The musical features a book by Ivan Menchell, a producer of the Disney Channel shows "Jonas" and "Phil of the Future," and lyrics by Don Black, who has previously collaborated with Andrew Lloyd Webber ("Aspects of Love, Sunset Boulevardrd").
(Anderson Tylerr, the Creator (Saturday) Belligerent, violent, chauvinistic — the Los Angeles rap group Odd Future packs lyrics that make their fans flinch, yet spout them with an elastic delivery that mends the unease.
Odd Future's lyrics can be devastating in the right way – when Tyler and Earl Sweatshirt rap about their fatherlessness ("Product of popped rubbers and pops who did not love us / So when I leave home keep my heart in the top cupboard") they become indelible.
Many of Odd Future's lyrics promote the rape of women and make light of school massacres.
Watching an animated Obama, a known basketball junkie and occasional hip-hop head, rap Drake and Future's lyrics while Drummond does Drummond things, well, there's no superlative that this millennial writer can conjure to express how much joy this will bring to anyone tuned into the large Obama-NBA-Drake-Future convergence culture nexus.
We also now live in the kind of world their future-obsessed lyrics predicted: we find Computer Love online, models smile from time to time and Europe Endless exists.
There were strenuous swimming strokes to the Sex Pistols' "God Save the Queen," and Ms. Mancini demonstrated some wing-spreads while singing the song's anarchic lyrics, "No future, no future, no future for you".
The sense of time passing is even more acute in "Outono" ("Stay"), Rosa Passos and Fernando de Oliveira's autumnal portrait of lovers contemplating the future, with English lyrics by Paul Williams.
And then, thanks the audience and surprises them by performing an unreleased and new song called "Future Love" whose lyrics referenced far-off galaxies, mechanical hearts and constellations.
