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larrymasterpost · 4 years

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louis is gay

let’s start with a bunch of lyrics that can’t have been collectively written by a straight man (disclaimer 1: all these songs have cowriters but liam has said louis was in charge of most of the lyrics) (disclaimer 2: just replace the “girl” with “boy”, the other cowriters really tried to hetero it up, this is one direction)

- “all i know at the end of the day is love who you love/ there ain't no other way”

- “the priest thinks it’s the devil, my mum thinks it’s the flu/ but girl it’s only you”

- “so many nights i thought it over/ told myself i kind of liked her/ but there was something missing in her eyes” vs “it was there, i saw it in your eyes”

- “there will always be the kind to criticise/ but i know, yes i know we’ll be alright”

- “my mother told me i should go and get some therapy/ i asked the doctor, can you find out what is wrong with me?/ i don't know why i wanna be with every girl i meet”

- “i’m sorry if i say i need you/ but i don’t care i’m not scared of love” + “is it so wrong? that you make me strong”

- “i’m just like you/ if you only knew”

triangles: if you’re reading this chances are you’re gay and if you’re gay chances are you’re familiar with this symbol

and this symbol/ the act-up movement

anyway, long story short the upside down pink triangle was used by n*zis to tag homosexual men in concentration camps. it was later turned upside down and reclaimed as a symbol of gay pride and the fight against aids. louis and triangles seems to be a recurring theme

note the pink upside down triangle neon (the location where he filmed doesn’t have any lights or decoration, he brought these neons himself)

louis also has a triangle tattooed on his heel (achilles heel? anyone?) and paparazzi have said he’s asked them specifically to take pictures of his ankles before, tattoo in sight

“describe yourself in one word” “flamboyant”

first rainbow worn on the 1d stage

wore a rainbow apple logo shirt two weeks after the ceo of apple came out as gay

polari photoshoot: polari is a form of slang used extensively by the gay subculture possibly as far back as 19th century (polari words now incorporated into english include camp, butch, trade, fruit et cetera). there is also a clothing brand called polari, its motto being “the language of the subversive”. louis had a photoshoot wearing polari clothes, posted multiple instagram pics of himself in the clothes, and used the polari word “chavvy” in the caption showing he was well aware of the language behind the name of the brand

just like you lyric video (song released on october 11, coming out day, i should know cos i came out to someone on that day once)

mention of minorities, including lgbt, not only present but highlighted by the box

background article- george michael struggling with being closeted and in a battle with sony (”professional slavery”). if the shoe fits...

spot the “composer/ same sex/ glad to be leaving” article snippet at the bottom

credits to a wonderful frame by frame masterpost

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anamericannightmareinpa · 6 years

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The CFOO {Luke Hemmings}

Meeting with the CEO of Hi or Hey Records was usually the band’s least favorite part of making new music because it was such a tense atmosphere in the large conference room. The CEO himself—a man named Baird—was a very likable guy and he had never been anything less than friendly but the business aspect of the music industry could be an extremely intimidating environment.

While they waited for Baird, the band sat around the large mahogany table in their own little worlds. Michael leaned back in his overstuffed chair, his hands folded in his lap as he lazily tapped a beat with his thumb. Next to him Ashton was scrolling through his Twitter feed. Across from them, Luke and Calum were huddled together watching the newest All Time Low music video on Luke’s phone. All was peaceful until the sound of the conference room door creaking open captured their attention.

“Hello, boys.”

The band members stood from their seats to shake Baird’s outstretched hand. He was a broad-shouldered man with dark eyes who seemed almost grandfatherly in his appearance. He mostly looked like he wanted nothing more than to be on a golf course in Florida.

“Now to begin,” Baird started as he took his seat, “I want to congratulate you all on the fantastic album. This is shaping up to be your best. I know I’ve said it for the last three albums but damn if you don’t keep proving me wrong!”

The four Aussies grinned. “We appreciate that a lot, sir. We hope that we can keep getting better for our fans,” Ashton replied.

