When The Chips Are Down From Hadestown Is SUCH A Peter Nureyev Song.

“When the Chips are Down” from Hadestown is SUCH a Peter Nureyev song.

While I’m gonna make a separate post linking and also ranting about my Spotify playlist (cause I really like some of my choices lol) — I wanted to rant real quick about this one.

The Fates (for those who don’t know/haven’t listened to Hadestown I shall explain) are played by 3 women who sing (for the most part) in unison, and with harmonies and acapellas. In the context of Nureyev here; this *totally* reminds me of The Executives (or whatever they’re called), all being regarded as, ‘My Associate’ as well as having the same voice and speaking the same way. In “When the Chips are Down”, they’re talking to Eurydice (who is Nureyev in this ex.)

While the whole song gives me vibes, this section gets me quite a lot:

“[FATES]

Life ain’t easy

Life ain’t fair

A girl’s gotta fight for her rightful share

Whatcha gonna do when the Chips are Down Now that the Chips are down (x2)

Help yourself

To hell with the rest

Even the one who loves you best.

Whatcha gonna do when the Chips are Down Now that the Chips are Down (x2)

[EURYDICE]

Oh my aching heart. “

The parts that I put in italics remind me of the S3 finale (Juno Steel: What Lies Beyond Prt. 1-3) specially (for obvious reasons for the ones who knows SPOILERS HERE FOR THOSE WHO DONT) — considering Nureyev had been stressing out, brought down, and feeling cornered by his debt (“help yourself”), leading him to (which was his plan from the start) leave everyone on the Carte Blanche (“to hell with the rest”), including Juno (“even the one who loves you best”). He even references in his journal that while he wanted to be beside Juno while he read it, he knows deep down that he won’t be.

The rest of the song matches as well, having parts including “shooting to kill” before the other person can, and knives in the back. For these reasons the song itself honestly just clicks SO well in my head, thanks for coming to my TED Talk lmao — like I said, linking playlist with other song “matches” later on lol, but this one required a bit more than a little description on my part.

TLDR: the Fates represent The Executives, and Eurydice represents Nureyev. Linked by my brain due to lines matching plot points (S3 especially).

I say this about every Hozier song, but genuinely, Talk is so Nureyev coded

like, "I'd be the last shred of truth in the lost myth of true love" and "I'd be the sweet feeling of release mankind now dreams of"????

and don't get me STARTED on "so I'll try to talk refined for fear that you find out how I'm imaginin' you" because WHAAAATTTT

my man is rizzing up Walter White, Sherlock Holmes, bazillionaires, and old men, he's got a whole PORTFOLIO under his belt because his words are pretty and his face is too

The situation in the Amazônia right now is so fucking dire... my cousin's boyfriend developed a breathing infection on Thursday. He died this morning. The town my grandma is working in has been in a state of emergency since Wednesday due to the fires. People cannot leave their homes without a mask on. They have been experiencing ashfall every single day. The rivers are so dry that boats can't travel anymore (and boats are the main form of transportation in the Amazônia), and the region has barely had any rain in the past month. There hasn't been any rain in the rainforest.

Juno Steel and the Things We Buried [get it here!]

I think there's a kind of fear that always comes with being in love. When letting someone else hold so much of you all at once. They could let you fall at any second if they wanted to. So how the hell do you get over that fear? Trust that they won't let you go, that they will hold you up, the same way that you hold them? And then I thought about a hotel on Mars a long time ago. A place where, to be honest, I let Nureyev fall. No wonder he was scared, no wonder I was too. But how the hell are we supposed to get past that?

this is my Roman Empire

I'll never stop thinking about it

Me: Sasha James would totally take Sasha Wire in a fight.

Friend: Didn’t Sasha James die in S1?

Me: She’d still win.

Friend: Isn’t Sasha Wire alive and from the future?

Me: Sasha James still wins.

Friend: How —

Me: Because she’s SASHA JAMES—

Edit:

(…this is a joke, Sasha J, honey I love you so so much but Director W would kill you — )