Rent is too insubtle, too pedantic, too rife with hyperbole, too grotesque, too black and white. The premise is amazing, but the musical is too focused on preaching to the choir and not enough time to educate the masses of asses on sundry important social issues, for both conservatives and liberals.
Read something, even out of the Wall Street Journal or the FT to the tune of a loping, awkward, highschool musical, and it sounds like Rent.
Rent is schoolmarmish while Hair is just out there, exposed. Rent tells you what to think while Hair lets you think for yourself.
Amen to that.
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YOU are fucking stupid. You obviously don’t know a THING about Rent!. Regardless of if the lyrics are “abominable” or not, (which they’re not, they’re AMAZING), it’s a story of love. Jonathan Larson was telling the story of his life and friends in their fight against AIDS. Don’t judge something until you TRULY know it.
u are so fucking stupid if you think that rent sucks. rent is the most beautiful, amazing, thoughtful thing to ever hit broadway. if its so bad why do you think it has been on broadway for 11 years? Jonathan Larson is a genius to write these lyrics and after he died at the age of 36 his lyrics came even more to life. if you take a second to really try to understand what the lyrics are saying you will understand why this show/moive is outstanding. and btw you shouldn’t swear offf the rent becuase you didn’t like the movie because most people think that the show is much better. and why at all would you think its grotesque? its true and its real. people are really gay, people do really ahve aids, people are really suffering to make it through the night without their power being shut off. this show is a calling to all people trying to make it out there. rent is not only a movie/show its a voice. and you must have the wrost taste in music if you were appalled by these AMAZING!!!!! lyrics.
I saw “Hair” in the 70’s. Thanks for relieving me of any “I Have Not Seen Rent” guilt. I am at peace…
If you are ever tempted to see RENT or rent RENT, then just see HAIR or rent HAIR instead.
U are really Ignorant. Rent Is the best Show/Moive ever. The Lyrics are amazing and everything else is great about rent.
I will respect your opinion that you think it sucks, but I ask you,… why? Yes, you think it’s ‘amateurish.’ You liked ‘Hair,’ yet you don’t like Rent, which puzzles me… most people are opposite, or like both quite equally. Most who don’t like RENT don’t like it because one or both of two reasons: 1.) They think that the charaters are spoiled and that apartments in NY are hard to come by and they should be happy with what they have, or 2.) They can’t understand it, Oh, and I forgot the ‘it sucks compared to ‘La Bohiem’ but for some reason, I don’t think you are and opera lover… but please, I am not trying to be immature, and just tell you that you are stupid for not liking it, but I seriously want to know: WHY? Thank you,
Shiloh
you are so right. randomly talk/sing anything out of the paper to a made up tune that can barely be called a tune - that’s Rent!
Sam888 »
I feel vindicated by your comment! Thanks so much! It is true, it is true!
the Lyrics of Rent are lacking a bit in lyricism because rent is a rock OPERA. You say they sound like they are read off a page, there is a reason for that. It’s dialog set to music, like all opera. you’ll find the same thing in “Pirates of Penzance”, Nabucco” or any other opera. Also I fail to see how Rent is “Black and White” I think that Rent creates more grays than anything. All the character with AIDS seem like good people, but they did have to do something morally questionable to get the disease in the first place. In Rent, no one is innocent, but that does not mean they are bad people. That hardly seems like black and white to me.
I say nothing in regard to Hair because I have never seen it, and I don’t want to make it seem like I know more than I do.
Lyssa » You’re wrong. Pirates is a very lyrical opera! Here’s an example that countermands your argument (this is fun):
Now that was pretty lyrical!
Lyssa » Oh, and PS: Rent is a simple Broadway Musical.
I don’t care what all these other people are saying, I agree completely with you. I can’t stand Rent, for your exact same reasons, plus the fact that the characters are superficial and too stupid for me to even care about. By the end I was hoping everyone would get AIDS and die.
I think I’m about the only teenaged girl in the world who hates Rent, but there you are.
Anna » Anna, you *are* the only teenaged girl who hates RENT, and that’s a fact!
Rent blows.
You have a bunch of whiny bohemian losers, who think that they are too good to work for a living. Angel gets his/her money by killing animals, Mark actually gets a real job then says “No I’d rather starve cause then I can bitch about how unfair the world is” Collins (a university professor) decides in the end of the movie that he’d rather resort to thievery and reprograms and ATM so he can get money whenever he wants. Being a thief doesn’t piss me off so much as the fact that he’s so deluded, he believes he’s taking what’s owed to him.
Mimi wants Roger who doesn’t want her because of her hedonistic ways which is what got his previous girlfriend killed, but hell “Forget regrets” and all that crap. Let’s do drugs, f**k as many people as we can, contract STDs, lie, cheat, steal, and whine that the world doesn’t understand our art/suffering.
NO DAY LIKE TODAY BABY!! WOOHOO!!
Amen, Brother Davidson!