of the vocals ("This is our quiet personal time to reflect/Ect, ect, ect, ect") are really what puts this over. The brightness of the arrangement! Never let it be said this show doesn't give voice to the voiceless, power to the powerless, body fat to the body fatless. This song is emblematic of the needle this show's been threading all season long — respecting how fraught and complicated a prospect it is to turn the travails of mental illness into blistering one-liners and catchy ditties ... and then doing it anyway. In other words, it's the Platonic example of this show's mission statement. 2018 Preview SONG TIME Where's Rebecca Bunch? Here There Be Plenty Of Retro Pastiches That Are Never Going To Become Breakaway Pop Hits. It's just that some songs manage to hurl themselves higher up the chart, for reasons we'll get into below. If you do, you would be well-advised to just sort of steep there in your arrant wrongness, which is great and terrible to behold, and also eminently provable, because, as I believe I have mentioned, science. I wasn't in love with the direction Darryl (Pete Gardner) went this season, but it did give him a chance to get his Meghan Trainor on, so that's a thing. The full album was released July 20, 2018 and includes a demo of "The End of the Movie" by Adam Schlesinger. Also the neon! Those f-bombs really drive home his odd but fiercely held opinions on Kingdom Animalia ("I ain't f***ing with no ZEBRAS!"). Also: Cat stores! And that glitter spray thingy!). That big finish kicked it up the rankings a couple notches. Where's Rebecca Bunch? Here, for the first time on the list, two versions of this song are available — the broadcast, and the explicit. NOTE: The broadcast version is called "Buttload of Cats," and I trust I don't need to tell how much less satisfying that noise is. Getting Over Jeff. It's sweet, and gratifyingly mean, but its ambitious are modest. The very bookiest. The secret to a song securing a high berth in this ranking is for it to end up in a different place than it started, by growing beyond its premise: to invert its genre trappings, to innovate, interrogate — to surprise. No, yeah, sure, it's just one looooong dookie joke, but it's delivered with agreeable gusto by Valencia (Gabrielle Ruiz), and you just have to admire the dogged determination of the show's songwriters to double down on the double-entendre. Look, I've said it before, and hopefully I'll get a chance to say it again, next season: This show needs to give White Josh (David Hull) more to do, and shirtlessly. Découvrez les 13 épisodes de la saison 3 de la série Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend S3 Songs, Ranked The recently concluded third season of The CW's darkly hilarious musical comedy series featured 25 original songs; once again, Glen Weldon ranks them all … Not a thing! The shoulderpads and skirts and hose and shoes! As always, tell me in the comments your favorite song. Features a nice crescendo at the end, though. Rebecca, unsatisfied with Paula's ideas to build a case against Josh, turns to Nathaniel for help crafting a truly evil plan. Episode Recaps . That means Rebecca's fierce wedding-aisle redux of "After Everything You Made Me Do (That I Didn't Ask For);" the winkingly meta — make that muggingly meta — "He's the New Guy;" that wrenchingly sad second bite of the "Face Your Fears" apple; and Trent's note-perfect "I'm Just a Boy in Love," didn't make the cut. Necessary even! Despite her success, Rebecca realizes she's not happy in New York and decides to follow her ex-boyfriend, Josh, to West Covina, California. From this point on, the songs on this chart rank alongside the best the series has produced. It was only a matter of time before this show went all-out Fosse, and this number doesn't disappoint. (feat. You go, show. And this bit, featuring the song "stylings" of the great Eddie Pepitone, is bright and perky and funny ("It's nothing but platonic!/His bigotry's ironic!") We get it: Their relationship is a passionate but highly formalized dance — precise movement imposing a strict decorum that effectively channels how hot they are for one another. Josh is Irrelevant. 6:39. Last season's "Man Nap" covered a lot of this same, toxic-masculinity-poorly-conceals-a-wounded-infantilism ground, but Nathaniel's would-be club banger is a funnier, more accomplished endeavor all around, because of the details: He loves bottle-feeding panda cubs and identifying with monkeys ("Their eyes look like MY eyes!")