#i love u anais mitchell

[goosita]

i feel like you have such great characterization of both billy & coryo, so I'd love to know ur thoughts on what kind of music each of them would listen to? probably in a more modern/current music sense cuz idk what kind of music they listened to in the 1870s or in future panem LOL 💌

ps praying either of them would like the smiths

oh coriolanus snow’s literal theme song is “please please please let me get what i want” are u kiddin me he would love that song so much and relate to it so deeply, especially pre-games coryo. i truly think like. early-mid 2000s poppunk would really do it for him too, like any sort of that type of emo music tbh. for the rest of his playlist for modern!coryo in my head:

tiffany blews by fall out boy

the river by good charlotte

i dont wanna be in love by good charlotte (lol)

the kill by 30 seconds to mars

lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off by panic! at the disco

knives and pens by black veil brides

lips like morphine by kill hannah

help me by alkaline trio

exit music (for a film) by radiohead

venus in furs by the velvet underground

for billy i actually think going the country route is a little too on the nose, i think if he was into that it would be more modern but throwback-y stuff like tyler childers and orville peck. but at the same time i think he’s also the type to enjoy anything with a lot of Feeling to it if that makes sense?? some of modern!billy’s playlist in my head:

tattoos by tyler childers

sleep on the floor by the lumineers

wedding song by anais mitchell and justin vernon (specifically this original version and not the hadestown cast version)

hexie mountains by orville peck

talk and work song by hozier (❤️)

moving parts by trixie mattel

she’s got you by patsy cline

the devil wears a suit and tie by colter wall

roses are falling by orville peck

feathered indians by tyler childers

[idontwantrobyntodie]

MANTI i need to know what your favourite recording of tam lin is pleasseeeee

okay SO my absolute favourite rendition of Tam Lin is by folk artist S.J. Tucker/her band Tricky Pixie. It is available on zero streaming services, though the MP3s are on their bandcamp, BUT people have posted many shitty camcorder videos of the song being preformed and they have my whole heart. I have this video downloaded to my laptop in case YouTube ever nukes it. It has so much energy? And is so dynamic? good stuff

I also really love Anais Mitchell's recording, even though the way she sings is... an aquired taste (I'm so sorry Ms. Mitchell this is a problem with me and not with you, thank u for giving us Hadestown)

ALSO also the Glasgow Reel, an Irish fiddle reel, is sometimes called Tam Lin! (i do not know why. i have attempted to research this. i am admittedly not very good at research) It is not an answer to your question but it's such a funky tune so here's my favourite version of that!

that is all thank u Julia for bothering me <3

[aimfor-theheart]

CIELO!!! I DID NOT KNOW U WERE A FELLOW THEATRE KID this is so cool!!! do u perhaps have a list of ur top fav musicals or plays?? i would love to hear!!!! :> <333

SORA!!!! i am not just a theater kid i am actually a stage actor!!! and i can certainly provide you a list (in no particular order) of my fav plays and musicals besides cabaret!!

an oresteia by anne carson

skriker by caryl churchill

far away by caryl churchill

saint joan of the stockyards by brecht

hadestown by anais mitchell

natasha, pierre, and the great comet of 1812 by dave malloy

iphigenia and other daughters by ellen mclaughlin

julius caesar by shakespeare

macbeth by shakespeare

sweeney todd by sondheim

and i have a soft spot for chicago bc it was one of my first musicals i ever got into on my own…not sure id say its a favorite tho!!

what are some of your favorites?? i would love to know!!!

[loverofallthingssmart]

PLEASE UNLEASH your hadestown demons!!!!!

unleash my hadestown demons is right this is a BEAST thank you very much ive satisfied the brain worms by dumping all my thoughts under the cut

first off. the beauty of live theatre allows for so much nuance and beauty to demonstrated so i cant even begin to cover all the things that could make me insane its so wonderful i love live theatre everyone should watch at least one live theatre production i believe it will solve at least one problem they have

the tragedy of it all!! its a sad song but we sing it anyway, in hopes that we hope that orpheus doesn't turn. but he will. bc he loves eurydice so much so he went down to the underworld to save her.

guys. the repeated, cyclical nature of everything. its an old tale from way back when and its a sad song but they sing it anyway. the point of hadestown is the HOPE of it all wait theres an article (https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/theatre/anais-mitchell-hadestown-west-end-broadway-b1134613.html) regarding mitchell's thoughts on orpheus that make me insane im gonna paste a quote here:

