#rock me amadeus

[aaflovedatbounz]

Rock Daddy Sarena !

IMMA AMADEUS DAT AzZ !

[niceandcozycave]

Vienna Calling by Austrian legend ❤️

[diegoldfisch]

Falco mood tonight. Is anyone up to chat about him?

[myimaginaryradio]

Rock Me Amadeus - Falco - 1985

[discoddity]

[i don’t know if this has any truth to it whatsoever but apparently…]

mozart once got bored and so he started meowing and doing cartwheels over tables

[musicaldamage]

So having watched the vbw Falco musical recently. Rock Me Amadeus. I have Thoughts™

[ID: the mostly empty Ronacher theatre's auditorium seen from the 2nd floor on the right side. the stage is hidden behind a sort-of wall barrier curtain thing made of squares, some of which are reflective. the "Rock Me Amadeus" logo and an image of Moritz Mausser in character as Falco are projected onto it. Surrounding the stage there are a number of variously-shaped angular mirrors lined with glowing light. (additionally there's my partner's hand forming the peace sign on the right side of the image)]

side note I am irrationally annoyed that the squares of the logo don't line up with the squares of the curtain thing WHAT are they doing

Spoilers and further opinions under the cut

- The cast is stellar. Moritz Mausser is absolutely 100% brilliant, Katharina Gorgi's voice is beautiful, and Alex Melcher is there so that's in some ways already enough for me personally really. though he only really shows up in the 2nd act which is a bit sad. to me

but his presence is good bc. well. a lot of the things I generally value in a musical are kinda meh in this one tbh

- the music is fine! it's mainly Falco songs obviously, which I've been mostly neutral about so far but there definitely are some bangers, and, well, Moritz and Alex singing them sure is a point in favour. the additional songs written specifically for the musical are... I don't think they're bad, mostly, but they have a completely different vibe that doesn't really fit in with the rest. and. actually, some of them are bad. in my opinion. extremely cheesy. what's that doing there. one of them is hella catchy but the chorus lyrics sound like it's for kindergarden, two are just incredibly generic and boring and did I mention cheesy?

- Starting out with calling the day of Falco's death "the day the music died" sure is a claim. nothing to do with whoever is in charge at the vbw being weirdly patriotic (stares at the general Austria(ns) theme of quite a number of vbw musicals)

- Similarly his first sentence "In Wien musst erst sterben, bevor sie dich hochleben lassen" ("In Vienna you gotta die before they celebrate you") which sounds nice and dramatic and all but. come on. dude was #1 in international charts very much during his lifetime. they talk about this in the musical itself. he complains on stage about how the fame and stuff bothers him. where's the dying first part huh Hansi.

- Alex. listen I am stupidly into that guy's whole vibe. his everything. his voice is my favourite kind of male voice and his hair in combination with his entire profile and the lineof his stupid neck make me feel some kind of way. I wanna grab that hair and pull his head back like that one Sandman scene you know the one.

This one. also his tattoos and his absolutely deranged energy and willingness to just go off and do insane things rolling around on the floor. and then suddenly look like an innocent child in awe at seeing snow for the first time of his life. this tangent of Alex Melcher stanning has gone on long enough we'll return to our regularly scheduled musical discussion now

- They're simultaneously trying to make Falco a sympathetic figure while also showing him behaving like a dick. it seems to work bc the audience laughs and gets Emotional but. idk maybe it's me but the "I behave like an egoistic dick to everyone around me including my wife but it's ok bc I'm Misunderstood and actually very Deep and Emotional and I love my wife and need her to keep me sane and also I'm marionetted against my will by my Dark Impulses" shtick is sort of... you can't have him throw his wife to the ground and give zero fucks about her and then half an hour later at his funeral or wake or idk play a quote of him saying "I never hurt anyone other than myself" and have someone else call him empathic and sensitive and expect me to take that seriously and... look maybe I'd like it better if the jokes weren't so incredibly lame

- Female roles?? what's that. there's two (2) that get a name on the cast list (his wife and his mum). one (1) of them gets addressed by name on stage (Isabella, the Wife. his mum is Maria but only if you look at the cast list or the programme). Isabella's role is Sexy Lady turned Caring Wife and Mother who finally Leaves. the mum's role is Nagging Mum (in law) and Comic Relief. there's a second girlfriend (wife? secretary? idek) who apoears in one scene and gets called a name (Caroline) which I only caught bc I was looking at the surtitles. no one gets a personality not even the male characters really no one matters (I mean yes ok it's Falco's Story but ffs let Katharina DO something with her voice maybe)

- have I mentioned the awful dialogue and cheap jokes yet? "the best aspect of the American flag are the red-white-red stripes". terrible flirting with "ladies in uniform" who are trying to do their job when faced with an entitled asshole but of course it's portrayed as hilarious.

