I'm a gay man; the possibility cannot be safely ruled out. For the second season, see "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: Season Two Ratings". ", "Will Scarsdale Like Josh's Shayna Punim? Bow down before it. Champlin: good lord. For for years now, the word "bathroom" cannot be spoken in my apartment without someone launching into this number. Goes right to the heart of the show's exploration of mental illness, cheerfully and tunefully. It may seem surprising to see this light n'frothy bit of business hold such a high perch on this ranking. Not made of stone, here, people. Really brings the glorious goofiness of this song home. TV Series Finale. 129. Again, the explicit version is worth it. It's one of the rare instances of the show doing something we've seen done before, elsewhere, a lot. I'm gonna go listen to it again. The performance is wonderful. Four years ago, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend sang and danced its way to West Covina and into our hearts. Yeah, I just love it. Retrieved October 31, 2018. No, yeah, you seriously have to get the explicit version. "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Theme" TV theme songs that describe a show's plot went extinct with scrunchies, which is why this furiously paced 34-second show tune is such a … This number could have been little more than a cute throwaway, but it attains immortality on this list on the back of Champlin's performance. Guess I was just letting my personal distaste for the thing it's so precisely riffing on get in the way. (Specifically, the "hou-AWHS/show-AH" bit.) That's the challenge, and she nails it. It arrived at crucial inflection point in Rebecca's story, as she begins to seek the help she needs. Top five, easy! Those strings! Is just. Every pained grunt, every murmured aside ("Like, so on the nose") is fresh and funny and manages to surprise, no matter how many times you hear it. Trust me. Some that earned #1 rankings in past seasons have slid down a bit, others have hurled themselves higher up. The Pilot was the original "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" episode filmed in 2014 for the Showtime network. To business: I have, for the show's first three seasons, assiduously and scientifically ranked the show's songs. "Life Doesn't Make Narrative Sense (The End of the Movie)" (Season 3). Of! Generally. “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. ", "Who Needs Josh When You Have a Girl Group? Boy, that was pretty obtuse. The melisma. Familiarity breeds a lack of appreciation, if those other Crazy Ex-Girlfriend song rankings out there are any indication. A perfect, bittersweet number with which to send Santino Fontana's Greg, and his golden pipes, off into the sunset: starts off in crooner mode, but builds into an old-school Broadway farewell. October 29, 2018. ", "My Mom, Greg's Mom and Josh's Sweet Dance Moves! Abba golden, in point of fact. 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. Over the course of four seasons of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Rebecca Bunch (Rachel Bloom) has kick-ball-changed. 3. She's got to sell the transition between Heather's baseline bored reluctance and the demands of a splashy "I Want" song. Josh is Irrelevant. Each episode features a few songs written by Rachel Bloom, Adam Schlesinger, and Jack Dolgen. For the third season, see "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: Season Three Ratings". Look past the accents, if you can, and instead see the song for what it is: A gloriously infectious manifesto for a comically dystopic feminist future ruled with an iron, exquisitely manicured fist, zigazow. Reprises and medleys do not qualify — because they, as any decent musical theater epidemiologist will tell you, make the data noisy. And that, people, is why "The Moment is Me" has earned its spot here, as King of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Season Three Mountain. What is going on over at Crazy Ex-Girlfriend HQ? at the TV. Also? This is the type of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend song that you want to learn all the lyrics to and sing along. I have nothing to add, except maybe: Champlin. If you find yourself singing along to "It wasn't technically Hitler's fault!/(It wasn't technically Hitler's fauuuuuult! Ask questions and download or stream the entire soundtrack on Spotify, YouTube, iTunes, & Amazon. