I'd love to tell you about my love-hate relationship with this song. My criticism of the writers Pasek and Paul is that their songs are often fighting against the book. (The "book" is the dialogue and story bits of a musical.) This is such a fucking joyful number (watch the video!) and it's supposed to be a song about how he's going to prioritise his wife and family over his circus (if you believe the lyrics). But the overwhelming message of the song taken as a whole is about

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I'd love to tell you about my love-hate relationship with this song. My criticism of the writers Pasek and Paul is that their songs are often fighting against the book. (The "book" is the dialogue and story bits of a musical.) This is such a fucking joyful number (watch the video!) and it's supposed to be a song about how he's going to prioritise his wife and family over his circus (if you believe the lyrics). But the overwhelming message of the song taken as a whole is about

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幾秒內	Jamie Garner jamieisgarnering	how fun it is to sing in a group. In the movie, the big joyful chorus is sung by the circus people. Emotionally it makes no sense that he would choose his two-dimensionally written wife over this chorus of joy and life. For that metaphor to make sense, his wife singing would need to sound better than the chorus singing. And she doesn't. So it's an amazing song, badly written, if you get my drift. The writers are not paying attention to the details of their own story, they're just