Okay, I Admit It – I Now Like Hamilton
I can’t keep it a secret any longer. It’s been tearing a hole inside of me, so I’ve decided to tell you.
I now like Hamilton.
Er, the music. I haven’t actually watched the play (or whatever), I’m not a super fan, and I already knew all the history except maybe some details about personal lives (which I carefully double-checked against real life historical records because I’m that person – like I’m gonna take a musical’s word for any of this).
But guys. GUYS. THE MUSIC IS SO GOOD! And the story the music tells. The character arcs alone are enough to make me adore this! (I love great arcs, and I cannot lie.)
So yup. The only question I have is … WHY DIDN’T YOU TELL ME!?
I’m totally joking because everyone and their grandma told me it was fantastic, including several of my close friends, and I ignored them. I just … completely ignored them.
I’m that person who has to discover things for themself several years too late.
If you don’t know, which you should …
What is Hamilton?
Hamilton is a broadway musical that came out in 2016 (??? something like that ???) and has tons of fangirls (and boys). Everyone adores it. I was stubbornly refusing not to listen to it because I don’t like popular things until after they’re cool. 
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I love Hamilton. It's not 100% accurate though. There's the line in Satisfied "My father has no sons so I'm the one who has to social climb for one". Phillip Schuyler did actually have sons and other children other than Angelica Eliza and Peggy, but Lin-Manuel Miranda literally forgot about them. But it is a great musical. I saw it live in February.
Sammymantis wrote: "I love Hamilton. It's not 100% accurate though. There's the line in Satisfied "My father has no sons so I'm the one who has to social climb for one". Phillip Schuyler did actually have sons and oth..."Yup, there are half a dozen little errors like that to make the story more interesting or make a line work - like Philip saying he has a little sister but he wants a little brother when he already has ... at least one little brother? Maybe 2 or 3? By the time he died, he had like 4 and a couple extra sisters. :P
And of course some things just aren't mentioned, like Angelica's kids or what happened to certain characters, etc. I guess there just wasn't time for it?
And this is nitpicky, but it always annoys me how both Eliza and Alexander refer to their first child as a "son" before he's born. Like ... y'all ...
Of course it's just rife with exaggerations and assumptions. A lot is presumed on. But I suppose that's creative license - I don't think it's meant to be precisely accurate, given casting choices and such.
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