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is an American musical comedy-drama television series, … If I've written up a given song before, I'll include the blurb, then comment on how my thinking has changed. And that glitter spray thingy!). This is a quintessential CxGF number. Nathaniel Gets the Message! Does it move from its starting position? But not here. An advice song filled with specific, earnestly proffered but howlingly terrible advice. We're devoting an episode of Pop Culture Happy Hour to a full appreciation of this remarkable series, but it bears repeating that simply as a feat of logistics, the show's ability to write, choreograph, record, perform and edit so many elaborate musical numbers on a television production schedule remains mind-boggling. Like the Littlefeather chorus, I was dubious about the addition of Scott Michael Foster this season, but with this perfectly ridiculous but sharply observed Ed Sheeran number, he both defined his character and won me over. No. Paula sings it to express her lust for Calvin. Listen to how perfectly, and smartly, it expresses Nathaniel's characteristic, rationalizing, blame-shifting narcissism. Who can say? Each episode features two entirely new songs, and across the season there was a whole host of different genres, styles and homages on display. Getting Over Jeff. TV Series Finale. [2][3] The final season contained 17 episodes, as well as a concert special filmed at the Orpheum Theatre. And WOW do you need to hear the explicit version immediately. This song, seen in episode 7 of season 1 (“I’m So Happy that Josh Is So Happy!”) of the CW’s 2015 comedy, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Or maybe I'm just a sucker for klezmer. A perfect encapsulation of the show, and its protagonist's willfully skewed sense of the world – or at least, of one particular exurb. Good LORD. Glad to see that four-years-ago-me was a Hyatt stan from the jump. But is it possible I was besotted by the Feldshuh/LuPone combo platter this number served up? Crucially, wonderfully, she doesn't sell out the character once that transition kicks in. No, look, a lot of the charge this song carries comes from the visual — the Josh Groban reveal, coming as it does so late. The Earworm of Earworms. Scott Everett White /The CW Goes somewhere. The “Crazy Ex” Cat Clan In fact, many of the cast and crew on “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” are proud cat owners and are doing just fine. Torture!" Well, yeah, sure. You know, like that one from Fame. I Never Want to See Josh Again. I love this song so much I'ma boycott cheddar cheese in solidarity. May 17, 2018. On April 2, 2018. Yikes, Zika reference. Because I was originally gonna do 25 but couldn't bring myself to leave two favorites off the list. Searing, funny, devastating, perfect. And the fact that the observations made about men are so hack, so basic, so An Evening at the Improv. For Rebecca, who once saw a grand romantic destiny written in the skies all around her, is an authentic but low-key love enough? Now, not every song can contain an epiphany, but the ones that legitimately transcend the genre they're spoofing in some way are the ones that end up here. In other words, it's the Platonic example of this show's mission statement. But the ones I've seen suffer greatly from recency bias, as they were not prepared with the rigor, the cool objectivity, the razor-like dispassion of this list, which rests on the same two criteria it always has: 1. Time changes things. Give it this much: it sounds like the Huey Lewis song that would be playing in the scene set in an 80s bar when the producers couldn't get the rights to "Power of Love." "Let's Generalize About Men" (Season 3), Admit it. Let's just go home and drink rose. Throughout the show’s four seasons, Rachel Bloom, along with songwriting partners Jack Dolgen and Adam Schlesinger, have given us the musical accompaniment to so many of our innermost feelings, including Jewish […] I mean, I'm me, so any song that busts out the word "trope" in its opening verse has got my damn number. Oi! 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!")! You get it.). The shoulderpads and skirts and hose and shoes! 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! This was our first glimpse of what Michelle Hyatt would bring to the show — the richness, the charisma, the timbre. There are other best-of lists out there, of course. After four seasons on the CW, the offbeat, honest and often heart-breaking funny Crazy Ex-Girlfriend signed off with one final song. TV Series Finale. Fans were surprised at the beginning of the second season of “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” when the show’s peppy theme song switched style, look and lyrics. You know, I only ranked this #10 of Season 3, at the time. I may have whooped.). It very nearly did. Look: it's great. Plus a key change. Haven't I said below that it's the songs that engage with season three's darkness that earn high positions? In a potent, prickly episode, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend feels like a musical again. This song