SASS LEVELS OFF THE CHART!! | Don't Lose Ur Head - Six The Musical | First Time Reaction/Analysis
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Intro: (0:00)
Anne Boleyn Introduction - Reaction: (4:06)
Don’t Lose Ur Head - Reaction/Analysis: (6:30)
Wearing Yellow to a Funeral - Reaction: (21:45)
Final Thoughts: (24:02)
Anne Boleyn intro transcript:
[JANE SEYMOUR]
The one you've been waiting for
[ARAGON, CLEVES, HOWARD AND PARR]
The one you've been waiting for
[KATHERINE HOWARD]
The mystery
[ANNA OF CLEVES]
The one who changed history
[ARAGON, SEYMOUR, HOWARD AND PARR]
History
[ANNA OF CLEVES]
The one who changed history, mystery
[ARAGON, SEYMOUR, HOWARD AND PARR]
The temptress
[CATHERINE OF ARAGON]
The one with the plan
The plan to steal the man
[ARAGON, SEYMOUR, CLEVES, HOWARD AND PARR]
Anne!
[CATHERINE PARR]
The one who chased the king
[JANE SEYMOUR]
But paid the price with the swordsman's swing
[ARAGON, SEYMOUR, CLEVES, HOWARD AND PARR]
Will she be the one to win?
Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn
[ANNE BOLEYN, spoken]
What? Oh, sorry!
Don't Lose Ur Head lyrics:
Grew up in the French Court
Oui, oui, bonjour
Life was a chore so (she set sail)
1522 came straight to the UK
All the British dudes, lame
Epic fail
Ooh, I wanna dance and sing
Politics, not my thing
Ooh, but then I met the King
And soon my daddy said, "You should try and get ahead"
He wanted me, huh, obviously
Messaging me like everyday
Couldn't be better, then he sent me a letter and who am I kidding
I was prêt-à-manger
Ooh, sent a reply
Ooh, just saying hi
Ooh, you're a nice guy
I'll think about it maybe, xo baby
(Uh oh)
Here we go
(You sent him kisses)
I didn't know I would move in with his missus
(What?)
Get a life
You're living with his wife?
Like, what was I meant to do?
Sorry, not sorry 'bout what I said
I'm just tryna have some fun
Don't worry, don't worry, don't lose your head
I didn't mean to hurt anyone
LOL, say oh well
Or go to hell
I'm sorry, not sorry 'bout what I said
Don't lose your head
Three in the bed and the little one said
If you wanna be wed, make up your mind
Her or me, chum
Don't wanna be some
Girl in a threesome
Are you blind?
Ooh, don't be bitter
Ooh, 'cause I'm fitter
Ooh, why hasn't it hit her?
He doesn't want to bang you
Somebody hang you
(Uh-oh)
Here we go
Your comment went viral
I didn't really mean it but rumors spiral
Wow Anne, way to make the country hate you
Mate, what was I meant to do?
Sorry, not sorry 'bout what I said
I'm just tryna have some fun
Don't worry, don't worry, don't lose your head
I didn't mean to hurt anyone
LOL, say oh well
Or go to hell
I'm sorry, not sorry 'bout what I said
Don't lose your head
Tried to elope
But the pope said nope
Our only hope was Henry
He got a promotion
Caused a commotion
Set in motion the C of E
The rules were so outdated
Us two wanted to get x-rated
Soon, ex-communicated
Everybody chill, its totes God's will
Henry's out every night on the town
Just sleeping around, like what the hell?
If that's how it's gonna be
Maybe I'll flirt with a guy or three
Just to make him jell
Henry finds out and he goes mental
He screams and shouts
Like so judgmental
You damned witch
Mate, just shut up
I wouldn't be such a b-
If you could get it up
(Uh-oh)
Here we go
(Is that what you said?)
And now he's going 'round like off with her head
(No)
Yeah, I'm pretty sure he means it
(Seems it)
What was I meant to do?