"If Hadestown has a moral, she says, then it’s “you have to try, you have to have hope, not because success is a given – it’s not. Orpheus fails. We heroicise” – here she breaks off to apologise that jet lag has led to her making up words – “we heroicise Orpheus not because he succeeds but because he tries, and that endeavour alone is worthwhile. How to live, and not merely survive, is to believe things could change.” ARE U KIDDING ME OURGHH

which brings me to the topics of like. climate change and capitalism that the play discusses its so good. the fact that there's no spring or fall, only summers and winter because of persephone's absences, how "is it true" is just a song abt labor protests red carnations are a symbol of love and passion yes, but in germany theyre a symbol of the working class protest. its SO important hades has just created an industrial revolution, has built a wall, has workers work forever, "why we build the wall" is soooo incredible "hey little songbird" "chant" all the songs that take place IN hadestown itself are sooo gritty so despondent in a way its insane.

theres another article that discusses sm of it AND discusses like portrayals of persephone that i REALLY like. im gonna paste it here PLEASE read it it has so much good stuff from a classics person regarding it and OURGH too good

orpheus's "to the world we dream about" but then also "the one we live in now" like oh.okay. im NORMAL….

if u noted every single lalala in hadestown it would be 6 min long. the leitmotif oh i am so normal actually.

okay im not rlly a music person i call myself music adjacent bc my two closest friends r music ppl LMAOJDHJS but like. the first time u hear eurydice say "i do" i.e what you say to seal a marriage is after she tells orpheus she signed the papers. she does not say "i do" in the entireity of wedding song, where they talk abt their nuptials. she says "i do" in informing orpheus she cant come up with him. that she chose this life (or death i guess) of her own doing. isnt that vile….

in wedding song she goes "is he always like this" and hermes responds but then in "a gathering storm" she asks the same question to no response.. idk what's there but something is there.

hermes being the narrator thats involved in the play is SOOOO delicious for my brain, the way he switches between a character involved in orpheus and eurydice getting together, invested in their relationship to a all-knowing narrator who knows the end bc he sees this every time.

there's this sense that only orpheus and eurydice do not know they r in a repeated play. which heightens their love at first sight, the "i feel like i know u but ive just met you" OHHHHH my god.

the original nytw script having orpheus say "ur early. i missed u." directly paralleling hades and persephone but in a different context because OHHHHMYGOD and not even that but the fact that mitchell took it out bc she believed it engaged the brain when the moment should only directly engage the heart. so she had the lovers say each other's name. one last time. im soooo normal

also this is bc one time i was thinking abt hadestown and mitski's remember my name played so . just that song in the context of hadestown is SOOOO bc like. like. how eurydice couldn't rmbr herself when she became a worker but orpheus went down to save her and she remembered.

when he turns back and says.

"it's you" "it's me"

^ are you fucking kidding me. the sort of disbelief the happiness the love the incoming grief im inconsolable.

when orpheus turns back, eurydice says his name w so much joy SO MUCH JOY she is not upset at him. "what was there to complain of, except that she'd been loved?" <- quote from metamorphoses

like yes we wish orpheus doesnt turn around but at the end of the day, orpheus is still the trusting guy he was in the beginning. EURYDICE on the other hand KNOWS how cruel the world is and chooses to trust orpheus anyway. but. "it's a tragedy" and doubt creeps in. part of the tragedy lies in the fact that eurydice, "all ive ever known is to hold my own" eurydice runs after him w open arms, chooses to trust him, chooses to follow the trial, and he still turns around. BECAUSE he loves her ohhhmygod im so normal

obligatory mention to the fact that orpheus could never finish the song he was working on because it was a duet. like okay lol. im fine im normal hahahahaha are u fucking kidding me.

hades and orpheus are mirrors, there r two relationships in the musical obviously and it is clear theyre mirrors of each other even w/o the original script line but like.

hades gives orpheus the test that he himself goes through every spring. hades is the villain of the story yes but he is not evil. he gives orpheus the same trial, sees that if orpheus can judge him for losing faith in his wife through the course of their relationship, let's put his romantic nature to the test. let's see if he can feel the absence of his love and keep going. and he cant. bc orpheus has never had to learn how to fend for himself. so when u take away his support system, when u take anyone's support system, how is he, how r we supposed to succeed?

just. the song "how long" encapsulates hades and persephone's relationship SO WELL. "the girl means nothing to me." "i know. but she means EVERYTHING to him" the fact that this is the first time we persephone REFUSE a drink bc shes had enough oh were SOMBER somber the way the whole song just parallels itself and every verse GOD.

