#and ‘kick it up a notch’ and ‘status quo’

[tristinian]

Starkid’s Starship is so transgender

[missholloween]

Starship album save me. Starship..... Save me, Starship album.

[wheresurboytonighthelookslikeenj]

🎧

TEE HEE THE WAY I DO STARSHIP

“I can see past the surface/Finding the worth that is hiding beneath/Your life and purpose/And all of a sudden I feel like I've run into something that no one has seen”

ehehehe megagirl and tootsie’s part of the song is so sweet it’s just. how a “heartless” robot and some dumbass can somehow see some deep part, the best in each other in a way no one else can… wah

[fairytale-poll]

FINALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Propaganda Under the Cut:

Ponyo:

determined 5yo girls are more powerful than god

PONYO!!!!

As a child i did not even realize this was a little merm adaptation, but it really reads. She is sooo strange and other worldly and the movie absolutely captures that dreamlike fairy tale vibe

Ponyo a roughly five-year-old magical goldfish who can transform into a frog-type thing and a human girl. She's the eldest daughter of the literal goddess of the sea and a former human sailor given immortality. She falls in love with the five-year-old boy who cares for her and is thrilled to explore his ordinary yet magical world. She's bouncy, exuberant, and joyful. She loves ham. She doesn't have to give up her voice.

ponyo ponyo ponyo little fishie in the sea!

Little fishy

THEY LOVE HAM

Bug:

Their a bug that falls in love with a human they rescue and becomes human, but even when they don't get to keep their human body, they still get to be with their love. It's a sci-fi fairytale musical.

Little Mermaid meets Starship Troopers musical starring awesome puppets and the most trans coded main character ever. Please. Please vote Bug Starship I love him. Go watch Kick it Up a Notch from Starship. Go watch Status Quo from Starship. You will understand.

He's a bug and he lives in space on a bug planet but he really wants to be a starship ranger which you can only be if you are a human and then one day a spaceship lands on his planet and so he goes to an evil bug called Pincer who then helps him become a human. And Bug falls in love with a human on the spaceship and it's very sweet. The musical and storyline are based on the little mermaid story, the creators themselves called it "the little mermaid but in space". Bug wanting to be a human/a starship ranger and achieving that and falling in love with a human is very much like the little mermaid

Starship is a musical that can only be described as The Little Mermaid meets Starship Troopers. It follows Bug, an alien bug who dreams of being a Starship Ranger, a galactic explorer/soldier, but the rigid confines of bug society keeps him trapped in a job he hates. He reaches a Starship Ranger named February from the hive and immediately falls in love with her. In order to be with her and pursue his dream, he makes a deal with a giant scorpion named Pincer who through sci-fi bs gives him a human body. Near the end of the second act he sacrifices his human body and returns to his bug body, and saves the day and wins February's heart. It's truly the ultimate Little Mermaid. He has multiple songs, and his bug body is portrayed by a puppet!! Vote for Bug!!

“It's a big, big, universe So many dimensions And unanswered questions Not to mention Life What an invention Life There's no choice involved in what you are given One mind, one voice, one body to live in It's a short, small thing we lead With so much potential Pointless or essential Which one can I be? Where do I fit? Where do I stand? Who are they to say what I am? And how can I stay inside this awful world I know? I need a way out I need an escape I'd rather be dead than to live in this place I wish that something or someone could just take it all away Someone take me away” dear god….. can anybody hear me…. (song from starship)

They are the purest little mermaid adaptation done in the most unuque way. An alien insect gets turned into a human, a race he has always loved and admired, to be with the woman he fell in love with. Also just a great musical.

Bug's whole arc is so so in tune with that of the little mermaid. He is an alien who has fallen in love with humanity through a crashed spaceship and trades his place in the hive for a chance to be with both with the human he's falling for and to be a Starship Ranger. He body swaps with human in a cryogenic pod! It's literally sci-fi Little Mermaid!

