Top 10 Broadway Songs That Haven't Aged Well 

I don't think any have aged poorly. People need to just lighten up and enjoy fun little songs for what they are.

Poor Jud is Dead. I was trying to guess what took the #1 spot, but it didn’t make the list. I think a song encouraging suicide is more problematic than many of these others, though the racist ones need to go too. I remember auditioning with an Annie Get your Gun song. That whole show is problematic.

Any song lip synced by Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady hasn’t aged well for me!

I think Danny was bragging to impress his sexist friends!

@@michaelmonthey5974 And that never happens in real life, does it? 😂

Exactly! As I pointed out in my own comment, the leader song “A Hymn to him“ as a sexist and ignorant song showing what a monster he is. And yet they don’t even bother with it. The entire point of Shaw’s original play was to point out what a fool Henry Higgins is. Eliza Doolittle is a great example of female empowerment, but they make her out to be a victim. They did no homework at all to create this video.

@Rick Drew and they referred to HH as Eliza's husband, so I can't really give any consideration to their opinions.

The people that make these videos are ridiculously concrete. They take everything out of their intended context and hope people won't notice.

@@rixx46 and they referred to him as Eliza's "husband." 😂

Also: Eliza doesn’t bring him his slippers. He demands them, and it ends. We never know whether she gets them or not, but they could be seen, at the end of the movie, as at the beginning of a standoff.

Your point about being comfortable with who she is makes sense. The first problem, though, is that she’s a woman, not a girl. The second problem is that she’s defining, and in a very limited way, what “girl” means for every female, not just herself. I don’t expect much better from that era, but it still doesn’t sit right.

Here here 🙌 👏

I agree. Greased lightning from Grease is far worse than this song!

I have noticed that WatchMojo has a tendency to ignore context and make some real stretches to make things sinister sometimes.

@@Quarktehduck They want the world to just see beyond deception like a ninja. But they are no Kakashi-sensei

Oh thank you. I was hoping someone else had caught that. One of the central themes of the show is Will Eliza Marry Freddie - NOT will she marry Henry Higgins. Who is lovingly shown to be an absolute tool in this song and others ;)

Between zero and none, is my guess.

Yes - many of these are taken out of context.

Exactly. Basically every Higgins song except "accustomed to her face" is him being a prig. We aren't meant to take him as a paragon, or admire him. He's there to be laughed at for his absurdly arrogant behavior. The biggest problem that the movie had (which Shaw's original play did not) was the ending with Eliza returning to Higgins. That undermines the whole point that Shaw was trying to make about Eliza, the lower class woman, being strong and smart enough to choose her own destiny, and that the only thing holding her back was a lack of education and opportunity, not a lack of will or intelligence. Leaving Higgins proves she is more than a match for him. Staying with him just proves he can continue to be a jerk and she'll just take it.

i just love when the internet get angry at bad or wrongful characters being bad or wrongful.....

That's what I thought. I feel like if listened to in context, most of these songs have deeper mranings

When Adam found out he had a daughter he thought about if some stranger took her. Hed have hung him like any thief.

Thank you! That is it exactly.

Thank you! You put this beautifully. By the end of the movie Adam tells Millie how sorry he was, and realizes that he truly loves HER.

EXACTLY! And Adam realizes this after his daughter Hannah is born and how upset he would feel if a guy took her away like that.

this

And her rendition and the attitude she gives it is sooooo good!

No, they don't realize it. And, to be honest, they don't really care. As long as we click on these, they'll be doing them. This is the first one I've watched in months, and I didn't even watch the whole thing, I just clicked through it to see what cans of worms they were opening. These songs were of a time. If you don't like them, don't listen to them. Don't pay money to go to the theater. Don't pay for Netflix or Amazon Prime or whatever service you use. But for heaven's sake, don't make it difficult or impossible for anyone else to hear them. The vast majority of people who watch these understand the context, and while we may cringe a little, we have no major problem with them. Get over yourself MsMojo.

