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so i finally listened to Hamilton and now i'm loving obsessed with it and i'm just wondering how much of a douchebag i am
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Oct 3, 2019 21:43
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BUSH 2112 posted:so i finally listened to Hamilton and now i'm loving obsessed with it and i'm just wondering how much of a douchebag i am I would ask if you're obsessed ironically or unironically, but there's no good way to be obsessed with Hamilton.
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Oct 3, 2019 21:45
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:I would ask if you're obsessed ironically or unironically, but there's no good way to be obsessed with Hamilton. no i totally unironically love it lol like i've probably listened to it 40 times in the last two weeks. i mean, i just also love musicals so judge me as you will
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Oct 3, 2019 21:47
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BUSH 2112 posted:no i totally unironically love it lol it whitewashes history. hamilton called people "a great beast" and believed we needed to be guided by our landed white betters
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Oct 3, 2019 21:48
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but it’s a bad musical. have you been checked for any brain tumors?
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Oct 3, 2019 21:49
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setting aside the historical revisionism stuff, all the songs and lyrics are deeply embarrassing
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Oct 3, 2019 21:50
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the best musical is les miserables come @ me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0SWaGfkPxA
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Oct 3, 2019 21:51
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Serf posted:it whitewashes history. hamilton called people "a great beast" and believed we needed to be guided by our landed white betters oh totally, i still think it's just got great music though Pener Kropoopkin posted:but it’s a bad musical. have you been checked for any brain tumors? how is a bad musical? even beyond just the fact that i enjoy it personally, it seems to meet all of the requirements of what i feel would be considered a great musical.
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Oct 3, 2019 21:52
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Percelus posted:the best musical is les miserables come @ me  its actually phantom of the paradise
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Oct 3, 2019 21:52
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BUSH 2112 posted:oh totally, i still think it's just got great music though the rapping is extremely bad tho. its like barely above sugar hill gang poo poo and at least they were good
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Oct 3, 2019 21:54
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Serf posted:the rapping is extremely bad tho. its like barely above sugar hill gang poo poo and at least they were good The people are asking to hear my voice .. For the country is facing a difficult choice. And if you were to ask me who I’d promote … Jefferson has my vote.
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Oct 3, 2019 21:55
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redneck nazgul posted:The people are asking to hear my voice .. lmbo
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Oct 3, 2019 21:56
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the only good musical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbSQc6btIQc
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Oct 3, 2019 21:56
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actually the doomstar requiem is p awesome and gently caress adult swim for never greenlighting a last season and not letting frisky dingo run its proper course https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSgoefp8Ol0
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Oct 3, 2019 21:56
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The best musical is Reefer Madness and it's not even close
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Oct 3, 2019 21:57
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redneck nazgul posted:The people are asking to hear my voice .. making people do this rap in a musical that has poc playing slaveowners is shattering my brain all over again
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Oct 3, 2019 21:57
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Serf posted:the rapping is extremely bad tho. its like barely above sugar hill gang poo poo and at least they were good i dunno, i guess that going into it i just assumed that it would be super dorky when it came to the rap sections; so it doesn't really bother me. some of them are legitimately not bad, though. like, i think that not only are the rap sections of "Aaron Burr, Sir" pretty decent, but like the contrast between the beginning and the end segments are pretty cool. plus "Ten Duel Commandments" is pretty awesome just on it's own merits imo
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Oct 3, 2019 21:59
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i want the his dark materials adaptation to be watchable and im hoping lin manuel doesn't ruin it i never read the books and im not going to
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Oct 3, 2019 22:00
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anyway this is completely subjective but the best musical is Little Shop of Horrors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPkYGM0q0YI
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Oct 3, 2019 22:14
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do the protomen albums count as musicals because then thats the best one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJvq7z39YEw
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Oct 3, 2019 22:18
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is blues brothers cultural appropriation, show your work.
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Oct 3, 2019 22:23
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cornel west has the best take on cultural appropriation i think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp2m4Et0soM
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Oct 3, 2019 22:27
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22 Eargesplitten posted:is blues brothers cultural appropriation, show your work. I want to just instinctively say no to defend one of my favorite movies but really not my place to comment as a white dude.
