Performed by: Paula Proctor "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Theme" Paula has tried and been burned before, which the number hilariously juxtaposes with the feel-good melody of Disney’s young royalty. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. She’s the pre-transformation princess. "The Group Mind Has Decided You're In Love" Rebecca and Paula want to make up but refuse to apologize first. The layers of foliage (all seemingly real) and the misty floor help generate a lot of depth as the choreography takes Paula back and forth. Her romantic problems have been maturely addressed and she must move on to another route to happiness, something most women her age have attained: professional success. Picking back up, the final choral diminuendo and wistful sigh from Paula cross-fades with office sounds, a ringing telephone coming in as the most prominent messenger of both the constant demands on Paula’s time and the realities of her job. Thematically, though, the song rejects its closest influences. Twirling through the forest-fied Whitefeather & Associates office, replete with moss-covered cubicles, Paula becomes the heroine of a story that seems freshly feminist compared to her aria’s genre. Performed by: Rebecca, Paula, Valencia, Heather and Audra Rebecca's friends bet on whether she’ll choose Josh, Nathaniel or Greg to be with. The song ends classically, though with a much more scatalogically disgusting climax than anything in Cinderella, and is followed by silence. "Who's The New Guy?" Performed by: Paula Proctor Performed by: Paula Proctor Best song of the week: Hall came at it with claws out, and it’s so Crazy Ex-Girlfriend to interpret Rebecca’s downstairs mess in the style of funk. Performed by: Rebecca Bunch, Young Rebecca, Paula, Darryl, Brody and other friends Rebecca, Nathaniel and Josh lament how misunderstood they are. "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Theme" TV theme songs that describe a show's plot went extinct with scrunchies, which is why this furiously paced 34-second show tune is … The season stars Rachel Bloom as Rebecca Bunch, a distraught young woman, dealing with the consequences of pleading guilty to attempted murder at the end of the previous season. Writers: "Slow Motion" Writers: Rachel Bloom, Adam Schlesinger Writers: Rachel Bloom, Jack Dolgen, & Adam Schlesinger Performed by: Rebecca Bunch and Paula Proctor Paula performs an ode to Calvin Young. Paula encourages Rebecca to make a decision. Her brief fling with Calvin Young (Cedric Yarbrough) was unfulfilling and eye-opening. Writers: Rachel Bloom, Adam Schlesinger The fourth and final season of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend premiered on The CW on October 12, 2018 and ran for 18 episodes until April 5, 2019. “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” began with the songs as part of the fantastical narrative, and have pulled them out, poked them, and decided to put them into everyone’s reality. Paula was the first one to figure out Rebecca's true motivation for moving to West Covina, California. Paula Proctor is the Disney princess we need right now. She has tremendous vibrato, operatic pronunciation and the kind of bird-like vocalizing fairy tale knock-offs love to parody. Rebecca is excited that she and Paula are doing another caper together which they haven’t done in awhile. "You Go First" Performed by: Josh Wilson and Rebecca’s friends Performed by: Paula, Tim, Maya, Karen and George Rebecca and Josh lead the San Gabriel Valley plaintiffs into the courthouse. "The Cringe" You can follow him on Twitter here: @jacoboller. Writers: Rachel Bloom, Adam Schlesinger, and Aline Brosh McKenna Rebecca and Paula resonate together as they dedicate themselves to the same purpose. Performed by: Paula. From her flowing, bodice-covered dress and her plain beige headband to her wicker basket and the sepia lighting, Paula’s song is an ode to disappointment and broken promises. Picking the best songs from “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” is like going to an all-you-can-eat buffet catered by a Michelin-star chef. “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” began with the songs as part of the fantastical narrative, and have pulled them out, poked them, and decided to put them into everyone’s reality. Rebecca and the characters describe the things you can do when you are not following love. "Flooded with Justice" Who Needs Josh When You Have a Girl Group? And lyrically, the songs on this list are … In “Maybe This Dream,” her first big number of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s second season, … The worse her body acts, the more it betrays her with age and experience, the closer the analogy to her dreams. The songs often pay homage to or parodying other