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[reserve]

I don't know if you knew this, f-list, but I am a huge loser for musicals. Yes, that's right, I am a huge fag.

This fact aside, I recently read an article somewhere (possibly in The New Yorker) that mentioned in passing the way music makes us feel. As in, there has actually be research done about the way certain combinations of notes make us feel

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[russell_crowe]

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR HEAVEN ON THEIR MINDS

You cannot know this, but I think I have blogged about this musical, like, five separate times in the last three months.

Your version was slow to load for me, but I'd like it to be known that this is the best version of the song, in my humble opinion.

The version from the OST is also DYNAMITE, I have to say, I am not fond of the '94 version. Wtf, white Judas. Get on outta here. Also, the '73 Jesus will never be topped. Ever. His MY TEMPLE SHOULD BE A HOUSE OF PRAYER blows my face back with fucking G force.

...FUCK WHAT ISN'T TO LIKE ABOUT JCS. It's A FABULOUS ROCK OPERA and also tackles the complex socio-political issues of Jesus' ministry! Via song, dance, and awkward 70's scene transitions! I keep thinking of songs to mention as awesome and it is EVERY FUCKING SONG.

SO YOU ARE THE CHRIST

YOU'RE THE GREAT JESUS CHRIST

I'm sorry but no-one else loves this, esp. the movie. I could watch it every goddamn day of my life, no lie.

[mermaidfins]

I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE.

Every time i go on about those "magical moments" in musical theater songs, I get the all too popular jess-you're-out-of-your-mind look.

But if you're referring to the goosebumps, unintentional tears, and the breath caught in your throat (oo, this sounds so dramatic, regardless of the actual emotional content in the song, then we're on the same page.

AND as a singer, I know it's so so wrong, but it's usually the belters that do it for me. It's like, my guilty pleasure. Shhh, don't tell my voice teacher.

yayyyyy. I'm so happy this post exists. also, let's go see a musical.k bye

[mermaidfins]

there's supposed to a be a parentheses after dramatic up there, and it's killing me.

[reserve]

But seriously girl, I am so glad you know what I am talking about. Sometimes I think that you are a little version of me -- minus the mental health issues. I mean that an a compliment (because I am awesome), but you can take it as an insult if you want.

Also: goosebumps, unintentional tears, and the breath caught in your throat is a much better way of saying "makes my vagina clench." Ugh, I am so crude.

All of my friends are in LOVE with Hair right now. I really want to South Pacific.

You have seen Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, right? It's AMAAAAAHZING, simply AHMAAAAAHHHHHHZING.

[mermaidfins]

I probably am a little version of you, including the mental health issues that I guess you just haven't heard about yet. But no worries, I didn't take that as in insult.

"Makes my vagina clench" is just a way of summing that all up.

I too am in LOVE with Hair right now. South Pacific goes either way for me. I'm feeling Billy Elliot or Next to Normal.

And no, I haven't.

[furies]

YOU HAVE THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL!

if i'm with my one friend, and one of us says, damn, we both go, "shout the moment that you find him!" because terrence mann says "damn" so beautifully and sexily it should be outlawed.

i have a lot of those moments. but actually, i have more of them combined with theater - i get goosebumps and shivers a LOT when watching dance. kind of a mix of the music and the movement, when it's right, i just. shudder and clench and catch my breath.

i mean, it happens when i watch so you think you can dance. but i was also a dancer - never a singer.

I HEART TERRENCE MANN.