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derekklenadaily · 7 days ago
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| Who would be your Valentine? Tommy Ross, Eddie Birdlace, Fiyero Tigelaar, Dmitry Sudayev, Christian, Joe Gillis? 💕
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stitchbewitchs-blog · 5 months ago
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Allow me, if you will, to write about something that has been rattling around in my brain since I first heard the first released songs from The Outsiders musical. It owes a lot of its theater legacy to Dogfight the Musical specifically in the way that it sounds.
Any musical post 2012 (the year Dogfight first played off Broadway) with a strong ensemble of male voices, more than a lot of shows, and folk/rock influences will have me thinking back to Dogfight. And my first listen of The Outsiders did exactly that, recalling the bounding, rollicking fun of the first few songs of Dogfight when the Marines land in San Francisco. I could write a novel about this, and I might post about it more, but I need to talk about the similarities between Little Brother (The Outsiders) and Come Back (Dogfight).
They are both the eleven o clock numbers of their show, the final big emotional song to really knock your socks off at the end of the show. They are both songs about grief, Dallas singing Little Brother after losing Johnny and Eddie singing of the deaths of Bernstein and Boland and his experiences coming home from Vietnam.
Musically, they choose to tell us of their grief in different ways. "Little Brother" has more rhythm, more blues influence, in the way that it swings and the singers add riffs. It includes some singing from the ensemble towards the end, building the crescendo of the song as Dally emotes his grief in a ramp up to the very last verse. The ensemble portion is a call and response, all of the voices representing Dally's desperation in his powerlessness to help his few loved ones (Ponyboy hurt, Johnny dead). In the final verse a violin slide (which is one of the creepiest sounds every) introduces us to his contemplation of his final action, the danger that is coming. Dally jumps up in pitch to sing "Johnny I am coming home/bout to take my final bow/hope you saved a seat for me/Johnny can you see me now?" before his death. The inclusion of the chorus and then their silence (as well as Dally standing alone onstage) emphasizes the solo singer but also his terrible isolation. His voice stands by itself for the very last time.
"Come Back" is Eddie's first solo song in the show. Every other song he sings either in duet with Rose or in harmony with his friends. The grinding, marching beat of the accompaniment (written in 12/8 triplets for the entirety of the song) echoes the martial drumbeat of "Some Kinda Time (Reprise)" as the characters go off to war. This is the beat of a dirge, the ebb and flow of the chords building to the crescendo of Eddie repeating how he does not know how to come back over and over and over in more and more discordant notes, his sorrow picked up in an electric guitar riff right before the end of the song. The repetitive nature of his crying out with no answer is the musical version of his isolation, a veteran of a war that no one wants to acknowledge, his invisibility in his home country. "Come Back" resolves itself musically (Eddie resolving on E which is the key for the final part of the song) when he sets eyes on Rose for the final scene of the musical.
Anyway I'm so normal about these musicals.
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foxybutton · 9 months ago
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iloverace · 1 year ago
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someone talk to me about Dogfight
omg I’m begging
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lonelylittledot · 3 months ago
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So, we all know the "I Want" song type – but what about the "I Wanted" song? A song where a character bitterly reflects on their former dreams, and they chastise themself for having been naive enough to believe they'd come true?
For instance:
I Dreamed a Dream from Les Miserables
Legally Blonde from Legally Blonde
Breathe from In the Heights
No Good Deed from Wicked
Pretty Funny from Dogfight
There's a Fine, Fine Line from Avenue Q
Flowers from Hadestown
What do y'all think?
EDIT: Just noticed that these are all sung by female characters. Anyone got any examples for a male character?