(What was she meant to do?)
Like what was I meant to do?
(What was she meant to do?)
No, but what was I meant to do?
Sorry, not sorry 'bout what I said
I'm just tryna have some fun
Don't worry, don't worry, don't lose your head
I didn't mean to hurt anyone
LOL, say oh well
Or go to hell (just go to hell)
Sorry, not sorry 'bout what I said
Sorry, not sorry 'bout what she said
Sorry, not sorry 'bout what I said
Don't lose your head
Wearing Yellow to a Funeral transcript:
Boleyn: What a weekend. I'm literally like, dead.
Howard: Wait, um, didn't you actually die?
Boleyn: Yeah, it was SO extra. Anyway, yeah, now I'm obvs the winner so I think I'll do another solo. So, my next song is the one I wrote about the moment I found out Catherine of Aragon had tragically died. It's called "Wearing Yellow to a Funeral." Please sing along if you know the words.
Boleyn (singing): Catherine was a maSSIVE--
Other Queens: NOOOOO!!!
Cleves: Who decided you were the winner?
Parr: She wants another turn.
Aragon: HA! Over my dead body!
Seymour: Yeah, anyway-- I'm pretty sure it's my go next...
Anne Boleyn was incredibly smart and actually interested in politics, despite what the song may want you to think. (Writers of the show admitted before that they kinda regret leaning into stereotypical version of how she's usually portrayed, tho tbh the song slaps)
Even during her life there were a lot of rumors circling around her, mostly from people who loved Catherine and refused to accept Anne as the new queen. Rumors include: her being a witch, her having a 6th finger and other kinds of deformities on her body, giving birth to a deformed fetus and so on.
Anne actually did have a boy, but she miscarried him at 15 weeks, and interestingly, on the same day Catherine of Aragon was buried. (thus no, she didn't wear yellow to a funeral, that was spread by her haters after she was executed)
She was accused of adultery with 5 men, including her own brother, and executed at the Tower of London along with the men and one of her ladies in waiting, who was accused of helping her with secret meetings.
Most historians think that the charges were made up bc Henry wanted to move onto next woman, bc Anne couldn't produce a boy to succeed the line. Ironically enough, it's her only surviving daughter, Elizabeth I that went on to rule for decades and ended the Tudor line by refusing to marry and bear children.
Didn't she also not want to marry Henry? But went with it cause her dad said so and pretty much pushed her into his path?
@@AadenKDragon that's basically how it was for all of them. But women at the time had only 1 purpose and no choice in the matter.
It is said that Anne refused to sleep with him unless they were married, which caused the whole CA divorce - Church of England thing. So maybe she thought she could turn down his advances that way? We'll never know
@@AadenKDragon there is a documental that even uses her own bible and what she wrote on it to show us that she had the idea about the separation with the catholic church, she was religious and gave Henry the idea that Catherin could not give him a male heir because she was supposed to be his older brother's wife and the bible siad you can not marry the wife of your brother so it should have being enought justification to have another wife, but Catherin's family was well conecte with the church, that is why she was chosen to be Queen, so they did not supported Anne as the next wife, Anne convinced Henry that it was about the church using their power against him and not God not allowing them to get married so he would create his own church.
It is pretty good and show us how capable Anne was, how her and Henry really had a relationship since she became a misstress and their love was what made them decide that no baby born of their unión deserved to be a bastarda, and how she had terrible look later, specially after Henry had that accident that changed him completly
Yeah Elizabeth didn’t get married from her trauma of dealing with all her father’s wives and their ends. (As well as dealing with predators herself when she was young.)
Wasn't there also the fact (or I think it is rumoured but not a fact) that she was given the choice between being beheaded and giving Elizabeth the chance of accessing the throne or living and therefore NOT giving Elizabeth the chance?
