[ SECRET POST #3414 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3414 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

No, it's because it's really good on every level. Like, it's not just that it has rap. It's that it has a really strong logic behind the way that it uses rap. The basic underlying idea (comparing Hamilton as an immigrant and narrative's about America's founding to typical rap narratives) is a really insightful one. And they're not using it in a shallow way - it's clear that the people creating the show really thought through the implications of that idea and they're deeply embedded in the whole structure of the show. It's using a corpus of existing styles and ideas in the best way possible.

Plus, the lyrics are really good, the characterization on its own works really well, it's clever in a ton of ways that have nothing to do with rap, the cast is amazing, and it came out at a perfect historical moment for the things that it was saying.

You don't have to like the music but it's not hard to think of why it was as hyped as it was.

[(Anonymous)]

there's a really dumb typo in here and also a word choice i don't stand behind sorry

[(Anonymous)]

he basic underlying idea (comparing Hamilton as an immigrant and narrative's about America's founding to typical rap narratives) is a really insightful one.

Writing a musical about an actual black person was clearly too risky.

I'm ashamed to live in a world where no one can see the hypocrisy that is Hamilton.

[(Anonymous)]

He didn't start by thinking "I'll write a rap musical, who should it be about?", he started knowing he'd write about Hamilton and then deciding that his rags-to-riches type life story fit well with rap. He was never going to write about a black person, you're being an idiot.

[(Anonymous)]

Nah, they're not an idiot. You might be though. The fact that a musical about an actual black founding father hasn't been made but this was very successful shows how we can't as a society still don't seem ready for POC works. Hamilton isn't evil for doing so, but damn they should have just made a musical about the actual POC who built America. Having all these black actors mock each other over knowing "who does the real planting" just seems stupid, like white people attacking each other for being white.