"I admit that in the past I've been a nasty..."

[tenlittlebullets]

Does anyone else's brain randomly play musical versions of word association with certain songs? There are some things I'll start humming and get sidetracked midway into a similar tune from a completely different song.

Back in the days before Les Mis had completely implanted itself upon my mind, Lovely Ladies was mostly interchangeable in my head with... the Oompa-Loompa song. Yes, from the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie with Gene Wilder. This still occasionally leads my mind into thoroughly bizarre places mid-song and I have to stop myself from breaking into hysterical giggles right there in the theater. Most of the random associations, however, have to do with Disney songs:

- The vamp before Master of the House sounds so much like the one leading up to Poor Unfortunate Souls. The mental images this produces are really disturbing.
- A lot of spots in Yeston's Phantom remind me of Beauty and the Beast, but parts of This Place is Mine have actually caused me to switch to singing the Mob Song mid-verse.
- And the latest one? I'm just getting into Der Glöckner von Notre-Dame, having never seen the movie or known the English lyrics or any of the music. The part of Die Glocken that starts "Was für ein Morgen," that part always makes me want to sing Madame Guillotine. Every single time. It's morbidly hilarious.

(Speaking of Glöckner, I am so glad they un-Disneyfied the ending for the musical. ♥)

Comments

[puddleduck3.livejournal.com]

Oh all the time. Most of the time I don't notice for ages either.

[mbs-bookworm.livejournal.com]

It was weird to notice that the Donnez, donnez melody might have been swiped from the Sound of Music.

[strokemybow.livejournal.com]

omg you like Yeston's Phantom? It was the first Phantom-related play I'd seen and frankly.. better than POTO. Yes. >.>;;;

[broadwaygeek07.livejournal.com]

That happens allll the time. And Der Glockner and his little friends does indeed = <3 all over the place.

[mmejavert.livejournal.com]

I do that! Not that I can cite any examples for you now, but now and again it'll happen and I'll have two different songs playing through my head at the same time and it's fucking maddening.