SPECIAL MASTER - A Parody | I Feel Pretty | Lyrics by John Emory

Lyrics by John Emory. Performed by Don Caron Executive Producers Don Caron and Jerry Pender & The Freedom Toast SUPPORT Visit https://parodyproject.com/supportus CONTRIBUTE to the PROJECT BTC:              33W8cvkCKupG77ChtTFXeAFmEBCaLcjsBJ ETH:    0x1f36edE7A4F06830D0e3d675776607790a2ce636  SHOP Parody Project Store: https://parodyproject.com/shop PATRONAGE To become a Patron of Parody Project please visit our Patreon Page https://www.patreon.com/parodyproject MAILING LIST (Never Shared) https://parodyproject.com/subscribe/ LYRICS John Emory I am special Oh, so special I have privilege that most will deny On Truth Social I’ll show everyone how I can lie It’s seditious ‘gainst my wishes Forget national security Oh, my Precious! Give my documents back to me See the famous man in that portrait there How rich d’ya think he must be Such an orange face Such head of hair Such a creepy smile Such a special me! There’s excitement And indictment Legal plans that consist of delays ‘Cause I’m loved By a pretty and wonderful base! I’ll outlast a Special master A Top Secret disaster concealed If I have to Find a judge to hear my appeals ABOUT THE SOURCE MUSIC I Feel Pretty from the Musical West Side Story Bernstein/Sondheim The New York Times explained that "Mr. Sondheim . . .has said he was never particularly fond of his lyrics in 'West Side Story,' especially 'I Feel Pretty'", later expressing that "The idea of the song is so simple". The original stage version of the lyrics was changed in the making of the 1961 movie version of West Side Story due to a change in the scene's occurrence. Making 'I feel pretty and witty and bright/And I pity/Any girl who isn't me tonight' into 'I feel pretty, and witty and gay/And I pity/Any girl who isn't me today'. In the movie this night scene was changed to the daytime, so the rhyming words "bright" and "tonight" were changed to "gay" and "today".The lyrics were changed back to their original form for the 2021 film version. The song was cut from the 2019 Broadway revival in order to streamline the plot and condense it to a 90-minute show without intermission.. Steven Spielberg and Sondheim initially wanted to cut the song from the 2021 film, with the former questioning whether the upbeat song would still work without an intermission between it and the rumble. It was ultimately due to the intervention of Tony Kushner that the song remained, as Spielberg later explained, "Tony [Kushner] explained to me, and then I explained to Stephen... that this is the first time in our story that the entire audience is ahead of Maria's story. And the audience will feel very protective of her because we know she’s about to find out." In the musical and 2021 film version, Maria is not yet aware that her love, Tony, has just killed her brother Bernardo, while in the 1961 film version, the song occurs before Bernardo's death. In the bridal shop where she works (in the 1961 film; Gimbels in the 2021 film), Maria sings about being happy and feeling beautiful because she is "loved by a pretty wonderful boy", while her coworkers tease her about her silly behavior. Robert Cummings of AllMusic comments that the song "features one of Bernstein's more memorable melodies: its first four notes, deliciously rhythmic in their rising contour, repeat, then are reduced to three, then to two. Bernstein's instrumentation colors the music with a Latin character…and so does the girls' chorus that enters midway through. Stephen Sondheim's lyrics deftly capture Maria's bliss and newfound sense of confidence".