Don't stick to the status quo and pick the fairy tale!! it's what HE would want!!!

[sparkyblizz]

Starship is unironically a wonderful musical, I think it's one of StarKid's best and it's definitely one of my favourites, all the actors are so amazing, like, Joey Richter makes Bug such a wonderful naive protagonist, Brant Cox is a perfect best friend sidekick in Roach, Dylan Saunders is wonderful as the villain, Pincer, and doubles up as the wonderful, simple farm boy Tootsie Noodles, not to mention the rest of the Starship Rangers are all wonderful, my favourite characters! Denise Donovan plays the charming and ditzy love interest as February really well, Lauren Lopez shines as Taz, the tough tomboy, Meredith Stepien is obviously amazing as Mega-Girl, Brian Holden is so hilarious as the pathetic yet super evil Junior, Joe Walker is WONDERFUL as Commander Up, the former tough guy turned insecure sweetheart GOD Joe Walker is on another level, and even though Joe Moses and Julia Albain play smaller roles as Krayonder and Specs, I still find their performances super fun, as well as Jim Povolo, Jaime Lyn Beatty and Nick Lang as wonderful supporting cast with great voices and great range, and the songs are wonderful, Kick It Up A Notch is a genuinely AMAZING villain song, The Way I Do is one of my favourite love songs, I Wanna Be is a perfect introductory and I want song, and Status Quo, Get Back Up, and Life are bangers, not to mention the other songs that are also good! I could talk about this musical all day, the way that there's motifs from other songs present, like how there's a part of Life in Kick It Up A Notch, sung by Pincer, echoing when Bug previously sung the lament, and how lyrics from I Wanna Be come in as well as Pincer offers Bug the chance to be everything he's wanted to be, and there's even other smaller times we notice the motifs, like how in the introductory video Bug watches from the crashed starship, the instrumental of Get Back Up is playing, and the instrumental of Life is playing when the bugs first see the starship... God I'm obsessed with this musical you do not understand

[starkidsongtournament]

BRACKET 2 FINALS

[starkid-innit]

Starkid Innit Setlist Discussion (starship)

Just realised I am very behind on this and need to get a shift on if I actually want to finish this before the concert oops

However it is finally time to discuss starship (my beloved)

Here's the discussions on songs from:

avpm

mamd

avps

What would be your absolute top choice 'it probably won't happen but I will go feral if they perform this' song?

Status Quo (harmonies version). The space tour and homecoming versions of this song are INCREDIBLE and I think I would genuinely start crying if they sang this

Also major props to the person on twitter posting everyday about adding this to the setlist, you're doing dead god's work 🫡

2. What would be your realistic top choice? Like you'd love to see this song AND you think they might actually perform it?

Realistic top choice is literally a n y t h i n g from this show

I would honestly love to see any song from starship. Kick it up a notch? certified bop. The way I do? Adorable. Get back up? Was my alarm clock for a good few years. I wanna be? There was a time in my life when I could recite the entire first 10 minutes of starship including all the dialogue.

All that to say I'm a starship stan through and through and will take whatever scraps they deign to throw at me

3. Which songs from starship do you think will actually make it on the setlist

Ngl lads with no Dylan I have a real fear that we're not getting any songs from starship

I am pinning all my hopes on the fact that bug world was mentioned in the announcement post, in which case I'd probably guess they'd perform status quo or a shortened version of I wanna be.... or maybe a cover of beauty?

I guess time will tell but if we could all put some positive energy out into the universe that would be great

[themightywolftiger]

Hermitcraft/Life Series as Starkid songs

This is just a summarized thing. Just getting my ramblings out!