Thank you for saying this. A Chorus Line is an amazing show taken from an all-night interview with dancers with Michael Bennett. All kinds of stuff that would make people all upset today, but TRUE! BTW, the dancers call themselves Gypsies. Also, not meant derogatory; rather they’re proud to be Gypsies/dancers.

@@normanwhite6677 I'm just really surprised since WatchMojo and its spinoffs usually do better when it comes to 1) research; and 2) understanding and contextualizing the content they're covering. This was, needless to say, a disappointing video in that regard, because as someone who knows a great deal about musical theatre and has relevant experience in its history and workings, it's just really shocking to see them shoot down so many shows that walked so that modern shows could run, and in ways I don't think many people fully appreciate when it comes to social discourse and why things are better today than they were back in the day.

@@andrewstephens231 Of course. I almost didn't, but then I saw other comments calling out the rather narrow-minded views this video was sharing and I thought I should throw in my two cents, especially since I personally know the woman whose story inspired Val's, and I knew the man whose story inspired Bobby's (and who, as many know, originated the role on Broadway)

The song is about how looks matter too much in the entertainment industry, and about how people, especially women, are pressured to destroy themselves, trying to meet ridiculous standards.

Yep, I totally get that. That’s not what I was talking about at all, they were just talking about how it had an alternate title, and I was just saying that the reason they changed the song title was because no one was laughing during this song, and Michael Bennett wrote it to get laughs, as this is how the original story was told to him. He and the Director changed it and then the song got laughs. I wasn’t talking about what this song is about or how they interpreted it today, I totally get all of that. I was just talking about why the title was changed.

Like many of these so-called “problematic” songs they miss the entire point the song. The woman singing this song isn’t really advocating that Women have themselves surgically altered. She’s making a point that it’s wrong. They should NOT feel like they need to.

I know this is MS mojo, but the entire basis for problematic songs, or what they consider to be sexist. A song like “thank heaven for a little girls“ always sounded creepy on the surface, but was in no way intended to be a celebration of child abuse, which is what they imply. Others “like I enjoy being a girl” is an innocent song that’s in the context of the characters in the time of the musical. Given the era, this was female empowerment. Not just because she could attract men but because she felt attractive for herself. They don’t even pick the right song from “my fair Lady”. They probably didn’t bother to watch the whole thing. there’s nothing wrong with “why can’t the English…?” it is about establishing what a narcissistic asshole Henry Higgins is! They treat every song as if it’s an advocation of what the lyrics say but very often the whole point of this song is to say the exact opposite. The song called “a hymn to him” includes lyrics like “women are irrational. That’s all there is there to that their heads are full of cotton hay and rags. They’re nothing but exasperating, irritating, vacillating calculating, agitating, maddening, and infuriating, hags…!” Higgins goes on to sing about “why can’t a woman be more like a man?” How did they manage to skip that one!? Same with Summer Nights from Grease. The whole point of this song is that Danny is lying to his friends. It’s just about adolescent attitude. It’s not the advocation of date rape! Which is what they make it sound like. Far more problematic song later in the play is Greased Lightning. “It ain’t no shit. You’ll be getting lots of tit in greased lightning“ again how did they miss this one? It’s like they just randomly searched for any song that had the word girl or woman and label it as sexist or ignorant. Of course the songs that make fun of native Americans are offensive by today’s standards, and should be cut - but none of them were intended to be hurtful or insulting at the time. Not so long ago when it was OK to call a baseball team “Redskins“

@@rixx46 I agree 100%. I was trying to think of something to say, but I could not have said it better myself

I think the insinuation that Danny would force himself on Sandy is the issue here

“Did she put up a fight?”

@@MrCph2200 I never saw that hinting at assault, more as in 'did she make it hard for you to get in her pants, aka a metaphorical fight as he tried to seduce her.

@@liliaeth that’s…not that different. Coercion is still a form of rape.

