The song "How Bad Can I Be" is annoying, repetitive, and inappropriate for what it's meant to represent. But people love it. The chorus is annoying, and the verses are the equivalent of recoloring a character and calling it an OC. And the bridge, which is still obnoxious, manages to be the best part of the song, aside from the beginning riff, which was basic but not that bad. Of course, the worst part of the song is that it's a catchy pop-rock song. If that's the kind of music you like, go for it, but it's not a good genre for a villain song about destroying everything in the name of corporate greed. It doesn't even constitute a villain song, since it doesn't present the Onceler as a villain. It just asks "how bad can this be? It follows nature and it follows business!" And it isn't even answered. Things are only bad when he can no longer keep growing his company. So, who's to say he even knows the real reason this is bad? He only sees that his company is prevented from continuing. There was no way to properly fix this with a single song, since he needed less time to be nice Oncie (as his mother calls him) and needed more time to be "Greedler" as the weird fandom surrounding the Onceler calls his evil counterpart. But if they could only fit one song to be his entire transition, Biggering did a much better job!
It's dark, it's cleaner, it's not overproduced, Ed Helms' voice is much smoother and more pleasant to listen to, and the Lorax actually gets a chance to say "Wake up, idiot! You're destroying everything!" The Lorax is still ignored, but now the problem of "how bad can this be? It's just nature" is presented not as a question with no answer, but instead as one person saying they need a ton of luxuries and they are going to do it no matter what, and they don't care about what people like the Lorax think. There is no question. Biggering's Onceler doesn't seek validation, approval, or an answer of how bad it could be. He says "If the customers are buying, and the money multiplying, and the PR people lying and the lawyers are denying, who cares if some things are dying? I don't wanna hear your crying! This is all so gratifying!" He doesn't care what anyone thinks, because he's Biggering. He's figuring on Biggering. And Biggering is triggering more Biggering.
I already know a bunch of you are going to try to defend The Onceler and your favorite song because you're a thirsty Tumblr girl, but before you do, I put Biggering on top of this chapter. Listen to it. Because Hot Take: How Bad Can I Be is a Bad Song.