“That’s what I like to hear. Now everything seems to be in order except for one matter that we’ve got to discuss. You see, while Hi or Hey Records is doing extremely well, our financial situation is not where we need it to be. We’re able to distribute dividends to our stockholders, most importantly, Capitol. However, it’s not a large enough buffer for us to invest back into the company.”

Michael cocked an eyebrow. “Are you saying we’re cutting costs?”

Baird nodded. “Essentially, yes. I asked our CFOO to come in and explain some different ways that we can get creative with your project. She should be here any minute now.”

“What’s a CFOO?” Calum asked, crossing his arms over his chest.

“Chief financial and operations officer,” came from the doorway.

Five pairs of eyes landed on the woman who strode confidently into the room, her black heels clicking as she walked. In her arms rested a large red binder with different papers tabbed on the side which she placed on the table before taking her place to the right of Baird.

“Feel free to call me Chief. Most everyone does around here,” she said, opening the binder to a section tabbed in blue. “I’m sure Mr. Baird has begun explaining to you that while we can work with our current dividend payout to the investors, we need to establish a plowback ratio in order to give us a better standing in the upcoming fiscal cycle. Since you boys are our biggest draw, we really only have room to modify the budget with you.”

“If we’re doing alright with paying the people who need paid, why do we need more money?” Luke questioned.

Her sharp eyes shifted to meet his. “We actually stand to make more money if we establish a plowback ratio which means that we’re reinvesting into the company in order to grow. While we are definitely on the map as a label thanks to Capitol’s parentage, we are not established well enough to stand on our own entirely.”

“How are we not well established? We’ve been here for five years now and have a whole slew of talent!” Luke argued.

“You think five years is a long time?” she scoffed. “In business terms that’s like sending a three year old to fight in a war.”

Baird could sense the tension between the two and attempted to thwart its growth by elaborating, “We’re doing well, but we need to do better in order to stand among our competitors.”

Ashton sat forward and folded his arms on the table. “Well, how do you want us to try cutting costs, then?”

Thankful for the drummer’s change of subject, Baird motioned for her to begin rolling out the options for their upcoming album that she had concocted.

Clearing her throat, she began, “Our first and easiest option is to cut back on paper and ink consumption by not incorporating the lyrics to the songs in the CD inserts as well as forgoing any kind of exterior paper sleeve for the CD’s case. By cutting out the lyrics for the booklet we’re looking at a savings of at least three grand and then upwards of five and a half thousand if we leave out the exterior sleeve.”

The band exchanged a collective look before Michael answered.

“I think that it’s cool to drop the idea of an exterior CD sleeve since we haven’t exactly had the best of luck with them anyway.”

A chuckle was shared by all as they recalled the “WELOME” mishap of 2015 with the 2016 “Dick Slip” fiasco riding it’s coattails during the release of their third album.

“Leaving out the lyrics, though…” Calum bit his lip and cocked his head to the side thoughtfully. “We know a lot of fans really appreciate them being in there. We’ve actually been tweeted about it before, so I don’t think we can just chuck them out for this album.”

“Then that brings us to a side option: what if we printed them with black and white instead of color? That should save about one thousand or so and the fans still get the lyrics. Sound alright?” she asked, their nodding heads a happy sight. “Then there’s already a good cut of at least $6500. I’ve looked at a few figures and determined that about ten thousand should be good to reinvest and get us a better plowback.”

“She pulls double duty for a reason,” Baird smiled, his eyes glancing at her approvingly.

Without acknowledging the compliment, she resumed negotiations. “We can knock out the remaining $3500 with changing some of the aspects of the album artwork since the ar-“

“Absolutely not!” Luke cut her off. “That artwork is perfect for what we’re going for with this album!”

The rest of the band looked surprised at the singer’s outburst because he was usually very calm and businesslike during these meetings. The addition of the CFOO to the room had practically transformed him into a completely different person.

“Look,” she sneered, “I’m telling you things to help your label, blondie. As much as you wish this was all about the music, it’s not. This is a business; businesses need to cut costs sometimes and this is one of those times.”

“Well, you said it: it’s my label—our label.” He gestured to the others. “Maybe we say that $6500 is enough to snowplow back into the company.”

