You dumdums haven't polled the delight cast recording of Hamilton yet; let me help

^^that vid kills me, performance fire but also so much of cat clock eyes

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luyoyfn9GH1r3qz1no1_1280.gif

nixon twitter is definitely a sock

xpost haha! yes! cat clock eyes!

This is goddamn lovely imo

https://youtu.be/pBbgdno5uwo

i meant to embed dammit: it's the 'schuyler sisters' cast singing billy joel's for the longest time

nixon just hating because his face will never be on any money

I've been reluctant to even listen to the soundtrack.

do i even have to say it? or is it still PEDANTIC to use the accurate term?

nixon not hating

@dick_nixon
Mrs. Nixon and I long ago saw "Hamilton" and enjoyed it. We have not, as yet, ascended into heaven.

I can't wait until the movie comes out and I can listen to the cast recording

history has its eyes on you, tricky dick

take a break

how does a jowly, nervous, son of a mom, and a
Quaker, dropped in the middle of a
Forgotten Yorba Linda lemon ranch by providence
Impoverished, in squalor
Grow up to secretly bomb Cambodia?

That was my rat you decided to fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

I’m writin’ a letter nightly
Now my life gets better, every Checkers that you buy me
Respectable Republican cloth coat is so darin'
I’m just sayin’, if you really loved me, you would wear 'em

Extorted me
Recorded me slyly and and when she had me in a corner
That's when Rosemary bent her knee
And the tape was free
of a few minutes of history
I may have mortally wounded my records
But my story is orderly!
As you can see I kept a record of every tape in my secret
History. Check it again against your list n’ see consistency
I never broke a law that wasn’t mine
You sent the dogs after my scent, that’s fine
Yes, I have reasons for shame
But I among them are not my TC-800B tapes
As you can see I have done nothing to provoke legal action
Are my answers to your satisfaction?

when all is said and all is done
Kennedy has beliefs
Nixon has none

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tv3hrZmcEk

If I could spare that play
If I could trade George Allen's move for mine
The Redskins would've won right now
And you would smile, and that would be enough

I love u :D

I haven't seen this assuming the first line of the opening song is "Name is Alexander Hamilton and I'm here to say..."?

"I like to rap in a Treasury way"

the second song does have an 'i am the A-L, E-X' bit

it's interesting, if you watch the proto-hamilton clip of lin-manuel performing above, that while still obviously earnestly meant, he's playing up a lot more the irony and ridiculousness of the project. whereas the musical as it came to be is this far more populist thing.

yes everyone busting into laughter! instead of loud drunk shouting it at pool parties with a bunch of overemoting women because it means SO MUCH ~~~ if u r me

I think the show plays with a lot of these ideas---like having JL rap "I'm John Lawrence in the place to be" like he was Barney Rubble. But then contrasting that with Hamilton and Jefferson who have a Jay-Z vs Nas level rivalry.

My baby does the A-l-e-x-a-n-d-e-r part all the time now

Oh man I'd love to walk past a pool party of drunks shouting Hamilton lyrics

lin-manuel said having the rap get more complex and move from old school to more complex rapping was a characterization move!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wboCdgzLHg

I'm the A-l, e-x,
a-n-d-e-r
every other day I buy a brand new carriage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8aqAgtwqcU

has there ever been an in-depth study of the "...and I'm here to say" trope and how it spread as a corny "rap" trope in pop culture...I think saw it in a Geico commercial this year still

not in-depth exactly but
http://www.villagevoice.com/music/the-history-of-raps-oldest-cliche-6625926

http://www.feralaudio.com/2-try-n-raps/

Also not in-depth, but pretty fun

thanks for both those links!

"this rhyme has become the default archetype for how people who don't listen to rap think rap begins."

I would say it's how people who listen to rap think people who don't listen to rap think rap begins

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2016/07/you-should-be-terrified-that-people-who-like-hamilton-run-our-country

is he more upset by loads of ppl liking something or a rapping musical, i can't tell

seems like a fun dude

I'm seeing "Hamilton" tomorrow night, and have tried to stay in the dark, but am already a tiny bit sick of it, because my kids (and everyone) are constantly playing the music, or talking about the music, or blah blah blah. I just want to see it, as a person, and enjoy it without feeling like I'm the last on the block to see it, when in fact I'm getting to see it here the first week and obviously the vast majority of people will literally never get a chance to see it. So weird to feel lucky and late to the game at the same time.

Anyway. I was complaining about its overexposure (not its fault for apparently being great) and my wife pointed out how unusual it is for a Broadway production to cross over into the broader pop culture, and to an extent, she's right. I went through the last couple of decades, and it seems at least for the '80s, '90s and '00s there are really only one or two musicals per whose songs crossed over and remain, to some extent, prevalent. Les Mis, Wicked, Rent, um, Book of Mormon (maybe?) Hamilton, a couple of others. That said, an overwhelming number of hit musicals are either revivals, jukebox musicals or adaptations of movie musicals, so they've kind of had a head start on the ubiquity front. Which makes the breakthrough of original (enough) stuff like, well, Rent, or Wicked, or especially Hamilton more impressive.

totally!! i'm excited for u - i love what i have seen of the new chicago castmembers, i bet it will be great

you left out Rock of Ages, Jersey Boys etc.

(xp)

Well, Jersey Boys is jukebox musical, right? Rock of Ages, do kids sing along with that stuff? I'm not sure I've heard a song from it.

it was a big enough hit to get a shitty movie made from it

Rock of Ages is hair metal jukebox

I guess I'm unclear on the definition of jukebox musical tbh

I don't think Rock of Ages had original songs, unlike Hamilton etc.

Haven't heard jukebox musical but I would use the term "revue" = existing songs pasted together with some plot. Like Moulin Rouge.

Everything in Hamilton was written to be in Hamilton.

ah. yeah seems like the big hits from original material are p few and far between these days.

The last pop hit I can think of that came from an original musical was "One Night in Bangkok."

wasn't Avenue Q a big hit? seems like it was around for awhile. I never heard/saw it or any of the material as it seemed like an aggressively lame ripoff of Meet the Feebles

My wife loves all those recent rock(ish) musicals - Rent, Passing Strange, Avenue Q, Hamilton, American Idiot, Book of Mormon.

As a result I have seen or listened to those, and I am generally lukewarm (at best) about them. Hamilton strikes me as the least flabby of that lot, with comparatively little American Idol-style melismatic wankery.

For me, "musicals" invokes more mid-20th-century stuff. Rodgers & Hammerstein-ish. Sound of Music, King and I, My Fair Lady, Oklahoma. I like Guys & Dolls, Gigi, Damn Yankees. I like Godspell okay but start to lose the plot with Jesus Christ Superstar. Once Sondheim and Lloyd Weber get their fucking mitts on the genre I tune out. The Miserable Cats of the Opera can just fuck right off as I'm concerned. So it takes A LOT to get me to New York or into a theater these days.

All that said, we'll probably see Hamilton in DC, despite my lukewarmth.