tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post3887428260186603818..comments2024-03-28T17:53:43.541-04:00Comments on DarwinCatholic: The Guinea Pig, the Profanity, and the PhantomDarwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572976822786862149noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-14809567306365565582015-11-12T12:02:18.904-05:002015-11-12T12:02:18.904-05:00Anon, I wouldn't want you to violate your cons...Anon, I wouldn't want you to violate your conscience on my recommendation! That said, I wouldn't recommend anything I didn't think had objectively good qualities. I don't think hip hop is an inherently degraded form, just as I don't think classical music is objectively better. (There's a lot of schlock pseudo-Mozart and Bach out there.) I also think, as Lin-Manuel Miranda has said in interviews, that this style is well-suited to tell this specific story because of a) the amount of words that hip hop can pack into its musical form vs. just about any other musical style; b) the strongly American feel of hip hop, and c) the parallels it helps draw between the past and the present in the lives and struggles of the characters. I just read Ron Chernow's bio of Hamilton that was the inspiration for Hamilton, and boy, if you think politics is nasty now, we've got nothing on the past! <br /><br />I did try to watch 1776 once, and fell asleep. <br /><br />I love the opening song, and My Shot, and You'll Be Back, and Right Hand Man, and History Has Its Eyes On You, and The Battle of Yorktown, and The Room where it Happens, and the Cabinet Duels, and It's Quiet Uptown, and the finale. Among all the others. :)MrsDarwinhttp://darwincatholic.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-81911163858642142042015-11-12T11:23:28.919-05:002015-11-12T11:23:28.919-05:00Once I heard that Hamilton was available to listen...Once I heard that Hamilton was available to listen for free with Amazon Prime, I listened. I would never have given listening a second thought, but for your regular promotion of it. My husband has very conservative music tastes, so I have listened when he and the kids are out of the house. Between this being hip-hop, the profanity, and knowing my husband would highly disapprove, I almost feel like I am listening to a musical version of porn. (Not that the content is pornographic, just that I have to be secret and feel naughty because if that, like I imagine some porn users feel.) I am ashamed to say that I like the music a lot, and have now listened more than once. My favorites are the opening song and You'll be Back.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-35091811487685277872015-11-11T10:02:41.646-05:002015-11-11T10:02:41.646-05:00The female leads wear colonial-style dresses (but ...The female leads wear colonial-style dresses (but no colonial-style wigs, thankfully). You can see them in the 60 Minutes segments. The women in the corsets are the dancers, though they also wear red and blue coats if they need to step in as soldiers on either side. The male dancers don't wear corsets, true, but I'm okay with that.MrsDarwinhttp://darwincatholic.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-7711539914837287382015-11-11T09:04:06.609-05:002015-11-11T09:04:06.609-05:00The musical sounds fascinating, but one question: ...The musical sounds fascinating, but one question: why are the women in underclothes while the men are dressed? Please tell me there is a good theatrical reason and not simply a "sex sells" motive?Karie, the Regular Guy's Extraordinary Wifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09488051857541040772noreply@blogger.com