the love was there. the hope was there. its a sad song. its a love song.

every single time before they leave. every time they're on stage, eurydice is in front of orpheus. he trusts that she is before him and she never doubts that he is there. it is when their positions change, him in front and her behind that he bends. it is then that doubt comes in.

those r just the like the thoughst of the music and themes itself we can talk abt the ppl and the live play now:

so first. can we talk abt this we need to talk abt for reeve carney's last show the original orpheus his last show he didnt turn back. he and eurydice lived they passed the trial. sorry that makes me so insane bc like. imagine u play orpheus. doomed to a lifetime of looking back at ur lover and your final show, u finally get to stay. oh im very normal i just love the nuances of live theatre!!! what a send off!!!!

THEN we can talk abt how eva and solea play PERFECT eurydices, full of grit and used to the cruel nature of the world. and how lola tung i feel is a DECENT singer but shes not a eurydice shes so light and soft but idk. who am i to say.

also the soundtrack is just SO incredible so is the set design there's not a single ounce of stage space that is wasted like there are so many nuances like i cant even talk abt all that there is my FAVORITE musical for SOOO many reasons ough.

yeah i think that's it. this took me MULTIPLE hours and i feel drained abt talking abt all this. WOW i love hadestown not normal amounts. i can't die before i see this live its one of my goals i just need to see it live on broadway.

[micamicster]

was tagged by @evakant to put my "on repeat playlist" on shuffle and share the top ten results, then tag ten people to do the same. Was also tagged by @greenlikethesea for something similar not too long ago, so lets say this counts for both?

Nightshift - Bruce Springsteen cover (its SUCH a good cover of such a good song. One of the most joyful songs about death that we have <3)

Tam Lin - Anais Mitchell version (ive actually listned to like 15 versions of tam lin in the last few days... ok full disclosure because i tell you guys everything but i was looking for a version to put on a rivers of london playlist and tbh i did not find one that worked for that purpose :/ taking suggestions if anyone has them!)

Survive - Mad Max Fury Road Soundtrack??? (ok THAT one is def my sister but now I need to text her like u good? Because I personally only break out the mad max soundtrack when im academically desperate)

Tere Bina - A. R. Rahman (off of a study playlist that only my sister listens to anymore but never let it be said that ARR does not SLAP)

Old Thing Back - Matoma remix (well i love to have fun!)

Twilight Zone - Golden Earring (I think i’ve recced this before but what can i say i love this song!!)

Kiss it Better - Rihanna (this song dominated my 2016 and i recently reconnected with it <3)

Last Last - Burna Boy (love this guy <3 I forget who introduced us but THANK U)

Nights - Frank Ocean (noa and i were both listening to Blonde on repeat this June <3 cornerstone of my newest driving playlist <3)

Bad Thing Twice - Carly Rae Jepsen (I think this is my favorite of her most recent album)

The range shown here is screamingly funny but thats what you get with me (and my sister. and our shared music account) i guess!

As always any of my followers please consider yourself tagged (and @ me in your post--I want to see your music!) if you’re feeling so inclined <3

[spadilled]

what form of love do you embody?

love as tenderness

[ love as gentleness after a lifetime of cruelty ] when ocean vuong said "sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined" and when pablo neruda said "like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar" and when anais mitchell wrote "all i've ever known is how to hold my own, and now i wanna hold you, too”

tagged by: @annihilitys (thank u!!!)

tagging: @reasoncore, @vulpesly (jono ofc), @prodigls for everyone honestly and u!!!

[dickytwister]

— what form of love does your ship embody?

i was tagged by @shellibisshe to take this uquiz, thank u AA tagging @nuclearstorms @the-universe-in-our-mind @hopecountyisforlovers @aceghosts @perseus-veil and anyone who wants to do it!!

