The only other musical I really love is Singin’ in the Rain. So I guess I mostly like musicals about the movie industry.
Maybe it’s just easier for me to digest the inherent unreal quality of musicals when there’s a meta element involved.
This helped when watching La La Land. It also didn’t have nearly as much singing as some musicals where literally every piece of dialogue is sung. La La Land just has amazingly cinematic, romantic and purely magical musical numbers sprinkled throughout that visualize the feelings and emotions of the characters. That’s why I’m able to appreciate the movie so much. I am surprised however that “Audition” is the song nominated by the oscars, but that “City of Stars” was the song nominated by the Golden Globes. I gotta agree with the Golden Globes for once actually haha.
They nominated both, actually, and City of Stars will likely win.