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harpie-raven · 6 months

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“When the Chips are Down” from Hadestown is SUCH a Peter Nureyev song.

While I’m gonna make a separate post linking and also ranting about my Spotify playlist (cause I really like some of my choices lol) — I wanted to rant real quick about this one.

The Fates (for those who don’t know/haven’t listened to Hadestown I shall explain) are played by 3 women who sing (for the most part) in unison, and with harmonies and acapellas. In the context of Nureyev here; this *totally* reminds me of The Executives (or whatever they’re called), all being regarded as, ‘My Associate’ as well as having the same voice and speaking the same way. In “When the Chips are Down”, they’re talking to Eurydice (who is Nureyev in this ex.)

While the whole song gives me vibes, this section gets me quite a lot:

“[FATES]

Life ain’t easy

Life ain’t fair

A girl’s gotta fight for her rightful share

Whatcha gonna do when the Chips are Down Now that the Chips are down (x2)

Help yourself

To hell with the rest

Even the one who loves you best.

Whatcha gonna do when the Chips are Down Now that the Chips are Down (x2)

[EURYDICE]

Oh my aching heart. “

The parts that I put in italics remind me of the S3 finale (Juno Steel: What Lies Beyond Prt. 1-3) specially (for obvious reasons for the ones who knows SPOILERS HERE FOR THOSE WHO DONT) — considering Nureyev had been stressing out, brought down, and feeling cornered by his debt (“help yourself”), leading him to (which was his plan from the start) leave everyone on the Carte Blanche (“to hell with the rest”), including Juno (“even the one who loves you best”). He even references in his journal that while he wanted to be beside Juno while he read it, he knows deep down that he won’t be.

The rest of the song matches as well, having parts including “shooting to kill” before the other person can, and knives in the back. For these reasons the song itself honestly just clicks SO well in my head, thanks for coming to my TED Talk lmao — like I said, linking playlist with other song “matches” later on lol, but this one required a bit more than a little description on my part.

TLDR: the Fates represent The Executives, and Eurydice represents Nureyev. Linked by my brain due to lines matching plot points (S3 especially).

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izzytown · 2 years

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the harmonies in chant reprise make me absolutely feral thanks for your time

#hadestown #chant #chant reprise #hadestown soundtrack #eva noblezada #reeve carney #patrick page

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wisdomweirdstuffandrants · 2 years

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i may be wearing all black but little do you know my earphones are blasting the hadestown soundtrack

#this is embarassing tbh #cringe #hadestown #hadestown soundtrack

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dellowdraws · 6 months

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Persephone!!

#Seeing this show (bway tour!!) on Saturday SO EXCITED I just know it's gonna be fantastic and that I will probably cry #hadestown fanart #hadestown broadway #hadestown #persephone #amber gray #persephone hadestown #listened to the soundtrack while drawing this it was a vibe

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corvidares · 7 months

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if you havent seen hadestown in person (or otherwise) i need you to know that in the center of the stage a giant circle is inlaid. (two, if you want to be precise) it can spin in place, and the middle is a platform that raises up and down at certain points in the show. you can see it unmoving here in this gifset. it makes for some truly captivating choreo

but more importantly is what it silently adds to the layers of metaphor;

hadestown as being an inherently cyclical, doomed to repeat story. we keep telling it, hermes tells us, despite the ending always being the same. (we gasp, the audience, every time orpheus turns around. why?)

hadestown, taking place on a stage with a turning table. where the characters keep walking in circles, over and over, forever.

#idk how common knowledge this is its just. if you mainly listen to the soundtrack you NEED to know #and god the way characters will face each other in the circle #or walk away #RAGHRHARHGRHG #find a bootleg that shows it if you can #highly recommend #hadestown #corvi caws #hadestown broadway #its also fun to note that the first inner circle can spin too in the opposite direction at the same time #so you have outer layer that spins . inner layer that spins opposite . and innermost layer that raises up or down #sorry im trying to make it really clear i cant tell if im explaining it well LMAO

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angelinthefire · 3 months

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I was reading some of the annotations to the Hadestown soundtrack on Lyric Genius, and I think if people understood a little bit of Marxist economics, they'd understand Hadestown better.

#Hadestown #the number of times when I thought 'this is just like Capital vol. 1' when listening to the soundtrack...#and then people are like 'Hades is a dictator' 'the workers are blind followers' like shut UP. It's capitalism. It's just capitalism #and Hades himself said the workers were rioting before Orpheus got there!#'Orpheus' reliance on strength in numbers is his weakness because he's alone at the end' like???? NO?!?!???#His weakness is that he listened to the Fates and lost his vision of what he's fighting for #my post

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nightpool · 3 months

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are there any good musicals. like, musicals that are good art on their own rather than just being A Musical or good for a musical. I dislike almost all musical tropes / conventions but if there are capital-G Good musicals I'm missing out on because of this then you should pitch them to me.

#i did not really like hadestown and mostly have not enjoyed any musical I listened to the soundtrack of #tom stoppard has never written a musical #i feel like that should be justification enough

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yourblackhearts · 5 months

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Anyways the way Orpheus says Eurydice's name at the end of Doubt Comes In from Hadestown breaks me every single time

#She Speaks #Hadestown #I listened to the soundtrack again and I need to lay down fr

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parasite-core · 5 months

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My Spotify Wrapped called me the fuck out, literally every screen was just more Hadestown.

#did I listen to the soundtrack on repeat daily for two months after seeing the show?#yes #did I need Spotify to drag me for it?#I think the fuck not 😂#Hadestown

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nil-elk · 3 months

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Been listening to Epic: The Musical since like, last week and have been obsssssessed.

#listen...next i need to see hadestown at some point in my life haha #at the very least listen to the soundtrack hehe

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shima-draws · 2 years

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In the coldest time of year why is it so HOT down here??? Hotter than a crucible!! It ain’t right and it ain’t NATURAL.

Lover you were gone so long. Lover I was LONESOME. So I built a foundry in the ground beneath your feet. Here I fashion things of steel, ~oil drums~ and ~automobiles~, then I kept that FURNACE RED with the fossils of the dead. Lover when you feel that fire think of it as my desire...

THINK OF IT AS MY DESIRE FOR YOU.