well-known songs, from Broadway hits like Les Miserables to Shakira’s Whenever, Wherever. Performed by: Rebecca, Paula, Valencia and Heather Crazy Ex-Girlfriend co-creators Rachel Bloom and Aline Brosh McKenna broke down six songs from season three, including “Buttload of Cats,” “Very First Penis I Saw,” “End of the Movie (feat. "West Covina (reprise)" Performed by: Rebecca Bunch and Paula Proctor Writers: Rachel Bloom, Adam Schlesinger Rebecca and Paula resonate together as they dedicate themselves to the same purpose. The show underwent changes, most notably toning down its … Performed by: J. Castleman, Rebecca, Valencia, Heather and Paula. Writers: Rachel Bloom, Adam Schlesinger Writers: Rachel Bloom, Adam Schlesinger Each episode features a few songs written by Rachel Bloom, Adam Schlesinger, and Jack Dolgen. She is married to Scott Proctor and mother of two sons named Brendan and Tommy. Performed by: Rebecca Bunch and Paula Proctor "First Penis I Saw" Performed by: Paula Proctor "Let's Generalize About Men" Crazy Ex-Girlfriend S3 Songs, Ranked The recently concluded third season of The CW's darkly hilarious musical comedy series featured 25 original songs; once again, Glen Weldon ranks them all … Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is an American romantic musical comedy-drama television series that premiered on October 12, 2015 on The CW and ran for four seasons, ending on April 5, 2019. Paula tells Heather what to expect when having a baby. Rebecca resolves to get revenge as her friends wonder where she is. Paula Proctor is the Disney princess we need right now. Writers: Rachel Bloom, Adam Schlesinger and Jack Dolgen Performed by: Rebecca Bunch with Paula Proctor, Heather Davis and Valencia Perez "After Everything I've Done For You (That You Didn't Ask For)" Writers: Rachel Bloom & Adam Schlesinger Paula reminisces about her first love Jeff. The wait for Season 2 of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is almost over! Performed by: Rebecca Bunch, Paula Proctor A playlist featuring Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Cast. Performed by: Paula Proctor Think about how often the “camera” zooms past flora in the foreground to find its subject in those golden age films. Her vowels are large and her words are round and elegant, even when referring to a crapping seagull or period cramps. Her dreams are relentlessly careerist, though the song mostly alludes to uncertain love (fleeing her wedding, an unreliable vibrator) and personal embarrassment (her pride is compared to the rotting corpse of Bambi—well, a deer, anyways). "What A Rush To Be A Bride" Castleman explains the embarrassing moments someone has he calls "The Cringe.". When she shifts to delivering clever asides, melding the choreography for scattering birdseed with a jack-off motion, it’s clear this princess isn’t one of Disney’s beloved ingénues. "Maybe This Dream" "Slow Motion (reprise)" The best Crazy Ex-Girlfriend songs, ranked. He lives in Chicago, plays Dungeons and Dragons, and struggles not to kill his two cats daily. Writers: Rachel Bloom, Adam Schlesinger, Jack Dolgen "No One Else Is Singing My Song" If anything, he knocked her up (twice) and sideswiped her ambition with responsibilities. "I've Always Never Believed In You" She’s her own hero and doesn’t need any help, especially from smarmy male colleagues. Performed by: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend cast Writers: Rachel Bloom, Adam Schlesinger The cast ships Darryl and White Josh' relationship. The highlight of Grebecca Version 1.0 is this buoyant ditty about… a urinary tract infection. In the series finale of “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” Rebecca (Rachel Bloom, left) lets her closest friend, Paula (Donna Lynne Champlin, right), into her private mental landscape. Paula explains her son her surprise of seen him become a fully grown man, as she never believed in him. Three seasons into Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, the situation is still a lot more nuanced than that.In fact, it gets more nuanced every time Rachel Bloom and the rest of the cast pop up on screen. Ask questions and download or stream the entire soundtrack on Spotify, YouTube, iTunes, & Amazon. Performed by: Paula Proctor This depth is standard in Disney animations. Performed by: The San Gabriel Valley plaintiffs Paula Proctor (née O'Brien) is best friend of Rebecca Bunch whom she met when they both worked at Whitefeather & Associates.She is a former New York native born and raised in Buffalo. "Love's Not A Game" Rebecca and Paula celebrate the end result of all their scheming. The camerawork and set design help establish the Disney aesthetic even to the deaf. Broadway veteran Champlin has the high, lilting soprano that floats from both Snow