“You want to hang by a thread for the next fiscal cycle? Be my guest,” she said, her expression stony as she folded her hands over the papers in her binder. Baird’s face held a tired expression as he looked between her and the pouting singer.

Ashton laid a hand on Luke’s arm. “What’s the way to cut back with the artwork?” Luke’s eyes widened as he stared at his oldest bandmate completely slack jawed. “We can’t shoot down an idea without hearing it first, Luke.”

“The concept art that you came up with is definitely doable but the artist you suggested is extremely pricy. I’ve looked into some alternative up-and-coming artists who specialize in the same style that you want but at a fraction of the price. Giving one of those artists their break would save an estimated five grand and leave us with $11500 to reinvest,” she explained.

Michael leaned forward. “We’d be helping an unknown artist?”

She nodded. “Any one of the three we’ve managed to find have the exact style you want for the cover, they just don’t have the notoriety. I thought you four out of anyone would appreciate giving them that.”

“Definitely,” Calum agreed, glancing to his side where an expressionless Luke sat with his arms folded across his chest. “Right, Luke?”

Luke looked off to the side, biting his lip and grunting out a small, “Sure.”

“Then if we’re all in agreeance, I’ll make the arrangements to have these cuts taken into action and have accounting drum up some statements to see where we can reinvest with this plowback,” she announced as she gathered the binder into her arms and rising from her seat. Nodding curtly at the still seated men, she breezed out of the room without another word and let the door creak shut behind her.

Baird broke the thick silence first. “Son, I realize that people handle women in positions of power differently, but being threatened by her does not constitute a juvenile attitude like that. Pulling her pigtails isn’t going to lead to you two sharing a juice box; it’s just going to piss her off.”

“You were kind of a huge dick, mate,” Michael offered.

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Three days later, Luke found himself in the Hi or Hey Records headquarters once again but this time with a Dunkin Donuts vanilla chai in one hand and a guilty conscience on his back. He made his way up to the floor Baird had told him over text and asked the secretary at the front of the hall if the CFOO was available to speak with him.

The secretary’s tattooed hand pressed a button on his desk. “Ma’am, Mr. Hemmings is here to see you.” Without missing a beat, her voice crackled back to let him into the office and the secretary waved Luke towards 318 with an impish look on his tanned face. “Head on in.”

Slowly, Luke walked towards the office door emblazoned with her name and title in black acrylic. His hand burned as he turned the door handle and stepped inside the small space.

She sat in a high-backed leather chair behind a sizable wooden desk, filing cabinets lining the walls and a small cactus sporting pink flower buds sitting on the corner of her desk. Nothing seemed out of place.

“Why are you here, Luke?” she asked, her voice monotone.

Shifting on his feet, he held up the Styrofoam cup. “Peace offering.”

She raised an eyebrow. “I don’t drink coffee.”

“I know,” he replied, placing the cup in front of her. “It’s a vanilla chai, your supposed favorite.”

“Baird?”

He nodded. “Look, I really wanted to apologize for how I acted in the meeting the other day. It was really unprofessional and uncalled for.”

She took a sip of her drink, her eyes intense as they held his gaze.

“I won’t lie, I uh I was pretty intimidated by you throwing out buzzwords like ‘budget cuts’ and I kinda freaked out because this label is something we worked really hard on and have put everything into. No one’s really told us what to do or not to do so when you did, it was weird having someone we’ve never met tell us all this important information. It felt like you were painting us into a corner, at least to me,” Luke rambled. “But that’s no real excuse for being an asshole so I wanted to apologize. I’m sorry.”

Her eyes never left his through his speech, and they still didn’t when she took another drink from the sweet concoction he had brought her.

Finally, she spoke. “I respect that you came here to apologize and I accept your apology. Keep in mind that I have the best intentions for this company just like you and the rest of the band. If you have a problem, talk to me like a person and not a jackass. I won’t always be so quick to forgive you when you act like a child and no amount of vanilla chai peace offerings will change that.”

“Would dinner maybe change that?” Luke asked, biting his lip.