came so early in the show's run that it set a ridiculously high bar for songwriting excellence. "We'll Never Have Problems Again" (Season 2). Expresses the show's specific point of view even as its crawling inside your ear to set up housekeeping. This terrific little number — which is such a, um, devout homage to La La Land's "Another Day of Sun" you can almost hear the CW lawyers drafting defensive memos on what constitutes Fair Use — takes on added weight now that the show's over, as it represents a major step in Rebecca's arc. You loooooove this song. The next time you watch Wheel of Fortune and there's that beginning bit where the audience shouts the show's name, see if you can stop yourself from screaming "Czar! Ok, it's a very faithful (possibly legally actionable) Dreamgirls bit, and what have I said about pastiches? "West Covina" from the pilot of the CW musical comedy "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. "Nothing Is Ever Anyone's Fault" (Season 3). I know, I know. The wait for Season 2 of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is almost over! All 109 songs featured in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Season 1 Soundtrack, listed by episode with scene descriptions. I completely missed the song's sly importance, giving bisexuality the anthem it didn't know it needed. Lyrics!— plus the following exchange, for which I would gladly give over the Peabody this article will surely earn me: There's nothing for it but to surrender before the klezmeriffic perfection that is this, indisputably the best number of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Season Two. 82. — then stands back and lets us bask in the discomfiting cognitive dissonance. It doesn't simply check the boxes, though it does do that — it feels lovingly made. Vella Lovell's Heather has been overdue for big moment like this one from her very first eye-roll back in season one. Burl Moseley, everyone! The songs often pay homage to or parodying other well-known songs, from Broadway hits like Les Miserables to Shakira’s Whenever, Wherever. It should be higher! Retrieved October 31, 2018. The hair! Do they need to switch craft services providers?). After Showtime passed on it co-creators Rachel Bloom and Aline Brosh McKenna shopped the pilot around to other networks until it was picked up to series by The CW the following year. ", "Why Is Josh's Ex-Girlfriend Eating Carbs? You do. Plus, this song is just SUCH A GOOD IDEA. I was going to do so for season four, and then for the show's entire run, but when I went to print out my rankings of the first three seasons it came to 25 pages. Nathaniel Needs My Help! Thank me later.) Nobody but DLC, is who. Is why.). The performance just could not be more on point, and the way it builds to that mid-point turn, where the theme from Jaws kicks in so seamlessly: yowza. If it gave us only Tovah Feldshush singing the lyric: I know, I know/The Holocaust/But the Holocaust/Is a really big deal! We've lived with this song — and other Season 1 bangers like "Sex With A Stranger" — for so long now I fear we take their brilliance for granted. Retrieved October 31, 2018. Do not let this song's considerable, arrant grooviness blind you to its wisdom, in re: the way love deludes us into thinking everything's jake when in fact there is a great dearth of jake. Boy, this song has its hardcore fans. So once we got a villain song, a princess song couldn't be far behind. Review: The Top 27 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' Songs, Ranked The CW's romantic-comedy-drama-fantasy-musical just aired its series finale, after four seasons and 157 original songs. You've heard songs like this before, and you will again, but this represents a perfect distillation of all of them. The desperation evident in the rhyme scheme ("With a diagnoooooosis/I'm ready to bloooooow this/Joint, and by joint I mean my innner sense/Of confusion"). Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Recap: ... (Paula also has a song this episode, ... Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Season 2 Episode 2 Recap, Review. Crazy-Ex Girlfriend, the CW musical comedy show that ended earlier this year, is beloved for many reasons — its genius songs top among them. ... this episode had the best music of the season. "You know the trope/In storytelling it's the norm...". Not for nothing? ", This page was last edited on 15 October 2020, at 18:50. "Mah busy life" remains a solid piece of business. Sadness so deeply embedded within its joyousness — and the joyousness here is potent — that you could almost miss it. That baby-voice thing Bloom does at the beginning. But it's become one of the songs I return to most often, due in part to Champlin's pure tone, and in part — a large part — to her