So fun fact! Anne is very immature because its thought that she was anywhere between 15 and 21(i think) when she met Henry! So, she acts like a petulant teen because its likely that she WAS one, and wouldnt understand the intricacies of what she was getting into with the 31 year old king
Despite that, apparently she was actually really smart, as another comment explains
@@47ratsinahoodie Oh I dont disagree with that! I meant more for her portrayal in the musical. Since she definitely feels more like a teen to very young adult
@@47ratsinahoodieI feel it’s more of intelligence vs emotional wisdom going on here
@@47ratsinahoodie Henry had a type. He preferred educated women who could advise him. One of the reasons he felt unsatisfied with Anne of Cleves was the large education gap between her and his exes.
To be fair, 15 years old was considered adult age back then. Remember most people didn’t make to their 50s back at that time.
Non-family friendly warning for this comment
In the actual performance, when Anne is repeating "What was I meant to do?" in the final pre-chorus, she actually stops the song to say "NO WAIT I ACTUALLY THINK HE'S SERIOUSLY GOING TO CUT MY HEAD OFF... I guess he just... really liked my head-" And does a... particular motion with her hand and mouth to drive the point home
I was waiting for that part but I guess it’s not on the studio versions
I love her LMAO
That part is only in the broadway version this is the uk version
@@xxhot_chocox6389it definitely happened in the uk even before it hit west end, I've watched it. It's just not in the cast recording
@@QuikVidGuyThe Broadway recording is live from opening night, hence why the line is kept in. They cut it for the West End studio recording.
I don't have as much facts for Anne boleyn as i would like to BUT here IS a few that are interesting. Surprisingly, ALL of the queens are intertwined with eachother, either by blood line or other circustances (This isn't mentioned on the musical at any point so i might as well tell you)
You already know how Catherine Of A. and Anne B. shared time in the castle, but funilly enough, Jane S. spend time with them there aswell as she was a lady in waiting during both of their times as queens, and it's said that Henry cheated on Anne with Jane before her beheading. While A. Of Cleves didn't had the role of queen for to long, she had K. Howard as one of her ladies in waiting who, TURNS OUT, was Anne Boleyn's cousin (The Six fandom calls them the beheaded cousins) last but not least, even tho C. Parr didn't get to meet any of the others in person, C. Of Aragon was her god-mother, as Parr's mom used to be one of Aragon's ladies in waiting, and decided to name Parr after her.
It's just so surprising that, one ways or another, all the queens were conected to one another more than just being one of Henry's wives👑
Jane Seymour is Howard's and Boleyn's second cousin, too.
And Henry VIII was also Jane's fifth cousin.
A fun fact about Catherine of Aragon: she was a descendant of the house of Lancaster, and the third cousin of Henry VII.
Henry VII had his claim to the throne through the Beaufort line of the House of Lancaster. The problem with this is that, initially, the Beaufort line was illegitimate. When John of Gaunt (son of Edward III) married his mistress Katherine Swynford, he legitimised the Beaufort line by royal and papal decree. But there was a caveat: the Beaufort line could never inherit the crown of England.
Technically, Catherine of Aragon’s line of descent did not go through the Beaufort line. Therefore her claim through her Lancanstrian ancestors could be argued to be stronger.
A fun fact about Jane Seymour: she followed Catherine of Aragon when she was exiled.
Being a fervent Catholic, she refused to acknowledge Anne Boleyn as the new queen.
Additionally, the person Parr writes to later on is Jane Seymour's brother, so Jane and Parr become in laws years later
You had questions, and I hope you don't mind me providing some answers.
This version of Anne captures her charisma and confidence really well, but as so many people in the comments have said she was an incredibly intelligent woman. She kept Henry at bay for seven years from when he first showed interest in her, her sister Mary had already been picked up and discarded by him and she was not going to let the same thing happen to her. She wanted a ring on her finger, or else nothing. Henry wasn't used to being refused and it just made him more and more desperate to have her. Eventually they did end up sleeping together before they were married, Anne was pregnant when she was crowned Queen, but it's commonly believed that she only allowed it once she could see her way clear to the throne.
