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HAMILTON! I have reacently started listening(obsessing) to hamilton and I have thought of an impossible question: What is your favorite Hamilton song and why? 

submitted by Aragorn Scamander , age LittleLion, New York!
(January 23, 2017 - 12:19 pm)
submitted by Schuyler Sisters, Because its awesome
(January 23, 2017 - 6:22 pm)

Now that is a very hard question mister. Very difficult.

I guess... Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down). Every time I hear the part where there's the violins playing, and

"after a week of fighting, a young man in a red coat stands on a parapet. We lower our guns as he frantically waves a white handkerchief. And just like that it's over. We tend to our wounded, we count our dead."

(later) 

"Tens of THOUSANDS of people flood the streets. There are screams and church bells ringing."

That part literally gives me chills. You can FEEL the history, the shock, that "we won? Really? Us, a scrappy volunteer army defeat one of the biggest superpowers in the world?" And then a feeling of elation, a growing excitement and pure raw feeling rise up in you. The world doesn't know what to do with you. It is turned upside down. Everything about that twenty second segment of the song is just perfect.

I also really like "Satisfied" and the 2 Cabinet Battles. 

submitted by Caroline
(January 25, 2017 - 11:17 pm)

Satisfied is my favorite. It's just amazing, pulling at my heart...and it, as well as telling the past, it predicts  the future.

 

He will never be satisfied...

Remind you of Maria Reynolds? And what he did in the future?

I will never be satisfied... 

She holds on to him, just slightly.

 

submitted by Satisfied
(January 26, 2017 - 11:04 am)

Oh. Well. Hmm. How about... all of them? I honestly have never been able to decide in all of my time of listening to Hamilton. I am still discovering new things about it, melodies in the background that mirror those in different songs. For example, ever listened closely to the part right after Hamilton gets shot? Those three notes right before Burr starts singing are the same notes played at the beginning of "Aaron Burr, sir." I got chills when I realized that. And Angelica's arpeggio at the beginning of satisfied and Eliza's thingy at the beginning of Burn appear a lot too, like in the background of "Wait For It" and in "The World Was Wide Enough" when Burr sings at the end. I could never choose a favourite song. I started listening to Hamilton in April and just today when I was listening I got chills. It really is so good. I still haven't gotten over it.

By the way have any of you heard Congratulations from the Hamilton Mixtape? It is SO GOOD!!! 

submitted by The Riddler
(January 26, 2017 - 6:06 pm)

I love Congradulations! I love the Mixtape in general, it's awesome.

submitted by Ashlee G., age 15, The Future
(January 26, 2017 - 7:22 pm)

I love Congratulations!

submitted by Shoshannah
(January 26, 2017 - 8:20 pm)

AHHHH how dare you ask this? Sorry, I just can't pick a favorite! Some of my top picks (not in order) are:

- Guns and Ships (I LOVEEEE Lafayette)

- Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down) because it's... perfect

- Stay Alive and Stay Alive (Reprise) because of their awesomeness

- And everything elseeeeeee I cannot pick!

But my favorite actors are those who play are Lafayette (#1 pick), Washington, and Burr. And Hamilton, of course.

But might I add, Daveed is my favorite of all, he's epic. :D 

 

submitted by Ashlee G., age 15, The Future
(January 26, 2017 - 7:27 pm)

I find a new favorite Hamilton song every day, but I've always loved Helpless and Satisfied. I'm playing the former on the piano :) 

submitted by Rose bud
(January 30, 2017 - 8:30 pm)

Umm... This is so hard...Guns and Ships? Burn? My Shot? Wait For It?

submitted by Hamiltrash, Hamiltrash Centeral
(January 30, 2017 - 11:28 pm)