“You’ve exhausted your amount of questions for me this week. I’ll see you around, Hemmings,” she said, rising from her chair and walking past him out of the office, the drink still in her hands and a smirk on her lips.

Luke turned to watch her go, partially confused but mainly determined to return the next week and ask her to dinner again.

#luke hemmings #luke hemmings 5sos #luke imagine #luke hemmings imagine #luke fanfic #luke hemmings fanfic #luke hemmings 5 second of summer #5sos imagine #5 seconds of summer imagine #5sos fanfic #5 seconds of summer fanfic

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strangerdarkerbetter · 6 years

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What’re your favorite songs?

Ok! This is gonna be a bit long, lol. I tend to get really into a song or few for anywhere from a couple of days to a few weeks during which time I will play the song or songs obsessively (I don’t know if this is already a thing, but I call it samesonging)

So, my current songs are:

Waving Through a Window from the musical Dear Evan Hanson

Hunger - Florence and the Machine

Sky Full of Song - Florence and the Machine

First Burn - a reworking of Burn from Hamilton featuring six women who have played Eliza

Found Tonight - Lin Manuel Miranda and Ben Platt (it’s a mix of Story of Tonight from Hamilton and You Will Be Found from Dear Evan Hanson)

I have a few tattoos that incorporate song lyrics. The songs and lyrics are as follows:

Ever After - Marianas Trench

“I could be your perfect disaster, I could be your ever after”

Porcelain - Marianas Trench*

“When your heart releases, you won’t fall to pieces”

“It’s alright to take time to find where you’ve been”

Shake It Out - Florence and the Machine

“It’s hard to dance with a devil on your back, so shake him off”

“It’s always darkest before the dawn”

Let It Go - Frozen

“I’ll rise like the break of dawn”

“Let the storm rage on”

“It’s time to see what I can do, to test the limits and break through”

“Let it go”

Fighting for Nothing - Meg and Dia

(I changed up the lyrics a little for my tattoo. I start from where my tattoo starts which is about halfway through the song. The lines that have been striked through were not included in the tattoo. The final line in italics is my own addition which is a variation of lines from the song)

I’ve got my mouth: Its a weapon. Its a bombshell.Its a cannon. I’ve got my words.I won’t give them mercy. Mercy.But these things take time love.These things take backbone.And they’ll tell you what you want to hearCause they think its better. Better.But you better know how to point out the liars.You’ve got to weigh your wars make sureYou’re not fighting for nothing. Nothing.Are you fighting for nothing?I’ve got my words. I hope they hurt you.I hope they scar you. I hope they heal you.I hope they cut you open,Make you see you’ve been warringFor all the wrong reasons.Make you see that some things are worth bruising for.Make you see that your name is your honor code.Make you see that your hands you’re accounted for.Pick and choose where your sweat and your blood will go.Make you see your life’s not to be lived alone.Make sure you’re not fighting for nothing

And, because I have way too many songs that I love to be able to leave it at this, the following are a selection of songs I’ve obsessed over at some point in time, all of which I still listen to in between bursts of samesonging. I’ve grouped the songs by artist and listed alphabetically by artist for convenience below the cut.

(songs with asterisks next to them have trigger warnings listed at the end)

Anastacia featuring Ben Moody

Everything Burns

Bat for Lashes

Horse and I

Breaking Benjamin

Dance With The Devil

Cascada

Everytime We Touch

Dia Frampton

The Broken Ones

Homeless

Isabella

Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-Long Blog (musical)

Brand New Day

My Eyes

Evanescence

Going Under

Good Enough

Lacrymosa

Sweet Sacrifice

Whisper

Fall Out Boy

Dance, Dance

A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More Touch Me

The Phoenix

Sugar, We’re Going Down

Flight Facilities

Crave You

Florence and the Machine

(basically her whole discography, but I’ll list my favorites)

All This and Heaven Too

Delilah

Never Let Me Go

Ship To Wreck

Grace Potter and the Nocturnals

White Rabbit

Hamilton (musical)

Burn

Guns and Ships

Non-Stop

Satisfied

I Hate Kate

Embrace the Curse

Imogen Heap

Hide and Seek

Joseph

Cloudline

Kerli

Tea Party

Korn

Coming Undone

Lily Allen

Fuck You

Lindsey Stirling

Roundtable Rival

Shatter Me (feat. Lzzy Hale)

Marianas Trench

(again, basically everything lol)

All To Myself

Astoria**

Beside You

Cross My Heart

Desperate Measures

Ever After

Fallout

Good To You

Masterpiece Theatre I, II, and III (three different songs)

No Place Like Home

Who Do You Love?