She was a big supporter of the Reformation, the European movement away from Roman Catholic worship, and she supposedly owned many banned books about religion which she could have got into serious trouble for. People who supported the Reformation believed that holy scripture should be allowed to be translated into other languages besides Latin so that everyone could understand the Bible, because the general population of peasants who hadn't been educated in Latin only had the priest's word for what the Bible said. She managed to interest Henry in the books, which apparently helped when he broke from the Roman Catholic church and set up the Church of England. Yes, he genuinely did set up his own religion to divorce Catherine and marry Anne. It made his later divorce from Anne of Cleves so much easier.
In the end the main thing that proved to be Anne's downfall was that she didn't give Henry a son. She had one daughter and multiple miscarriages, and Henry got bored very quickly. They weren't the most harmonious of couples, both had hot tempers and arguments became more and more frequent especially when Henry was caught flirting with other women. The charges of adultery Henry used to condemn her were almost certainly trumped up; he even accused her of sleeping with her own brother. Most historians believe that he was just using any and every method he could to ensure that he could get rid of her. By this time he'd noticed Jane Seymour among Anne's ladies in waiting and wanted her instead, exactly in the same way he'd first noticed Anne when she was lady-in-waiting to Catherine. In a small act of mercy he arranged for a French swordsman to behead Anne rather than have her suffer through beheading by axe, which wasn't always completed in one go and thus could be a much more brutal method. Anne's head was taken off in one go, and there's a famous story that her lips were seen to still be moving in prayer after she was beheaded.
To help with "Wearing Yellow to a Funeral", yellow was the colour of mourning in Spain and after the announcement of Catherine's death Henry and Anne dressed in yellow and celebrated. Yellow was obviously not a mourning colour in England, so it was basically a smack in the face to Catherine's memory.
Just a heads up ( no pun) don’t take all the lyrics literally. Henry did not have a threesome situation with Katherine and Anne. He begged Anne to be his mistress but she said she would be his wife and nothing else which Henry found very attractive.
Anne was allegedly heard making fun of Henry’s manhood, she didn’t actually say it to his face!
In her life while innocent of the charges against her, Anne played a game and lost 😞
Basically, Henry was still unfaithful - these days, I think we would call it an emotional affair. He courted a different woman, so it's like if in modern day a married husband tried pursuing an affair with a different woman and only failed because she refused.
Ooh, I was hoping you’d choose this animatic to watch! It’s one of my favorites - the art style is so freaking cute
Same
Agreed.favorite song and this animatic brings out so much of the character
I love how petty Anne seems,but the expression shows she only tried to get power due to her dad asking for status.she never wanted Catherine to hate her
Same 😍
I always experience a bittersweet feeling when it comes to this song, that is because I think it captures the twisted and tragic irony of Anne's story and memory; It's my favorite out of the whole musical and Anne is also my favorite character, yet it's so tragic how, despite the many years which have gone by, her image has been twisted and shaped based on the false rumors Henry spread to make himself look like the victim of the situation.
