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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 May 2020

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      I'm pretty much a snob about this, I go looking for covers of the song and judge them harshly on "Is it possible to figure out from their delivery that Evan is making up this story as he goes along and none of this actually happened"https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1261523249910837248 …

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      I think "For Forever" is an amazing song because it so strongly fulfills the basic requirement of being great as a *musical theatre* song and not just a great song That the power of the song is amplified 10,000x by knowing what happens in the show that it's from
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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 May 2020

      This is the thing about being into musical theatre I'm much more of an acting nerd than a music nerd I care a lot more about whether I can believe whether it's really the character singing it than whether it technically sounds good Pop showtune covers tend to bug me

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 May 2020

      I did a show with a director once who said that this is why she loves *music* in plays but she doesn't like *musicals* In an actual *musical* people are judging the performer objectively as a singer and dancer, on top of the acting Which is a lot, in this economy

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 May 2020

          I mean obviously all performers blur the lines a little, especially now, with music videos and the like becoming more and more of a singer's image I used to say that yeah Taylor Swift wasn't the world's most technically proficient singer but she's a great *actor*

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 May 2020

          And yet there's acting and there's acting, you know Like it's not that most pop singers don't know how to put emotion into their songs or they wouldn't be able to sing at all But it's the more complex stuff that seems to elude a lot of people

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        4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 May 2020

          This particular song is a really strong example Like it's not just "a happy song" or a "sad song", the whole song is playing against, Evan lying to himself, where he's slowly letting his own desperate emotional needs take over this comforting story he's telling the Murphys

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        5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 May 2020

          The most powerful thing about Ben Platt's delivery is how the part where he climbs the tree is frantic, desperate, panicked -- as though he's trying to outrun his own recollection of what really happened Until the line "The entire sun shines on my FACE" is this explosive scream

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        6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 May 2020

          Like originally he was just taking Jared's advice to nod and smile but the story kept growing in his head He never planned to include his broken arm in the story but he suddenly HAS TO, if he can change anything about the past it MUST BE THIS, if he can only have this ONE THING

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        7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 May 2020

          And then he's almost in tears on "He's coming to get me... he's coming to get me..." Like the idea is that for the story that it is -- even if you really were telling the story of your last memory of your best friend before he died -- it's *too* intense, it's over the top

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        8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 May 2020

          Which is why the Murphys come around to Evan so quickly -- they can't deny the raw emotion there, even though it flies in the face of all their own actual memories of what Connor was like, there's something so real there it outweighs all of that

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        9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 May 2020

          And why the reveal later in the show (which we've probably come to suspect if we were paying attention) of how Evan really broke his arm hits so hard It all hangs together really well and it's all so dependent on this one performance early in the show

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        10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 May 2020

          Anyway I'm not actually going to link all the YouTube covers I've been listening to but I really do strongly feel like someone who can act this scene but doesn't have the strongest voice is WAAAY superior to someone who sings it really well but doesn't quite hit those beats

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        11. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 16 May 2020

          (This is why being a "double threat" to say nothing of a "triple threat" is so impressive Like imagine if real athletes had to both play sports for real and act in movies about sports, with a closeup on their face "Now I want you to nail this three-pointer and MEAN it")

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