Mayday Parade

Black Cat

Jamie All Over

When I Get Home, You’re So Dead?

Meg and Dia

Black Wedding

Hug Me

Monster****

Nineteen Stars

Roses

Misterwives

Hurricane

Not Your Way

Oh Love

Out of Tune Piano

Reflections

Revolution

Riptide

My Chemical Romance

The Sharpest Lives

Teenagers

Welcome to the Black Parade

Next To Normal (musical)

I’ve Been

Make Up Your Mind/Catch Me I’m Falling***

Panic! at the Disco

The Ballad of Mona Lisa

Build God, Then We’ll Talk

Nearly Witches [Ever Since We Met...]

There’s A Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven’t Thought Of It Yet

Paramore

All We Know

crushcrushcrush

Emergency

Ignorance

The Proclaimers

I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)

PVRIS

Ghosts

Holy

Let Them In

Regina Spektor

Better

Samson

Relient K

Be My Escape

In Love With the 80s (Pink Tux to the Prom)

Sarah Bareilles

Eden

Fairytale

I Choose You

Let The Rain

Shiny Toy Guns

Frozen Oceans

Le Disko

Sia

Alive

Chandelier

Elastic Heart

Freeze You Out

Steven Universe (TV show)

Here Comes a Thought

It’s Over Isn’t It

Love Like You

Peace and Love on the Planet Earth

Stronger Than You

Tonight Alive

Bathwater

Reason To Sing

What Are You So Scared Of?

Train

50 Ways to Say Goodbye

The Used

The Bird and The Worm

Earthquake

I Caught Fire

Pretty Handsome Awkward

Take It Away

VersaEmerge

Lost Tree

Whisperer

A Very Potter Musical (fan musical)

Goin’ Back to Hogwarts

Granger Danger

Not Alone

A Very Potter Sequel (fan musical)

The Coolest Girl

Harry Freakin’ Potter

Victorious (TV show)

Take a Hint

Walk the Moon

Shut Up and Dance

We The Kinds

Check Yes Juliet

Wicked (musical)

No Good Deed

Within Temptation

The Howling

What Have You Done Now?

Zedd

Clarity (feat Foxes)

Find You (ft Matthew Koma and Miriam Bryant)

Hourglass (ft LIZ)

10 Years

Through the Iris

3OH!3 feat Neon Hitch

Follow Me Down

*Trigger warning: song is based on the singer’s experience with his own eating disorder

**Trigger warning: song deals, in part, with his time spent in a psychiatric hospital, includes a reference to a hospital. Also references: suicide, self harm, rough sex, alcohol use. Allusion to substance use.

***Trigger Warning: song is between therapist and patient, deals with PTSD, amnesia, psychosis, death of a child

****Trigger Warning: song is about child abuse

#Anonymous #sabrinaanswersthings #music #songs

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superbatson · 6 years

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frozen denver: a reaction post

yeah, i decided to watch the frozen boot in its entirety on a snow day. it seemed appropriate enough. 😜

act one

i really dig this narrator/troll guy. he’s kinda hot (but that’s probably bc he’s shirtless constantly with tattoos/body paint and biceps & abs for days... mm, yes)

i like the diversity aspect of having elsa & anna’s dad be black. only, for the show to be realistic, elsa & anna shouldn’t be so light-skinned. while it is possible to have mixed parents and come out as white-passing, it’s more likely/common for the kids’ skins to be at least somewhat dark/medium. both girls don’t look mixed at all.