In actuality, she repeatedly rejected him during the time in which he was sending her letters, being that she was already in love with another man. She literally rejected him and, in response to one of his letters wrote: "Your wife I shall not be, both in respect of mine own unworthiness, and also because you have a queen already. Your mistress I will not be". Though of course, Henry was a king, and the Boleyn's would've never turned down an opportunity like this considering how desperate Henry was to have Anne. Sooo...well, she didn't have much of a choice and played the game she had to. On the day of her coronation she was mocked and seen as a snake, immediately gaining the people's displease considering how highly they thought of queen Catherine at the time. Catherine herself didn't even resent her, she even stated that people would one day "lament her (Anne's) case". Despite the initial obstacles though Anne still tried her hardest to fulfill the traditional role of a queen at the best of her capabilities: she gave alms to the poor, provided for widows, favored investments in the arts and scolarships, even went as far as to sew shirts and smocks for the needy. Though, the public still hated her, viewing her as an heretic and an adultress. Still, in all of this, Henry, as always, was yearning for a male heir, something which Anne unfortunately also failed to provide, just like Catherine before her, giving birth to a healthy girl instead, Elizabeth I; added to that was the fact that she would've miscarried two other times after the birth of Elizabeth, thus making Henry start to question his decision to marry her, and of course, he went to look for "solutions" outside of marriage as always. The request for the annulment of Henry's marriage to Anne was denied, and things spiraled out of control and eventually Henry, supported and helped by the likes of Thomas Cromwell, the most notorious of Anne's allies, decided it was time to find an alternative way out. Subsequently, Cromwell made a move against her, presenting false and unfounded accusations of adultery, incest, and even plotting against the king himself. Needless to say Henry was waiting for nothing less than this, and was easily convinced by Cromwell's words, so declaring for Anne to be arrested and later beheaded. Anne declared her innocence up until the very end, though unfortunately for the woman, the court which was responsible for hosting her trial was composed of only men, enemies of hers nonetheless, who despised and disliked her for the same reasons mentioned earlier. She was arrested on May 2nd 1536 and held prisoner in the Tower of London, where, three years prior, she had awaited her coronation. On the eve of her execution, according to the Constable of the Tower, Anne joked “I heard say the executioner was very good, and I have a little neck”. Henry had granted her the ‘small mercy’ of dy1ng at the hands of a skilled swordsman rather than an executioner’s axe. The execution of a queen for treason was an unprecedented event, and Henry and Cromwell ensured that it was carefully stage managed within the walls of the Tower, rather than at the public execution sites outside. Finally, On 19 May 1536, Anne was beheaded on Tower Green. Her final reported words were uncontroversial, “I am come hither to d1e, for according to the law and by the law I am judged to d1e, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I pray God save the King, for a gentler nor a more merciful prince was there never.”, words most likely born from Anne's consideration for the safety of her infant daughter Elizabeth. Henry then went on to marry Jane Seymour, a mere 11 days after Anne's d34th. She was a victim of her time unfortunately, and as Catherine of Aragon predicted, people are still lamenting her tale to this day
Wow! I had not known a lot of this stuff. This is so fascinating!😃
And then after her death she was there for some time because there were no arrangements made, but in the end her ladies in waiting were worried and had to handle her body themselves. They feared, like is the case with many famous women, that she would be mistreated in death.
"The head and body were taken up by the ladies, whom you would have thought bereft of their souls, so languid and weak were they with anguish, but, fearing that their mistress might be handled unworthily by inhuman men, they forced themselves to do this duty,"
Great comment. The song is catchy, but I think it misrepresents Anne as she wanted to be queen to reform the church and help the poor. She didn't do it for selfish reasons like the song suggests. She was a very intelligent and outspoken woman. I love learning about her.
interesting, im always seeing different interpretations of her time, this is probably the most detailed one ive come across, thanks for the history lesson
Hey hey! I know there weren’t any captions but I can transcribe what was said in the outro:
Anne: *after “Don’t Loose Ur Head” ends* “What a weekend! I’m literally like dead.”
Kate H: “Wait- but didn’t you actually die?”
Anne: “Yeah it was SO EXTRA! XD”
Anne: “Anyway, yeah I’m now like obs the winner, so I think this calls for another solo! So my next song is one I wrote about the moment I found out Catherine of Argon had tragically died! It’s called ‘Wearing Yellow to a Funeral’ sing along if you know the words”
Anne: *singing* “Catherine was a MASSIVE WH-“ *cue Catherine lunging at Anne stopping the song.*
Anna of Cleves: “Who’d said that you’re the winner?!”
Cate Parr: “She wants another turn?!”
Catherine of Aragon: “OVER MY DEAD BODY!”
Jane Seymour: “Yeah anyway, pretty sure it’s my go next.”
Hope that helped. ^ - ^
Thank You so much!!
