hi sorry i did another one, this one's for last month's WILT. i like this story better but it's still pretty nonsense. same rules as last time
Hacker/Clunk: these have to get combined to make a VERY shaky opening sequence. hacker is obv very abstract, but it also has a lot of lines that are very specifically phrased, while clunk is more vague in its topic, but also more grounded in reality. both of them can ostensibly represent some vague conflict, so i'm hoping that combining them can make it scan a little better. as for what the actual conflict is, basically our setting is a peaceful but impoverished jewish town. okay it's the setting from fiddler on the roof because there's a fiddler song in here...... but anyhow there's a sinister christian sect leading a conquest into this town, threatening to disrupt the lives of all the peaceful citizens
TRU U: i thought this could maybe be turned into a villain song for the guy leading the crusade. like instead of playing "do you know the tru u" straight it could be like..... "can you find the truth of the bible." y'know? and if you think that's a stretch then baby you can call me armstrong
Do You Love Me?: y'know it's really a shame to take such a great subplot resolution song like this and use it instead as the introduction to our main characters but alas that is what i must do. we are here introduced to a poor couple who bear an amazing resemblance to the mother and father from fiddler on the roof. they are raising an eldest son and several younger children. in this song, they immediately resolve a conflict we never got the chance to see about them never having thought about whether or not they love each other. can you tell this hurts me. moving onward
Pennyroyal Tea: this is a song done by the father character and the mayor of the town, who is very distressed by this religious takeover. the mayor knows that not-tevye is a reliable, strong-willed man, and so he wants his help in trying to resist the conquest. the father refuses at first, fearing that the mayor may ask him to commit acts of violence that go against his principles. however, while this conversation is happening, the christian soldiers injure the mother character and we find out she is at the hospital
St. James' Infirmary/Movin' Out: the father does the jazz number when going to meet the mother in the hospital, with the mayor in tow as well. seeing that the conquest has brought harm to his own beloved family, he resolves to indeed help the mayor's resistance, after another brief back and forth in the form of movin' out
timeskip here to a point where the christian conquest has succeeded. the mayor and the father are still leading an underground rebellion, and the mother is still recovering
I Wish/The Dog, The Dog: with the mother hospitalized and the father working with the mayor, the eldest son has now taken on the role of caregiver for his younger siblings back at the house. he feels unsure about his ability to fill these shoes, and does I Wish as a means of communicating that. the younger siblings sing The Dog about the fears they have, for their parents and for themselves now that they are under such a hostile regime
Boneyards: a rally song for the troops in the underground rebellion, clearly showing that they are ready to fight as much as necessary
Scatman's World: the eldest son visits the mother and they dream of a better, more peaceful life. this is meant to be a contrasting viewpoint to the father's, who has grown more accustomed to the idea of war
Count of three: the father visits home one more time before the rebels go to confront the christians' leader. he asks the eldest son if he would like to join the rebellion. the son is unnerved by his father's violent language, and displeased with the notion that he would abandon taking care of his younger siblings while his mother is still away. they have a fight and sing this song before the father returns to the rebels
AmEN!: the rebels confront the crusade leader and have a back-and-forth faceoff. this is the big epic scene. they fight, but the rebels lose and are forced to scatter. the mayor is killed before he can escape. the father makes it back to the house safely but rattled
I Will Buy You A New Life/Jumper: the father reconciles with the rest of his family, including his wife, who has returned home. he admits that the blind violence the mayor influenced him into ended up pulling him away from his duties to all of them. the mother sings new life and the son sings jumper and they cross over each other and the father joins in
Eat The Acid/What's Love Got to Do with It: the family reunited rallies what's left of the rebellion and goes to confront the crusade leader again. the family enters alone to extend a peace offering with conditions of basic freedoms through Eat The Acid, and it's rejected with What's Love. the rebels then use their element of surprise to seize the crusade leader and depose him. we get another round of What's Love but more upbeat and kind of ironic
You're Going To Love Me: i don't know a single word of this song, i can't understand it at all. so i'm just gonna say this is the closer and it hardly has to fit much of anything specific
notes: when i say i "like this one a lot more" i mean that from a storytelling perspective, but i'm not really sure how i feel about some of the subtext and whatnot. i suppose it's not all "bad" but it definitely feels..... shallow. but what do ya want from such a slapdash little project. once again: hope that you're amused and also thank you i love you (again!)