ooh, the “monster” melody appears in the beginning? i love it! (with bonus foreshadowing, yes please!)

patti is a really good anna. she’s quite adorable, and her voice is a really good fit for the character.

these ice projects are fantastic, i especially love the ones on the objects elsa’s holding when she first appears

bringing the remaining cast of characters in for “first time in forever” is a very smart move. it really makes it feel like this song is more the opening number, despite what we’ve already seen/heard so far. now the real story can begin.

hans is reeeeeally awkward in the beginning, wow. he wasn’t like this in the original film. a little awkward/clumsy, yeah, but not any more than anna. he’s like ten times more awkward than anna now, but john as a cute smile, so i’ll give him that.

weaselton’s tango is kind of unnecessary, but still a fun little transition between scenes. kinda makes the show feel more like a movie, since that’s more something that you’d find in a movie than a broadway show.

even if i was never a huge fan of the original movie, “love is an open door” has definitely been my favorite song from this franchise ever since i saw it, and john & patti sound even better singing this song than kristen & santino. i love this performance.

i’ll admit, i watched this performance before when i initially downloaded the boot and gosh, the slightly adult-ish humor is great. anna’s hand sliding down han’s chest, hilarious! these lil dorks really don’t know how to flirt.

i love the dance break!!!! it’s so cute and fun! and very in-character.

best part of that number has to be how quickly-yet-gradually john’s curls begin to fall loose. they’re just everywhere by the end, and i love it!

oh god now they’re making out as they transition scenes... this is a family show!

i just noticed that when anna comes back out to officially meet/team up with kristoff, the strip of white in her hair has gotten bigger... i’m guessing the whiteness will continue to grow as the show goes on?

oh no i really like jelani’s voice too. what the heck, this cast is so talented?!?!

i love the production design for this show. it really makes you feel like you’re in a cold, snowy, frozen place. (but the same can be said for ghd, because that also did a really good job of setting the mood in terms of the weather of the show.)

this is now the second time anna’s been lifted up in the air (or, i guess, swept off her feet... *ba dum tss*) by a male character in the show... is there supposed to be a height joke there?

they really could have done a better job with how they incorporate olaf into the show, at least from a design standpoint. everything so far makes the show seem realistic, like it could be set in the real world - or, say, like a live-action movie. but olaf looking exactly like the animated movie? terrible. i get that he has a particular look to him, but disney, please change it going into broadway, thanks.

(i don’t even care if they give him black, button eyes that could make him look creepier. it’ll be realistic, and we all learned to love the hyper-realistic cgi characters of 2017′s beauty and the beast, right?)

greg is... alright as olaf. a little too much like a gad copycat to me. and while i understand how much the kids like “in summer” and it shows how adorable dumb olaf is as a character, is it really necessary in the broadway show? it’s just too much of a break from the main plot of the show.

oh, look, they fixed john’s hair, ha, that’s great. there’s just like a single curl falling on his forehead now.

ohh, yes, give me this assertive leader hans. i love this character growth. (bc i’m the weirdo who’s always loved hans, even when he ends up being evil. sue me.)

“let it go” is such an overrated song, but damn, does it make a good act one closer! (and that ice dress is gorgeous, ugh, best costume of the show so far.)

act two

oh no they kept the trading post guy. why

wait, he’s just talking to the audience. i guess this is a filler-type thing to give people some extra time in the bathroom or getting snacks/merch? eh, alright. glad more shows are doing that now, though i’ll always make sure i’m right back in my seat the second the curtain lifts again for act two.

he has a song too. yeah, this is all filler. let’s see if this song is better than “poor pirates”. (it probably won’t be, but who knows?)

answer: it’s not. it’s very lame and kind of annoying, really.

aw, i kind of liked anna in the practical winter gear. but i guess this second dress is even more notable (for her) from the movie, so it was kind of inevitable that they’d incorporate it, right?

kristoff getting excited over the castle made entirely of ice. i like this little addition to the script.

i’ve forgotten how good elsa’s part in this “first time in forever” reprise is. can i get a studio recording of that as a solo?

it makes sense that they’d do away with the snow monster thing that sends anna, kristoff, and olaf out, but i’m confused as to what actually did send them out. more snow? a big gust of wind? elsa separating herself with more ice walls? what???

another olaf song? really? is that necessary?

they kept the “i don’t have a skull, or bones” line. that’s, like, the only olaf line i like, so, good.

ohhh, yeah, the trolls are still there and they’re still kristoff’s parents. i’m suddenly remembering the line in the opening about the trolls raising some human kids...

