Ooooh, fun idea for a thread.

Re: the songs in LA LA LAND, "Audition (The Fools Who Dream)" has grown on me a ton but otherwise I completely agree. The crowd numbers are painfully bland (and plastic to boot, you can hear the studio editing in the vocals), and "City of Stars" has a non-melody that isn't helped by the fact that Gosling, for all his charisma, can't sing to save his life. Props to Emma Stone though.

I also have a problem with the way Chazelle villainizes modern art forms, because his jazz-fusion strawman is totally right. Besides, Miles Davis was already beyond traditional jazz in the 60s and 70s, this ain't a new thing.

You sig worked in that format a bit too well.