Hamilton: Surprisingly Not Overrated!

[rachelmanija]

Lin Manuel Miranda performing the opening number of Hamilton - his history geekiness is so endearing.

The whole thing on Spotify for free.

I am slowly listening to this. It's very dense, especially since I'm not familiar with that period of history other than reading Gore Vidal's Burr and getting briefly obsessed with the duel and the question of who shot first (Burr. Also, Hamilton's shot went wild because he'd been hit, not because he deliberately fired into the air, give me a break) and I just have the album - there doesn't seem to be a video available. It's pretty great though. If you like Sondheim, you would like this. I'd say listen to the first three tracks (through "My Shot") and see if you like it. I love the way it combines hiphop with Broadway, both lyrically and musically. It's really clever and catchy.

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[rmc28]

It is EATING MY BRAIN :-) I have been looping the album most of the time since Sunday morning.

[rachelmanija]

I have gotten a little obsessed with "My Shot." In fact it's hard for me to get very far into it because I keep replaying that.

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[rmc28]

Sometimes I keep repeating a track, and "My Shot" is one of them. (Also "Right Hand Man", "Yorktown", "Non-Stop", "The Room Where It Happens", the two cabinet rap battles ...). So much going on in there. And I am nothing like either Miranda or Hamilton, but I'm putting my life back together, I've been given a new shot, and I am not throwing it away *gets all cheesily emotional*

I had some dental work today and mentioned I was listening to "a musical" and the dentist suggested I listen while she worked, which made for the least unpleasant dental work ever because so much of my attention was on the songs.

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[rachelmanija]

Yeah. I am hoping that I still I have a shot.