Hair stylist: So what kind of band is your boyfriend in?
Magenta-dyed customer: He says it's Emo, but it sounds like the soundtrack to Spring Awakening.
–Supercuts, 6th Ave & Waverly
Overheard by: Jeffrey
Archive for the ‘Music’ Category
That Helps to Explain What Ensued
Girl talking casually to friend: So I’ve been listening to Michael Jackson all morning, and as I was passing the guy who sits next to me I started singing “Don’t stop till you get it up”.
Friend: Ummm. [Pauses.] But the lyrics are “Don’t stop till you get enough”.
–38th & Broadway
Overheard by: Miss. Me
That’s Only If It’s Inflamed
Guy: This song Ring of Fire is about Johnny Cash falling in love with June Carter.
Girl: Really? I thought it was about a rimjob.
–Pink Pony, Ludlow Street
Overheard by: Michael Roche
Just an Endless Conversation in a Big Room Full Of Chairs
Out-of-town girl: Is this a musical?
Parents: No… (mutters something unintelligible)
Out-of-town girl, flipping through Playbill: There's not even one song…
–Studio 54 Theater, Waiting for Waiting for Godot to Start
Overheard by: Jil
…Think He'd Do It, Though?
Worker #1: Who would play you? Chris Martin of Coldplay!
Worker #2: Chris Martin? He's not even an actor!
–Papa Lima, Brooklyn
Wednesday One-Liners Go Through a Grey Period
Girl looking at garbage and dirt spilled on the sidewalk: Gross. You think it’s supposed to be art?
–Broadway & Houston
Literature professor: So anything that anybody ever painted was a Guido?
–NYU Silver Center
Plausibly mad septuagenarian clerk: When I was 16 Stravinsky bought my first painting. It was written up in the paper. A couple of days later, I was kidnapped.
–Barnes & Noble, Lincoln Center
Overheard by: Seth
Father to four-year-old son: Looking at art makes your legs tired.
–Metropolitan Museum Lobby
Philistine: I don’t like art in which you have to understand the motivation behind it.
–Outside the Guggenheim
Overheard by: Devoted Puppy
Professor-type man to group of teens looking at Greek sculptures: And if the sculpture’s back is up against the wall and you want to see it from behind, just get up against a wall and look at its ass as much as you can… yeah! It’s not dirty or wrong… Just look at its ass!
–Metropolitan Museum of Art
All You Need Is a Really Good Ventriloquist
Caller: Do you have Pavarotti tickets for 2008?
Customer relations rep: Um… No. You do know he passed away, right?
Caller: Yes, but he’s on the program for 2008.
–New York Philharmonic
And My Head's Too Misshapen to Pull Off the Bald Look
Teen fan #1 (in line to see Cobra Starship): It's freezing! When are they going to let us in?
Teen fan #2: I know, right? I'm going to get leukemia it's so cold!
–W 16th St
Canadia: *Sniff*
Mom: You wanna play with my iPod? I put your favorite Bieber songs on there.
Three-year-old: He not my favorite anymore.
Mom: He's not? How come?
Three-year-old: Mommy, he's just a white boy from Canada.
–Uptown 1 Train
Overheard by: not a belieber
So It’s Jewgrass Music?
Teenybopper #1: … So then they started singing ‘Hava Nagila,’ and they lifted her up in the chair and she fell off!
Teenybopper #2: Wait, I’m confused. What’s a Hava Nagila?
Teenybopper #1: It’s like this cultural Jewish song. It’s like the ‘Cotton-eyed Joe’ for Jewish people.
–68th & Broadway
Overheard by: oh dear