Hamilton Revolution (No Relation to the America Rev.)

Hey y'all

I'm slowly becoming a musical theatre nerd, it's happening and I won't be able to stop it. It's like the Progressive commercials where people become more like their parents as they get older. I'm that but with High School Musical. 

I feel like the moment you actively go, you know what I want to do today...hmmm....I could work?....or do a workout....or.... listen to Hamilton....and dance like this:

This bear is living it's best life "I Wipe My Hair Back And Forth" style like Willow Smith and we stan. 

I won't even lie though Hamilton is the only thing that got me through my APUSH exam this year. Like it was the beginning of May, the middle of a pandemic, and I was freakin out trying to remember all of Ameican history from literally the colonies, and slavery to James Dean and FDR.

For those of you who are not as well versed on historical hotties, James Dean was this early 50s movie star who basically defined being an edgy teenager, think "Rebel Without a Cause". 

Also, I adamantly believe that James Franco is James Dean reincarnated. 

Prove Me Wrong, I Dare You. (sidenote: This shall be the title of my memoir when I am elderly and grumpy, not necessarily in that order)

But, what do you do when you can't remember who wrote the Declaration of Independence. Or where manz was before he came back to America to be a buttface and a hypocrite? cough...cough...Thomas Jefferson...cough. He was the ambassador to France cause he really liked the French, it was a thing. And where did I learn this, HAMILTON.

Actually, I learned it from Ms.Edwards my 11th-grade APUSH teacher who I love dearly ❤❤

But how did I remember it without google during my timed APUSH DBQ, Document Based Question (an essay with pictures and historical quotes as evidence) for those of you not in the Collegeboard AP cult...I mean circuit...

Well while google was totally allowed it wasted time to look up everything little thing so instead it helped to just learn the info. Or be like me and just listen to Hamilton so intensely that you actually know the details of the construction of the United States basic principles and the steps and pitfalls it took to construct them. 

In fewer smart people words,  I used Hamilton as the ultimate cheat sheet (for lack of better words, no I did not cheat so stop looking at me like that College Board) and blasted it the entire time I took the test and somehow finished with time to spare. Which is hilarious because when I took my AP Lang exam I almost didn't finish. You know why? Cause I wasn't stopping every ten minutes to scream lyrics and get entirely distracted. It's the most beautiful type of irony. 

And Hamilton is magical. 

Oh, this is for all my Collegeboard people out there. If you weren't entirely terrified of being accused of cheating then you can't possibly be one of us normal humans. I was terrified. Genuinely terrified, I spent my entire AP Calc exam talking to my computer because I was convinced Collegeboard was literally listening to me to make sure I wasn't cheating. So if they were listening then they clearly saw a lot of Hamilton rapping (because yes I listened to it for that test too, don't judge me) and they left feeling much better about life. Because I can be very funny when I want to be, I mean that or they definitely think I'm insane, probably both. 

I'm multidimensional. 

multidimensionallllllllll

All this to say, Hamilton is the greatest emotional crutch I have ever had and I'm never giving it up. I feel like I go through Hamilton phases. 

The first was discovering it, which I won't lie I was pretty late too, it was probably mid-2019. And then my favorite song was definitely like Alexander Hamilton, My Shot, or Aaron Burr, Sir.

The second was when I started getting into his personal life so Eliza and Angelica which was like early quarantine like March/April/May, when my favorites were Satisfied, Helpless, and Take A Break

The third wave is right now, and now I'm strangely into Aaron Burr, which I mean Leslie Odom Jr so 😙😘

And my favorites are Wait For It, Say No To This, and Non-Stop.

But I have honorable mentions that always live in my heart, Guns and Ships, Right Hand Man, Farmer Refuted, What'd I Miss (which is about Thomas Jefferson and him coming back from France FYI) 

And I have more, so basically the entire soundtrack shamelessly. All this because it comes to Disney+ this weekend. July 3rd. 

My family has officially banned me from singing while we watch it the first time, but no one said anything about every time I watch it after that (blasted volume, big screen tv 😝).

Bye, y'all I have lyrics to learn.