#me a musical theatre slut: i'd love for mainstream musicians to use theatrical composition conventions sometimes as a little treat

[septembersghost]

Random thought of the day, I wish more artists did reprises on their albums, or repeating musical themes throughout like musicals do, makes me go feral (this thought has been sponsored by what a catch Donnie)

this is why i lost my entire mind at, "you were the sunshine of my lifetime, what would you trade the pain for? i'm not sure," opening and closing so much (for) stardust, the significance of that reprise and its emotional resonance echoing at both sides of the record makes the entire thing feel like a unified journey, like they've taken us with them through the story. what a catch is a beautiful example of that too (the reprises of so many of their previous songs being moving and almost triumphant, except you can tell there's this terrible sorrow in it, that there's a sense of an ending. i'm forever grateful it wasn't permanent!). it gives a narrative strength and theatricality to the music, which of course is why it's a necessary and employed device in musical theatre! i'd love to hear musicians use it a bit more too, it gets me every time.

edit: @deansmultitudes: i knew i was forgetting something, but lord huron's strange trails does this hauntingly, love like ghosts/meet me in the woods/the night we met all use the same melody to entirely different effect, and the whole thing is a concept album, one of my faves! idk how i've spaced it out so often lately, i've probably mentioned it before or you're familiar with it, but if not, i highly recommend it!

#harry's done it once really subtly in meet me in the hallway and sign of the times #in the melodies (just let me know i'll be at the door at the door -> we never learn we've been here before) #me a musical theatre slut: i'd love for mainstream musicians to use theatrical composition conventions sometimes as a little treat #no one is surprised #deansmultitudes #letterbox #the therapists pumping through your speakers #also polly this tells me you did indeed listen to folie today yaaaaaay ❤