{"id":114610,"date":"2017-05-24T08:28:21","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T16:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=114610"},"modified":"2017-05-24T08:28:21","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T16:28:21","slug":"hamilton-the-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=114610","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton – The Musical"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comment<\/a>: There are songs on youtube but basically it\u2019s unlistenable unless you like rap music. And the Venn diagram overlap of people who like rap and people who like American history is very small. It\u2019s not like the tunes are hummable and the complex wordy lyrics would take a lot of effort to memorize.<\/p>\n

The main fun of Hamilton is watching all these black and brown people pretend to be the Founding Fathers and knowing that the seemingly erudite lyrics were written by an Hispanic \u2013 an update minstrel show as someone said. If Hamilton had an all white cast no one would see it and people would be complaining about white people culturally appropriating rap. If you listen to the songs you can\u2019t really tell the color of the singers so that takes all the fun out of listening to the cast recording. White guy pretending to be Alexander Hamilton rapping to lyrics written by a white guy about the Federal government assuming the war debts of the states \u2013 boooring. No one would see it. The whole thing is pure racial virtue signaling just like all the commercials where the pretend doctor\/lawyer\/financial advisor\/scientist is black. It\u2019s sort of the reverse of Hollywood where you see a Hollywood movie about LA and there are all these blond white people and then you step out into the street and all you see are a bunch of Mestizos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Comment: There are songs on youtube but basically it\u2019s unlistenable unless you like rap music. And the Venn diagram overlap of people who like rap and people who like American history is very small. It\u2019s not like the tunes are … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42740],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadway"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t