has a host of celeb superfans, from Oprah, to Barack Obama, to Harry and Meghan. There has been many a think-piece about why it's so popular - and there's probably 100 reasons. But one is, of course, the just absolutely incredible song-crafting skills., is that they cover a whole life's worth of human emotions and issues. Ok, we've never fought a war for independence or for power in US politics, but somehow there's so much in the lyrics that is relatable.
And with us all having a lot of FEELINGS right now, we realised the Hamilton soundtrack had a song for every mood and moment in lockdown.Alexander Hamilton went from poverty to becoming an American Founding Father and this is all about him being hungry for action. If he can manage that, you can manage week 3 of Couch 2 5k.Burn
If you’re ready to scream your lungs out in fury, it doesn’t get much better than Burn. Firstly, the lyrics are like, so, like, made for you, yknow? ‘I’m re-reading the letters you wrote to me, I’m searching and scanning for answers in every line, for some kind of sign, of when you were mine.’ Yes! Feel it! Sure, Elizabeth Hamilton is singing about her husband writing a public letter outing the fact he had an affair to a whole nation, but pain is pain. And you get to end singing THIS LINE: ‘I hope that you… BUUUUUUUUURN!’‘WORK WORK!’ This is the perfect we are OUT OUT LADIES song.
If you’re really cool, when you’re getting ready, you could Facetime each other and sing this at each other, but ADDING IN YOUR OWN NAMES. We’ve not been out for a while, ok?Locking eyes with the first possible sexual partner you’ve seen since MarchWe’ve spent years building up our defences against the patriarchy – specifically f***boys. But it’s been A WHILE. So we might, find ourselves a bit helpless ourselves when we finally have a ‘lock eyes moment’ with someone who is NOT in a Supermarket.