#music / mina

[lady-dulcinea]

Mina & Jonathan get married at the hungarian hospital.

by the Austrian production of Dracula, The Musical Lyn Liechty as Mina Murray Jesper Tyden as Jonathan Harker

[thegreatestunknown]

ちゃんみな | CHANMINA ❌ NG (2024) dir. Kim Youngio, Yoo Seungwoo

[dancinginashesandshadow]

Wanna share with you my musical bookmarks project ❤️

[fallout-lou-begas]

dracula is going to wake up in his castle and think he's safe but then boss music starts playing and his lower peripheral vision suddenly gets filled with this:

[sympathyforlady]

[senshidaily]

sera myu appreciation press footage from the musical festival chronicle!

[mightnotfeelrealbutitsok]

all of Aragorn and Arwen's love story in the ROTK appendices is so beautiful... first meeting in the woods of Rivendell at sunset?? Aragorn singing the Lay of Luthien and Arwen looking just like Luthien and him crying Tinuviel just as Beren did???? meeting years later in Lothlorien and Aragorn dressing up nice enough to make Arwen fall in love this time?? (Galadriel the wingwoman. she so set that up.) walking together barefoot in the elanor and niphredil?????? Arwen making the standard as a symbol of her faith that Aragorn will become king???? (and having this sent to him as a gift/message during the course of LOTR) Once Aragorn dies Arwen going to live alone in the waning Lothlorien (where they fell in love, remember) until she dies on the hill where she chose their love over immortality?????

[heatherfield]

@giftober 2023 | Day 5: friendship

♪ Dearest Lucy, I know it's been too long. Things in Budapest are curious and wrong. I'm so lonely without my friend. ♪

Mina and Lucy in Friends 'til the End [x]

[see-arcane]

(Needless song dissection incoming)

Okay, I know the lyrics match up tonally with Jonathan's stay in Transylvanian Vampire Hell, hence 'so far from home~,' but it's starting to click home to me as something Dracula must have had on his brain as of/just after October 3rd.

The most obvious reason is that, like the rest of the @re-dracula tunes, it would only make sense to have "Inside You" happening within chronological order of events. Why backpedal all the way to the opening for a time-misplaced tune?

But the subtler reason it's most likely placed right around October 3rd's events? Potentially right after Dracula got a look at white-haired, hollow burning-eyed Jonathan in Piccadilly (and got duly mugged at kukri point)? The style of the song. It's a jaunty, whirling, waltzing, stage-ready melody.

The kind of song Dracula would likely never have heard and summarily gotten stuck in his head until he was in England and in reach of a stage. You don't need an invitation to a theatre! Everyone is welcome with a ticket! So he mills inside the same way he idled his way into wolf-browsing at the zoo, and takes in a show. And the music hooks his ear.

Cue today's spectacle, replete with making the one move guaranteed to enrage and devastate his runaway solicitor--so far from (his) home--and lay the groundwork for the young man ultimately crawling back into his thrall. Holiest love and all.

Jonathan won't stay put to be turned and take his place with the Brides like a good new addition? Jonathan wants to join his nuisance busy-brained beloved in mucking up Dracula's plans for England? Jonathan, the man who belongs belonged to him, wants to defy him, strike at him with more than a spade?

Fine.

Mina is damned by force. It is a heinous assault, but the job is done in minutes, the horror left to stain things in the bastard's absence.

But Jonathan? As the tune gleefully, insidiously implies, Dracula wants to shoulder him back through the gamut of their past roles, to take the time to make him plead for mercy that won't come (for him or her), wringing out the old doomed song and dance from his former captive until all the light he saw in his eyes--hollow-burning, strong, vicious, meaning to make the hunter the hunted--go out before Jonathan is dragged, beaten and broken at last, into the state he barely escaped in the castle.

And, like all the knife-twisting acts of that hellish summer stay, Jonathan will have to do it by choice.

Facing the wolves or waiting out the night.

Kill her or join her, my sweet friend. Don't look so sour, Jonathan. No one is forcing you to do this. Ha ha.

Even in his own sourest moods to come--and the bloodsucking fucker will have PLENTY to be sour about in future entries, get wrecked you undead prick--I imagine humming the little tune to himself will be some balm.

Ugh.

[kpop-posts]

✰ mina. ( twice ) lockscreens

[lady-dulcinea]

Mina & Jonathan's moments during Whitby Bay

from the Korean production of Dracula, The Musical [정선아] Jeong Sun Ah as Mina Murray [조강현] Jo Kang Hyun as Jonathan Harker

[thegreatestunknown]

ちゃんみな | CHANMINA ❌ NG (2024) dir. Kim Youngio, Yoo Seungwoo

[kulturegroupie]

Mina Mazzini, 1966.

[youremyheartshaker]

Their breakthrough will never set me free.

[vagarezas]

• Clube da Esquina - 1973

[sanayeon]

BOUQUET (making music video) by MISAMO