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One of my recent theses is that Aspects of Love is a concept musical masquerading as a book show, which is why it is so misunderstood. I thought I would outline this thesis here.
First, it starts with Love Changes Everything. Its 2023 revival moves the song to the middle of Act 1 in order to have it sung by Michael Ball, which is a key error (Ball plays George in the revival, rather than Alex, who he originated in 1989). The song is here:
It’s quite literally a thesis on love, extraneous to the book - Alex’s naive thesis on love. What’s interesting is that it is only the first thesis on love we get. When we first meet George, Alex’s uncle, who lives hedonistically and flits between lovers just as Alex believes that Rose is his one true love, he sings this:
Life goes on, love goes free is George’s philosophy. Both of these moments are much more typical of a concept show than a book show, and seem indicative of Lloyd Webber (as book writer, though not lyricist) being inspired by the Prince era in the States, and in particular I would argue A Little Night Music, where songs like The Miller’s Son highlight philosophies of love to be analysed within the context of the show. What is interesting about Aspects is that neither Alex’s nor George’s philosophy remains unscathed. By the end of Act 1, George is married to Rose, and Alex reprises Love Changes Everything on the way to the army, to destroy himself in his loss of Rose. By the end of the second act, it is George who will have died, destroying himself over his possessive incestuous love of his daughter Jenny with Rose, and Alex who rejects both Rose and Jenny in order to flit like George did with his old lover, Giulietta. The final reprise of Love Changes Everything is crucial (and foolishly omitted from the 2023 revival!) as heard below:
Heard at 4:40 on the above track, we hear the final line twice: love will never never let you be the same. When Alex originally sang this, it was a naive take on the power of one true love. With all we know now, the song has totally changed its meaning - love has the power to bouleverse everything in your philosophy and turn you inside out, Alex into a hedonistic cynic and George a man who dies for love. The ability of the one song and lyric to develop like that over time is much cleverer than it is given credit for and one of the reasons I think it works much better in context.
Although Aspects has a quintet of lovers, the final one who experiences that true bouleversal is Rose. Rose does not outline a thesis in the same way, but she scorns Alex early in the show, telling him that if he can do one thing it is “just leave me”. Later, close to the end of Act 1, she begins to show her inability to be vulnerable when she tells George that he must promise to answer whatever she asks him with yes, and ends up marrying him. Both of these lyrical and musical motifs are repeated in the culmination of Anything But Lonely, where (from 2:44) we hear:
Rose: Just promise one thing.
Alex: Alright, what is it?
Rose: Don’t ask me questions; you must promise this.
Alex: I can’t; I must know what it is.
Rose: Don’t leave me!
Whilst Rose doesn’t have the same thesis outlined, she is proof of the same fact that love changes everything. And whilst I have criticised song placement in the 2023 production, and would also argue that it tries to sideline the more uncomfortable aspects of the show (incest and age gaps) that are actually vital to its plot, it is still up there with Oklahoma! as one of the most interesting shows currently playing in the West End and definitely requires a visit before it closes next month. Aspects of Love as a title lays out exactly what this show is - a conceptual analysis - and the show has been much maligned, I think, by being misunderstood as a traditional book musical.
#musical theatre#andrew lloyd webber#charles hart#don black#aspects of love#michael ball#kevin coulson#ann crumb#love changes everything#a memory of a happy moment#anything but lonely#kathleen rowe mcallen#a little night music#the miller’s son#hal prince#concept musical#book musical#west end#lyric theatre#Spotify#Oklahoma!#jonathan kent
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is it me or is there a serious lack of charlie hunnam fics?
#charlie hunnam#raymond smith#the gentlemen#raymond smith x reader#william ironhead miller#william miller x reader#triple frontier#jax teller#jax teller x reader#sons of anarchy#charlie hunnam fics#where are they#he's so hot#😭😭😭😭we need to fix this
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grumpy men and the feral child they found on the streets are so special to me
#jim hopper#el hopper#eleven hopper#stranger things#irondad and spider son#tony stark#peter parker#marvel#mcu#joel miller#ellie williams#the last of us#the last of us hbo#clint barton#kate bishop#hawkeye#logan howlett#wolverine#laura howlett#din djarin#din grogu#the mandalorian#all my sillies compiled together#fireheart#cloudtail#firestar#warrior cats
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being a single father is difficult
#something silly while i work on something serious again#listen. if father garcia and michael by word of god can have a “twisted father/son dynamic” i think gary and amy can be father and daughter#in like the worst way possible#i did not finish hannibal and i dont plan to but like. theyre hannibal and abigail (?) to me#anyway. ramble over#my stuff#faith the unholy trinity#faith game#faith airdorf#ftut#amy martin#gary miller#michael davies#redraw of that one toddler leash image
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Uni started and my laptop immediately broke on me. Great start
#metal gear solid#mgs#mgs2#otacon#solid snake#snavid#otasune#meryl silverburgh#liquid snake#mgs2 sons of liberty#kazuhira miller
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Charlie Hunnam, Papillon
#charlie hunnam#papillon#jax teller#sons of anarchy#soa#movie#film#crimson peak#pacific rim#raleigh becket#nicholas nikleby#the lost city of z#king arthur#king arthur legend of the sword#queer as folk#the gentlemen#triple frontier#cold mountain#children of men#william miller
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Hi. I'm cyberbullying a long dead poet because of his shitty fanfic. Enjoy. I'd love it if you joined me.