- ok so back to Alex Melcher but his role is the most fun part of the thing. he's Falco's "Alter Ego" aka his, idk, hedonistic impulses and desire for fame and admiration and whatnot personified? there's a huge head on stage with a brain and all in it to make sure the audience understands that he is Inside Falco's Head and in case that's not clear enough yet he also verbatim declares that "I'm inside your head" so yeah subtlety is not required in this play. he and Falco/Hans are being incredibly homoerotic the entire time and I am personally offended that they're not kissing, but I'll take Alter Ego pretending to lick Hans's throat and clinging to him like a limpet. I would love to write fanfiction about them actually but I haven't figured out how to do that well when both parties are the same person/one is a personified fragment of the other's mind and not physically present. pity.

- idk I'd just. I'd have done it differently? again it's just. so unsubtle. why does Alter Ego just hover menacingly above the stage in a glass box once or twice during the first act, why didn't they idk put him in as part of the white-clad ensemble and make him stick out more and more instead of the Hovering and then the 5 minutes "I am you and you are me" song at the start of the 2nd act. Have him talk to people while Hans takes a step back to show it's his Dark Side™ taking over idk. I'm sure there'd also be ways to make Hans more actually sympathetic and less of an arse (fewer dumb jokes might help, or giving other characters more of a personality maybe) but yeah idk

- idk there's just. not much of a story? it's a Falco tribute show with some life moments thrown in. there's a Falco song, there's a crisis bc he's out of ideas, now he's taking drugs, now he's happy, now there's a new album without any clue where he got the ideas (was it the drugs?) now there's sth about his wife now his friend is reprising the basic as fuck Live Your Dream song yet again. then it's over and he dies in a car crash and it's all presented like it's all some incredibly deep and moving story but it's just Not That Deep

- I do like the Writer's Block song they put in, don't we all know that feeling

- I'm not sure it's a good idea to use Jeannie of all songs as a recurring motif the way they're doing? "quit living on dreams, life is not what it seems" "lonely little girl boy in a cold cold world" blah blah all nice and well but Do We Remember What This Song Is About. I mean it's a good song I'm not contesting that I like it! (if someone wants to come at me for "endorsing" anything just bc I like the song... just don't) But yeah no matter how good it is I don't think it's very uhhh fitting. Though in retrospect maybe it's meant to portray him as like... Someone At The Mercy Of Sth Evil And/Or More Powerful Than He Is. Fucking over his own life powerless to stop it or sth idk idk

- Generally I think they rely way too much on the use of background projection screens idk it seems lazy. it's fine in some scenes it can work really well but it gets too much and kinda cheesy

End of the random unorganised RMA thoughts yay! It was fun to watch. I know I mostly complain a lot here but it's definitely fun! It's just that a large part of the fun for me was despairing about how bad I found it and waiting for more homoeroticism and also for Alex Melcher to... do the things he's doing

Edit: ALSO I'm not sure if uhhh low-to-mid-key insulting (iirc) two of the three not-Austrian countries he goes to is. Necessary?

[crazycatsiren]

Nobody:

Absolutely nobody:

Me in Vienna:

[megacarapa]

[mentallynotstableghost]

two people that look the same to me

one is an austrian musical actor who is currently portraying the singer Falco and the other is Freddy Carter

[enemyporn]

Bitchin video. Dude died in his car off a cliff on a 3 day coke bender.

[diegoldfisch]

Screaming into the void here but does anyone have a tape or any at length recording of F@lco - A Cybershow? It should have been at the Ronacher in Vienna around the very early 2000s, arranged by Thomas Rabitsch. It also had Hansi Lang in it.

[myimaginaryradio]

Rock Me Amadeus - Falco - 1985

[9puppiesdrowninginapool]

gathering these pictures from pinterest like berries from a bush

[hanshoelzel]

I’ve seriously been obsessed with Falco for nearly two years this Austrian man has my brain in a chokehold ilhsm

[panic-in-needle-park]

Bobby Axel

The Panic in Needle Park, 1971.