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homestuck-music-tournament · 3 months ago
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You Killed My Father (Prepare To Die)
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Album: Homestuck Vol. 10 Composers: Team Dogfight (Catboss, Willow Ascenzo, DJ最テー (djsaitae), pixelseph, David Dycus, Ian White, Noel Sadwin) Leitmotifs: Showtime, Aggrieve, Black, Checkmate, Gaia Queen Characters: June Egbert, Bec Noir
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chimeofthecomet · 10 months ago
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my favouriteeeeee thing in musical theatre songs is whenever the repetition of a phrase like.. changes its meaning. You can hear it easier listening to you gotta die sometime but the way his voice gets more distressed and enunciates as “some time” repeating it as a desperate plea
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davytheshark · 8 months ago
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One of my fav underrated “sad” Musical songs that I wish more people knew about is “Pretty Funny” from Dogfight like that song makes me cry EVERY DAMN TIME
“Aren’t you funny? Pathetically naive and desperate to believe you can always find some good. Well you misunderstood, or you’ve been dreaming. Cause people are just…cruel”
And the performance by Lindsay Mendez on the album is just *chefs kiss*
LIKE AAAAAAAA 😭😭😭
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peach-pot · 3 months ago
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1, 100, 83, and 39.
1: Make You Happy by Randy Weeks
100: THE DINER by Billie Eilish
83: First Date/Last Night from Dogfight
39: bad idea right? by Olivia Rodrigo
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broadway-nepeta · 1 year ago
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:33< it's purretty hard to to get in close with someone who's hurt you
:33< but sincere apawlogies are also very hard, so you can work on it together that way
[Song: First Date, Last Night from Dogfight | Lyrics unchanged and cover art under cut]
[Nepeta]
Street lamp, dim glow
A light to blanket night like summer snow
Well, let it pour
Just cover up whatever came before
[Eridan]
Sea breeze, whips through
And makes you do some shit you'd never do
Talkin' queer, why the hell are you still here?
[Both]
And we go
Bum bum bum
Bum bum bum bum bum
Bum bum bum bum bum
Bum bum bum bum bum
Don't know why
I decided to come
Don't know why I decided to come
[Nepeta]
Meet me halfway
A touch and go of don't know what to say
Do we talk?
[Eridan]
*cough*
[Nepeta]
What?
[Eridan]
Huh?
[Nepeta]
Don't expect too much
Just walk
[Eridan]
Blank slate, blank stare
Yeah you made her cry
Why do you care?
What took hold?
Look at her, she looks so... cold
[Both]
And we go
Bum bum bum
Bum bum bum bum
Bum bum bum bum bum
Bum bum bum bum bum
Don't know why
I decided to come
Don't know why I decided to come
[Nepeta]
Twisting lemons into lemonade
You'd be sleeping
([Eridan] You'd be drunk)
[Both]
If you had stayed
And you might miss
Any good that could come
After this
[Nepeta]
First date
[Eridan]
Last night
[Both]
Not quite what you pictured, but alright
[Eridan]
So take her out
[Nepeta]
Give him a shot
[Both]
'Cause people can surprise you...
Or not
Bum bum
And we go
Bum bum bum
Bum bum bum bum
Bum bum bum bum bum
Bum bum bum bum bum
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derekklenadaily · 4 months ago
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DEREK'S QUOTE OF THE DAY!
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someawesomeamvs · 3 months ago
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Warning: Spoilers
Title: Dogfight
Editor: Marisa Panaccio
Song: DOGFIGHT
Artist: m.o.v.e.
Anime: Kaleido Star
Category: Action
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foxybutton · 9 months ago
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iloverace · 1 year ago
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someone talk about Dogfight with me. Please I’m begging
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every-single-day · 1 month ago
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I need you guys to listen to this song from Dogfight and tell me Derek Klena doesn’t sound exactly like Brody on the lines “Rose you’re a nice girl this is a fucked up place” and “It’s a kinda motto”
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thepasteldreamers · 10 months ago
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My brain currently:
🎵 You are here at the start of a moment 🎵
🎵 There's a chip on my shoulder and its big as a boulder 🎵
🎵 I say NOOooOoo 🎵
🎵 But for today we'll wander and enjoyyyy 🎵
🎵 Look at me I'm the king of New York 🎵
🎵 See a world beautiful and strange 🎵
🎵 When you're the enemy of Allie McAndrews 🎵
🎵 And just because it's fiction doesn't mean its not real 🎵
🎵 If we're gonna go we gotta go tonight, goOoo tonight 🎵
🎵 Freeze your brain 🎵
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