Listening to HEATHERS: The Musical Songs has left me shocked and confused please assist me

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[@MathewMcKenna]

I replied to a comment about listening to the songs in order with this, in case you're curious why I opt to listen to things out of order:

[@hayamihinata4135]

As for the situation with the “gay forbidden love” of Kurt and Ram, the movie this was based on is from 1989. So it was a little bit less accepted back then….

[@Killjoy20006]

What's funny is that if you take a deeep look into the scene in the movie and in the musical when JD said "these are ich luge bullets" that's german. I speak and read German. Not fluently but I know a good amount of it. Ich luge means I'm lying in German. Soo my friends and I were watching it and I freaked the hell out. Because in the movie JD asks veronica if she speaks german. When she responds with "french" he continues. If she did say yes to the question he probably would've said it in French instead of German. Lmao I'm a heathers nerd.

[@Ozloz]

Just for clarification, when Veronica starts singing “our love is god” with JD at the end, she’s basically trying to save herself. If you watch the musical ypu can see that JD basically threatens her during this scene, and pulls her tightly towards him, almost in a chokehold

[@squishiestrosie]

The "They'll be the laughing stock" for being gay line has a few reasons. 1) It's set in 89 where the world was much less accepting than it is today, and 2) The musical actually touches on why this is a bad thing, and how they should be accepting, but also that it can take extremes for people to be accepting in "My dead gay son"

[@elianawawaa]

In the end of “Our love is god” in the musical, JD is holding his arms around Veronica while Veronica’s singing and facial features becomes progressively frightened while singing those last lines.

[@joceyyy_]

Fight for me is basically the first time we meet JD, and we don’t know anything about him. Before the song they very briefly interacted and veronica says “I didn’t catch your name” with jd replying “I didn’t throw it”. That’s why she says “mr no name kid”

[@cherrycokelite]

Not sure if these were the exact lyrics, but in the our love is god, JD refers to the bullets as "ichluege bullets", which means "im lying" in german!

[@mayadargeon2172]

How much you wanna bet you're confused because you're not listening it all in order ? 😭

[@picosock2740]

thank you for feeding my heathers addiction

[@truebornseeker9767]

The “they’ll be laughing stocks” line in the first song is kinda multilayered? And yes, it shows the times. People at the time weren’t accepting of gay people. The “they’ll be laughing stocks” is both because people will be laughing at ‘the gays that couldn’t take the reality of the world’ and, since J.D said that they wouldn’t be actually killed and would just be knocked out (though, he’s lying of course), that they failed to take their own lives (which would either be a show of weakness or stupidity)

[@joceyyy_]

“Is there a single good person in this musical?”

[@palomaroggeri8680]

A correction to the lyric video, the person who says “OMG THIS IS AWSOME!” And “IM BIGGER THEN JOHN LENNON!” Is heather chandler’s ghost, not the teacher.

[@DelliGaming]

First song's context:

[@buttercupghost]

Yeah, I'd argue that admitting your insecurities and fears in front of the whole school is not a good idea, in fact. Actually, it backfires in the play, leading to shine a light reprise in which Heather M. tries to kill herself. The teacher is actually a really bad one, in my opinion. She is very preformative, but doesn't actually care about her students. She made the school read a suicide note. She scolded Heather D. For having a eating disorder, not even helping her at all. Her actions lead to Heather M.'s previously mentioned suicide attempts. So, yeah-the teacher sucks, and shine a light is not supposed to be encouraging in reality despite trying to emulate the sound.

[@MathewMcKenna]

thanks for being here as always 💙 you honestly mean so much to me y'all got no idea lmao

[@SM-BSW]

Fun fact, this song came out of a line from the original 1989 movie with Christian Slater and Winona Ryder.

[@alyssaaug8253]

If you ever want to listen to more musicals, especially more that are movie based, I highly recommend The Lightning Thief, Mean Girls, and Beetlejuice

[@phoenixrose6444]

Watching your reactions made me realize just how much the physical context helps portray the message of most of these songs way better than just the audio.

[@ildottoreswife]

Context behind our love is God and maybe movie spoilers: