Picking up from yesterday –
[And again, noting: spoiler alert both on The Good Place, and on our presentation. If you wanna just watch the video without all the spoilers, you can see it here.]
As you can tell, we landed on our 4 songs (which you may have seen if you watched the video).
- What Is Ethical
- Don’t Let Me Die
- What A Dweeb, Right?
- I Wanted To Stay
So, picking the order:
We thought “I Wanted To Stay” was our very best song. So, we decided to have that be the closer. Let people have the last taste in their mouths be the best we got.
And then, we thought “What Is Ethical?” was potentially our 2nd strongest, though “What a Dweeb, Right?” was hotly in contention.
Because of having some sense of story building, with “What is Ethical” being an early song in the ‘show’ [I feel like Janet, “not a real girl,” – not a real show, just a pretend show IF we were to make it a full-length musical, how we’d envision it.]
But “What is Ethical” comes toward the top of the sitcom, at least. It’s a strong start. It has two of our main characters. It’s really in the very specific world of the show.
Actually… maybe that’s also why “Don’t Let Me Die” doesn’t resonate quite as much with me – the first and last songs are SO specific to the characters. And this kind of feels like just musicalizing a moment as opposed to something so wildly specific to Janet/the world. (I know the button is specific to the world, but hopefully you get what I’m saying.)
Anyway… so we did that. And then we went back and forth on what should be the 2nd and 3rd song. And we decided to put our least favorite of the bunch in the unlucky #2 spot.
Open well. Have a little dip, then a strong/good song, then your fabulous closer, and hopefully any weaknesses in the 2nd song are forgotten about.
(Again, in a perfect world, we would’ve had no song we were kinda trying to hide, but overall, I think we did well in the program. I loved writing The Good Place songs with Ben. And I’m happy we picked what the moderators liked, as those are the opinions that ultimately matter most, as we were trying to get into advanced [which we did!].)
I this is where we’ll pick up tomorrow!