I have a similar thing. It's like "this would probably be great if it were . . . about anyone/anything else." I'm a Loyalist descendant with a strong awareness of that family's history, and Aboriginal Peoples' issues are too close to me on another level, so for me it's I . . . cannot have that kind of whoosh of feeling about anything set in and around the American Revolution or its drivers. (Or Canadian settlement and its drivers, or . . . etc). I can't get swept up.

For me, though, it gets into all of it - there really isn't a song I can divorce from those contexts enough not to be "meh" over. I think a lot of the concepts are fascinating and so is much of the style, but the musical itself, I . . . can't.

(And since people are so often crap about this stuff: I do not in any way mean that anyone else should have my issues or that knowing the historical context exists should change anyone's enjoyment, etc; god knows I do get swept up in stuff about eras that have their own problems, and a lot of them. Just, these particular ones stick in ways that ruin my potential enjoyment, is all that I mean.)

and will admit that the constant hype/etc makes it hard not to slide over into hate. >.>