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Favorite songs
Oct. 2nd, 2015 11:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cahnI have... a whole lot of favorite songs.
If I really had to pick just one, I think maybe "Satified"; a) ANGELICA IS MY FAVORITE EVER, b) I really, really love the concept of going back and showing another POV and how that changes our understanding of what happened before; c) I love the whole "three fundamental truths at the exact same time" part. That WHOLE PART; and d) the reprise of "I know my own sister" is maybe my favorite single line in the entire thing and I totally teared up at that spot.
Cabinet Battle #1 is a favorite too, because he made the topic of assuming states' debts into a rap battle and it was awesome.
The one I've probably listened to the most times is "Guns and Ships," because it is so relentlessly brilliant and Lafayette is so irrepressibly AWESOME. "No one has more resilience / Or matches my practical tactical brilliance!!"
The one I think is my favorite devoid of context is "Wait For It," which I think is just a good *song* even if you didn't know anything about the rest of the play. Plus which, in context of the play, it succeeds in making me have ALL THE FEELS for Burr even though he's... Burr... and also the reprise of the "Wait for it" bits in the runup to the Reynolds Pamphlet is just brilliant.
The one that breaks my heart over and over again every time I listen to it is "It's Quiet Uptown," which I think is just the most amazing song in a musical full of amazing songs. Lin-Manuel Miranda just breaks my heart (both the writing and the singing -- what he does in singing this song is spectacular).
But they're all totally amazing and brilliant. This is maybe the only musical that I've ever listened to where I want to listen to all the songs, every time. (Well, not always the reprise of Stay Alive and It's Quiet Uptown, but more because I don't want to be reduced to a sobbing mess all the time.)
What's your favorite?
If I really had to pick just one, I think maybe "Satified"; a) ANGELICA IS MY FAVORITE EVER, b) I really, really love the concept of going back and showing another POV and how that changes our understanding of what happened before; c) I love the whole "three fundamental truths at the exact same time" part. That WHOLE PART; and d) the reprise of "I know my own sister" is maybe my favorite single line in the entire thing and I totally teared up at that spot.
Cabinet Battle #1 is a favorite too, because he made the topic of assuming states' debts into a rap battle and it was awesome.
The one I've probably listened to the most times is "Guns and Ships," because it is so relentlessly brilliant and Lafayette is so irrepressibly AWESOME. "No one has more resilience / Or matches my practical tactical brilliance!!"
The one I think is my favorite devoid of context is "Wait For It," which I think is just a good *song* even if you didn't know anything about the rest of the play. Plus which, in context of the play, it succeeds in making me have ALL THE FEELS for Burr even though he's... Burr... and also the reprise of the "Wait for it" bits in the runup to the Reynolds Pamphlet is just brilliant.
The one that breaks my heart over and over again every time I listen to it is "It's Quiet Uptown," which I think is just the most amazing song in a musical full of amazing songs. Lin-Manuel Miranda just breaks my heart (both the writing and the singing -- what he does in singing this song is spectacular).
But they're all totally amazing and brilliant. This is maybe the only musical that I've ever listened to where I want to listen to all the songs, every time. (Well, not always the reprise of Stay Alive and It's Quiet Uptown, but more because I don't want to be reduced to a sobbing mess all the time.)
What's your favorite?
