In the wake of New Years Eve, beyond all the good things that you’re planning to do, there is the deep lingering regret of the things not accomplished this year. Maybe that person you thought was the one true love was actually a terrible human being who makes you sick, maybe you failed to create as an artist as much as you should have, or maybe 2014 was just pretty lackluster. While it’s tempting to just shove down all those bad feelings so deep that you’ll never ever find them or ever have to, you know, deal with them, I think we all know that’s not going to work. Luckily the internet and spotify exists to give you the most cathartic jam session in the world from the people who write the saddest songs in the world: broadway music composers. That’s right I said it. It’s not all glitter and bouncy musical numbers.Fall out boy and My Chemical Romance and all those angsty boy bands from your emo phase in middle school ain’t got nothin’ on Jason Robert Brown.
Even though I was pursuing a degree in Theatre the past couple years, I hadn’t really discovered this until the past year or so, when my little sister started sending me links to the saddest musical theatre songs in existence. So you can thank her for this and hopefully the end of your 2014 angst. So here are 10 musical theatre songs leave you an empty husk for the rest of 2015(in a good way):
1.“The I Love You Song”- The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Where do you even begin? Oh, you know it’s just a song about a girl who can’t go with her mother and her mother probably isn’t even going with her mother and her father’s neglecting her and all she wants to go to a spelling bee and she’s getting through it be imagining her parent’s CHIMERICAL love. I’m fine.
2.“Pretty Funny”- Dogfight
There’s nothing like a song where a girl finds out a guy asked her out to dance for a “who can bring the ugliest girl” contest. That’s PRETTY FUNNY.
3.“I Dreamed a Dream”- Les Miserables
I just slipped this in because it’s commonly known as, you know, the saddest song in the whole world. While some prefer the broadway recording, I personally prefer Anne Hathaway because you can actually hear her hyperventilating.
"Oh, Okay" 