lt musical top five songs
hello hello hello how are we doing on this fine day november the 3rd ? have we voted (if you’re eligible to in the US) ? did we eat food and drink water ? are we taking care of ourselves physically and mentally during what will probably be an extremely challenging end to 2020 ?
if you’re anything like me right now and you care remotely about the state of the united states government, you’re probably trying to find ways to distract yourself from looking at your phone 24/7 in hopes that you can avoid the political chaos. the way i’ve elected (hehe, word choice) to do that is by turning off my notifications and binge listening to the lightning thief: the percy jackson musical (aka the musical based off of the first book in pjo, aka the book and musical that literally pulled me by my hair through quarantine)
i honestly haven’t given the soundtrack a listen since before my uni started, but now that i’m re-listening to it to destress, i feel like i have a lot of opinions about this amazing soundtrack. of the entire soundtrack AS WELL AS any bonus tracks of songs that were cut out but still released, my top five fav songs are as follows:
1. D.O.A. - UGH PLS THE SINGER’S VOICE, makes me laugh, i love the creativity and the way i feel like i can picture myself with the trio with all the characters and the way they all react
2. Lost! - HAHAHAHA y’all i’m from new jersey so +10 points for that ALONE, the chaos makes me laugh, percy still in his “idk what the Hades is going on” phase
3. In the Same Boat - the sass, the “woah”, grover, the way this song makes me laugh every time i listen to it
4. Good Kid - i SING this song when i'm alone in the car bruh like i SCREAM these lyrics
5. Son of Poseidon - really like the pick-me-up of the soundtrack, you can feel the energy being put back into the plot, this is the song you sing driving down the highway on a quest when you finally figure out how to save the day
honorable mentions goes to:
a. My Grand Plan - the way i project onto annabeth so hard (i honestly don’t know how much i would like this song based on the melody and stuff if i didn’t love annabeth’s portrayal and the fact that the message in the lyrics resonate so heavily)
b. Pick a Side - Clarisse (aka my fav), Luke lowkey questioning his role in the war, THE hARMONIES AND JUST EVERYTHING ABOUT THE PHYSICAL SCORE
c. Put You in Your Place - <3 clarisse <3 , <3 the guitar <3 (im not really a rock music type of person but this song in particular changed the way i listened to music and specifically this soundtrack considering how much of it has that late 90s early 2000s rock vibe), also i just love this scene in the book
d. Take the Weight - EMOTIONAL, RAW, 10/10, makes me question my role in life
