Joe Tracz

After listening to the album once and enjoying it for the most part, I read the original novel from which this musical is adapted to get some context for the songs, and I was disappointed to find that it is a real sexist piece of crap. I read through the lyric booklet of the CD to find out if I had missed all that garbage because I had been focused more on the music, emotions, and choruses rather than the words of the verses. Thankfully, the songs seem to have dispensed with a lot of that foolishness and changed many of the book's plot points. I didn't read the book of the musical, but unlike the novel the songs don't put you exclusively in Jeremy's slimy little brain along with the Squip. There are several songs here that I'll be happy to hear come up in my regular music rotation, especially the rightly popular, "Michael in the Bathroom."… (mer)