Help I’m loosing it over a musical version of my favorite movie, but let me say something. Dream for you is to Beautiful Sea what Go Now is to Drive It Like You Stole It. Do you see it do you understand can you hear it over me sobbing on the floor over how Brendan did not sing with his brother in a shared song while Raphina did get that??? How Raphina heard the song about how she got to Chase Her Dreams, but Brendan didn’t get to sing the entirety of his song for Connor to his little brother and celebrated for him as he left??? He celebrated on his own. I’m sick I’m crawling on the floor what do I do with all these emotions

Ok #the girls were fighting (irl) so I am not doing what I planned to do tonight but instead listening to sing street to compose myself.

And I’m thinking TOO MUCH about these songs and the movie that the musical is based on. Specifically Go Now and how that’s Brendan’s only song.

Drive it Like You Stole it *could* be considered his song. But Conor is the one who sings it. And I’m thinking like. He gave him that song and in Go Now he hid the sorrow and only showed the joy in getting his brother out of there. And in the movie, he gave Connor that song too. In the movie, it’s not Brendan’s song. It’s another gift.

Conor never hears go now from his brother. He sings it himself.

Something something the moon will sing a song for you but ten times worse to me because. He has so much joy that his brother is free despite him still being trapped. He doesn’t sit in hurt, he celebrates being left for something more.

And also in Go Now in the musical you still get that joy at Connor escaping in the movie. But it’s so different in the musical because of how it’s shaped. It’s not Brendan giving Conor all his cash and driving him and Raphina out to their grandads boat in mingled silence and laughter and then a wild joyful yell as they escape, disappearing to find their dreams, with the song he gave his brother slowly covering the sounds of the movie.

It’s his thoughts, clear and grand and said in his own voice.

So here you are

You've got another chance for life

It's what you want

I can see it in your eyes

You see so clear

It's coming into light

Go on, be wrong

'Cause tomorrow you'll be right

Just, the certainty in that. You will be right. Your risks are beautiful. Now go, before mom and dad notice.

Don't sit around and talk it over

You're running out of time

Just face ahead, no going back now

It’s not just the quiet of the car. It’s all of his well wishes that he doesn’t let out and the thoughts that played out in that quiet drive to the port.

Then the joy that builds because Conor chased his dreams instead of drowning in their impossibility like Brendan did. That joy-

You’re never gonna go if you don’t go now

You’re never gonna know if you don’t find out

You’re never turning back, never turning around

How that last line is a thing that Brendan needs to be true, because Conor’s dream can’t crash. He can’t come home because his dream fell apart. It’s too damn bright.

Go on, be wrong. Cause tomorrow, you’ll be right.

I’ve just gotta say. I’m Very Normal about how the musical emphasizes points of the movie that hit me like a thousand bricks in this song. It’s not the song playing over an ending sequence. It’s the finale itself.

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Don’t mind me, just *violently re-enters my Sing Street phase, cackling and stealing all the gender in it*

Just had the strange realization that, uh. Sing Street is from 2016? I thought it was old. Like from when my dad was a kid old. They did such an EXCEPTIONAL job at making it seem old like WOW props to them I’m seriously impressed. That being said wish that there were more canon queers even more. The dress scene means more and less. Ride It Like You Stole It is still perfect. Girls is still a bit of an anthem if you ask me. And again the dress. The makeup scene still enrages me to the point of wanting to yell. I still like it a lot overall but the angles being awkward and the way the camera moves around still makes it feel a bit like the kids were supposed to have filmed the whole thing which feels like a loss but again it felt old so idk. And again: Girls is such a Thing.