#very great song btw

[saturnvs]

yellow light

[vlindervin7]

realised yesterday just how often hozier actually used to sing about being not quite alive, not feeling like a person, about loving someone in a way that defies death and made him more alive, about suffering death for love. it's like he was constantly being buried underground and unearthed by love, over and over, which, while romantic in a way, is also incredibly sad. but i think it's interesting how his latest album (literally called 'unreal unearth') takes this idea and makes it its central theme. that's what this album is, one man's descent into the underworld. except, crucially, he makes it to the other side, and ends the album saying the darkness will come again, but this time he is "never going back [to hell] again." it feels like such a full-circle moment considering the rest of his discography and i'm so very excited to see what comes after this

[rookflower]

500, Mapleshade, maybe? /nf

now our lives are changing fast, now our lives are changing fast.

hope that something pure can last, hope that something pure can last.

[raccoon-of-the-creek]

and the funny thing is, i would've married you if you'd have stuck around.

[blushblushbear]

Which boys would be the best at singing, and which would be the worst?

Very Good: Eli, MYX, Stirling, Fuyu (though with modern/western style singing it's a rough start, but he gets there eventually), Xiauyun

Alright: Nimh, Volks, Dmitri, William, Scale, Seth, Logan, Reece, Aki, Haru

Mid: Kelby, Anon, Garret, Ichiban

AWFUL: Eli, Sven, Cashew, ACE

Refuses to sing: Poe (he's ight)

[ghostbiie]

any amsterhan shippers left in the fandom?

....no?

......just me?

[the-alan-price-combo]

60 years ago - on November 16th, 1964, the Animals recorded "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"!! 🐾✨️

[seeking-elsewhither]

Commander Wolffe in @margindoodles2407 HFSW AU playing the Hurdy Gurdy was something I never knew I always wanted.

I have a mighty need.

[pestilentbrood]

do you need love?

am i enough for you?

sorry for beepo divorce angst . this song makes me think about them and start tearing into things with my teeth

[yourlocalguardian]

Shitty drawing I scribbled out of thing that happened last night

:p

Actual gif clip from the movie of what I was half seeing btw:

I was getting like. Half third person seeing myself and half first person of it

[whale-in-that-case]

Having a very normal and average experience while listening to music today by instantly recognising the 4-seconds bird song at the beginning of a music clip that was filmed outside.

[wojtekaneko]

I'm listening to I am in Eskew ep 6 like I'm the sickos meme guy

[sentientstump]

Hey stump! What is your favourite song right now?

hey! at first i was kind of afraid that i didn't have one at the moment. and if i did, it would have been the same as the last time someone asked me that a year or so ago, ahah

but seems like I've forgotten about one and it was pretty recent too

from movie Mimino, here's a link to it! (it's a timestamp on a yt upload of the movie, it has eng subs. the movie not the song sadly)

[neroushalvaus]

I wanna ask you an important (not really) question, but don't feel like you have to answer.

Javert in epilogue Heaven: yes or no? Is he in hell or purgatory maybe?

Hey, as far as I am concerned, this is an important question ;D This is actually a discussion I have cared enough about to give a whole ted talk about it in my friends' musical theatre podcast (sadly the episode is in Finnish). But yeah, my opinion is a very definitive "yes".

Because I know people have conflicting views about this, I hope you don't mind me explaining myself, I don't want to end up on people's "bad les mis takes" blocklists before I get to justify my case.

So, when we talk about Heaven in the context of Les Mis, we can't ignore the fact that Les Mis as a musical and as a book holds Christian values. If we look at the main theological themes present in the book, it preaches hospitality, grace and forgiveness (and also liberation theology even though it wasn't called that back then but we are keeping it simple). That's why "Javert can't go to Heaven because he was a bad person" doesn't work for me, even though I absolutely agree that he is. If Javert is not in Heaven, I think having Javert's Suicide mirror Valjean's Soliloquy is a bad decision. The bishop shows Valjean kindness, Valjean looks within and Valjean gets a new life; Valjean shows Javert kindness, Javert looks within... And? I think it makes narrative sense that Javert gets a new life, even if it is after death.

Another argument I have seen is "Javert wouldn't want to be in the epilogue, there is a barricade there", and I don't agree with that either. Like. I don't think it's a literal barricade, it is a metaphor for how the equal world the Amis wanted exists after death. I'm not saying it's not a bittersweet ending – I think Karl Marx would absolutely hate it –, but that's what it is. It's not a very revolutionary ending. For what it's worth, I don't think the literal character of Enjolras would actually be comfortable singing about how everyone will be equal once they're dead and that's fine. It only works if the barricade is a metaphor.

Aside from being Heaven, I think the epilogue has two purposes; to gather all the characters on the stage once more, and to give the audience some catharsis. This is why I think Javert should be there, and in fact, I think every character in the show should be there. The book and the show are called Les Misérables for a reason, every character in it is wretched and has been left behind by society. The musical is pretty vague about Javert's wretchedness, but I think he reveals just enough for the audience to see that this is a miserable bastard and if he were to sing in the end with the others, that would bring the audience some catharsis. Especially seeing him together with everyone the society he has served has harmed, and he himself has harmed. I personally would really like that. "We will walk behind the plowshare, we will put away the sword. The chain will be broken and all men will have their reward". I also like how that would prove Javert wrong. As he sings in Stars, he thinks that "those who follow the path of the righteous shall have their reward"; then he, in his own mind, fails to follow that path; and he gets in Heaven, where everyone who has suffered in their life will be rewarded, no matter the bad things they did. Not to quote the book too much, but "This door does not demand of him who enters whether he has a name, but whether he has a grief. You suffer, you are hungry and thirsty; you are welcome".

I think that would be the correct way to end this musical. The ending may not be revolutionary, but at its best it is cathartic, hopeful and gentle. So in my opinion it should be as gentle as possible.

[baalzebufo]

yankoblr i have a question. gotta fulfill my curiosity on this one. I think all of us on this side of tumblr got that one weird al song that nobody talks about but we love. well ok more accurately we've got like twenty, but. im curious what your ONE is. your hidden gem

for me? Airline Amy from Off the Deep End. genuinely, its such a fun funky bop, the chorus gets stuck in my head so much its such an earworm. the way he sings 'found a little piece of heaven on a 747'. mwah. its a song ive never heard anyone else even mention but it manages to be unbearably catchy imo

[musicrunsthroughmysoul]

When will the cruel mental illness be over...