On behaff of all us comment readers: Thank you
In the broadway version she goes “Massive cu-“ (if you know the word then cool) but I didn’t realize the other one said something different-
God you’re a life saver thaNK YOU
@@zephyr_winds5718 See I also have seen the version where she says the other word and always thought that was from the West End since here in the States most folks really don’t like that word but 🤷🏽♀️. Multiple shows, multiple endings and scripts reads. 😅
Fun fact related to Anne Boleyn: her sister is actually one of Princess Diana's ancestors. I thought it was very fitting when I found out lol.
I can tell with prince harry lol.
Of all the queens in Six, I feel like Anne Boleyn's song is the least historically accurate. She was actually both smart and politically minded. Henry had previously taken her sister Mary as a mistress, and then tossed Mary over, leaving her disgraced and with nothing to show for it. So when Henry took an interest in Anne, she put him off, insisting she would only sleep with him if he married her, hoping to have the protection of marriage to avoid being treated like her sister. (Keep in mind that you couldn't really say outright no to a king in that time, at least not without incredible risk. Also, yes, ironically, she might have survived if she hadn't held out for marriage.)
Henry was both desperate for a son and incredibly horny for Anne, so he tried to get his marriage to Catherine of Aragon (who was past childbearing age now) annulled, but the Pope refused (for a variety of reasons, some political). After multiple years of machinations, Henry broke from the Catholic Church to establish the Church of England with himself as the head specifically so that he could declare his marriage to Catherine invalid and marry Anne.
However, after Anne had had several miscarriages and still births--whose only surviving child was a girl (the future Elizabeth I)--things rapidly deteriorated between her and Henry. When Elizabeth was just 2, Anne was convicted of treason in the form of adultery and sentenced to death. To my understanding, most historians believe that the charges were false, contrived with a view of getting her out of the way.
Anne Boleyn's costuming and vocals were modeled on Miley Cyrus, Avril Lavigne and Lily Allen. The green is for the apocryphal story that Henry VIII wrote "Greensleeves" for AB.
This was written by Toby Marlow & Lucy Moss, students at Cambridge University and members of the Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society. In 2016, Marlow was chosen to write the society's annual entry to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2017.
KH was the cousin of AB. You will find that there were lessons about life in court that KH needed to have learned from AB's experiences & fate.
EDIT: the entire history that is portrayed through the entire musical is fascinating, but it isn't family friendly. Henry wasn't a good person, and he discarded women like used handkerchiefs. Yes, Henry created the Church of England and separated from the Roman Catholic Church because he needed quickly to marry his pregnant mistress. When it came time to relieve himself of AB and move on to JS, he had the decency to import a swordsman from France, so that AB wouldn't be executed by an axman. It meant that she was killed quickly, rather than requiring multiple strikes from an ax and dying in immense pain.
Your facial expressions through all of this are classic.
Anne Boleyn was extreamly well eduucated , she grew up in two sophisticated european courts, so very different from other woman of her status. She was supposed to marry someone else until Henry had that broken up so he could have Anne. Anne didnt want to be his side piece, she had seen what happened to those women. One of Henry's mistresses was actually Anne's older sister Mary. I believe that Anne decided if she had to be with Henry then she wasn't going to settle for being 2nd best she was going to be number 1
(England is part of Europe. I get what you mean and stuff, but England is and was absolutely part of Europe.)
If i remember correctly, Ann was Given a Choice.
One where she could stay alive, but her Daughter would lose her Position as a Princess and the Right to the Throne.
17:33 Fun fact: Anne refused to sleep with Henry until he got divorced to Cathrine of Aragon. She only flirted with him.
One other thing I noticed others didn’t comment on was for her execution she remained dignified. Unfortunately most of the time Anne is shown balling her eyes out or in this animatic she was running away. But really she held her head high like a real queen. 👍🏻
Historical inaccuracies aside, Watching you have a near heart attack over some of these lines has left me laughing so hard I can't breath 😂
This song is straight up tea spilling for like five minutes
Anna of Cleves is having the best time during the entire show
I could add to that, but it would be giving away spoilers for the entire show.