Dir. Jerry Schatzberg

I haven't posted on Pacino Saturday for a while :( haven't been doing the best but I hope to make more trashy gifs/edits soon 💛

[myreygn]

Ooo, the number dabble game looks so fun! Let’s do 102 (assuming it’s not taken yet) with Matsukawa if that’s okay :)

Have a great day friend! :3

an: i'm sorry, this took me little longer to figure out how to do it but i'm also like REALLY GLAD you requested mattsun for this because he's legit the only character i can somehow see with this song ^^' hope you like it, it was fun!

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102 - Rock Me Amadeus by Falco

(translation to english)

His uncle has been calling him 'Rockstar' ever since Issei can remember. He never gave it much thought (just a cute little nickname he loved as a kid, so they kept it), until his uncle passes away when Issei is in his last school year. He's by his side in the hospital when it happens and softly shakes his head through tears when he's called by the nickname one last time. "I'm not actually a rockstar, y'know?" and his uncle squeezes his hand tightly; "You have the spirit of a rockstar, kid." and those are his last words. Issei thinks about them a lot.

Spirit of a rockstar. He brings it up with Hiro when they meet up after the funeral. They get Onigiri, because it's Issei's favorite and Hiro thinks food makes everything a little better, even when it doesn't, but to decline the treat just because it doesn't bring his uncle back would be unfair.

"Hm." Hiro has a habit of saying 'Hm' to buy himself time to think. "He's right though, if you think about it… I mean, I never really put a name on it, but 'Rockstar' kinda fits."

"Put a name on what?"

Hiro just vaguely gestures to all of him and Issei is no wiser than before.

His best friend's inimitable talent to be as unhelpful as humanly possible brings Issei to the realization that maybe this is something he has to work through on his own. And to look up a list of the biggest rockstars of all time to then examine their behavior in interviews, bts material and on stage might seem too simple to actually make sense, but he's always been the kind of guy to go for the easiest way. (Iwaizumi calls it laziness, Issei calls it efficiency. Work smarter, not harder.)

What most of the videos have in common is that there's a certain tension about them. Not in a sense where it feels like the journalist and the musician are moments away from attacking each other, but more in the sense where you get the impression that the musician is somehow above the journalist and everyone except the musician is aware of that. It's a mixture of awe and jealousy; they want to be like that person in the interviewee seat, they want to live in that world where they're different and special without even realizing it.

Issei notices a certain aloofness about most musicians he examines. Not careless, but also not too careful; a very relaxed mindset of someone who's not afraid of what the future holds and who has that kind of confidence which tells you that, no matter what, they'll make it. It probably comes naturally with being able to live out your dream, but Issei knows that it's not just that. As long as you know that there's always a choice and always an escape, you don't have to worry about anything. The aloofness isn't exclusive to rockstars, but they're apparently more likely to have it than others and maybe that's what his uncle was talking about.

"You have that too, y'know?" Hiro tells him after listening to all of this and he scoffs when Issei shakes his head. "Yes, you do. You have that… aura, that easygoing thing, I don't know…"

"Agreed," Oikawa chips in from his bed and peeks over his history book. "You never look like you give a damn. Not in a bad way, I mean."

"And you can't even believe it when we tell you." Iwaizumi spares him a quick, piercing glance. "You really fit all the criteria. If I turned on my TV tomorrow morning and you were some kind of icon and all over the news, I wouldn't be surprised."

Hiro claps his hands together loudly. "Hakuna Matata! That's what I was trying to say! You're totally Hakuna Matata!"

Issei doesn't try to prove them wrong after that. He's not so sure about what Iwaizumi said of him becoming an icon over night, but he definitely can't deny the Hakuna Matata part and, thinking about it, none of what they said is something bad. Just because he looks like he has no damns to give, doesn't mean that he doesn't actually care. He does care, he's just not as super careful and overbearing as others. And he's certainly not as scared, because the future will come no matter if you like it and to stress yourself over something inevitable is nothing but a waste of energy - in Issei's eyes, at least.

Maybe his uncle and friends are right after all. Maybe he really has the spirit of a rockstar and maybe it will take him just as far as some of the people he has spent so much time examining and analyzing. And Issei, for one, can't wait to see.

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