reasons why 21 Chump Street is an incredibly underrated and amazing musical
shortest musical ever, which means you can listen to the whole thing and your battery barely even drains!
seriously he needs to be cast as a lead for a full-length musical sometime soon!!!!
“she said she moved with her mother to florida from new york... well, so did i” can Lin even make a musical that doesn’t have to do with New York in some way???
lindsay mendez is wonderful
finally, Lin doesn’t play the male lead XD
you know that wonderful thing where a melody or certain lyric is brought up from a previous song? like a reprise but the song isn’t actually a reprise? this is the best example of that you’ll ever find
did i mention anthony ramos’ voice????
cousin is SUCH a bop, you don’t even know
there’s an official recording, so you can watch the whole thing with good quality and no feelings of guilt!
what the heck i gotta do is reprised in every song except cousin XD
only 15 minutes and by epilogue you’re crying like this is falsettos. that deserves some wicked respect!!!!
great for positive non-white representation!
“i get straight A’s man!”
naomi is honestly such a melodic name
what the heck i gotta do is also SUCH a catchy song you dON’T EVEN KNOW
positive representation of texting XD usually in media texting is represented bad, i don’t know... maybe that’s just me??
“and she was like:” “no” “no” “no!”
justin is a really sweet kid and it really wrenches your heart, but especially when one school comes on
“let’s just say, i would drink at the end of the day” is honestly the saddest line for me, because it really roots in the fact that justin has no clue who she really is :(
Lin why do you make me feel these emotions
there’s a million arguments for if what “naomi” did was acceptable, this is one of your NUMEROUS places for morally gray characters!
seriously i don’t really care if you have no sympathy for naomi whatsoever, but she is an interesting character with MANY dynamics other than “she’s a terrible person!!!!” just like look at the fricking musical again
i want people to appreciate naomi for the DYNAMIC CHARACTER SHE IS OKAY
you don’t have to think what she did was right! just appreciate that she’s an interesting morally gray character with a backstory that’s another layer in who she is! and, the most important thing, that she’s based on a real fricking person
stay away from the comments of one school if you’re not ready for all the naomi hate...
note: i am NOT excusing her actions! i think what she did was morally wrong! i’m strained at the unfairness of this whole thing! i’m mad at her too! i just don’t think people should call her a terrible person!
“seriously, these kids need to learn there are consequences in life. if i’m doing my job, and i’m doing it right, i am making life safer one school at a time.” like this stuff makes you THINK why would you just cut it off at “she’s a terrible person”
cousin has the BEST overlapping melodies, it’s fricking insane
and did i mention how much of a bop cousin is???? the music at the beginning kills me
no wait i made a mistake: the money has the best overlapping melodies. it’s not even a competition XD
did i mention how the money is possibly the most haunting song i’ve ever heard???
the first “i don’t want your money” k i l l s m e
the music when he kisses her is really good :(
there’s not much more i can say about how amazing the money is... it’s pretty hard to express
that cousin reprise in epilogue tho
but yeah... naomi fucked up
well, justin was manipulated into fucking up by naomi, and making him fuck up is REALLY fucking up
the one school reprise is gOOD, REALLY GOOD
and then ya gotta kill me with that what the heck i gotta do reprise -ugly sobbing-
“i would love to have that conversation” XD
good job Lin you’ve killed us all again
listen to this musical... just listen to it
and i mean i’m here talking about how it’s so amazing and even i don’t appreciate it as much as it needs to be appreciated