delivery of "It's your BEEBEE!". But 10 episodes in, it's clear that Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is, without a doubt, one of the most honest and unique shows on television. Ask questions and download or stream the entire … Its melody, and its every chord progression, feel not simply imitative but essential, archetypal. The Songs of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: ... and only Crazy Ex-Girlfriend could make something lit this brightly and pitched this majorly so ominous. "Anti-Depressants Are So Not A Big Deal" (Season 4). And Bloom's "It's a practical proposal!" These are the numbers that have a special, enduring, and not easily classifiable appeal. And also the poop jokes. Granted, this I-Love-the-80s/Pointer Sisters pastiche is the song I've gone back to the most this season, for several reasons. Patti! Plants itself squarely inside the style its parodying and then – doesn't merely parody it. The season premiered on October 12, 2018 and ended on April 5, 2019.[4][5]. 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You know where this song is going — you can predict the next note — but you don't mind, because that means it's vibrating on precisely the frequency that classic Broadway does. Bloom's note-perfect Marilyn breathiness, the increasingly exasperated chorus of nattily dressed gay mathematicians — I mean you gotta respect a classic comedy construction like: This song builds off of Season One's "Settle for Me," which featured a Rebecca distractedly enamored of the trappings of Old Hollywood ("Soooo twirly!") Josh Is a Liar. [1] 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. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend song recap: Season 2, Episode 7 Jealous exes Rebecca and Valencia find out that Josh is dating Anna (Brittany Snow) and stalk her And the lyrics, with their deft deployment of the words "Jeff Sessions"! Directed by Kimmy Gatewood. It's still wonderful, and Lovell's performance remains pitch-perfect, but those other songs inched higher because they speak more directly to the show's central thesis. The fact that it goes on to be very much about narrative cliches, and their structural function – sign me the hell up. “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” CW’s whip-smart, unabashedly wacky musical comedy, will air its final episode Friday night. Happens with "where's" sometimes, lately. still gets me, every time. Plus, Michael Hyatt as Dr. Akopian, come on. Everything about it. This classic torch song is different. The filthy ones are light-years better. Since the show was now on a prime time network instead of premium cable changes were made to it. ", Rachel Bloom, Aline Brosh McKenna & Ilana Peña, Elisabeth Kiernan Averick & Michael Hitchcock, "Yes, It's Really Us Singing: The Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Concert Special! (That was rhetorical. 2. I still say this song is one of the show's wisest, lyrically. Explicit only. Also the neon! (Get the explicit version. The keyboard! That's right, I ranked it the #1 song of Season 2, at the time. (Right? This. How do I explain this? (Also? 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. Execrable. But that's the difference between you, cookie, and me, a professional big-time critic-type-person. Or at least one of them?). Celebrates the place by making fun of it. 22. I'm not made of stone here, people. The songs are a real testament to the skill of Rachel Bloom, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s star and executive producer, as well as Adam Schlesinger, the series’ executive music producer. But before we get to the ranking, let's tick off the. This is mine. But this song is legit smart about the distinction between lives tidily shaped by narrative conventions, and our actual, much messier, lived lives. It’s been said before that “Crazy Ex-Girlfiend” is one of the best, Jewiest shows on TV right now–and the CW musical sitcom just upped the ante with an epic bar mitzvah episode titled “Will Scarsdale Like Josh’s Shayna Punim?” (which, come on, is already pretty great). Oh, and while I have you: zigazow. The 4 Types of Crazy as told by the Season 3 Crazy Ex Girlfriend Theme Song; Predictions for S3 Episode 5 of Crazy Ex Girlfriend One Hour Before Premiere; By memyselfandthemoon at November 11, 2018. Whom. Shut up. (Yes, the British accents are terrible. If it ever happens with "the" it'll be time for professional help. Another distillation of the entire show, in song. And the production, with those wah-wah keyboards! Always bugged me that Amber Riley and Ricki Lake got such hype about their appearance as background singers. A handful of songs have taken on added resonance, now that the show is over and can be regarded as a whole. I