#thank u joe for considering 🫡

[jiwonhaes]

honestly guys how do we feel about the in-season facial hair joe sometimes grows out

(i kinda like it im ngl)

[whimsicalcotton]

hi!! i have more music!!

all the songs are from the album two player game by joe iconis and george salazar (it's all musical theatre songs he's worked on from different projects. the whole album is great though i do recommend!)

anywho, i think both "broadway, here i come" and "the answer" are very rachel-coded. "the answer" especially for marrow!rachel bc she's running around with max's notebook and trying to figure out what's going on from more of an outsider's perspective than chloe has. "broadway, here i come" is just uh ooh ouch sad (he originally wrote it for the tv show smash so there's a lot of jeremy jordan singing it, if you like him).

"lisa" is a song i honestly feel like speaks to any of the crew (including kate and victoria tbh). very comparative in a similar way to how you write chloe and rachel putting the other on a pedestal at times, not seeing each other's bad traits but being so viscerally aware of their own. same with "norman" but i think that's maybe particularly rachel x victoria coded 👀👀

"the goodbye song" is also just very oh ouch considering the plot of lis and how they parallel the themes in the song. be it rachel to chloe, or chloe to max, or even all the versions of herself that Max leaves behind to her current self (that is slipping through her fingers faster and faster so i think that makes it haunting.)

lastly i think "song of the brown buffalo" also fits the vibe of ambermarsh, something very cutting but also very passionate and heightened in a way that their relationship is. (plus it isn't sad! yay! just pure groovy ass vibes and good mt lyrics.)

happy listening 🫡

not even 30 seconds into Broadway Here I Come and i'm going to fucking combust shdgfsjkdgfsjkdfhsk GOD. 100000000 points psychic damage in that first verse alone. lots of psychic damage also in "focused on my prize" & "will i retain my name" &

^^^ fucking this. i'm crawling all over the walls like a coked out spider. "is it a scream or a cheer? well, nevermind, i'll never find out" i'm turning to dust thanos style and dissipating on the breeze. thank u for the five-star rachel angst breakfast <3

(the bits of seafaring imagery in The Answer are also v painful and marrow flavored indeed. "when a fire starts in the hull, how much time do you have before it spreads to the deck?" oughghghgh. writhing around in agony.)

actually wait i'm beginning to think you set out to murder me w/ this ask bc Norman is wrecking my shit also. you single-handedly just made my amberchase brainworms 459873495x worse. like for real are u in my brain bc this one bit in particular

is like. such a horrid perfect little encapsulation of my personal flavor of amberchase bc [about to sound very unwell] i think they're lowkey Wintergirls coded. she will not slap my hands because she understands!!!!