I will say that it's been a while since I've seen many of the Starkid Shows (outside of TGWDLM, BF, and NPMD). Also, my memory is quite bad sometimes. Anyways, enough rambling:

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Life series: Let it out, inevitable, twisted (the song not the whole musical), feast or famine, do you want to play, kick it up a notch (+ reprise)

Hermitcraft: We got work to do, What if tomorrow comes, life, our doors are open

Empires: Status quo, show stopping number

All of them: Into the night, best of you, high school is killing me (just sub high school with whatever they're doing. It's fine), nerdy prudes must die (the song not the whole musical), take me back, cool as I think I am (+reprise), hatchet town, the summoning

[lopez-richter-fangirl]

To avoid thinking about the new musical here are the rest of my innit setlist thoughts

Starship:

Joey’s status quo retweet is literally begging for him to prove it and *I* am begging for a 2019 wrong to be righted. There is still that opening for an updated rogues medley for kick it up a notch but I don’t think we’ll get it

Holy musical batman:

Superfriends feels like the obvious and most likely choice and if they do a song from each show, as they better, they can’t leave it out

AVPSY:

Asking for status quo AND sidekick is probably too much but man oh man would sidekick go so fucking hard. It is also the best pick for this show tbh

Twisted:

Twisted is hard because how do you replace Dylan. Give a thousand and one nights to brian and meredith or something idk

Ani:

Ani, with my own eyes, the force or back on top with or without additional vocals but let Clark sing

TTO:

Naked in a lake is legitimately one of my clearest memories from homecoming it’s so fun. Underdog choice lost without you I love that song and Jaime’s a queen

Firebringer:

Two words: climate change. But I do also love the finale song so much. We don’t need we got work to do but they’ll probably do it. Song that won’t happen that I would go feral for is together. Or literally any other lauren song

TGWDLM:

Title song or inevitable could be fun?? Otherwise cup of roasted coffee or show stopping number more likely

BF:

As it’s my favourite corey song, our doors are open. I don’t even have to say I’d go feral for adore me

NPMD:

I will be so hyped for ANY NPMD song because it’ll be the first live performance outside the show. But hatchet town maybe???

NMT:

Including this just to say I’m so open to queen b please and thank you

VHSCCs:

I don’t fuckin caaaare that it’s not christmas it’s either this or they come back to perform it in full. The opening line of Bah Humbug in London hello?! Or cold cold streets?!?? If they did priceless I’d throw up

[spigosaur]

I just wanna see if other people feel the same way as I

[starkidweirdo]

Okay I wanna experiment here. Gonna make polls for each starkid show/their songs and see what the most iconic starkid song is when these end (gotta condense some options haha don’t get mad at me)

[itsjusteds]

So I'm listening to the Starkid Homecoming album and I just wanted to say God bless AJ Holmes for writing the Twisted and MAMD soundtracks to need a full band.

Those musicals need full bands, so Starkid had to get the 13 piece orchestra, and since the orchestra is there they might as well play on all the songs right?? Yes. Thank god.

I could talk about this all day but THE USE OF THE FULL BAND ON SONGS THAT DIDNT HAVE IT BEFORE IS SO AUGHHHH. Full band Status Quo almost killed me. Like genuinely I started melting into my chair when I heard it the first time.

Not just full band Status Quo, but ALL THE HORNS IN THE TGWDLM MEDLEY AUGHHHH The horns on Join Us just HIT DIFFERENT

THE USE OF HORNS IN KICK IT UP A NOTCH OMLLL

THE FULL BAND FOR IM JUST A SIDEKICK AND GILDEROY AND DIFFERENT AS CAN BE

With Different as Can Be, specifically the trumpet line at the end it just hits so hard. I love it with my whole being.

I love you AJ Holmes for triggering this

[prismaticuniverses]

🐸💞 :> one musical pls (@comfortingstars)

Starship; composed by Darren Criss!

basically the little mermaid but with alien bugs hehe it’s about love and dreams and prejudice and being scared of the unknown and friendship!! it’s also a comedy and a Starkid musical, if you know them! ALSO THE PUPPETSSSS I love the puppets so much they’re so fun and well done for such a small production

Get Back Up

Life

Kick It Up A Notch

Status Quo

The Way I Do

[fairytale-poll]

ROUND 1C, MATCH 8 OUT OF 8!

