#jon matteson appreciation

[sewerratzz]

Gonna talk about a part of The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals that i really love

[this was brought on by me getting ready to shower and then being distracted because i put on Let It Out and Thoughts happened]

SO after the meteor hits and people are singing and dancing, Paul goes to work and asks about it. Charlotte says that her husband Sam isn’t a bad singer, but he’s always been a little flat. But this morning, he was singing in the shower and he sounded like an angel and it frightened her

So we’re told that becoming infected changes your voice. You know, you become part of the hivemind and basically an instrument for pokey’s orchestra, sounding as good as he needs you to sound. But we get no example of this.

We don’t hear any characters sing when they’re not infected (ignoring Emma in RCOC and the professor in Show Stopping Number), we have no frame of reference for voices really changing after infection.

Until Let It Out. We get the “Jekyll and Hyde” type scene from Paul.

[gonna take a long minute here to really show some appreciation for Jon’s physical and vocal acting, that man is wonderful]

Of course, we can see the difference between the paul we know, and the paul he is becoming because of infection in his body language. The dancing. Human Paul will not dance, is actively fighting against the puppet strings attached to his limbs that are getting stronger by the second, and infected!Paul is dancing happily, in a way that almost doesn’t completely fit the tone of this song.

Human Paul is terrified by what’s happening to him, his confusion and fear written on his face every time he loses control of his body and voice. Infected!Paul is revelling in human!Paul losing control, a wide smile on his face as he dances and sings.

But the vocal acting is my favourite part of Jon’s performance in this number. You can hear the difference between human and infected (and if you can’t hear it in the show, it’s much more obvious in the cast recording). Human Paul’s voice is lower, shakier, clearly showing that Paul is scared and not wanting to sing. Infected!Paul’s voice is higher, louder, more full, because he wants to sing. He’s a part of Pokey’s orchestra and it’s finally his time for a solo. Infected!Paul even takes his moments in control to say how much happier he is and how he was crazy to resist this, while human! Paul is battling for his life and saying he’d be crazy now to give in, and his final words are “I don’t like musicals!”

Jon does perfectly acting as Paul fighting against two different versions of himself and i love him. Big round of applause for Jon Matteson👏👏👏

And then of course in inevitable, any trace of human Paul is gone from his voice. He is completely, 100% infected now. Part of the hivemind. Not coming back. The happiness with which he sings and dances, all the while at some moments being hostile towards Emma as she tries to get away and he tries to infect her too. It’s finally his time to shine, he doesn’t get to sing or dance in almost the whole show, he gets one full song to show his prowess and by Pokotho, he is gonna show it !!

i love these numbers sm, there’s a reason they’re two of my favourites in the show

[ashtxeman]

THIS VIDEO CONTAINS VERY MINOR CINDERELLAS CASTLE TALK!! BUT IT'S MOSTLY HATCHETFIELD!!

presenting one and all my jon matteson cameo resulting from me gushing about jon's roles. enjoy.

[mind-lost-in-the-stars]

this uhhhh, this might just be a Jon matteson fan account now (it always has been who am I kidding)because why is he like this, I enjoy him and his way of acting a very normal amount

[man-down-in-hatchet-town]

Love how Lauren's and Jon's characters almost always have some sort of special bond. Paul and Emma, and by an extension Emdroid and Paul 23. Linda with Gary, Wiggly, AND Roman. Daniel/Stopwatch as Hannah’s first real friend. Wiggly and Blinky are siblings. And Richie and Ruth being a delightful pair of absolute-best-friend weirdos (they always stand so close! Little peas in a pod!).

They just bounce off each other so well in so many different contexts. And it's always so fun to watch.

(...and then you have Boy Jerry accusing Donna of being a serial killer out of nowhere lol)

[wigglys-dikrats]

just uncle things ya know?

[bright-heart-raccoon]

Jon: what about you Jeff do you like Shakespeare?

Jeff: N O P E ! ! !

[in-a-continuous-daydream]

From the bottom of my heart, thank you for this

Jeff blim twitch content baby!!

Thanks to all the beautiful people who clipped these moments!

Jeff dies

Jeff gets killed

Gone plorts

Man child jeff

Aretheygonnakiss?

Get down

Ur house is on fire

WELP

Concerned jeff

Smartest boi in the room

Rober-I uh mean jeff

Smashed in the rock

Jeff going for it

Dropped water

Jon feels alive

He's so pissed lol

Vibin to hatchetfield ape man

Carmen sandiego

Poisoned pt1

All hail our lord and saviour

How's jeff

Friday is black for jon

You stink

Gonna beat the boss

Jon is angry Jeff is not

His face lol

Jeff loves killing jon pt1

South

Jeff celebrates his victory

Cold brew

Uwu

Are you the murderer

"Cuz I'm better than you"

Areyousatisfied? 

Dun dun du du dun dun

Jeff loves killing jon pt2

Casual gamer

Jon is such a good friend

Wrist blades

Like and subscribe

Ok I'm the imposter soo

Too busy playing video games :(

He doesn't know

Fuck puberty

Give him nitro

Appreciation for our music men

Irish boi

"Canada" "no"

You do?

Jeff is in the background

Quiltycock

Jeff can't see

Jeff stan

Bellboy

Poisoned pt2

Greek

Upstart

At it again

Fav jeff friendship story pt1

Comedy trafic school

Good pizza movies

Jeffery

Wish i went to law school

*coughs while unmuted*

I win!

