I'm fairly certain I've asked this about a thousand times or so, but why, oh why, can't my life be a musical?
I know a lot of musical skeptics out there criticize musicals for being too unrealistic because "honestly, how often do large crowds break out into choreographed song/dance numbers?" but if you really look at musicals, it's not so much an actor making an unrealistic break from the monotony of speaking lines on stage, but a character who is so completely overwhelmed with [insert appropriate emotion here] that he/she simply cannot express how he/she feels in any other way than through song or dance.
See, the beauty of music is that it is able to be understood on nearly a universal level. It's kind of amazing when you think about it; the fact that we are able to take in something as seemingly simple as varying frequencies and pitches and are able to, not only hear & associate them with certain moods, but further convey our own emotions by constructing these pitches into melodies. It's beautiful! When you think about it, even a toddler learning to speak can tell the difference between what sounds like a 'happy' or 'sad' melody.
So it would make sense that something as intricate and beautiful as a song should be used to convey one's most emphatic emotions.
And that's how I feel.
I’ve been so overwhelmed with certain emotions lately that I would love nothing more than to literally drop everything and start singing at certain people.
That’s all for now.
mjl.
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