On July 3rd, households all over the world were swept in awe by the pro-shoot footage release of Broadway smash-hit musical, Hamilton. Focused on the life of founding father Alexander Hamilton and the birth of our nation, the 2016 musical seems to have taken social media by storm, simply because of its leading man. Lin-Manuel Miranda is the supreme quintuple threat, being the lyricist, composer, producer, playwright and performer in Hamilton. He has been associated in leagues along with great composers like that of Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera, all of whom renowned for their niche of countermelodies, callback lyrics, and continuous storytelling through singing. Although Lin-Manuel Miranda is a talented lyricist, it seems that he is not the best singer or actor, and colloquially speaking, homie is tone-deaf. It seems that whatever Miranda sings is slightly off and his rapping is some odd mix between singing-talking. Perhaps this is just the technical musician in me being nit-picky, however it seems that there is a whole community committed to dragging Miranda. Self-proclaimed “LinTok” had taken the social platform Tik Tok by storm, flooding many people’s for you pages with pictures and video edits of Miranda intimately biting his lip or audio demos of how bad the first draft of Hamilton sounded (they are linked below for reference). Many people have clowned on Miranda’s performance in the Disney+ musical, saying that he simply pales in comparison to the stellar performances of his counterparts. How is it that this musical genius simply seems to be completely tone-deaf? Do you think Miranda should have cast someone else to star in his musical? Have you seen the supposed "LinTok"? If you are a musician, how did you feel about his performance (I'm not crazy, right? Like y'all must hear something too...) For those of you have seen Hamilton, what do you think? For those of you who haven’t, please listen to the audio I have linked below because I guarantee that it will send you to your grave (apologies for the usage of this vernacular phrase, I just genuinely cannot come up with anything else to describe this).
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ReplyDeleteThe song that you linked was nothing other than absolute trash. Lin Manuel-Miranda is fine in the right places, but his voice is a different story. However, let's bring the conversation over to Anthony Ramos. Anthony Ramos's voice is phenomenal, and his looks could kill *insert Lin biting lip meme*. Ramos would be the perfect fit to star as Alexander Hamilton. Already playing two roles in the musical, he should have played the lead instead. Lin Manuel-Miranda is a genius when it comes to ideas and lyrics, which makes it hard to believe he is so toned-death. His performances should not have been allowed, as they sent me to the grave. When Miranda sang "HUUUAEEEEEYYY" in the song you linked, I literally wished I could hear without my ears.
ReplyDeleteAfter my mom showed me the soundtrack of Hamilton, I asked her why this guy is the lead singer. I just watched it again on Disney+ and still is ceases to amaze me how awful he is at singing. Everyone else in the play has a nice voice that is supposed to sing but Miranda need to stick to song writing.
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