3.20, “We Were Here” - Born This WayThis still feels a little bit like a fever dream.I remember when

3.20, “We Were Here” - Born This WayThis still feels a little bit like a fever dream.I remember when we were getting promos and pictures and such of the finale before it aired and we saw the characters singing and we were all speculating about what the song would be.Wouldn’t it be cool if they sang the theme song? Or “Lemon Boy”?I kept thinking, what are they going to do here? No offense to the cheap songs they buy from the production music places – some of them are great – but I was like, are they actually going to use a real song for the first time in the show’s history? Or are they just going to sing a production music song and everyone pretends like it’s a song they all know? Or sing a public domain song? Or an original song?What I was absolutely not ready for was “slow piano intro to ‘Born This Way’.“I just want to talk my way through how crazy and amazing this whole thing is.Let’s try it like this.Let’s say I came from the future to visit you, the reader, in the past, when early season two was airing, and I said, “So, for the big finale in season three, they’re going to do a huge musical number at a house party.”You might go, “Cool. What song are they going to sing?”And I would say, “Born This Way.”And you would say, “The Lady Gaga song? One of the biggest, gayest pop anthems of the last 10 years?”And I would say, “Yeah. That’s the one. They’re somehow going to pay for the rights to sing one of the biggest, gayest pop anthems of the last 10 years. Now, one character is going to start the song off, playing it on the piano. Can you guess which character that will be?”And you, early season two Andi Mack viewer, how many guesses would it take you before you picked this guy:Dozens? Everyone in the GHC? Jonah? Everyone in the Mack family? Marty? Gus? Iris? Brittany? Dr. Metcalf? Aunt Mei? You probably would’ve invented characters before you settled on mean basketball captain TJ playing the piano intro to “Born This Way” in the finale!So I tell you it’s mean basketball captain TJ playing “Born This Way” on the piano and after some convincing that I’m actually from the future, you believe me.“Okay,” you say. “So it’s some kind of rehearsed performance?”“No, I don’t think so,” I say. “The party is kind of short notice anyway. I think TJ just gets on stage with his piano and starts playing this super gay song about accepting yourself by heart to make a statement. Like, I think it means something to him and I honestly don’t know if there is more to the plan than just, ‘I want to play this song for the whole party.’““So does he just play the song on the piano?”“Oh no,” I say, “People join in. They have microphones, from God knows where. First person to start singing is Cyrus.”“Cyrus?”“I don’t want to give too much away, but he’s the only choice for who would first join in the song with TJ.”“Huh.”“And let me tell you, TJ is so over the moon to see Cyrus join him in the song.”“Huh.”“Okay, so they start off the song, and guess who joins next.”And we go through the thing again where you guess most of the cast before we finally get to:Mean girl Amber!And you’re like, “What?”And I’m like, “Yeah! It’s a very long and winding story but she is friends with everyone now, especially Andi, so of course she would be at the party. And then TJ tries to call Jonah or Bowie on stage to play guitar on the song.”“Oh, does Jonah play guitar?” you ask.“Yeah, he masters it in like a day and a half, but don’t worry about that,” I say. “Because neither one gets on stage with a guitar. Bex does.”“Oh, does Bex play guitar?” you ask.And I go, “I don’t know! We’ve never been given any indication she does. But she gets on stage and starts shredding! And then Andi and Jonah get on stage and start singing together.”“Oh, so they’re together?”“Ehhh, hold off on that. And then Buffy gets on stage and starts singing and looking at Marty on the sidelines, and Marty is off on the sidelines, singing and looking back at her.”“Oh, so those two are still together? They must get together at some point in season two, right?”“Ehhh, hold off on that. Just know that it’s like, a great stroke of luck in scheduling that Marty’s around in the first place.”“Huh.”“Then Cyrus joins TJ on stage behind the piano and they’re rocking out together. They’re like on top of each other, singing a duet.”“You’re really painting them as having grown very close.”“Don’t get ahead of me!”“Sorry.”“So, the party is bouncing and everyone’s singing and it’s just so joyous. Everyone’s having the time of their life and you just can feel it. It puts a smile on your face.”“Sounds wild.”“It is. It’s such a great song choice for the show and it’s so unexpected and unbelievable, you’re just thankful that somehow, someway they were able to make this whole thing work. You never would’ve guessed coming in it was going to go this way, and now you look back, you go, ‘Of course it had to go this way. It couldn’t have been any other way. It’s perfect.’”“That’s really cool,” you say. “Hey, can I get some lottery numbers before you go?”And I say, “I didn’t memorize lottery numbers.” And then I disappear back into the future. -- source link

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