@@belpop from what part of what I said do you think that meant coercion?

THANK YOU. I’ve been a feminist my entire life but love this song and have always recognized it as such.

Yes-that song doesn’t belong on this list. That character is a badass. That song is totally misunderstood here.

Dance Ten Looks Three is one of my favorite songs from A Chorus Line because not only is it extremely catchy, but it's a really good middle finger to the systems that place beauty above all else

Chelsea, Thank for bringing reason to the most misguided Mojo list of all time.👍🏿💯

Exactly lol

Yes! Character is the basis of all drama.

Not too mention the context of the culture of the time periods in which the stories take place. "Shipoopi" is a good example as during that time of history, a woman kissing on the first date did in fact speak ill of her morals and male attitudes about a quick grope were far less conservative than our current ones.

@@benlevan5645 So then you admit that those particular lyrics have indeed aged badly. Yes, the context is screwed up on some of these, but judging by current attitudes is the entire point of the video.

Cannot stand these neo-leftists who want to CANCEL EVERYTHING THAT OFFENDS THEM!!!!

I saw the touring production the other night, and they replaced it with another song which is used in and out, and they used the music from growltiger sometimes, it was really good and politically correct.

The lyrics to the songs in Cats are actually written by TS Eliot who was born in 1888 so references like that are to be taken in context. They’re also written even then as a tongue-in-cheek comic exaggeration. He’s not calling the Chinese heathens, but commenting on how prideful British people are.

Agree. Especially because a hundred years after the play people are still judged by their speech. As for the song? It is still every bit as relevant today as when it was composed.

Besides, saying someone should be hung for the crime of murdering the English language is actually a pretty good joke. Not even Henry Higgins actually believes that people should lynch poor speakers!

The 2019 Broadway re-imaging of Oklahoma explored many of these problematic ideas - to great emotion and imaginative artistry. This video shows a very empowered and self-possessed Ali Larder as Ado Annie in that production. To pick at the lyrics is to superficially judge the entire artwork of the musical.

@@FallenAngelBrassThat’s, um, reaching…

Sometimes, a show just has to be viewed as artifact, not as a show that has much to say to audiences, now or when it originally opened. Everything about the Judd character is an example of how strangely dark the “light and frothy” musicals of the mid 20th century could get.

@@FallenAngelBrass yes exacrlt. The revival

It’s even worse when you realize the ending of the source material was darkly pessimistic about becoming a State

exactly

Agreed, I thought it was meant to be something of a satirical take to highlight the issues women face in the industry. It being a peppy song is irony meant to contradict the serious subject matter.

As someone who has played Val in A Chorus Line and intimately studied the character, I totally agree with you. It's an empowering song. She calls out the performing arts industry for the fact that they often place a higher value on looks than talent, and the song is about her creative way of getting around the biases of casting directors. She's a fierce character. She took back the control in a sexist situation and used it to her advantage. It's peppy because she knows she's smarter than them.

I don't think it's toxic. Of course the theme of it is terrible and Nancy's perspective is completely misguided, but that's the point - to provide insight into the character and why she stays with such an awful man who treats her terribly. It's not endorsing or glorifying what she's saying - it's meant to be a sad song that makes us wish that she would see the light and stand up for herself. Of course she never does and it ends in tragedy.

We'll when you consider what happens to her by the end of the play, the song becomes instructive to people in such situations. GET. TF. OUT! Taken out of context, however...yeah. "My Man" is another one.

Exactly if it bothers you then nobody's forcing you to listen to or watch any of it.

Exactly,the left wing in this country never lets up and gives us a break.

Honestly though. How did "I'm Ashamed That Women Are So Simple" from Kiss Me Kate not make the list or mentions?

Kiss Me Kate is Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew set to music. I think it can be said to have withstood the test of time.

@@debbietroyer9480 Technically, it's a story set around a production of "Taming of the Shrew," but yes, this is another example where the content of the songs are fine when considering the context of one or both of the stories being told.

