“Nellie Forbush [in South Pacific] … is not Susan Sontag. The daffy nature of the lyric seems in keeping with the mood of the song, the girl singing it and the nonsensical guff people come up with when they’re deranged and in love.” And it’s “true that Coward is brittle and bloodless, … [but] if you can understand his accent, when he sings something not in this vein, it has more depth than a straightforward love song.”