(Before you get mad at me, yes, I know Eugammon of Cyrene is an important figure and all that. I'm sick with some sort of flu. Let me cyberbully an ancient dead fanfic writer in peace.)
#I think my favorite is the astronaut one lol#because I wanna see Homer fed up and just start taking people out.#Also Penelope not putting up with some little shit.#You know what? I'm gonna be a bitch to people who bring up Telegonus to me and be like “Oh? You mean Polites' son?👁👁”#just to fuck with people >:)#Can you imagine how confused and mad people would get at me??? I love it.#Eris threw the Golden Apple into Thetis' and Peleus' wedding and I threw this shit into tumblr#guys I'm on weird flu medicine aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa#I have not slept much because of it🙃#Mad rambles#am I funny yet?#shot by odysseus#anti circe#anti madeline miller#tele-GONE-y#odysseus#penelope#odyssey#the odyssey#tagamemnon#greek mythology#odypen#greek myth memes#Mad memes#penelope of ithaca
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Kazuhira Miller- pencil on paper, by me, 2024
#art#analog art#artists on tumblr#artwork#female artists#sketchbook spread#doodle#doodlies#doodlings#doodlysketch#sketchblog#sketch#sketchbook stuff#sketchbook#metal gear fanart#metal gear series#metal gear solid#metal#mgs2 sons of liberty#mgs fanart#mgs snake#mgs#mgsv#master miller#kazuhira miller#kazuhira mgs#mgs peace walker#mgspw#mgs2 fanart#mgs2
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She's just joking! ❤️
She doesn't like Walt either.
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HELL NAH!!! NOT MY SON!!!
#dsaf#dayshift at freddy's#dave miller#dsaf dave#davesport#jack kennedy#old sport dsaf#art#digital art#fanart#dsaf jack#dsaf fanart#I LOVE DSAF#HELL NAH!!! NOT MY SON!!!
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By Buttercup_4714 on Pinterest
Imagine if he actually did walk in on them tho 😭
#dexer#daxer#green day#green day jd#bro but romantically#harry campbell#exer campbell#david miller#david miller jd#jacksons diary#jackson's diary#jd#meme#are ya winning son#paola batalla#webtoon#webtoon original
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need to audition for a youtube channel on the same day as a pretty girl, tell her i'll see her at work before either of us book the job, and then experience like 7 years of pining for each other until one day we get married and break the internet. anyone interested?
#thinking about them today#shayne topp you lucky son of a bitch#how does it feel to live my dream#shayne topp#courtney miller#shourtney#smosh#smoshblr
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#eah memes#eah meme#eah merry men band#eah merry men#eah sparrow#eah sparrow hood#ever after high#eah#eah child of little john#eah child of will stutely#eah child of reynold greenleaf#eah child of gilbert whitehand#eah child of george a greene#eah child of arthur a bland#eah child of david of doncaster#eah child of alan a dale#eah child of will scarlett#eah child of much the millers son#eah jonah little#eah tucker friar#eah winnie stutely#eah riot greenleaf#eah gilly whitehand#eah gregoria a greene#eah archie a bland#eah declan of doncaster#eah arlo a dale#eah willbur scarlett#eah midge millerson
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I love Chris so much you guys.
#detroit become human#gavin reed#chris miller#neither of them is my overall favorite but i do really super love chris - hes up there#also i went into playing this knowing one (1) thing and that was you get to knock gavin out cold in the evidence locker#thats the only thing i knew about this game#ive read some fanfic (before i played the game) and i appreciate that the fics i read that had chris in them#were all like youre the straight friend or just youre the only straight i like#almost unanimously ???? like ? hes got a son and i like that you (fandom) allowed him to be a wife guy#chris was chill and i appreciate that#i missed a lot of the interactions and i messed up a lot somehow though i thought i was being nice and good#shocking no one my favorite guy is a side character and not one of the protags#i want to draw him but i couldnt think of anything dialogue wise for him and i really wanted to draw Stupid Men#and for my run at least im like wow gavin isnt even that bad of an antagonist lmao#like granted i never had a coworker aim a gun at me but i have been threatened for a stabbing before so#anyway sweats nervously at posting dbh content after being known for ... not that sort of game#good lord the stress i felt every interaction that i got an affection down ?? my otome exp is only positive reinforcement signs#where you get lil blossoms or hearts when you make the correct route choice and get nothing if not#the red downs were awful
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Circe and Daedalus things
#they’re so underrated#they make me sick#should’ve been endgame#I miss Daedalus#Icarus jokes aren’t funny anymore#circe madeline miller#Circe#Daedalus#Icarus#what is their ship name#lowkey feeling SolarCraft#is that too industrial#solarwing?#is solar disrespectful bc his son yk#Daedalus design might change#fanart
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"Girlbosses" 🙃
Understand that I like all these "girlbosses". these are silly
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#Mad rambles#shot by odysseus#I have not read Elektra or other plays that have more on Clytemnestra so I didn't feel right making one of her although I feel the same#I know Medea killed others but...Her killing her sons and being so...chill? about it is what DESTROYED me when I read it soooo...#circe#medea#medusa#anti circe#anti madeline miller#tagamemnon#greek mythology#bring up Ovid and I am tossing you into a cardboard box to go outside in the rain#memes#save me morally gray circe
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