colorful bunch
someone please tell me what epic the musical is bc youtube is incredibly unhelpful
colorful bunch
is this like a starkid deal, I have yet to figure it out
Bᴇᴀsᴛ。
afaik it's a series of concept albums based on the odyssey
Bᴇᴀsᴛ。
kinda like what hadestown originally started as i think (I am not as versed on the history of hadestown but i'm pretty sure that's how it started)
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so there's just the songs rn - which i think is also why there's so many fan animatics
Jammmy Dodger
Yes this, with the addition that it's super popular on TikTok (so I have heard)
Jammmy Dodger
Hadestown was a little different in that anais mitchell didn't original conceive of it as a musical per se, it was more a narrative album (think The Hazards of Love by the Decemberists)
Bᴇᴀsᴛ。
ahhhhh right, that's what it was
Jammmy Dodger
orginally^ but yes
tinybro
it's really, really good 👀
tinybro
it's been released one "saga" at a time with 3-5 songs in each saga, and the one just released is the second to last so it's almost all out
tinybro
and the animatics quality coming out of this fandom is so insanely high
tinybro
there are really good ones for every song (minus the ones that just came out of course but i'm sure people are already on it)
colorful bunch
I've just seen people do covers all the time and was like "oh, a musical I haven't heard of!" and then go so confused
colorful bunch
so it's not a musical, really, more like a rock opera being released a little at a time?
tinybro
God Games | EPIC: The Musical Animatic
Ruthlessness | EPIC: The Musical ANIMATIC
tinybro
some examples
colorful bunch
mm well I mean if I'm gonna listen to an album I might as well listen to the whole thing when it's done
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yeah essentially!
tinybro
more or less! it's definitely more opera than musical in that the whole story is in the songs, there's no in-between dialogue or anything
Bᴇᴀsᴛ。
also yeah that's also why i've mostly hold off on it myself (aside from giving the circe songs a listen bc circe is my girl)
colorful bunch
title sure makes more sense now
tinybro
the creator's been sharing the process of creating it for years on tiktok so we already know at least bits of the songs that haven't been officially released yet
tinybro
the last part hasn't been announced yet but knowing the creator i would not be surprised if it gets dropped on christmas
tinybro
he loves holiday releases and they've been coming out faster and faster
colorful bunch
oh how long's it been going on for?
colorful bunch
this might be part of what led to my confusion that there was stuff for a while with covers and then. there's new stuff. and i was like ?? but isn't it done??
Bᴇᴀsᴛ。
i thiiiiiink the first official release was late last year
Bᴇᴀsᴛ。
or the very beginning of this year, i forget exactly
colorful bunch
oh okay so it's still a recent phenomenon
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ye ye
tinybro
yeah people have been doing covers of the bits that were shared on tiktok for years but the official released are comparatively recent
tinybro
plus he did the casting through tiktok so a lot of people's auditions have been public for a long time
colorful bunch
oof
colorful bunch
well that's a choice, I suppose
tinybro
EPIC Snippet Keep Your Friends Close 9-3-21
this is from 2021 but the official release of that song was christmas last year i believe
tinybro
it got to be such a big thing because people got to see the whole process and auditions were open to literally anyone anywhere, he was very insistent that they'd find a way to make it work no matter what for the right voice
tinybro
so you've got a mix of people that are professional singers and people that have never even been on stage in their lives