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Warning, rambling about the death note musical below i am mostly go on about my views on the english lyrics of the 2015 demo, and comparing them to my view of the japanese lyrics, so if anything I say contradicts newer changes, please let me know (also probably should have a general idea of how the musical is structured compared to the original story I realized afterwards I did not mention a ton of context)

(incredibly unstructured thoughts below)

on one hand, I adore the death note musical.

on the other hand, I abhor the english lyrics (yes I know the english version what technically created first) and how Light is characterized in “where is the justice”.

I wish his true motivation, boredom, had stayed the main focus of his motives, if they really wanted to they could have him say flowery things to the class and then have his actual motivations be mentioned, but they make it out like he has issues with the system? which he never really did? he latched the idea of ridding the world of crime (and in his eyes, evil) after he realized the death note worked, but he wasn’t someone who was actively challenging it before he got the death note (and imo he wasn’t really challenging anything after he got it). I personally hate the reasoning of “oh the motivation is different to fit with America” like?? a bored kid who is very gifted academically obtains supernatural powers and uses it to punish people he claims to be evil, can and does still work?? if they didn’t think it would work with America as a setting just have the musical still be set in Japan?? like Phantom of the Opera or Les Mis are performed in other countries that arent France but are obviously french?

ALSO hurricane is just… straight into murder mode without anything else from Light? nothing about the lyrics make me go “yes, this is actually light talking and this is his thought process after discovering the death note works” he goes straight into “I will use this power to rid the world of evil” instead of the moral conflict he had that led him into that thought process? he literally couldn’t handle the idea that he killed two men so he went “well actually they deserved it and I am the only person who could use this the right way” (dumbed down significantly but you get the point) just PLEASE I AM BEGGING FOR A LITTLE NUANCE THAT IS IN THE ORIGINAL STORY (and is in the japanese lyrics btw)

and (imo) L is also?? kinda off??? the english lyrics for “the game begins” just has generic lines that come across like “hey everyone, just so you know, im the detective, and I detect things, with my brain” like nothing about how he views kira, no personality to how things are said, just generic detective speak

(I personally prefer the japanese lyrics, which seem to draw a lot from his musings about kira, where he ultimately decides kira has to be human and cannot be a supernatural force. it just gives so much more insight into his thoughts than just explaining how a detective works)

(edit: also ties into “the unshakable/unwavering truth” and his shock at the existence of shinigami but still believing kira is human and separate from them)

also, why are so many of his lyrics 3rd wall breaks? why is that a thing? the first time it was amusing? but he does it so often??

misa and rem are pretty good overall, my only gripes are that the lyrics don’t feel like lyrics that can only make sense in the context of death note, if that makes sense? like, if you know what going on the lyrics will fit, but if you heard the songs outside of any knowledge of death note they just sound like generic songs that could have been written for anyone? (not just misa and rem’s songs but a few others as well) there are a couple of lines in each song that are more specific to the context, but I just wish they were further intertwined with the story

(again, the japanese lyrics are great with this)

overall, the english demo lyrics feel like a game of telephone where a lot of overall details were kept but other details/ideas were just brushed over and they filled in the blanks with what they thought fit with the story and went “eh, close enough”

(i do have thoughts on the other songs but i mostly just wanted to talk about L and Light atm)

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Overblot! Malleus: There's no one in the world who has the power to stop me now.

Yuu: I'd like to test that theory.

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HETEROCHROMIA SMACKDOWN ROUND 1 MATCH 6

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Words fail to describe just how fucking wild the reactions to Silent Hill 2 remake and Resident Evil 4 remake have been.

One game immediately shows a massive case of missing the point with its general visual direction and the other knows its fans so well it lets them parry chainsaws with a knife.

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i was gonna make a shitpost about the possibility of Light taking Ryuk to see Shrek 2 for the first time since it came out in 2004, but the date didn’t really pan out. Since Shrek 2 was released on July 24 of that year (in Japan), and L and Light were just handcuffed together the day before, it means Light was missing his Kira mojo and wouldn’t remember Ryuk. :/

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wow why did you have to say this

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Annie are you ok

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Ryan Ross really went off on the lyrics for Build God Then We'll Talk, huh? Good for him

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Brendon, sweetheart, i can’t listen to this anymore. i know i swore to listen, but you haven’t shaken in up since Vices & Virtues. you gotta keep up your end of the deal, babe, or this just isn’t gonna work :/

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i heard someone say that the last 3 songs on brendon urie’s new album sum up his career and wow it’s so fucking true

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i made a which member of the mystery gang are you uquiz! scooby doo bitches rise up

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They let this motherfucker wear high heels on Broadway ONCE and now he thinks he's Freddy Mercury

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listening to the “nearly witches (ever since we met)” demo again. how tf we get from ‘i fell from the heavens / as a fetish blessed with / an operatic skeleton / and as the stars watch me descend / i crack the family tree and / chopped off all of the branches’ to whatever the hell is happening on local god

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I have spent the last 4-5 days working on this uQuiz of what iDKHOW song is best for you:

It's like very opinion based but my friends think it's accurate, so hopefully you'll have fun even if you don't love the song you got in the end.