This movie is not going to go well, regardless of marketing it as a musical or not.
My daughter is a total theatre kid, and a Mean Girls fan, so has actually been looking forward to this. However now the songs are coming out, they’ve changed them all compared to the actual musical. For the stage musical the songs are rock music, with heavily distorted guitars etc. But the songs that are being released from the movie are bad auto-tuned pop covers of those songs. She’s furious, and is unlikely to go see it now, even though she’s totally the target audience.
they did the same with Cats. I know I’m fighting a losing battle here to begin with but the appeal of the original Cats is that it’s an incredibly athletic bisexual lycra waking erotic nightmare about a sacrificial death cult and fuck pit. A grueling spectacle of libidinous energy wrapped in the pleas of the condemned as they cavort their own funeral pavane inside an orgone generator made of human garbage.
Putting people that can’t do 10 mid-air splits into a somersault while belting out high notes for 2 hours straight is wrong.
This movie is not going to go well, regardless of marketing it as a musical or not.
My daughter is a total theatre kid, and a Mean Girls fan, so has actually been looking forward to this. However now the songs are coming out, they’ve changed them all compared to the actual musical. For the stage musical the songs are rock music, with heavily distorted guitars etc. But the songs that are being released from the movie are bad auto-tuned pop covers of those songs. She’s furious, and is unlikely to go see it now, even though she’s totally the target audience.
they did the same with Cats. I know I’m fighting a losing battle here to begin with but the appeal of the original Cats is that it’s an incredibly athletic bisexual lycra waking erotic nightmare about a sacrificial death cult and fuck pit. A grueling spectacle of libidinous energy wrapped in the pleas of the condemned as they cavort their own funeral pavane inside an orgone generator made of human garbage.
Putting people that can’t do 10 mid-air splits into a somersault while belting out high notes for 2 hours straight is wrong.
This is hilarious. But I guess maybe she wasn’t the target audience. The target is broader, for better or for *worse