Thank you for holding space for the lyrics of defying gravity with us
CassieWasRight
2025-01-21 15:12:56 +0000 UTC
Maybe this is just my I-have-been-a-fan-for-two-decades nostalgia goggles but I genuinely think Wicked did a better job of depicting marginalization under a right-wing dictatorship than most other media I've seen. Certainly more than most fantasy media
CassieWasRight
2025-01-21 15:12:37 +0000 UTC
I would pay money to watch you perform over the moon. Like take my money 🤣🤣
Hope Maze
2025-01-02 08:06:55 +0000 UTC
I love your take on creative people's processes and wanting to see how a moment is made. I do low key wish more people would have that approach specifically with the spongebob musical. Like is it possible for us to make fun of Ethan Slater without belittling the years of work the rest of that team did? It was made with a lot of care and collaboration and it feels like the work of everyone else on that show has been drowned out by all the people making fun of Slater for being corny. Like its not perfect and some of the messages are messy. But for a piece of children's theater, it is exceptional. Every song was written by a different artist like the Flaming Lips and Cindy Lauper and John Legend and Sara Bareilles and T.I. of all fucking people? AND A SONG BY DAVID BOWIE SONG IN ACT 1. And like Patrick accidentally starts a cult with a full on gospel song in his honor? Like it is FUN and that is a hill I will die on.
Hope Maze
2025-01-02 07:54:37 +0000 UTC
I'm currently watching this video on the tubes. Just wanted to say your nails are gorgeous. The rest of you is also gorgeous. Love the look 🫶🏻
Hope Maze
2025-01-02 07:32:49 +0000 UTC
What's Ariana nervous about? Running off with someone's husband? She should be!!
I'm lying, I'm just being petty & ole girl has a pattern 😹🫣
Erron Perez
2024-12-31 23:26:02 +0000 UTC
You would be a FANTASTIC Maureen! Someone needs to make that happen.
Sydney Frasure
2024-12-31 19:17:35 +0000 UTC
You better do that run in the end credits!!!
Shannon of House Lee
2024-12-30 20:01:05 +0000 UTC
The following deserve a mention, though I haven’t spent enough time with them to include them above.
Arooj Aftab: Night Reign
Joan Armatrading: How Did This Happen and What Does It Now Mean
Body Count: Merciless
John Cale: POPtical Illusion
Beth Gibbons: Lives Outgrown
Godspeed You! Black Emperor: No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead
Hurray For The Riff Raff: The Past Is Still Alive
The Jesus Lizard: Rack
Mercury Rev: Born Horses
Meshell Ndegeocello: No More Water - The Gospel of James Baldwin
Tara Jane O'Neill: The Cool Cloud of Okayness
Jeff Parker ETA IVtet: the way out of easy
Dolly Parton and Family: Smoky Mountain DNA - Family, Faith and Fables
Redd Kross: Redd Kross
X: Smoke & Fiction
And… I must recognize the incredible performance of "Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!)" by Gojira, with Marina Viotti when they performed it live on 26 July in Paris at the opening of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. They released a studio version 30 August.
Sharon Baker
2024-12-29 19:50:37 +0000 UTC
2024 was a strange year…but so many great releases! I have a top four that are from beloved post-punk, math rock, psychedelic metal, and progressive metal artists. The rest of the list encompasses the above, as well as classic and neo-country, death metal, stoner metal, neo-soul/progressive Jazz, noise punk, pop punk, prog rock, singer-songwriter folk, electronic, experimental world Jazz, free Jazz, Gothic rock, shoegaze, Europop, indie rock, a greatest hits double album by a Japanese legend, a singles collection from decades-old recordings, blues rock, and avant-garde metal.
SHELLAC: TO ALL TRAINS
The Cure: Songs of a Lost World
SLIFT: ILION
Devin Townsend: PowerNerd
And in alpha order:
Beyoncé: Act II: Cowboy Carter
Blood Incantation: Absolute Elsewhere
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Wild God
The Church: Eros Zeta and the Perfumed Guitars
Coaltar Of the Deepers x Boris: hello there
Day Soul Exquisite: Sanguine & Cardamom
Kim Deal: Nobody Loves You More
Ekko Astral: pink balloons
Kim Gordon: The Collective
Gossip: Real Power
Laura Jane Grace: Hole in My Head
Steve Hackett: The Circus And The Nightwhale
Brittany Howard: What Now
Anja Huwe: Codes
Idles: Tangk
The Jesus & Mary Chain: Glasgow Eyes
Khruangbin: A La Sala
The Linda Lindas: No Obligation
Lowen: Do Not Go To War With The Demons Of Mazandaran
The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis: S/T
Willie Nelson: Last Leaf on the Tree
Nox Novacula: Feed The Fire
Joy Oladokun: Observations From A Crowded Room
Pylon Reenactment Society: Magnet Factory
Ride: Interplay
J. Robbins: Basilisk
Lætitia Sadier: Rooting for Love
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum: Of the Last Human Being
Softcult: Heaven
Mary Timony: Untame the Tiger
Hikaru Utada: Science Fiction
Vision Video: Modern Horror
Jack White: No Name
Chelsea Wolfe: She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She
Xmal Deutschland: Early Singles 1981-1982
Zeal & Ardor: Greif
…
Sharon Baker
2024-12-29 19:50:20 +0000 UTC
I wonder if my music list will fit here…
Sharon Baker
2024-12-29 19:47:24 +0000 UTC
yeaa this Wicked adaptation is my favorite behind the Rent film in 2005 😭 can’t wait for act 2!
kenne
2024-12-29 03:21:36 +0000 UTC
Once the scene of Dr Dillamond’s arrest happened I was sobbing until the very end. In fact I’m sobbing now even thinking of that scene.
What Cynthia can do just with her eyes is astonishing.
Defying Gravity is way too emotional too. I’m a credit watcher in the theatre, and this time I really needed that ten minutes to calm the F down.
I was completely unfamiliar with the show, but read the book and LOVED it. Seeing this now, before so many of us are fearful about what is going to happen in a week and a half…the fascism of it all…. I wonder if the larger audience will have analysis?
Sharon Baker
2024-12-28 21:06:07 +0000 UTC
Bwater
Justin Walker
2024-12-28 20:56:32 +0000 UTC
Sadly I start channeling my Grandmother when I see esp Ariana being so thin made me want to say "You too skinny" (in a heavy Polish accent). The main problem I have is it sends a dangerous message to young girls who are not savvy to the reality of stars and body differences. Now the trolling on a social media format on their looks is another thing, besides here with the topic I spoke out. Otherwise I just hope those close to her will talk with her. Doesn't help I worked with AIDS patients for the 1980-90's so it triggers my worry genes. Luckily beyond Patreon I follow the adage to keep my mouth shut.