! From this point on, the songs on this chart rank alongside the best the series has produced. I wasn't in love with the direction Darryl (Pete Gardner) went this season, but it did give him a chance to get his Meghan Trainor on, so that's a thing. Always, always opt for the explicit. Rachel Bloom, Donna Lynne Champlin, Vella Lovell & Gabrielle Ruiz), You Do / You Don't Want To Be Crazy … And that's fine! 40m. Bookier than the Library of Congress, inevitably and understandably so, because it's the song tasked with updating the audience on everything that's gone on since the close of season two. Données clés; Série: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: Pays d'origine: États-Unis: Chaîne d'origine: The CW: Diff. And that's fine! Yowza. Homonyms are fun. If this song was even just a little longer, it would have clawed its way higher up the list, despite the simplicity of its Chicago-tinged arrangement, for two reasons: Michael. If you can right now, please consider a donation in any amount. No, look, a lot of the charge this song carries comes from the visual — the Josh Groban reveal, coming as it does so late. in the car, try not to do it when stopped at a traffic light. (feat. Everything works, here. And that glitter spray thingy!). The keyboard! 13. (Meat-on-a-stick reference = +2 ranking points.) It was only a matter of time before this show went all-out Fosse, and this number doesn't disappoint. But then we arrive at the heart of what it's really about: Rebecca's artisanal blend of self-loathing and narcissism ("And suddenly the lakes have all run dry/AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!"). This song is about something real, and decidedly unpretty, and still finds time to muse on the role of parental figures on our romantic destiny. Those strings! Turns out, the corollary to the "We'll Never Have Problems Again" Hand-Clap Rule (i.e., No songs with hand-claps are bad songs) is the "Strip Away My Conscience" Finger-Snap Rule. This very short samba ditty, sung by Cornelia (Bayne Gibby), Rebecca's temporary replacement at the law firm, doesn't overstay its welcome, but it does some nice characterizing work along the way, before taking a sharp left to quite literally sing the praises of meat-on-a-stick. Once again, the joke of the number is simple, and primarily visual: The opening credits of a cheesy erotic thriller created entirely in Rebecca's (deeply narcissistic) mind. Rachel Bloom) 1. No, this song is all about its combined lyrical effect. Vella Lovell's Heather has been overdue for big moment like this one from her very first eye-roll back in season one. Never mind! Saison 2 Saison 4. Well-orchestrated and performed, solidly constructed, and engineered to deliver the tango goods, which it does. Gardner's always great, even if this particular song doesn't ask as much of him as his previous solos did. Hyatt. Rachel Bloom as Rebecca, Donna Lynne Champlin as Paula, Vella Lovell as Heather and Gabrielle Ruiz as Valencia on the CW's Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. The spin Ruiz's Valencia puts on the last word in the line, "All men only want to have say-ux!," for example. New supercut of CXG references! Her Dr. Akopian is always welcome, particularly when she gets to bust out those golden pipes as she does here, offering a song of resolve, and hope, and self-confidence, and not-taking-insurance. The series stars Bloom as Rebecca Bunch, a depressed young woman who decides to follow her ex-boyfriend from New York City to West Covina, California in hopes of finding real happiness. No, this song is all about its combined lyrical effect. Tim (Michael McMillian), steps out of the Littlefeather Chorus for a solo — ironically enough, as it's all about his wife's habit of taking sexual matters into her own hands. d'épisodes: 13: Chronologie. That big finish kicked it up the rankings a couple notches. Il est presque certain que la saison 5 de Crazy Ex Girlfriend est annulée. so cringeworthy it would make Dick Van Dyke's Bert the Chimney Sweep go "Oo crikey!" Who else could express all that anatomical detail, and despair, in such a sweet, pure voice, and not have it come off like a cheap gag? The 80's power-ballad buildup. "/Or "When will I see him next?"). No-oh-oh-oh-OH. Point is! Or lack of same. And while the visuals of this song are ... a sop to my own personal Cerberus, the utter cheesiness of the vocals ("This is our quiet personal time to reflect/Ect, ect, ect, ect") are really what puts this over. Necessary even! Rodriguez is in fine voice here, and the Holy Ghost joke — which only really lands if you see the number — is just dumb enough to be charming. But this song is legit smart about the distinction between lives tidily shaped by narrative conventions, and our actual, much messier, lived lives. Once again, the usual caveats apply: We are evaluating each number's effectiveness as a standalone song, apart from the show's visuals. I mean, listen to the beautiful, understated work going in the opening seconds, the seamless shift: "Do I have to sing an inspirational musical-theater song right now 'cause I just can'tWHAT DOES THE FUUU-TURE HOLD". This one's all about the delivery. You can practically see the horses running down the beach). "Life Doesn't Make Narrative Sense (The End of the Movie)". You thought this would be number one. 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