If music can tell stories, what's the use of pale language?

Gardner 2022-09-30 15:56:10

The first musical in my life (the starting point is too high...

There are three women in Hamilton:

? Soulmate Angelica:

Seeing love at first sight like light again, seeing through each other's pursuits and ambitions at a glance - "He will never be satisfied."

? Accompanying Elisa for half a lifetime:

The combination of real-life harmony gave him all the tenderness and companionship, and devoted himself to his unfinished business after her husband's death - "That would be enough."

?Eros incarnate Maria:

The unbearable loneliness led to a derailed summer carnival, and it became a stain on his life - "Show me how to say no to this."

The history books are completed, and later generations will comment.

There are always some that remember beyond love, beyond right and wrong, beyond merit and demerit. Starting from one's own world, walking through the world of history, and restoring the world dragged by someone, even so, there is always room for imagination - "They're going through the unimaginable."

If stories can be told in music, what use do we need to have in pale language?

The poisoning is too deep, and I haven’t really come out yet. Every day, the singles are looped. You will find a person, a scene, and a piece of emotion, which can be fully expressed with a single highlight lyrics. The expression is direct enough, forceful enough, and impressive enough.

Musicals seem to be shelved and defined as "high-end art" (of course, the economic base is here to hinder the climb of the superstructure), but the Internet has leveled a lot of things, "Hamilton" is close enough to young people, its emotion, empathy, The resonance is straightforward enough to tell a story of the "American Dream" that can be applied everywhere. So you will find that sometimes the most classic works often evoke the most universal resonance.

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Extended Reading

Hamilton quotes

  • Aaron Burr: How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman/Dropped in the middle/Of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean/By providence, impoverished, in squalor/Grow up to be a hero and a scholar?

    John Laurens: The ten-dollar Founding Father/Without a father/Got a lot farther/By working a lot harder/By being a lot smarter/By being a self-starter/By 14, they placed him in charge of a trading charter.

    Marquis de Lafayette: And every day, while slaves were being slaughtered/And carted away across the waves/He struggled and kept his guard up/Inside, he was longing for something to be a part of/The brother was ready to beg, steal, borrow, or barter.

    Hercules Mulligan: Then a hurricane came/And devastation reigned/Our man saw his future/Drip-dripping down the drain/Put a pencil to his temple/Connected it to his brain/And he wrote his first refrain/A testament to his pain.

    Aaron Burr: Well, the word got around/They said, "This kid is insane, man"/Took up a collection/Just to send him to the mainland/Get your education/Don't forget from whence you came/And the world's gonna know your name/What's your name, man?

    Alexander Hamilton: Alexander Hamilton/My name is Alexander Hamilton/And there's a million things I haven't done/But just you wait/Just you wait.

  • Aaron Burr: The ship is in the harbor now/See if you can spot him/Another immigrant coming up from the bottom/His enemies destroyed his rep/America forgot him.

    Marquis de LafayetteHercules Mulligan: We fought with him.

    John Laurens: Me, I died for him.

    George Washington: Me, I trusted him.

    Peggy SchuylerAngelica SchuylerEliza Hamilton: Me, I loved him.

    Aaron Burr: And me/I'm the damn fool that shot him.