"The music meister sings the song that the world wants to hear"--and that is the truth. I tuned into this episode of Batman the Brave and Bold because of Neil Patrick Harris. NPH's songs from the 2004 Broadway revival of Assassins and performance of Evening Primrose were--and still are--on repeat on my iPhone. Neil Patrick Harris singing in anything, even a Batman cartoon, was bound to catch my attention. I tuned into the episode not knowing what to expect. I fell in love with the music. The episode had Broadway style and--what sounds like--a large orchestra behind it. While the drive of the episode was more than entertaining, the drive behind the Music Meister was less than compelling. NPH voiced the orange-haired Music Meister a man who can control anyone who hears his "booming voice". This drive in the epidsode is unique and entertaining, but exactly what the Music Meister was trying to achieve by controlling the world is not quite clear all he really manages to do is hijack a satellite and force the world to "steal all you can, while you're under his sway". But the songs "Drive Us Bats", which is delightfully glib--"He always has a sidekick/Some Boy Wonder at his call/His utility belt holds everything/Can’t find that at the mall--and the duet "If Only" with Black Canary are reason enough to checkout the episode and (most definitely) the soundtrack.
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