Not to be overdramatic but the anti-Trump stuff in the Hadestown lyrics kind of hit differently now than they did even a year ago "If we're free Tell me why I can't look into my brother's eye"
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"I don't know about you, boys But if you're like me Then hanging around this old manhole Is bringing you down Six-feet-under Getting under your skin Cabin fever is a-setting in You're stir crazy! Stuck in a rut! Oh you could use a little pick-me-up"
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"I got the wind right here in a jar I got the rain on tap at the bar I got sunshine up on the shelf" The funny thing is that when she says she's selling people memories of life Up Above she's actually selling booze and drugs
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The implication of the setting of Hadestown is the old gods of the sky and the wild land and sea, Zeus and Demeter and Poseidon and all of them, are dead and gone away
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The gods who rule now are Hades and Persephone, the god of industrial capitalism -- the wealth built in and among dead things -- and his wife, the flowering of nature and beauty that exists only in its shadow Persephone is a nature goddess but less... wholesome than her mom
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In Greek tradition she's one candidate for the mother of Dionysus, the god of wine, and in Roman tradition Persephone/Proserpina straight up has the goddess of wine (Libera) as one of her aspects
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What I mean is that the Hades/Persephone opposition here is about how if inside is where you spend all your time living and working then when you go outside you automatically get rowdy
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Which perversely means that when you've got cabin fever from being trapped inside the act of getting hammered itself is the closest thing you've got to getting outside
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Maybe I'm overthinking this but my point is "maintaining healthy habits" in these circumstances is like an absurd insane thing of you to ask and holy shit nobody I know has successfully done so
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Anyway every drink you take while trapped in quarantine is a little prayer to Our Lady Underground, it's holy
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Great thread! I wasn't entirely sure if the anti-trump sentiment was intentional, but I definitely saw the similarities in 'why we build a wall'
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