Hey Hamilton fans... 2 tracks from the Mixtape just dropped

Awesome.

you can find and listen to both songs on youtube.. I'm disappointed in them both to be honest.. and in my opinion both have horrible background music and sound very, I don't know what words to use. fake and studio? maybe..

.. not sure I"ll even buy it unless I like a lot of the other songs.

Yeah, I know it makes sense in that realm. I just don't trust "outsiders" (non-broadway peeps) to do the music right. I've been so disappointed so many times by non-broadway singers botching the music that I'm just wary. This might be the first time it works given the source material. It's just such a different world, that non-broadway peeps (for the most part) in my experience just don't understand how to treat the music properly. 

I will listen and check it out. I'm just wary of the idea since it has bombed so badly in the past. 

Yeah, I know. I just got the Hamilton soundtrack and it's great. It's definitely going to revolutionize broadway (well some of it) the way Rent did. It's about broadway and it's not. It's two very different ways of performing, and I will have to go and check out to see if it's appealing to my ear. I probably have to drop more of my pre-conceived notions about this kind of performance but I'm willing to give it a try.

I'll fully admit that I'm a bit of a snob when it comes to theatre. In my experience, some people can cross the line between broadway and "regular" music (Kristen Chenowith comes to mind) but it's rare that people can properly cross from "regular" music to broadway (I can't think of any examples off the top of my head). It's just two completely different worlds that I'm just not convinced. Yet. I'll track it down and see how it moves me. 

Both are used fairly interchangeably these days. But touche (if that's what you were aiming for). 

I'm looking forward to the Mixtape!

And I agree - all the theater people I know call it a cast recording instead of a soundtrack. Although given the popularity of Hamilton with non-traditional theater goers I've seen it called a soundtrack more.

It's a shame the terms are used interchangeably because they are not the same thing and leads to confusion when a film is made of a Broadway musical. Which recording are you (generic you) talking about when you say "I listened to the "South Pacific" soundtrack last night?" Did you mean the actual soundtrack from the movie musical? Do you mean the original Broadway cast recording? Do you mean the most recent revival? The television version?

I know that doesn't mean much to most people, but for people who do talk about these things, the correct terminology means something.

And since the mixtape was Lin-Manuel Miranda's original vision - I'm thrilled. Any opportunities to hear these songs as envisioned by Miranda is great by me. 💗💗💗

I think it is available for preorder tonight at midnight. Super excited!

You can't say "I'm a grammar snob" in one sentence and then say "Show the drawings to Joe and myself" and not get called out for it.  And you can't say, "I'm a theater snob who loves the soundtrack" and get away with that either. What did you expect? This is the internet, haven of pedants. Duh.  

I looked on Spotify and couldn't find them either (wondered if it was just with Premium?).

You can hear them on Youtube:

It's Quiet Uptown

My Shot

I have Family Spotify and I guess I thought it was premium, guess not. Anyway I did find it on YT and I am liking them both.

Yeah. I see it and it doesn't really surprise me to be honest. In my experience with theatre people, it doesn't make a whit of difference. But hey, sematics makes good fodder to piss on someone. Got it.

Fuck this. I'm out. Good to know conversations aren't allowed unless the approved vernacular is used.