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The Original Broadway Cast - Kiss Me Kate (1949)

Ok, so the ’40s wasn’t a great decade for music if Kiss Me Kate is the best they could do. The problem I have with musicals is that everyone sounds like they’re having a jolly time, but you’re not included. This is the reason why rock’n’roll sounded the death knell for musicals as a cultural phenomenon: once Elvis arrived, howling directly at you, for you, articulating all your fears and desires, a bunch of numpties crooning tortuous plot points of a story that had no basis in reality inevitably seemed a little anachronistic.

I’m afraid I can’t take much more of this, so I will move on.

Kiss Me Kate on Spotify