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alatariel-galadriel · 10 months ago

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yeah this is still SO true the man had more talent in his toenails than i could ever dream of. I originally wrote this when I got jumpscared by Where Is The Justice on a random playlist and that song still lives in my brain and in rent free

hi yes jeremy jordan’s voice makes me ascend to a higher level

#yes I started out as a newsies blog why do you ask #ANYWAYS THE DEATH NOTE MUSICAL #love how in the first song we already have the immediate conflation of justice with punishment #and the casual conviction of an inability to change #its SUCH a good opening for Light’s character because it has all of the seeds of his ideology #wrapped up all pretty in a package that immediately has you nodding along without thinking #the classmates moving into the ominous choir of ‘Justice’ as they get swept up too as a precursor to the Kira mania #and all sung my one of the most talented artists on the planet????#jeremy Jordan is seriously incredible the amount of talent stored in that man is unbelievable #im in awe of him #and incredibly normal about the musical #ALSO ALSO #It takes on a whole other perspective when the Japanese justice system is taken into account #‘Until lawyers cutting deals becomes a crime’ (already oof)is so much more sinister in a place with a 99% conviction rate #where lawyer’s main job is reducing sentencing not proving innocence #but he’s turned himself a mouthpiece for the people frustrated by a system they’re powerless against #and turned them against an easy scapegoat because he doesn’t actually care about justice just being a god #justice lives in the grey areas and he’s obsessed with draining it to black and white #so that he can the one make those delineations and reign like a god.#this turned into me just stating the very obvious plot of the anime. Oh well. Anyways this song slaps #whispers from the ally #death note musical #Jeremy Jordan

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