“fixer upper” also feels like a very unnecessary song??? i dunno, maybe i’m just sick of it from the movie. (or i just never liked it anyway)

the troll leader guy’s name is pabbie. just listing that here, for, uh, safe keeping...

watching the original movie again recently, i came to the realization that kristoff’s a very one-dimensional character with not a lot of growth or depth or anything like that. i’m still not completely sold on him as a character here, but i’ll admit, he has a lot more personality now. and this lullaby further helps to show that. good for you, frozen on broadway. you fixed something from the original film.

i just noticed that the troll guy’s - pabbie! - tail moves. not just with the motion of him walking, but it swings back and forth, more than i think it naturally would from the motion of walking. such a cool little detail!

it might be because i’ve listened to it several times before, but “monster” is definitely my favorite new song written for this show on broadway. it shows more of elsa’s fear about not controlling her powers and fear that others will fear her. it’s also just really catchy. kind of goes with “hope” in terms of super powerful and darn good broadway songs.

“if i die, would they be free?” yup, this song definitely goes hand-in-hand with “hope”. (though it’s a bit dark for a disney song...)

“she’s scared, so back off” SEE I TOLD YOU HANS IS A GOOD GUY #justiceforhans2k18

“why do you protect her?” “......for anna.” me:

(the only ships i care about for frozen are hans/anna and hans/elsa, sorry)

ohhh, john’s delivery of the “if only there was someone out there who loved you” line is good. i love how he smiles and laughs before saying it.

(i especially love how it’s really the same smile we saw before, that looked all cute, sweet, and innocent, but now it has a dark, evilness to it. eee, it’s great!)

(i’m a sucker for good villains, if you couldn’t already tell)

a third, sinister version of “hans of the southern isles”? yes please!

my prediction from earlier was right: patti’s wig is whiter now, to go with how more and more frozen anna’s becoming

HIS LIL EVIL LAUGH AHH YES

okay, two little flaws with the scene i’m watching (i had no comments on the “true love” song or anna’s conversastion with olaf) - hans should be more sad/solemn when he says that anna’s dead, not just yelling it? i mean, he can be loud, but at least show some emotion. and isn’t elsa there to hear that anna’s supposedly dead? she should be there to hear the news so that she’s defeated enough that hans has the opportunity to kill her...

oh, these ensemble members in all white are supposed to represent the storm... that’s cool!

now, elsa’s finding out that anna’s “dead”... nevermind about my previous criticism, then

“may i kiss you?” “yes, you may!” oh, that’s cute

so hans gets punched and then just stumbles offstage - will we get any more closure with him in the next five minutes, or no?

ohh, i like this “love is an open door”/”true love” mashup

overall thoughts

i honestly can’t wait to download this album/stream it on spotify. it’s really good. as i have said and will continue to say, i didn’t like the original film, but dammit, this show has officially sold me on the franchise. i kind of love it.

i don’t know who i want to win now at the tony’s. i mean, frozen has freakin’ oscars, so if it loses, i’ll be fine, and if it wins, i won’t be surprised, but the actors? between this cast and spongebob, i just don’t know. one of the ladies here, more likely cassie, should definitely win for best actress. as for the men, well, obviously my preferences like with ethan for lead and gavin for supporting, but john and jelani are really good too. and it’s really a tie for song & lyrics, both shows are so good. even the frozen costumes are great, though spongebob’s are just a little more creative when it comes to the ensemble...

going back to the music, i also hope they keep some of the score pieces for the soundtrack. the score’s really good.

i also think everyone’s well-cast in each of their respective roles. no one seems out of place here. the show can only get better when it transitions to broadway.

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