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Ah…don’t remind me of that first GMA performance. Yeah, some were unaware of the need to PG-fy daytime tv. I’m cool with those that were simply questioning but man, blaming Will for the rewrite? idk… And I have to admit, Will didn’t sound his best there but due to circumstances, I understood. Like man, why schedule that thing on a two show day??? He’s got to save his voice somehow and I think that was after/during opening week and that’s typically when voices get strained.

Like, from intense tech to previews to opening…that’s gotta tire someone who’s onstage for 90% of a 2-hour show. There may be a bit of respite after that but not much considering it’s straight to campaign/awards season.

But thankfully it’s mellowed out but I guess people still think liking Will is the unpopular opinion? Like how do you measure that? Genuinely curious… 

i love every time we got a Necessary Lyric Change to censor a lyric or two for some daytime pg program and it was like no porn, no Shit......only all-day preoccupation lmao.......honestly the Creativity in it was fun and the replacements were all pretty golden actually and it’s like oh crap wouldn’t mind if some of these were the official lyrics really, wow. but yeah the idea of remembering alternate lyrics and skipping over entire segments of the song to cut it down for time being Mistakes like.........you’re really going wild to not automatically assume those were deliberate changes. and like that was one zillion years into will having the part lmao, and how’s everyone just happen to be precisely coordinated with said allegedly forgetfulness? it’s wild

“i don’t know if i always sound good at 9 am” lol.....honestly i don’t vividly remember how the performance went but i certainly wasn’t like, struck by anything like some wildly noticeable disastrous nightmare quality that would make me go “take that role away from that menace right now” lmao like even if he Did, you’d have to have some real vendetta to think that one rough performance means that you were right all along and this casting choice is an undeserved outrage!! but wait, people Do really have that idea, so obviously yknow why not reach for the stars at anything you can possibly perceive as not the everlasting perfect unimpeachable performance to end all performances. ppl really are gonna be out there deciding that anything material must either be proof that he’s not good enough for the part if anyone even Notices anything they can at least imagine as inadequacy and it proves you’re justified in complaining His Casting Is A Mistake / Bad, and if that fails, you begrudgingly Don’t complain that his casting is a mistake / bad...........really anyhow i Am amazed they were up at like, 3am or whatever to do 4? 5am? staging and rehearsing at that studio....on a two-show day......like, that must have been just some terrible coincidence in scheduling necessitating that b/c god, surely if they had Any other options........like ffs i’d Hope will wasn’t giving it his all. for one thing that space was very small compared to say, the lyceum, so idk that anybody’d even need to be giving it that full voice commitment for everyone there to hear........and like obv it’s a bit important he not overexert himself re that vocal strain and fuck himself over b/c he did still have two entire shows to do, and like, you wanna be able to perform those properly And not worry that you hurt your voice thx to the extra demand........Pacing............but like, why be reasonable and understanding when you can just assume that will has just showed up out of nowhere with no idea how to sing, and that every single day everyone’s at the top of their game and this is a known fact so if someone’s struggling more on one day that means that’s their True And Constant Ability. and i am a touch skeptical of taking any rando’s complaints in good faith when there’s people left and right who are like No He Just Can’t Sing. Doesn’t Know How. That’s It. like,,,,,,and who are you??? god damn i Wish i could sing 25% as well as 9-years-ago will roland. i really do. Please

anyways lol the point is that these people are really like, navigating their bias like an artform. somehow always sticking the landing in the complex routine of their mental gymnastics. i really doubt any of these people are trying to be all about Statistics and Consistency in their takes.......people will be like “Unpopular Opinion” about absolutely everything, like i’m sure some people who are aghast at will’s casting will say it’s an Unpopular Opinion to be mad abt him having the part like......is it though. you can find plenty of people who agree, i’m sure. but really like, an Okay thing about me arriving in between 2.0 and 3.0 is that i like to think that truly some people have Gotten Over It / resigned themselves to it / gone away / realized the virtue of just keeping those thoughts to themselves at this point b/c what could it possibly accomplish? and yet some people are that dedicated to voicing their malcontent on various platforms for their own sake i guess. like. is this about 1.0 still. because that content is still there for you