suspect that, with time, it'll come to be seen as one of the show's signature numbers. I've seen Champlin do this song live, and despite its wistful, lilting prettiness, she makes it a barn-burner. Also, the "balls" rap break. They establish an idea, and then go someplace surprising with it; that's always been the genius of the show's writers. The slow build to "wear your skin like a dress" and "baby teeth". The self-importance. Trust me. February 4, 2017. in the car, try not to do it when stopped at a traffic light. Bird poop and dump cramps and peeing just a little. For my money, the best song of Season 4, and, clearly, one of the best of the series, period. Over the course of four seasons of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Rebecca Bunch (Rachel Bloom) has kick-ball-changed. We've watched her getting healthier, and learning that it's a complicated process that requires support, both emotional and, sometimes, pharmaceutical. No-oh-oh-oh-OH. There is no escape. Since the debut of the hit CW show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend in 2015, the emerging cult classic has built up quite the reputation- even bringing home three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe.The series follows Rebecca Bunch, played by co-creator Rachel Bloom, and explores themes surrounding trauma, mental illness, and coping, from a lens that's both psychologically sound and full of lighthearted fun. It's a tough tone to get right, but this very very does. She lets us hear Heather's deadpan disgust throughout, allowing the musical arrangement do all the jazz-handy work. "The Math of Love Triangles" (Season 2)". Also, "Don't steal!" Also, "Thank god, it's just your penis." To Josh, With Love. BuzzFeed has confirmed that Crazy Ex-Girlfriend creator and star Rachel Bloom has written one of the songs that will be performed by Grant Gustin and Melissa Benoist in the upcoming crossover. Too much, arguably! The Sound of Music, it is not. 21. But for me there's just no z-axis, you know? "Remember That We Suffered" (Season 2). This song merits its slot here in the final ranking due to the fact that it represents the precise moment I, and many other people, first realized this show knew exactly what it was doing — that I, that we, were in good, knowing hands. An important message, delivered through the magic of tap. original songs, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend came to an end Friday night, with a supremely satisfying finale that felt both surprising and inevitable, which is precisely the needle that finales need to thread. And yet, today, there are five other Season 2 songs higher up this list. Some songs take on the patina of all-time classics, others start to seem more like novel one-offs. Everything works, here. After all, the whole musical genre, at least as it lives in the current public consciousness, wouldn't exist without animated Disney movies. "No One Else Is Singing My Song" (Season 4). Awful. Every narcissist sociopath should make it their audition song. (This song ranked higher earlier in the season, but we've got a hell of a lot more songs now, and the sheer novelty of this one has begun to wear.) I mean, sure, it's a cute stunt, but it's Michael Hyatt doing the heavy lifting here, and she's fantastic. Even without the songs, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend would still be one of the best comedies on TV: a sharply insightful, wickedly subversive, riotously funny rom-com that is fully aware it’s a rom-com. The 80's power-ballad buildup. Because my thinking on many of these songs has changed, over time. 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. A great idea, executed flawlessly. Allison Shoemaker. No, this song is all about its combined lyrical effect. Well this song just makes your whole damn day better, is what. Every so often this show reminds just you how deeply, how consummately, its creators know and love musicals. 1 comment: And Champlin, of course, absolutely nails the requisite trills like the pro she is. This song only came in at #5 in the Season 3 ranking, but now that the series is over, it's clear that it deserves the top spot, overall. Yep, originally this came in at #2 of Season 3, behind "Remember That We Suffered," but over the course of the last year it's achieved an iconic status. Do not even consider listening to the broadcast version. Great to see performed live, too. (Why 27? Like a lot of the songs on this list, this number could be taken as the show's mission statement. And the suits, my God, the suits! If this song gave us only Tovah Feldshuh, it would be enough; dayenu! (NOTE: I'm not ranking the show's Theme Song, but if I did, it'd probably share this slot.). 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