@@debbietroyer9480 yes I am very aware of that and a few years ago I saw a gender reverse production of it by The Royal Shakespeare and the whole play does not stand up. Whipping someone, starving them, basically mental and physical abuse to make the shrew submit. Then add the musical numbers Tom, Dick or Harry or I’ve Come To Wive It Wealthily in Padua, all a bit icky now. Even Brush Up Your Shakespeare’s lyrics are questionable. That’s before we discuss the end of Act 1 when one character decides to spank his ex wife because she won’t do as he says. No no no no no no to the whole thing, let’s not glorify domestic abuse.

I actually think I cain't say no is not just slut shaming. I mean in those days a lady was not to sleep around or she would ruin herself. But it's also about not just being taken in and giving yourself away - use some discretion so you don't get hurt

Literally my favorite musical is Seven Brides for Seven Brothers- adore most every aspect of the film. Agreed on the song 100%. People are free to like what they like, what’s so bad about liking stereotypical feminine things?

Exactly. Feminism is about choice.

Of course! It’s a classic musical for a reason. Even at the time the movie in the play we’re done it’s not as if they were advocating kidnapping women and marrying them against their will! Most of the songs they have a problem with just indicate they have no idea of the context of the show they came from. Nobody came out of that musical, wanting to kidnap a woman!

I said the same thing. One of my favorites!! Love all the songs

The only woman besides Millie they know was their mother who Im guessing didnt live long after Gideon was born considering he was using a wooden spoon to scratch his back.

I was just coming here to say this. Some people were bothered by it, but the song is literally about SA. I approve of the changes. The whole number is about the dancing anyway. It's not like the original lyrics were so powerful that they were messing with greatness. LOL

first time I heard it I asked my parents "why did she fight him?" They just said "it's an adult thing" or something to that effect. A few years later when I heard it again, I "got it", but thought it was off. Kinda surprises me everyone didn't pick up on it, the tempo of the song means that line's got lots of thinking time after it/that's the line that sticks in heads after the song, or at least in mine

I always thought "Did she put up a fight" was his buddy teasing him, not about condoning abuse of any kind.

Oh, I totally thought it was about sexual assault. No question.

@@lalacoe8678 I didn't think about it like that either. I always thought Kenickie was asking if she liked to argue. I knew what the song was about as a whole but now it just feels gross.

don’t forget he tried to take advantage of her at the drive-in, and then sang about how sad he was that she ran away.

Right? I enjoy "I Enjoy Being a Girl" just because it's not saying all women are like her, just that that's what she likes about being female. It's just 'being feminine is fun' in song form. That's it. Also, I get where they're coming from with Ado Annie in Oklahoma, but if you watch the whole thing she gets a bit of her own back later when dealing with her guy. And yeah, Grease is all kinds of date-rapey. So got some problems. But also reflects some of the teen guy talk. And notice that he doesn't win her over until he stops trying to be "cool." "Dance Ten, Looks Three" could actually be more about her owning her own sexuality if you play it right.

It’s not the whole song that’s wrong, but the sentence ‘did she put up a fight’ is very dubious, considering that ONE out of EVERY THREE woman is a victim of sexual assault and ONE IN FIVE is a victim of actual RAPE! To me, quite often the whole ‘rewriting’ of text, lyrics, stories and so on, feel like ‘too much, we can all THINK and realize it was written in different eras…. But “Putting Up A Fight”…… (in light of these GLOBAL statistics (❗️that have NOT gone down in decades‼️, no matter HOW many ‘awareness campaigns’ are thrown onto them‼️ 🤬) …. is Just Very Very Wrong!!!

As a girl who's actually been victimized as a teen, I hate that one line in summer nights too. If there's one thing that's accurate about that line, it's how many sick men are ok with that. Girls, if God forbid you get assaulted, do what I did and fight like hell. It might save your life in the end, like it did for me.