White and Sleeping Beauty, but she shines in transition from this more traditional, “legit” style—classically influenced musical theatre—to the sing-speech of Ariel from The Little Mermaid. After Everything I've Done For You (That You Didn't Ask For), The Group Mind Has Decided You're In Love, Trapped In A Car With Someone You Don't Want To Be Trapped In A Car With, https://cxg.fandom.com/wiki/Paula_Proctor/Songs?oldid=18195. Writers: Adam Schlesinger, Rachel Bloom There’s a great mix of styles among the 39 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend songs, ranging from rap to jazz, to pop and R&B. 10 Best Songs of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend August 3, 2017 August 4, 2017 DaveBerenato I’ve been angrily re-watching Crazy Ex-Girlfriend this month in protest of it being snubbed at the Emmy’s. Without hearing the classic orchestration, the scene is immediately recognizable. Performed by: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Cast "West Covina (reprise)" A period sex anthem exists ― and, of course, it’s sung by “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s” Rachel Bloom. The CW’s musical comedy TV show is known for tackling feminist issues and plotlines with wit and humor. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend was originally destined for premium cable, but landed at the CW when Showtime decided to pass. Performed by: Rebecca, Paula, Heather, Valencia Each episode of “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” features two or three original songs, which Bloom writes with Fountains of Wayne bassist Adam Schlesinger and staff writer Jack Dolgen. "The Miracle of Birth" You can’t look up to a princess when you’ve got kids their age. Paula exists in a world where she, as a middle-aged woman, has to actively try to spice up her marriage’s romance or else be forgotten. Writers: Rachel Bloom, Adam Schlesinger Writers: Rachel Bloom, Jack Dolgen, Jerome Kurtenbach Paula is hopeful that she can follow her dream of being a lawyer. Writers: Rachel Bloom, Jack Dolgen, and Adam Schlesinger Review: The Top 27 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' Songs, Ranked The CW's romantic-comedy-drama-fantasy-musical just aired its series finale, after four seasons and 157 original songs… The supporting birds (Michael McMillian and Burl Moseley, in hilariously flamboyant headdresses and wings) tweedle-dee with the best of them, but they’re not helpful woodland creatures. Rebecca convinces Josh's neighbors to join a class action lawsuit. Paula’s no longer looking—she’s taking things into her own hands. Writers: Adam Schlesinger, Rachel Bloom Writers: Rachel Bloom, Adam Schlesinger "California Christmastime" The Whitefeather & Associates employees worry about Nathaniel. Dreaming reasonable dreams (for yourself) within reality isn’t just the message of the song, it’s a grounding principle for Paula’s growth—not to mention a much healthier moral for a Disney princess to pass on. "Face Your Fears" Paula encourages Rebecca to face her fears. Writers: Adam Schlesinger and Rachel Bloom Why Is Josh's Ex-Girlfriend Eating Carbs? "His Status is...Preferred" ... A definitive ranking of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s 101 songs. Performed by: Rebecca Bunch and the Cast of "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" When Will Josh and His Friend Leave Me Alone? "Cold Showers" Performed by: Rebecca, Paula, Darryl, Heather, Valencia, Nathaniel, WhiJo, Hector, Maya, Tim, Jim Paula confronts Rebecca about how she messed up her plans. Writers: Rachel Bloom, Adam Schlesinger Snow White, allegedly fourteen (yikes), exists in a plot that revolves around her looks. "West Covina (Final Reprise)" You have to be your own princess. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend boss previews Paula's birth song, Rebecca's big decision By Samantha Highfill February 16, 2018 at 10:11 AM EST The girls walk in slow motion. © 2021 Paste Media Group. They’re just part of the scenery, fleeing when Paula picks up the tempo and addresses her more personal problems. Writers: Rachel Bloom, Jack Dolgen, and Adam Schlesinger Now, as Paula continues to move forward from the obsessive rut that’s formed the foundation of her and Rebecca’s friendship, she’s going back to school to become an attorney. Writers: Rachel Bloom and Adam Schlesinger The Gurl Group gripe about the opposite sex. