Teach them how to say goodbye

December 21, 2018 9:55 AM

The last #Hamildrop remix: One Last Time featuring Chris Jackson, Bebe Winans and Barack Obama.
posted by storytam (12 comments total)

OK, who else cried?
posted by MonkeyToes at 9:57 AM on December 21, 2018 [12 favorites]

I'm not into Hamilton, but hearing Obama's voice made me really sad for times past. To think: a President who sounded presidential?
posted by grumpybear69 at 9:58 AM on December 21, 2018 [11 favorites]

I normally never go near Youtube comments, but the top one is gold:

obama is the ex that's doing way better than you, just living their best life with a new gym body and cooler friends
posted by Kadin2048 at 10:03 AM on December 21, 2018 [25 favorites]

I hope they post a video for this one. (For some of the other Hamildrops, the audio was posted first and then the video on a later date.)
posted by mbrubeck at 10:28 AM on December 21, 2018 [1 favorite]

History has its eyes on you.
posted by still_wears_a_hat at 11:27 AM on December 21, 2018 [1 favorite]

I keep bouncing between "This is really well produced" and "This feels like the most Aaron Sorkin-fantasy esque thing I've seen in a long time".

Like, I hear the allure and the charm, but it also feels hollow knowing what that collective desire papered over.
posted by CrystalDave at 11:29 AM on December 21, 2018 [9 favorites]

Yeah, I actually couldn't listen to the whole thing: it's just too painful.
posted by suelac at 11:42 AM on December 21, 2018

I wasn't expecting to cry, but I did. That had to be a dream for Lin-Manuel Miranda. What a perfect way to end the Hamildrops.

(The biblical "vine and fig tree" line makes me smile every time. Someday I'll be able to sit under my own vine and me tree...)
posted by Fig at 12:54 PM on December 21, 2018 [11 favorites]

It made me cry too. I remember listening to the cast recording version of this song on the last day of his presidency and just breaking down. It's so nice to hear Obama say the words now.

I listened to that recording (for the umpteenth time) immediately before I went to go vote in 2016. I'm not sure why I cried - I had no real reason to think then that we'd be where we are today. But cry I did. I think about that a lot.
posted by eirias at 4:52 PM on December 21, 2018 [1 favorite]

Heard Obama's voice and instantly burst into tears.
posted by sarcasticah at 12:26 PM on December 22, 2018

I bawled, then passed the box of tissues to my husband because he was too. Oof.
posted by _Mona_ at 8:55 PM on December 22, 2018

obama is the ex that's doing way better than you, just living their best life with a new gym body and cooler friends

Can also apply to Mrs. O. -- did you catch her in those thigh-high Balenciaga boots?
posted by Iris Gambol at 9:11 PM on December 22, 2018 [1 favorite]