I actually agree with the OP about "I Enjoy Being A Girl." It's the best thing to come out of "Flower Drum Song" and should NOT be on this list.

I think a lot of this modern critique asks us to not just let the messages of any media we take in just wash over us, and to maybe not set kids in front of this stuff without at least briefly remarking on messages that clearly don’t work. Even problematic material can be catchy, and a positive reminder of our younger selves. We can like that without agreeing with everything a show is depicting or celebrating.

I mean honestly I can still see a bunch of guys in a locker room talking like this. What am I supposed to think about it? It's problematic but very true to life. The more we criticize the more some guys will say they are being restricted from guy talk.

@@kellharris2491 Who cares what they say? They’re wrong. I’m not about to start tacitly approving of making women and girls “put up fights”, just because of what selfish, sadistic goons might say about it. And the movie doesn’t treat all this as a sad or frustrating reality, but as a “cute funny thing guys do.” My son well knows that it isn’t, and that he shouldn’t be shrugging off this kind of talk.

@@kellharris2491 I mean girls can be just as bad the amount of times I’ve heard girls say they are fine with a guy doing what they want cuz they’re hot and talk sexually about them

@@kellharris2491 Same here...apparently whoever is criticizing this clearly hasn't been in a high school in a very long time, because that's just normal locker room banter, and it's well known that teenagers love to exaggerate the details of their relationships in order to look cool to their friends

100% As well as the time period the musicals are set in (that may have been what you meant and if so, I apologize)

That is funny

They're classics but they are from a different time.

Also, Henry Higgins was NOT Eliza Dolittle’s husband in My Fair Lady. If you think that, you are missing an important point of the plot. Read the source work, Pygmalion, for further clarification.

Oh and ‘Sobbin’ Women’ from one of my favorite movies, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers’ is about Adam misunderstanding what the story of the Sabine Women was actually about. If you know the movie you know that Millie gives him ‘what for but good’ about his mis interpretation.

I completely agree with you. That's the problem with watching old movies with today sensibilities.

Yeah, my mom loves musicals too, and she watched them often when I was growing up. We loved Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (mostly for the dancing), but I remember around the time I got into middle school and realized that romanticized Stockholm Syndrome is perhaps NOT a great message. That realization started making Beauty and the Beast a bit cringeworthy for me too...

@@colleenkeefer2545 My Dad was a HUGE fan of that generation of musicals, especially Oklahoma & South Pacific, it nearly put me off musicals for life cause of how horrible the lyrics seemed to me, even as a young child, seeing just bits of them when they were on tv on a weekend afternoon & my Dad was glued to them. Luckily Cats became a big deal at my school, so I wanted to see that, cause of peer group pressure & when I did, I discovered musicals didn't have to be like my Dad's & fell in love with the more modern ones & learnt to tollerate even some of the older ones like My Fair Lady. I really don't think her not being his husband makes that ok, on the contrary, it makes it worse! She has a man she likes, but discovers Higgens has messed her up so much that it's not viable for her to marry him, or return to her old life, or her dream of owning a flowershop, she's condemned to a life of nothing but being his sweet talking little house slave, as he treats her like dirt. Without his intervention, she might have been poor, but she likely would have married & had a much happier life than what she was left with after his abuse of her, for his little bet, was complete

I was thinking it was more like there are reasons that these songs are not (or maybe should not) be performed now. Though some were pretty problematic from the start (Ugg a Wugg, anyone?). I don’t agree with all the opinions expressed in the video. At least for some, the song in isolation is pretty bad, but not necessarily so in context.

I agree!!!!

I agree. People should just get over it, accept that things have changed but still enjoy things from the past on their surface.