Great firewall

Irish boi again

Jeff blim hair

Insanity

Lyrical geniuses

Fav jeff friendship story pt2

Worst games he's ever played

Love ballad pt1

Love ballad pt2

Friendship goals

Terrible lawyer

Vibin in the background

"Says the colorblind guy"

Tel aviv

Clue good pizza movie

Eheh

Detective Froomzel

Inventory management

Ya talkin to me

Mali

Coffee and smoothie reminiscing time

Jeff replicating the soundtrack

Can we play overwatch

josh hutcherson

Class spelling bee champion

Sure judge

Fuckin jacked

Jeff rants about video games

Types of video games

Thinking is hard

Choo choo

Slow clap

I don't think you're a coward

He's heartbroken

Check pls:)

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Compulsory Jon Matteson appreciation post ‼️

here’s a few sketches of some of his characters I made for stickers!! :)

[aneldritchmoth]

SILLY RICHIE / NPMD MEME HEHE

i saw the shirt saved in my cursed folder and i had to draw this

i did this instead of preparing for art fight oops, im almost got everything ready tho so it should be alright. im 4 days early.. kinda nervous still.

anywho my favorite starkid headcanon right now is probably the jon matteson family tree. and all the fanfics i've read where richie live with paul are the best. could that count as found family?? dunno lol.

unrelated but i've been thinking of making a superpowers/superhero au except max would be alive and sort of the cocky hero while the nerds are the villains?? idk could be interesting. ik i want grace and max to team up in said au that im cooking up. im having trouble figuring out what the nerds' powers would be.

max has ghost abilities, for, obvious reasons LOL. going invisible, phasing through walls- maybe telekinesis? and grace has light based powers- she can bend light. that makes sense to me. i might have ruth be the guy in the chair and steph be a loner anti-hero that joins forces with the nerds after?? AAAAA idk

lmk if yall would be intersted to see this sorta au and any power suggestions for pete, richie and steph would be appreciated. ok im done yapping now BYEEE

[piptoost]

GUYS. I’m on the fence about it, I posted it on Insta and TikTok last night and I was like YES I DID IT IT’S LITERALLY HIM and now idk 😭😭😭 what do yall think does it look like Jon Matteson or do I have to tweak it a little bc I used a shit ton of refs BUT!!! Criticism is much appreciated as well as reblogs 😌😌😌

[in-a-continuous-daydream]

I’ve seen some people say that he’s not a good songwriter on reddit lol

I am so impressed at Jeff as a songwriter, and I hope people stop saying he’s bad at it, because THE DUALITY of being able to write a song like “What if Tomorrow?” And a song like “The Summoning”?! Like, they are both so different and fit the scenes so well??? Kudos to him, he outdid himself in NPMD

[wigglyscardigan]

appreciation post for jon matteson bc how the hell does that man manage to sing in wiggly’s voice

[imasillygooose]

Here's your daily picture of Jon Matteson

We need so much more Daniel/Stopwatch appreciation in the fandom like hello he's such a good character???

[shhhhimwatchingthis]

Cinderella's Castle Rewatch Observations:

Come get some themes and lore!

Spoilers under the cut. Beware.

"If those flighty little feet of yours wander off again I may just have to remove them" foreshadowing my beloved

Jeff Blim Narrator appreciation. Love his physicality and the way he uses the whole stage. rolling around, crouching on stuff, leaning on beams

The Prince (meeting Ella): radiant. comely. a vision the stars themselves might envy.'

Ella: 'have you any other compliments to give? maybe about my eyes?'

The Prince: 'they are embers at midnight'

an instrumental of Neon plays in the background when Ella and The Prince meet

Side note about the Prince: He's an idiot, we all know that, but he's weirdly observant/on theme in comparing Ella to starlight. like it's the one thing he gets right.

'Poor mad ella. She is my curse. And I am hers.' They kill each other :)

'those great days when the sky was ash': Lore. A time in The Lands That Are were overrun with trolls. Why was the sky ash? What happened?

Jon Matteson's wide vacant eyes when he's controlling the unenchanted puppet of Sir Hop Alot in the Ashmore kitchen

from Stepping on your Grave: 'and I know now that I am no lawyer, so I'm leaning on natural law, and if it wanted to scale the balance toward my cause, I'd thank my stars'

Ella's patron is the Goddess of All That is Green and Good. Ella wears green through out the show.

Crumb is 'as green as summer'

Sir Hop-A Lot as a frog is, well, green

'when the light goes out only fire is just

'you shall be as radiant and terrible as I'

The blood of the innocent frees The Fairy Queen of Sweet dreams from her cage in the realm of death. Ella is resurrected by the slippers, made radiant and terrible. (after she, innocent, is killed)

Tadius as a dry humour/sarcastic comedy king. he brings such a cool/unique tone to this show.

When the people bow to Queen Ella Ashmore Jeff Blim is dressed as the Narrator and bows too(in other scenes he plays a guard, for ex, but he is clearly meant to be the narrator in that scene...interesting)

[man-down-in-hatchet-town]

This is a Jon Matteson appreciation post. From Paul to Wiggly to Boy Jerry to Richie to everyone in between, his range and specificity are incredible. His work is so lived-in and nuanced without losing any of the zany humor at the core of Starkid. I always love watching him and I can't wait to see what he does in the future.

[kalakilo]

i want us all to appreciate the way jon matteson as paul says "whaaaaat?" in this scene it's my favourite thing in the world