all i’m saying is idk how you can expect me to remain silent about the ways in which hadestown distinguishes orpheus as a Magic Music Boy in a medium where everyone is singing, and furthermore how i can have been expected not to imprint on him like a baby bird,,,,,,,,,,
like i just dk how i’m supposed to live with the fact that he is the only character in “road to hell” who sings upon being introduced!!!!
or how in “come home with me” orpheus not only sings his lines while eurydice’s lines are spoken but his voice is ALSO twined through with these ethereal harmonies, like that’s just what happens when he gets excited?? like don’t you wish an unseen chorus started harmonizing with YOU when you were trying to impress your crush,,,,,,
OR how when he does speak his voice often sounds kind of whispy and thin, like he’s not used to it, or like instead of being nervous about singing in front of other people, the way most people are, he’s more nervous about speaking in front of them??? and even when he is speaking in that little voice of his there’s usually still kind of a musical little uptick to it???
or the innocent pride he takes in his Magical Musical Accomplishments, like he’s a little kid who’s discovered he has a knack for something and not a literal touched-by-the-gods son of a muse who can alter reality with his voice, because this is just how his life is???
“it isn’t finished, yet, but when it’s done, and when i sing it, spring will come again :)”
“i sang a song so beautiful the stones wept, and they let me in :)”
speaking of the stones weeping and letting him in, remember how in “wait for me” the stones sing back to him when he sings That Melody and you get “i hear the walls repeating / the the falling of my feet and / it sounds like drumming / and i am not alone / i hear the rocks and stones / echoing my song” but then in “doubt comes in” NOBODY sings That Melody back to him when he tries it out and it’s just orpheus and his voice and the distant taunting of the fates and you want to lie DOWN on the ground!!!!!!
like just in general the way the world around him responds to his singing is so fascinating to me and it brings me endless joy: there’s the aforementioned part of “wait for me,” and there’s also the part of “wedding song” where he sings That Melody for eurydice and you can hear the world around him opening up, there’s “IF IT’S TRUE” and the “is it true?” part of “chant (reprise)” where he’s basically shaking the denizens of the underworld from an amnesiatic TRANCE like i’m
eurydice has forgotten her own name by the time orpheus finds her but he sings “come home with me?” to her and in a line she is able to sing his name back to him i JUST!!!!!!!!! i will not be SILENCED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i really want to thank everyone for making me happy. in the future too, let’s make sure to live and protect our destiny that is meant for love. it’d be great if we could live happily in the future. :: chanyeol’s ending ment at EXplOration in seoul 190721 (vid . trans)