They are _not_ saying the songs are bad. Just that haven't aged well. Scarborough Fair is an even older song, but it has aged just fine. That's the point.

that was my first thought of a song with this list though there are so many Apparently the stage show has a darker take (and according to comments the book really does) whereas the movie is more "innocent" in his ways. That show's music is some of the best, though. (in my opinion) and that song is so hauntingly pretty in more ways than one (hauntingly that is)

@@janniklingnau6875 A song that has a line about assault, & multiple sexist lyrics. Read between the lines. 🧐

@@janniklingnau6875 And it's still just my opinion about that song, which I can have, so give it a rest. 😃

I always thought the Star Spangled Banner was VERY creepy and highly racist. In my opinion!

@@ronorleans You mean the multiple lyrics where it's just a boy trying to look cool to his friends by exaggerating what happened that summer? Yeah, because that kind of stuff would never happen today, right?

@@NYChica23 Just cause it would happen doesn't make it right. He's bragging to his friends about sleeping with a girl he didn't and being asked if she fought him off not. You can dilute yourself into thinking it's an innocent song if you want, but I won't be convinced.

When you know the real story of Annie Oakley and Frank Butler, the whole musical is a HUGE insult to how their relationship was in real life.

@@gracehowell. Agreed. It was more sensationalized.

@@precious_muse It was entirely WRONG. She didn't pretend to be a lesser marksman than him. He didn't get jealous of her talent, but instead became her manager.

@@gracehowell. Ok, it’s been a while since I’ve seen the show, but I’m quite familiar with Annie Oakley’s biography.

@@gracehowell. Right? He was actually proud of her sharpshooting and supportive of her throughout her career.

Carousel has some songs like that too.

@@appletree6898 carrousel is entirely about that!

Of course, I agree. But the point of this song was not to advocate, Nancy being a victim it was about how women who are abused, somehow become psychologically bonded with the abuser. Sadly, this happens all the time in real life. It’s not an education of this behaviour it’s an illustration of how tragic it is.

@@rixx46 Unfortunetly the song doesn't;t come off that way.

Agreed, they really didn't know how to write from the perspective of women at all. 🤦🏽‍♀️

@@trinaq It reminds me of r/menwritingwomen

Honestly I don’t find the song to be creepy at all unless a predator actually does sing that song. It’s not creepy in the slightest. I can’t just imagine it being an awfully sweet song for little girls.

A courtesan is just another word for a prostitute...

Uh... Read that back: "A girl being raised to be a *COURTESAN* and how she changes from a girl to a woman." I enjoy the musical too, but the premise IS pretty creepy, especially when you notice Gaston is several years older than Gigi and Honore does tend to go after young women. Honore singing about 'little girls' is because he loves women and tends to swoop in as soon as young women hit the market.

@@wordforger it was based on the autobiography of a French Courtesan. And they were showing what was happening in France at that period in its history. Thats why its also considered a period piece. Gigi is raised to be a rich mans mistress but she is never told any of this until her great aunt and grandma see a match with Gascon

@@wordforger age gaps were common then though. Men couldn't really marry until they had established themselves enough to be able to support a family and household in a style that suited their station. Whereas girls went to school and then got married and started having kids. Women only worked if there was no other option - ie no man wanted to marry them - and it was looked down upon and university wasn't that open to women either. Men would also remarry if they were widowed and it was not uncommon to marry a younger woman if she had the right dowry

SHAW was still alive when the first movie was made. He was pissed at the change. He said his Elizer would never have fixed Henry’s slippers! It says if they have no clue what my fair Lady was about. It wasn’t about advocating, Henry Higgins attitude it was about showing what an ignorant fool he was. You can’t do that without songs that illustrate his miss guided point of view.

Tell me more, tell me more Was it love at first sight? Tell me more, tell me more Did she put a fight? So did he have to force her a little? (like he later tries to do at the drive in) Took her bowling in the Arcade We went strolling, drank lemonade We made out under the dock We stayed up 'til ten o'clock During the bowling he makes a gesture with his fingers to indicate he 'fingered' her. I didn't get that part until I was older. They went out and made out a little and he is telling all of his friends he banged her in great detail that never happened.

