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Okay finally watching Hamilton on Disney+ instead of a shitty cam rip. It& #39;s... better. But Lin my dude, you are dragging this show down.
They made the gravelly-voiced rapper more "street" by giving him a lil touque and I gotta tell you, it& #39;s really fucking me up.
He& #39;s wearing a fine-tailored velvet coat and ruffles, oh and also a moth-eaten poly blend hat, try not to think about that.
There& #39;s a lot of what you might consider clever rhymes here, but a lot of them just... kind of don& #39;t make sense at all. I think what I hated about this wasn& #39;t the low resolution, bad angle view. It was the music. And the story. And like everything.
What& #39;s weird is the King George stuff is absolutely wonderful - maybe because it& #39;s funny, extremely catchy, and mixes up the monotony a lot.
That, I think is what& #39;s really bugging me the most. This show is boring. Every number has the same cadence, tempo, and rhythm, so it sounds like a single song that& #39;s 2 and a half hours long.
God, if they had consulted with one or three real rappers on this, it could be So Good.
I like repeating a refrain just fine, but this show does it so often that it& #39;s annoying. It takes the wind out of its own sails. If this was a shorter show, it would be justifiable, but here it& #39;s just exhausting.
I will say, every now and then, the dance numbers and tone shifts really bring the fun back. "Helpless" is the first really good example of this, but it& #39;s a solid 15 minutes after the last time I wasn& #39;t bored.
Oh wait Lin is back mid-song, I& #39;m bored as shit again.
"Satisfied" is another good one, but it feels a bit long, as not a lot is really being revealed in it. It is a little confusing that someone would lust after Lin, but that& #39;s just me maybe.
Alright, we& #39;re mixing things up a little bit now with Aaron Burr. This is good.
Yea this "Wait For It" is actually really good for character development and it& #39;s the first true Banger in this show.
What& #39;s SO interesting to me is that I can clearly hear Lin& #39;s influence on this song, and it utterly Rips. It& #39;s almost like his signature cadence doesn& #39;t actually lend itself to long-form rap. You need melody to change up the themes, otherwise it& #39;s preposterously monotonous.
If I hear "not throwin& #39; away my shot" one more time I might leave the room.
"That Would Be Enough" has an interesting problem. It& #39;s not rap, and you can hear Lin& #39;s voice in it (maybe to its advantage?), but the feelings conveyed in it aren& #39;t new, and it does nothing to advance the story.
Aha Guns and Ships does a good job in that they& #39;re using a new cadence, but god can we please stop just putting syncopated "Alexander Hamilton"s in every fucking chorus.
The story is kind of picking up, but every now and then the show keeps trying to remind us of songs we heard earlier (that weren& #39;t that good), which really pulls me out of the experience.
It& #39;s like yes, I& #39;m aware of his wife conflicting feelings towards his ambition. It has not yet affected anything. Can we please move along.
That said, my increasing drunkenness (which would not be happening in a theatre) is seriously improving my experience.
Okay Act 2 is better so far. Not excited for Lin to get going.
Yep here he goes, it& #39;s not good.
Lin is a theatre kid with a heap of talent that someone should have probably said no to.
I badly need Alexander Hamilton to throw away his shot.
Ah here it is. He has finally Cheated On His Wife.
Tbh his rationale is pretty funny
Some of these passages make me want to go make a sandwich and pretend what just happened didn& #39;t just happen.
Oh my god I tweeted this before the song about "the Room Where It Happened" which is admittedly not terrible until Lin starts rapping.
As most things are.
Again, we& #39;re mixing up the cadence during the chorus, which seems to be critical to making a song interesting in this show. Plus, there& #39;s a kickass dance number. Which never hurts.
You know what it is here in Act 2? Lin is so unlikeable that it& #39;s literally impossible to believe that he won a rap battle against Jefferson, who (in this) totally rules.
"Washington on your side" is a really good song when it& #39;s not doing that "Lin" thing of just rattling off eighth notes. Jefferson& #39;s verses are great.
I was really enjoying "One Last Time" until they squeezed eight syllables into one beat with the lyric "George Washington is going home" in case we didn& #39;t know what the song was about.
I& #39;m realizing that you can say pretty much anything and make it sound like a rap that Lin Manuel Miranda wrote.
Like if you have a sentence where two words rhyme, you& #39;re in it. Just emphasize those rhyming words and you& #39;ve got Hamilton. Shit, if you have even an ounce of charisma and can carry a tune, you deserve a Tony.
My wife just told our cat that this show has so much potential, and I feel that SO Strongly that it& #39;s painful. But I can& #39;t respond because she wasn& #39;t talking to me, she was talking to the cat.
"You& #39;ve married an Icarus, and he& #39;s flown too close to the sun" cool thanks for explaining a very obvious metaphor that also doesn& #39;t fit at all (Icarus didn& #39;t cheat on his wife) and now she& #39;s literally burning his letters I feel like I& #39;m watching a poorly-executed DCOM.
Fuck.
I hate this so much.
Oh cool Alexander Hamilton& #39;s son is horny, good to know.
K this song doesn& #39;t even rhyme AND it& #39;s boring. Something about "unimaginable". All I know is that it was written to evoke a certain emotion and it IS NOT WORKING.
Love a musical where the focus is a guy sitting at a table with a letter.
I do like that we had this rotating stage this whole time so we could do some Matrix-ass bullet-time shit at the end.
It& #39;s a stupid monologue, but it& #39;s amped up by the effects at play. Just wish we& #39;d seen some of that clever stage work earlier.
Ah yes let& #39;s pity Hamilton now for dying because he was dumb and vindictive.
Eliza gets the last word here which is great but she should probably be talking more about how her husband was an absent cheater who died for no reason.
Anyway this was somehow in equal measure modestly entertaining and absolute fucking trash.
