So, I watched AVPM for the first time yesterday. It was great, I love it and I have been listening to Granger Danger without break.
This is probably old news because the musical is old and StarKid has a looooot of fans, but I need to talk about this or I'll explode (yes musical nerd here without any musical-fan friends ahhhhh), so here's something I noticed (or maybe I'm just tone deaf):
When Ron and Draco sing "falling in love" together, they sing it differently. Draco starts high (on the fal-) and goes down (on the -ling) and stays there, while Ron starts low and goes high.
And I've been singing this part in the shower to get it right (yes I am that kind of person, judge me /j) and it makes Draco sound really sad and desperate, while Ron sounds happy and hopeful (istg he sounds like someone who's just about to go on an adventure).
Ron, who we know gets the girl, is happy and excited about realizing he loves Hermionie. Meanwhile Draco is sad about it, because he (and we) knows she won't like him back and in general it wouldn't ever work cuz of his family. Still, he loves her and wants to be with her, but he knows it'll never happen.
And I think the fact that this is captured in the slight tone shift/difference they have in the final part is just so cool and amazing and incredible and it's like a birthday cake for my ears
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