Summer nights is about how far he could get the girl to go, basically assaulting her. “Did she put up a fight?” Come on.

@@itsavideothing Actually, it's about a high school boy completely exaggerating the details of his summer romance in order to look cool in front of his friends, which is normal teenage stuff in any day and age

I think if you take it, literally, I would agree, but the whole song is just showing how misogynistic Horace is, and thereby making the audience laugh at him, not with him.

As awful as the 2019 Cats film was, at least removing “The Pekes and the Pollicles” was understandable and justified. Plus, another reason I think for its removal is just… well… it’s not really a song that has any relevancy to the plot. If you think about it, it’s just more of a minor number about a battle between cats and dogs compared to the other songs that’s about the Jellicle Cats, with each song dedicated to introducing each Jellicle Cat, and their main event, The Jellicle Ball. The only notable cat in the number being the Rumpus Cat, who only appears for that number and doesn’t join the other Jellicle Cats in attending the Jellicle Ball. If you were to remove the song from the musical, nothing would really change that much.

Apparently this only works if: -You belong to neither woke nor antiwoke -You are a metalhead -You keep the fuck away from Hollywood

How old was the guy?

@@harry31619 17 but age is not the whole reason why this song should be on that list maybe you should listen to the song or better yet watch the movie to find out more as they can probably explain it better than I can

Isn't the song from Mulan A Man Worth Fighting For?

Maybe it was a kinda flawed way of saying I warned you.

I watch this movie every Christmas, but we usually skip that scene cause we can't stand it

To be fair, it was meant as a homage to Bill "Bojangles" Robinson whom Fred Astaire admired and was good friends with. It's still horribly tacky by today's standards, but at least it wasn't intended to be mocking.

I literally said that.

THANK YOU for getting this point that the narrator and some people in the comments seem to be missing

But lyricist Sheldon Harnick replaced those lyrics almost 40 years ago with "When he proposes, I'll have him send me tons of roses. Sweet scented blossoms I'll enjoy by the hour. I won't restrict myself to one Little Flower."

@@njatty Never knew that. I know Barbara Cook used different lyrics in a concert. Maybe offensive, but I think the original lyrics are better written. Of course, the show is dated, so I can't imagine it's done often. Though I saw the Encores production several years ago. Don't remember what they did.

@@Evan-vs1ew According to Harnick in the NYT, Tom Bosley's daughter had asked him to change them. She was playing Marie in her high-school production. Encores last production used the new lyrics. A reprise of "The Name's LaGuardia" was also added to the second act.

They did absolutely no homework to create this video. It’s like they just did a random Google search and picked songs a hat. Lazy and pointless.

This may well be Ms. Mojo's worst video yet.

So they DID age poorly.

Exactly....going to watch a couple of those movies today with my girls since it's rainy and crappy out....lol

I was just about to post this! I was so surprised by the fact that song was not included in this list

That songs shows he's basically an idiot and Dolly is gonna take him down... several notches.

@@richardperhai8292 yeah, even with the altered verse sung by Dolly, he's kind of a lost cause the more he's around

@@bwayfan9035 what's funny is this is before the big number "Don't Put Your Monday in Your Sunday"

It’s about teenage loves. Inaccurate for most of us because they should have been working.

Thank you. The comments are cringey as heck.

Thank you for your comment! I was starting to think I was alone in my feelings. These songs did not age well! “Did she put up a fight?” How can anyone think that’s okay??? Just because the lyrics were not considered racist and/or misogynistic at the time they were written just shows how awful society was at the time. Being ‘taken in context’ doesn’t make any of these songs any less horrible!

Thank you. I too was sitting here cringing. And was shocked at many of the comments.

Some of these comments are troubling for sure! Hey, yeah, perpetuating racism or a reference to sexual assault are just fine because they were written a while ago?! No, we can enjoy some of these songs on context, but not all. Thank you for your (not troubling) comment.

Add the Pekes and the Pollicles from the same show.