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Oct 3, 2019 22:36
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22 Eargesplitten posted:aside from killing the museum staff and destroying a species of plant that can apparently cure just about anything and attempting to take on every superpower in the world with one country’s industrial capability in race war. the climax involved a cia agent operating a mil drone plane in foreign airspace to ensure that a succession crisis in a resource-rich african nation was resolved w the western-sympathetic side victorious
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Oct 3, 2019 22:40
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22 Eargesplitten posted:is blues brothers cultural appropriation, show your work. probably but the soundtrack has some legit good tunes tbh
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Oct 3, 2019 22:43
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22 Eargesplitten posted:is blues brothers cultural appropriation, show your work. I'm gonna say no because the Blues Brothers are a cover band. edit: Jake & Elwood, I mean
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Oct 3, 2019 22:44
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Percelus posted:the best musical is les miserables come @ me When I was a kid I saw a high school production of less Miserables and jal vean Jean was a black kid and let me tell ya, that casting choice was infinitely better then any professional production I've heard of
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Oct 3, 2019 22:48
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:anyway this is completely subjective but the best musical is Little Shop of Horrors Little Shop of Horrors is a deeply reactionary story about how the struggles of the poor lead them to unleash a monster that consumes the world, please @ me because there's no point in a hot take if you cant argue about it
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Oct 3, 2019 23:20
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Also Les Mis rules
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Oct 3, 2019 23:21
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Some Guy TT posted:captain america played as an actual ultra patriotic guy from the forties would own because half of him would be him pissing everyone off with retrogade assumptions and the other half would be him looking at everyone else in horror because we run a profit military that he would almost certainly recognize as essentially fascist no one will ever write a version like that because he'd spend the whole movie trying to justify why he called nick fury the n word
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Oct 3, 2019 23:22
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BUSH 2112 posted:so i finally listened to Hamilton and now i'm loving obsessed with it and i'm just wondering how much of a douchebag i am mildly - I’ll say it’s absolutely worth seeing live if you get the opportunity, the choreography and staging elevates the material/theatrical experience a LOT
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Oct 3, 2019 23:44
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StashAugustine posted:Little Shop of Horrors is a deeply reactionary story about how the struggles of the poor lead them to unleash a monster that consumes the world, please @ me because there's no point in a hot take if you cant argue about it Seems kind of obvious that the actual viewpoint of Little Shop of Horrors is that capitalism's manufacturing of desire leads us all to become axe murderers, and, inevitably, the instruments of our own destruction. At least, that's the obvious viewpoint of the film in the original ending where the space plants become a popular commodity and they destroy civilization. The plant, like capital, realizes Seymour's desires but - like capital - grows beyond the point that it can be controlled by the private individual, yet still must continue feeding off the blood of the people.
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Oct 3, 2019 23:48
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I'm being facetious here but Marxist allegory maps perfectly onto Little Shop of Horrors to the point you could think it's intentional. Seymour even buys the plant, and like an investment it accumulates values over time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r_2yyY2SO0
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Oct 3, 2019 23:52
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Cutting out the original ending of Little Shop is one of the greatest crimes against cinema ever perpetrated. They did so much great miniature work and practical effects to have the plants destroy Manhattan, and they cut it all in favor of a bullshit ending where Seymour and Audrey get to live happily ever after in the suburbs. Which completely undermines all the themes of the story and turns it into trash. What a travesty.
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Oct 4, 2019 00:08
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anyway I've learned to accept I'm fairly basic, so my favorite musical is Chicago which imo stands out from the vast majority of musical theater in how consistently it maintains such a high level of quality in terms of both music and choreography through the entire run-time LGD has issued a correction as of 00:15 on Oct 4, 2019 |
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Oct 4, 2019 00:08
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The American Psycho musical was way better than it had any right to be.
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Oct 4, 2019 00:13
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Assassins is a pretty good musical too.
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Oct 4, 2019 00:36
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BUSH 2112 posted:probably but the soundtrack has some legit good tunes tbh also it has like six legit R&B/blues stars actually showing up to perform their songs. it’s basically like 2/3 love letter, 1/3 making cops and Nazis look stupid. e: I guess being serious it depends on where the line is drawn between cultural appreciation and cultural appropriation. and that’s a thorny topic that I’m staying way away from since I’m a white guy. 22 Eargesplitten has issued a correction as of 01:23 on Oct 4, 2019 |
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Oct 4, 2019 01:07
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Freaking Crumbum posted:
Funny story comics actually sell really well to people who aren't chuds just not via comic shops Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur and Unbeatable Squirrel Girl both have TP sales out of proportion to their single issue sales Because Barnes and Noble and Scholastic book fairs don't sell singles, but they sell trades Also Mark Russell has made a career if writing wildly leftist propaganda that nobody notices because he only works on licensed books lmao
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Oct 4, 2019 01:19
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His first arc of wonder twins ended with them stopping the villain from forcing the world's leaders to fix global warming/hunger/poverty/etc under threat of swapping everyone's minds so they would wake up as poor people and lose all their power And going oh gently caress all we did was help the people who profit off the world being poo poo
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