Life has been hectic the last few weeks, juggling course work, a part time job and a social life is rather tiring. It leaves very little time to try and maintain this blog as I would like to.
This weeks Music Monday is The Last Five Years. I have been obsessed with this musical for maybe three years now. The songs are brilliant there catchy and uplifting, and also heartbreaking.
The character are flawed beings, as all people are. Cathy and Jamie are one of the greatest fictional couples created… even if they don’t end up together. You can feel there joy and there pain.
What adds to the genius is that that Jamie’s timeline is Start-End and Cathy’s timeline is end-start. So they contrast in emotions throughout the musical.
Which means the last song will undoubtedly leave you an emotional wreck as Cathy sings "goodbye until tomorrow", as she embarks on the relationship with Jamie not knowing what she is about to endure and Jamie sings “I could never rescue you” at the end of the relationship unable to try again. Her hopefulness and his defeat is so powerful.
Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan star in the movie adaptation of the Jason Robert Brown Musical. Though still not available in the UK the snippets that have been released look amazing. The soundtrack sounds sublime. Kendrick and Jordan voices play on the emotions so well and I was not left disappointed by the new soundtrack.
Highlights:
“If I didn’t believe in You” this is undoubtedly one of the best songs in the musical. It’s Jamie getting tired of the relationship, its relatable it all the best and worst ways. It shows the struggles of being in a relationship. Jeremy Jordan brings an more angrier, frustrated quality than Adam Kantor and Norbit Leo Butz and makes it his own, adding to the song, and what he is singing in the moment.
“Climbing Uphill” is another one of the great songs from the musical and says so much that Cathy is frustrated with from beginning to end of her relationship with Jamie, she’s a frustrated actress who can’t seem to catch a break. She’s watching Jamie who’s caught success quite fast and she knows who she doesn’t want to be, she doesn’t want to be just the wife of the successful writer. You can feel her pain, you can relate to her pain, the self doubt. You can feel the anger at the life that she definitely doesn’t want. Kendrick plays this amazing.
This was longer than I thought it was going to be and honestly I could say so much more. This is genuinely such an incredibly written musical. It’s so easy to get wrapped into the world and relationship of Jamie and Cathy. Enjoy!
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