I too prefer hand drawn, but if CGI looks effortless it's only because tons of effort went in to making it seem that way, like a ballerina looking weightless while breaking her feet. Just the amount of time, effort, and technical know how that goes into animating hair with CGI is insane.

They are providing 20,000 tickets to NYC public school children for $10, which includes interacting with the cast members. They’re also increasing the number of tickets available via the lottery (it’s going up to 46). They’re clearly doing what they can to counteract the fact that it’s incredibly popular and is being…

Except that over 10,000 high school kids are going to get to see this thing this year for $10. I want tickets more than I’ve ever wanted anything but I’m so sick of this line of complaining. Between EduHam and Ham4Ham, I feel as though Lin and Co. are doing more than most to make it an attainable experience. Let them…

First of all it’s de Tocqueville, not DeTorqueville, and he didn’t even come to American until about three decades after Hamilton was dead. The education system is the travesty.

KISS MY GRITS, LAURA!

My takeaway from watching the Tony Awards: No matter what Broadway draws from for musicals, be it country, hiphop, jazz, gospel, or rock & roll, it ultimately gets distilled down to a dozen and a half people standing still with their arms at their sides looking off into a dozen and a half different directions and…

Good news! The parts of Alexander Hamilton’s life that involved radical Islam and FBI surveillance have been cut from the play as well.

A friend of mine who’s a beloved sweetheart once had a screaming fit of a breakdown when Hollah Back Girl came on the jukebox at the bar. She had a fantastic rant about how she doesn’t care how cool and famous Gwen Stafani is, she’ll never be a Harlem Black Girl! I swear, everybody at the bar turned around, listened…

If you listen for it. If can be used for great effect. Bob Dylan’s Rolling Stone has a bunch of softer rounded sounds, and then he hits you with the hard ending in scrounging. It’s perfect.

Row row row your boat?

Oh lordy.

Things like punk, often described as a white working class genre, have a foundation in the yardie culture of Jamaicans and the accompanying sound of ska

I am going to notice this in every song I listen to now, aren’t I?

Opera? I think that might literally be it. Bring on the Wagner! Eurghh...

Why do Americans talk in a British singing accent?

Honestly, I think it’s used as both the feminine of “boys” and “guys”...now maybe it started being used because it diminished their respect/worth, but nowadays it’s just a kind of catch-all term. You are right, technically the feminine version of “guys” is “gals”, but using it makes you feel like you’re living back in…

Elliott Smith covers.

That’s a very weak rickroll.

Look I get this is a thing, I get that artists do this, but this just feels like lets pick on Trainor more than anything. As a non American she just sounds like any other American singing. Now as an Aussie I will say Iggy is appropriating that accent like it’s going out of style, but then Madonna sang with a British…

The problem isn’t the enjoyment or even use of ideas outside of your natural milieu; the fact that people learn and grow from one another and enjoy each other’s cultures is, to state it plainly, beautiful. But black people have reason to fear that this will turn out to be an uneven trade. Some people will benefit from…