For the 2-3 people who also watch this show
In honor of the Crazy Ex-Girlfriend finale tonight, my Top 5 Rebecca Bunch songs:
1. Tell Me I'm Okay - This is, in my opinion, one of Rachel Bloom's loveliest vocal performances, and the song is quietly devastating. (Also, her scene partner here is Seth Green.)
2. Strip Away Your Conscience - I love this sexy, silly, Fosse-inspired seduction. Bonus points for slipping the line "choke on your cocksuredness" past the standards & practices department.
3. JAP Battle (Explicit version) - This is just so much fun? I've watched it countless times.
4. The Math of Love Triangles - The parody, the jokes, the choreography...this is peak Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
5. I'm a Good Person (Explicit Version) - It has to be the explicit version because the triumphant "Fuck you!"
at the end is necessary to the success of the song.
(Songs that almost made the cut: The Sexy Getting Ready Song, I'm the Villain in My Own Story, Stupid Bitch, A Diagnosis, I Have Friends, a dozen more because I love the songs on this show.)
The thing about CEG is that the cast is stacked with fantastic talent and characters. So, my Top 5 songs by other cast members:
1. Settle For Me - This is possibly my actual favorite song of the entire series.
2. Let's Have Intercourse - Everything about this is fantastic, plus it has maybe the greatest lyric ever written:
"I won't be back to normal till
I see what your nipples look like.
They're probably straightforward nipples"
3. The First Penis I Saw - I think the title says it all, and it would have been wrong to leave Paula off this list.
4. The End of the Movie - Because life doesn't make narrative sense
5. Love's Not a Game - Again, this one is just so much fun. A total delight, featuring all of the supporting cast minus the love interests.
Holy crap, the songs I left off that list! Getting Bi, We Tapped that Ass (which has SUCH great dancing from Santino Fontano and Vincent Rodriguez III), Friendtopia, Don't Be a Lawyer, I Could if I Wanted To, Fit Hot Guys Have Problems Too, Face Your Fears...so many others.
I am going to miss this weird, beautiful, sad, raunchy show, and I'm so grateful to the CW for giving it four seasons, despite the fact that it was consistently the lowest-rated show on TV.
(I'm Team Nathaniel, by the way, when it comes to love interests, but if I had to make a guess about the finale, it would be that Rebecca is going to choose herself and not pick any of the guys, and honestly that's probably the right choice for the show.)
1. Tell Me I'm Okay - This is, in my opinion, one of Rachel Bloom's loveliest vocal performances, and the song is quietly devastating. (Also, her scene partner here is Seth Green.)
Click to view2. Strip Away Your Conscience - I love this sexy, silly, Fosse-inspired seduction. Bonus points for slipping the line "choke on your cocksuredness" past the standards & practices department.
3. JAP Battle (Explicit version) - This is just so much fun? I've watched it countless times.
4. The Math of Love Triangles - The parody, the jokes, the choreography...this is peak Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
5. I'm a Good Person (Explicit Version) - It has to be the explicit version because the triumphant "Fuck you!"
at the end is necessary to the success of the song.
(Songs that almost made the cut: The Sexy Getting Ready Song, I'm the Villain in My Own Story, Stupid Bitch, A Diagnosis, I Have Friends, a dozen more because I love the songs on this show.)
The thing about CEG is that the cast is stacked with fantastic talent and characters. So, my Top 5 songs by other cast members:
1. Settle For Me - This is possibly my actual favorite song of the entire series.
2. Let's Have Intercourse - Everything about this is fantastic, plus it has maybe the greatest lyric ever written:
"I won't be back to normal till
I see what your nipples look like.
They're probably straightforward nipples"
3. The First Penis I Saw - I think the title says it all, and it would have been wrong to leave Paula off this list.
4. The End of the Movie - Because life doesn't make narrative sense
5. Love's Not a Game - Again, this one is just so much fun. A total delight, featuring all of the supporting cast minus the love interests.
Holy crap, the songs I left off that list! Getting Bi, We Tapped that Ass (which has SUCH great dancing from Santino Fontano and Vincent Rodriguez III), Friendtopia, Don't Be a Lawyer, I Could if I Wanted To, Fit Hot Guys Have Problems Too, Face Your Fears...so many others.
I am going to miss this weird, beautiful, sad, raunchy show, and I'm so grateful to the CW for giving it four seasons, despite the fact that it was consistently the lowest-rated show on TV.
(I'm Team Nathaniel, by the way, when it comes to love interests, but if I had to make a guess about the finale, it would be that Rebecca is going to choose herself and not pick any of the guys, and honestly that's probably the right choice for the show.)