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My email this morning made me blink:

"Wait, he was a senator? And it's no surprise no one knows who he's working for, does no one remember 'talk less, smile more'?"

And since I'm posting about Hamilton, I keep having another odd thing happen. I'll look up one of the 'characters' from the play, then get so surprised when the picture is of an old white man. "What? No, he's young and black, how did this picture get-- Oh wait, right...." It's so silly and funny, since of course at that time in history it wouldn't be a black man in that position.

Current Mood: awake

Up until a couple days ago, I had only ever heard a few moments of any Hamilton song. I'm not into American history, and I'm not really into rap, and things that are mega popular tend to turn me off, so I never gave it a chance.

Then someone made a fan video for the game I play. Even though I don't like the character, the song was really catchy, and I found myself singing it endlessly, even days after first hearing it.

Finally curious enough, I googled it to check the source. Huh, a Hamilton song! After listening to it for a few days nonstop, I decided to see if I'd like the other songs as much.

Wow, I completely did. I can't believe how catchy they all are! And it's such a good story!

And now I'm one of you all, obsessed with it, plotting how maybe I could go see it live sometime. When I'm not listening to it, I want to be listening to it.

And that first song I heard, that started me on this road? His songs are still my favorites!