I'm currently listening to this.
"Even Though" has been in my head for most of the day.
haha sorry I missed yesterday; I think that can be this month's free pass. I was halfway through a blogpost, though, I think I'll upload that later. I was, uh, busy getting excited for the Holy Musical Batman release. It's starkid's newest musical. Ended up finding a group of people from twitter who were watching it on synchtube, which lets you watch youtube videos simultaneously.
It was so fun watching it with other people, though! At the beginning we were all squeeing over the casting decisions and the jokes and the costumes. It's so different for me because I watched all the starkid musicals on my own. But the people I was watching it with were really big darren criss fans, and had a playlist of darren criss singing things in the interim. Which got a bit tiring. I like the experience of watching the same thing with other people. jeez my life is sad. xD but it reminds me of p4a 2009, watching the livestream, the sunday night live shows that jb dazen used to do, the amanda palmer concert in which I met people I still follow on twitter/tumblr.
The musical was a lot tighter than the past ones, because starkid shows tend to be extremely long and have a lot of useless dialogue, but this one was written more succinctly. The lines were a bit better this time though, I think I'm going to have to watch it through again just to get all the jokes. I couldn't get them the first time because I was watching it and simultaneously keeping track of the chat happening, heh. The camera editing was a lot better too! in the credits they had more camera people.
A lot of people say starkid musicals are cheesy and really bad... and they are. But I can't help watching them, just for the songs. Now I feel a bit more invested _in_ the starkids; I like following lauren lopez and jaime lyn beatty and the lot. I can tell them apart now! It used to seem to me that team starkid was composed of a bunch of guys named brian or some variant of joe. and now it's some variant of "Nick".
It's just fun being a fan of something and being excited for something as a group of people.
Something that makes me uncomfortable is all the fangirls, though. Because a lot of them are there for darren criss or joey richter, and the people in the chat yesterday kept going, "oooh so-and-so is so hot~~". It irritates me because I don't think they're hot, and I don't know why they would think so. xD I wanted to watch the musical, not listen to a bunch of girls squee over certain actors. Just a little bothersome.
Lately, the ~english youtube community~ are irritated by fangirls too. Some of them are bothered by the fact that some youtube gatherings are dominated by fangirls. They complain that sometimes "famous" people from youtube organise gatherings so that they can be adored and followed around by a whole group of 14 year olds. I went to one of these gatherings, thinking that it would be an ordinary youtube gathering, but it wasn't. It was in hyde park and there were two factions of people, the older generation and the, well, predominantly teenage girls.
haha I feel so hypocritical saying this, because it's like I've forgotten that I'm a teenage girl myself! But the other group were there because they wanted to see so-and-so, whom I don't even watch on youtube, and they kind of gather in a large crowd around the person and follow the person (usually it's a him), in a swarm. It's just funny.
I do find that annoying as well. I can give you two examples.
ReplyDeleteFirst one was at SitC last year. On Saturday Charlie came to join the gathering. From then on we had 2 groups. One around Charlie (the fangirls) and the other, regular gathering. It didn't really bother me that much, but I felt pity for Mr. McDonnell who had to stand there for over 3 hours.
Second one was when John came to Brugge here in Belgium. There were quite a few fangirly people there and John told us that he wasn't that comfortable with all the social-ness (hugging and such).
But that part of the group kept acting all fangirly and when he said he was going to the train station to go home, they all followed him to the train station and some of them even took the same train as him even though they had to go to the opposite direction.
That's when I got really annoyed by it.
And I get it that you're excited and that your heart beats a little faster when someone you admire talks to you, but don't act like a complete idiot because of it, or at least don't bother other people with it.
#endofcommentrant