rafael trevelyan x dorian pavus (dragon age: inquisition) love as light [ love as a luminous force—warm, radiant, and golden ] when mary oliver wrote "light of the world hold me” and when charles bukowski said “I look at her and light goes all through me” and when david viscott said “to love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides”and when e. e. cummings said “lovers alone wear sunlight”

maxwell keegan x jacob seed (far cry 5) love as violence [ love as bloodshed, crimson as a knife slipped between your ribs ] when ocean vuong said "to arrive at love, then, is to arrive through obliteration" and when franz kafka said "you are the knife i turn inside myself; that is love" and when ada limon said "how do you love? like a fist. like a knife" and when richard siken said "sorry about the blood in your mouth. i wish it was mine"

finley "v" vaughn x bella (cyberpunk 2077) love as tenderness [ love as gentleness after a lifetime of cruelty ] when ocean vuong said "sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined" and when pablo neruda said "like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar" and when anais mitchell wrote "all i've ever known is how to hold my own, and now i wanna hold you, too”

carter quill x joaquin torres (mcu) love as devotion [ devotion: love, loyalty, or enthusiasm for a person, activity, or cause ] when ruth said to naomi "where you go, i will go, and where you stay, i will stay. your people will be my people, and your God my God" and when hozier sang "i'll be the dreadful need from the devotee that drove [orpheus] underground" and when deathcab for cutie sang "if there's no one beside you when your soul embarks, i will follow you into the dark"

[ardent-fox]

🎶 Music Tag Game 🎵

Thank you and hair ruffles to my lovelies for tagging me, @look-i-love-u, @suzy-queued and @metalheadmickey 🖤✨️

Rules: List ten songs you like, all by a different artist, then tag ten people.

1. Hallucinogenics by Matt Maeson 

2. August by Flipturn  

3. Dirty Love by Mt. Joy 

4. Would That I by Hozier 

5. Tam Lin (Child 39) by Anais Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer

6. Hole In My Soul by Aerosmith 

7. 7 by Prince 

8. Undisclosed Desires by Muse 

9. Sleep Forever by Portugal. The Man 

10. Writer in the Dark by Lorde 

I'll tag @sickness-health-all-that-shit, @xninetiestrendx, @squidyyy23, @arrowflier, @shameless-notashamed, @lizelandre, @vintagelacerosette, @mmmichyyy, @crossmydna and @bravemikhailo 🎶✨️

[lunaetis]

𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐓𝐘𝐏𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 𝐃𝐎 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐎𝐃𝐘 ?

love as tenderness

[ love as gentleness after a lifetime of cruelty ] when ocean vuong said "sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined" and when pablo neruda said "like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar" and when anais mitchell wrote "all i've ever known is how to hold my own, and now i wanna hold you, too”

tagged by : no one. i stole this from blu on dash u vu tagging : anyone who'd like to do this, take it from me !

[dreamsofalifeold]

What Form of Love Do You Embody?

[ love as gentleness after a lifetime of cruelty ]

when ocean vuong said "sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined" and when pablo neruda said "like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar" and when anais mitchell wrote "all i've ever known is how to hold my own, and now i wanna hold you, too”

Tagged by: @esmorothfallen (TY!!!!!)

Tagging: Y O U

[fledermoved]

{ 𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐌 𝐎𝐅 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 𝐃𝐎 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐎𝐃𝐘? }

Muse: Snoop

Love as Tenderness

[ love as gentleness after a lifetime of cruelty ] When Ocean Vuong said "sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined" and when Pablo Neruda said "like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar" and when Anais Mitchell wrote "all i've ever known is how to hold my own, and now i wanna hold you, too” .

Tagged by: @countlessrealities​

Tagging: u

[bougainvilea]

if you could pick any artist to collaborate w/ taylor, who would it be (not including people she’s already collaborated with)

this is so fun!! i would love for her to collaborate w any of the following

ANAIS MITCHELL!!!!!!!!!!!! THEY ARE SO PARALLEL!!!!!

(on that note. can u imagine taylor's voice w amber grey's? or eva noblezada? i'd cry)

gretta ray!!!! it would be so cute and fun and poppy!!!! don't date the teenager has been in my head for a week!!!!

billie eilish like i love her <3

Carole King (I MEAN!!!!!!)

i want her to write/sing a disney soundtrack written by/with alan menkin i just think it would be fun

paul simon. the man sucks but he can write a goddamn song

PAUL MCCARTNEY I MEANNNNN

[bougainvilea]

😭 i love u sarah

latter days - big red machine ft anais mitchell

positive spin - gretta ray

the band and i - maisie peters

dear seventeen- gretta ray (wbk theres a pattern here)

the cool boy - gretta ray

don't date the teenager- gretta ray (lmao)

vampire - olivia rodrigo

reese - big red machine

birch - big red machine ft taylor swift

therapy - maisie peters

this was honestly a bit embarrassing ldjsjsjsj it's just bc i listen to albumsssss

i tag @orangejuicepdf @hotgirlsrk @teardropsonsmyguitar @ketterdam-snack-bar @londonsboy

