LMM working on THE WARRIORS musical?- Page 4

[gypsy101]

Posted: 10/20/24 at 11:48pm

bwayphreak234 said: "I attempted to listen this. Rap never is / never will be a genre of music I enjoy. That beingsaid, this did absolutely nothing for me."

most of it is not rap though…

anyway i am of course obsessed with this album. lin manuel miranda has unsurprisingly done it again. just like hamilton it’s very dense so it takes a couple listens to dig into it (plus i've never seen the movie so i could not follow the plot very well the first few listens) but now that i've listened probably 10 times since it came out thanks to being able to listen to it at work i am gonna probably be listening to this almost daily for months. early favorites include amber gray’s fantastic sick of runnin’, utkarsh and phillipa and the girls harmonies on orphan town, kim dracula is amazing in each scene as luther (lin metal finally!!), the dreamy boy band doing we got you and same train home which made me cry. mercy and swan are also adorable as star crossed lovers. congrats to lin and eisa on making an amazing album. also how awesome is it lauryn hill sent in her vocals via dropbox link!?

[RSrichie]

Posted: 10/22/24 at 7:55am

How could LMM get this so wrong?  The Warriors is a testosterone driven youth angst filled story with needs to told with street music.  This is none of that.  Sorry ladies, no offense intended, but it doesn’t hit the same.  The music is not of the street.  This recording doesn’t have balls.  That’s the problem.  

[binau]

Posted: 10/22/24 at 9:00am

I kind of like the idea of a gender swap if only because it provides more female voices which as an instrument/sound give a lot to work with. And you can hear it from some of the excellent female performances on the album, such as Amber Gray’s ‘sick of runnin’. 
 

There is no one else besides Lin that knows how to write new popular music styles in the context of musical theatre with the kind of sophisticated execution you’d expect from a Sondheim disciple. This music is absolutely brilliant. Not sure about the ‘book’ or story yet (still need more time). But this music is so special. And I hate to feed Lin’s ego but the man is a genius. 

Updated On: 10/22/24 at 09:00 AM

[RSrichie]

Posted: 10/22/24 at 10:15am

This recording is not dangerous.  It NEEDS to be dangerous. 

[Kad]

Posted: 10/22/24 at 10:17am

RSrichie said: "This recording is not dangerous. It NEEDS to be dangerous."

Have you tried throwing it at somebody very, very hard?

[RSrichie]

Posted: 10/22/24 at 10:22am

Kad said: "RSrichie said: "This recording is not dangerous. It NEEDS to be dangerous."

Have you tried throwing it at somebody very, very hard?"


that’s an intelligent response.

[devonian.t]

Posted: 10/22/24 at 1:35pm

Somewhere in the City and Same Train Home are absolutely living in my head at the moment.  And I'm not a total LMM fan by any means!

[Jonathan Cohen]

Posted: 10/22/24 at 2:41pm

RSrichie said: "How could LMM get this so wrong? The Warriors is a testosterone driven youth angst filled story with needs to told with street music. This is none of that. Sorry ladies, no offense intended, but it doesn’t hit the same. The music is not of the street. This recording doesn’t have balls. That’s the problem."

When I think about the musicals I've seen about young people and gangs; West Side Story, A Bronx Tale, The Outsiders - they feature sensitive characters who are struggling to escape their violent environment.  People, including gang members, are more complex than just being testosterone fueled and angry, and reducing them to being one note characters would be pretty boring. 

In fact, the only musical I've seen that has the BALLS agro energy you're talking about is the movie Dicks: The Musical and that's camp.