:gaddafi-happy:

https://archive.is/Fc95v

  • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    after he was told he could not compose music about someone from another country.

    I wonder why this is so vague, it's almost like specific details might provide important context about this

    • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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      1 year ago

      The context delivered: Nobody actually told him this. He just assumes "The Woke Mob" wouldn't let him make Evita today because he's not Argentinian.

      • Retrosound [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        Cultural appropriation is the practice of using or taking something from another culture without recognition or respect to that culture. Cultural appropriation looks like pop stars dressing up as Geisha girls, social media influencers donning Native American headdresses, and white people wearing cornrows, dreadlocks, or box braids. Cultural appropriation is, at its heart, about power It's about who has the power to steal from somebody else and not offer any consequences.

        • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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          1 year ago

          Exactly. It's possible to be respectful of another culture and to create something of value which celebrates that culture, but most don't care to actually do that and just steal aesthetics.

          It's not about "not being allowed" to do things. It's about the level of respect and appreciation you show for something, and whether or not you put in the effort to do so. The bar isn't that high, and people are just contorting themselves into knots to not do the right thing.

    • Abraxiel
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      1 year ago

      If this were the YA author space, I could believe it was that general of a proscription, but it's musical theater and one of the most famous living playwrights, so I doubt it.

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    1 year ago

    Yeah most people forget that one part of The Phantom of the Opera where the Phantom turns to the audience and says "I hate women"

    • abc [he/him, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      :angery: CHRISTINE WHY WON'T YOU LEAVE RAOUL FOR MEEEEEEEEEE

      :angry-hex: CHRISTINE I AM AN INCEL. YOU HAVE COME HERE, FOR ONE PURPOSE AND ONE ALONE.

      and then of course, in the sequel no one wanted:

      CHRISTINE YOU DID SLEEP WITH ME I HAVE A CHILD????

        • BlueParenti [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          It's set in fucking Coney Island, Raoul and Christine move to New York and the Phantom comes along, realizes that Christine's son is his, tried to take the son under his wing, Meg shows up and tries to kill Christine because she's in love with the Phantom. It's a hot mess, absolutely garbage and nobody ever wanted it, but it exists.

        • abc [he/him, comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          haha Phantom is actually up there as one of the better Broadway shows I've seen (I mean...relatively - its no Avenue Q or Beetlejuice) but yeah Love Never Dies (the sequel) is probably Weber's worst lol. Don't think I've ever heard anyone say anything good about it & every time a new tour of it starts somewhere the reviews are always negative for the most part.

          Not afraid of me you say??? teleports behind Raoul

    • SaniFlush [any, any]
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      1 year ago

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La38LJCLfmQ

      "You little fedora!!!"

  • BlueMagaChud [any]
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    1 year ago

    lol, it's just like how chuds can't finish telling a joke because they get too angry, this one can't write a musical. skill issue

  • barrbaric [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Just write another shitty musical about cats you hack.

  • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    "Ugliest bloke in the Andrew Lloyd Webber look-a-like contest" is still one of the most savage insults Yahtzee has come up with

  • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    He's just pissed he can't write Starlight Express 2 because Chinese highspeed rail would realistically win that one.

  • VapeNoir [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I want a shirt that says culture wars in the star wars font