🎶 shuffle your ‘on repeat’ playlist and post the first ten tracks, then tag ten people

I was tagged by: @majicmarker

Seven Devils ~ Florence + The Machine

Old Town - MTV Unplugged Version ~ The Corrs

Greatness ~ Vo Williams

I Can I Will I Do ~ Barenaked Ladies

10 Years ~ Daði Freyr

Typhoons ~ Royal Blood

Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) ~ Kate Bush

Fire In The Sky ~ Anderson .Paak

As It Was - Harry Styles

Two Shots - Ben Schwartz, Sam Richardson, Jamie Demetriou

tagging: @bougainvilea @firefeufuego2 @basslineescapeact @celestep @funbunnypotter26 @kneelb4kesha and anyone else who wants to do it

[bitterstoner]

Hey, watch this!

*listens to cosmic American and breaks my own heart into a billion pieces*

[station26]

hiii i saw @fossilbed doing this and i decided i want 2 do it too. some of my favourite albums :-)

ghost quartet live at the mckittrick - dave malloy: no words. u just cant go wrong with concept albums, nonetheless dave malloy. i love me some audience interaction and weird plots and talking bears and betrayal and reincarnation

the great comet of 1812 - dave malloy: licherally changed my life i think, possibly one of the best musicals to be on broadway and i became friends w @romancepdf through it. the finale still makes me want to throw up screaming (positive)

hadestown (live) - anais mitchell: another musical that changed my life, also opened me to folk and jazz and blues :-) i will forever believe that this version of hadestown will always be above the broadway version. u just cant beat live recordings. u cant!

year zero - nine inch nails: struggled to pick a NIN album to put on here and i went with this one. trent makes a lot of emotional music but i dont think anything he has made touched my soul as much as in this twilight or zero sum

transgender dysphoria blues - against me!: whats there to say. this is essential music for each and every transsexual

wasteland baby - hozier: i cant listen to this without being like, a little sad cause i listened to this album a lot when i was in a really good place in my life. this album reminds me of sunsets on a balcony and roadtrips and homemade pies and laughing a lot.

year of the rat - terminal city rats: local band, found out about them when the main singer approched me and my partner at a bus stop and told us to listen to his band. and at the first punk show i went to, we saw them preform and it was SOOO fun

octet - dave malloy: sorry this is another dave malloy album. would u believe me if i said this also changed my life. this is the first time that ive seen like, commentary on the dangers of social media and phones and technology done in a way thats not like "oooh phone bad toxic gen z addicted to PHONE" like this is the first time its been done WELL

hymns for the exiled - anais mitchell: ahh this album feels like a warm hug. anais mitchell is such a strong writer and i simply love me a good gentle folk album that is also political.

[brother-genitivi]

What form of love do you embody?

I was tagged by @ava-du-mortain (thank u so much <3) to answer this uquiz as my ocs

Destan Hawke - love as tenderness

[ love as gentleness after a lifetime of cruelty ] when ocean vuong said "sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined" and when pablo neruda said "like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar" and when anais mitchell wrote "all i've ever known is how to hold my own, and now i wanna hold you, too”

Vedaat Altın - love as being known

[ love is knowing all of someone and loving them anyway ] when tim kreider said "if we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known" and when joe wright said "The idea that these two people know each other, knew each other when they first saw each other. That they recognized each other from their future" and when micah nemerever said "it was a relief and a horror to be known so perfectly"

Esra Shepard - love as religion

[ love as the sole object of your reverence--nothing about you is holy, but maybe your love for another is ] when sappho said "in the crooks of your body i find my religion" and when the cast of les mis sang "to love another person is to see the face of God" and when halsey said "i found God, i found him in a lover" and when katherine philips wrote "to the dull angry world let's prove there's a religion in our love"

Enara Lavellan - love as devotion

[ devotion: love, loyalty, or enthusiasm for a person, activity, or cause ] when ruth said to naomi "where you go, i will go, and where you stay, i will stay. your people will be my people, and your God my God" and when hozier sang "i'll be the dreadful need from the devotee that drove [orpheus] underground" and when deathcab for cutie sang "if there's no one beside you when your soul embarks, i will follow you into the dark"

no pressure tags: @laz-laz-ace-pilot @new-austin @blackinquisitors @palipunk @forystr @siennamain @bitchesofostwick