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has earned plenty of … The 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend… Hope is a dangerous thing for someone as jaded as Paula, but it’s the difference between her progress and Rebecca’s stagnation. All 5 songs featured in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend season 1 episode 18: Paula Needs To Get…, with scene descriptions. "Buttload Of Cats" All 6 songs featured in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend season 3 episode 7: Getting Over Jeff, with scene descriptions. "Where's Rebecca Bunch?" The Ellison musical revue means this episode of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has more songs than usual, and they’re not just in Rebecca’s head this time. "Back In Action" I'm going to the Beach with Josh and His Friends! Rebecca tries to convince the staff of Whitefeather & Associates to rise up against Nathaniel. Writers: Rachel Bloom, Adam Schlesinger Rebecca reassures herself she has friends to invite to the housewarming party. Writers: Rachel Bloom, Adam Schlesinger "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Theme" Rachel Bloom as Rebecca and Donna Lynne Champlin as Paula in the series finale of 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.' But Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s heart was never quite in this particular love quadrangle, ... Paula loves Rebecca’s dream theater! We and our partners Writers: Rachel Bloom, Adam Schlesinger, Rachel Specter One thing that sets Crazy Ex-Girlfriend apart from other shows is its killer soundtrack. All Signs Point to Josh...Or is it Josh's Friend? Performed by: Rebecca Bunch (with Paula Proctor, Darryl Whitefeather and the tenants) Writers: Rachel Bloom, Adam Schlesinger Performed by: Rebecca Bunch with Paula Proctor "Trapped In A Car With Someone You Don't Want To Be Trapped In A Car With" My Mom, Greg's Mom and Josh's Sweet Dance Moves! All Rights Reserved. The songs … Rebecca and her friend's song about special Christmas time is in California. This song, seen in episode 7 of season 1 (“I’m So Happy that Josh Is So Happy!”) of the CW’s 2015 comedy, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Writers: Rachel Bloom, Adam Schlesinger The series was created by Rachel Bloom and Aline Brosh McKenna and stars Bloom in the lead role as Rebecca Bunch, a lawyer who moves from New York City to West Covina, California to pursue her ex from high school camp. "I Have Friends" "Without Love You Can Save the World" In “Maybe This Dream,” her first big number of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s second season, Donna Lynne Champlin channels Snow White—if Snow White had some sense in her head and a lifetime of self-esteem issues to face. The glamour-less princess. She may be there mostly to give Rebecca Bunch emotional support, but Paula also easily has the best voice in a show full of talented singers. Writers: Rachel Bloom, Adam Schlesinger Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. "He's The New Guy" Since then, her life hasn’t been her own. Ask questions and download or stream the entire soundtrack on Spotify, YouTube, iTunes, & Amazon. Jacob Oller is a writer and film critic whose writing has appeared in The Guardian, Playboy, Roger Ebert, Film School Rejects, Chicagoist, Vague Visages, and other publications. Ranking all 70 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Songs, from Most to Least Jewish By Emily Burack October 11, 2017 March 11, 2019 Over the course of two seasons on the CW, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has delivered top-notch musical comedy. "West Covina" from the pilot of the CW musical comedy "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. The women fantasize about how great they look together as they slowly cross a casino floor. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: The 24 Best Songs, Ranked From Great to Spectacular ... who plays Paula, told TVLine during a recent rehearsal. Writers: Rachel Bloom, Jack Dolgen & Adam Schlesinger Opening of Season One. Rebecca sings about being single and buying a lot of cats. Performed by: Rebecca Bunch and Company Writers: Rachel Bloom, Jack Dolgen, and Adam Schlesinger Performed by: Rebecca, Nathaniel and Josh and the cast Three separate traveling companions get on each other's nerves. As Paula twirls, so does the camera, and as she tiptoes through the greenery, it tracks alongside her. Performed by: Rebecca Bunch and her colleagues Paula sings it to express her lust for Calvin. With two kids, dreaming hasn’t been a luxury Paula could afford. Even without the songs, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend would still be one of the best comedies on TV: a sharply insightful, wickedly subversive, riotously funny rom-com that is fully aware it’s a rom-co… GREG GAYNE/THE CW (This post contains full spoilers for the Crazy Ex-Girlfriend … Performed by: Rebecca and Paula Writers: Rachel Bloom, Jack Dolgen, and Adam Schlesinger Performed by: Rebecca, Josh, Greg, Paula, Heather and Darryl Where are the solutions these stories fed to young girls? 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