Propaganda Under the Cut:

Mira:

She’s a badass and I love her

She embodies one of the truest parts of the Little Mermaid dating back to the original story: She loves the prince, even if he does not love her in return. It isn’t out of desperation or a desire to be sought and wanted, it is simple and pure love for another soul. A love so true that she lets him go without so much as a word of protest because when you truly love someone your greatest wish is for their happiness.

Will beat the shit out of the sea witch (good for her).

Bug:

Their a bug that falls in love with a human they rescue and becomes human, but even when they don't get to keep their human body, they still get to be with their love. It's a sci-fi fairytale musical.

Little Mermaid meets Starship Troopers musical starring awesome puppets and the most trans coded main character ever. Please. Please vote Bug Starship I love him. Go watch Kick it Up a Notch from Starship. Go watch Status Quo from Starship. You will understand.

He's a bug and he lives in space on a bug planet but he really wants to be a starship ranger which you can only be if you are a human and then one day a spaceship lands on his planet and so he goes to an evil bug called Pincer who then helps him become a human. And Bug falls in love with a human on the spaceship and it's very sweet. The musical and storyline are based on the little mermaid story, the creators themselves called it "the little mermaid but in space". Bug wanting to be a human/a starship ranger and achieving that and falling in love with a human is very much like the little mermaid

Starship is a musical that can only be described as The Little Mermaid meets Starship Troopers. It follows Bug, an alien bug who dreams of being a Starship Ranger, a galactic explorer/soldier, but the rigid confines of bug society keeps him trapped in a job he hates. He reaches a Starship Ranger named February from the hive and immediately falls in love with her. In order to be with her and pursue his dream, he makes a deal with a giant scorpion named Pincer who through sci-fi bs gives him a human body. Near the end of the second act he sacrifices his human body and returns to his bug body, and saves the day and wins February's heart. It's truly the ultimate Little Mermaid. He has multiple songs, and his bug body is portrayed by a puppet!! Vote for Bug!!

“It's a big, big, universe So many dimensions And unanswered questions Not to mention Life What an invention Life There's no choice involved in what you are given One mind, one voice, one body to live in It's a short, small thing we lead With so much potential Pointless or essential Which one can I be? Where do I fit? Where do I stand? Who are they to say what I am? And how can I stay inside this awful world I know? I need a way out I need an escape I'd rather be dead than to live in this place I wish that something or someone could just take it all away Someone take me away” dear god….. can anybody hear me…. (song from starship)

They are the purest little mermaid adaptation done in the most unuque way. An alien insect gets turned into a human, a race he has always loved and admired, to be with the woman he fell in love with. Also just a great musical.

Bug's whole arc is so so in tune with that of the little mermaid. He is an alien who has fallen in love with humanity through a crashed spaceship and trades his place in the hive for a chance to be with both with the human he's falling for and to be a Starship Ranger. He body swaps with human in a cryogenic pod! It's literally sci-fi Little Mermaid!

[jasperthejester]

1, 8, 11 and 16 from the Starkid/TCB ask game

:D

1:

avpm: going back to hogwarts

mamd: ready to go

avps: stutter

starship: status quo (blasphemy to not put kick it up a notch, i know)

hmb: super friends

avpsy: sidekick

twisted: dream a little harder

tto: wagon on fire

ani: the force (you got it)

firebringer: night belongs to snarl

tgwdlm: inevitable

black friday: made in america

spies are forever: the torture tango

8:

SPIES ARE FOREVER

also starship so i can watch all the puppets :D

11: i mean owen carvour because of course <3 but also bug and paul matthews (they are so transgender to me i love them sm)

16: tbh i don’t quote starkid/tcb around other a lot but i have had the echolalia kick in for a bunch, recently “here, you can have my mother”, “the pride came before my fall, in a fate some might call, well, twisted”, “you’ll do your best” and “i’m status quo democrats”