By the way something that a lot of English speakers miss is that Anne sings "I was prêt-à-manger" when she gets her letter from the king and that translates to "I was ready to eat"
The fame part is that first Henry's desire to marry her required Catherine to annul the marriage or she had to die under the Catholic Church. So he just made the same religion that allows divorce. And then also, while not the next ruler of England, her daughter becomes Queen for a very long time.
But next song is the most traditional ballad.
You may not see this but Haus of Holbein and Get Down kind of go together as a solid chapter. At least to know you are in Germany for parts of it.
As far as i remember, Anne refused to sleep with Henry until he had divorced Katherine and married her, which is fun!
Regarding captions, I 100% agree, and it makes me HATE the removal of that community captions feature even more. All it needed was a feature where the uploader could approve or deny the captions before they're put on the video. Videos were able to have captions in dozens of languages, share jokes among the community, and most importantly of all, allow you to understand what's being said XD I put captions on just one of my videos in just one language and it was the most tedious thing ever. As much as I want us to, I can understand why others wouldn't do it, especially if like me, they're not doing UA-cam professionally and have school or work to spend time on.
SO much love and support for the caption soapboxing! As someone who has auditory processing issues, it means a lot for someone who has such a big following (and is presumably more ablebodied?) to campaign for something like this. Thank you!
Fun fact: Remember in No Way when Catherine of Aragon said "You've had one son with someone who don't own a wedding ring"? Henry VIII was cheating on Catherine with multiple women including Anne Boleyn AND... her sister Mary Boleyn (who was married to a different man at the time)! It's commonly believed Henry VIII fathered Mary Boleyn's son (also named Henry).
I think that line refers to Henry FitzRoy, the only illegitimate child Henry claimed as his own. He fathered him with his mistress Elizabeth Blount.
It was written as a comedy set by a group of Uni students for the Edingbrough fringe festival.
That's why it was originally It's was 1 hour long and then got extended with the megasix, as fringe shows have a 1-hour limit.
The TLDR of Anne Boleyn is basically become Henry's mistress, he creates the CoE so he can remarry & the whole country hates her for so rumours spread until Henry's convinced to behead her
Anne was a lady in waiting to the french queen. Then she became a lady in waiting to catherine of aragon. When anne and henry got married, she was not well liked by the people who supported catherine. Anne didn't want to become Henry's mistress because if she got pregnant, she didn't have a husband to pass the kid off as his, and it would hurt her marriage prospects by have them being nonexistent.
Watching him squirm during Don’t Lose your Head makes me super excited for All you Wanna Do
When you get to All You Wanna Do, please watch the live version. The animatics use a different version that doesn't really show the destabilizing of K Howard throughout her life
This one is also my fave for the songs in SIX. And, in animatic makers' defense: I don't think they have any more access to the captions for what they're saying than any of us do
Hey so I definitely understand wanting to make the world more accessible and adding captions is a big part of that! But at the same time, these animatics are often passion projects that take a really long time and are done totally free, so that can be a big ask for someone who puts these together in their spare time!
I am so excited! I love don't lose your head!
ME TOO!
I really can't wait, Don't Lose Your Head is probably my favourite song from Six and you're one of my favourite reaction channels Mortius! I love how you talk about not just the lyrics or instrumentals, but a mix of both and you really seem to care about your audience! This'll be match made in heaven! Especially with the animatic you chose!
I really hope you'll be reacting to all of Gigis Six animatics after discovering them with your Epic reactions! At least do Gigis animatic for "All You Wanna Do", Gigi depicts Kathrine Howard so well!
Also it's funny that for me, it actually ends up being "Musical Tuesday". But it's still a Musical Monday in spirit!
Also, while I agree about animatics needing more subtitles, its not exactly easy for artists either. I can only speak for myself, but I know for the times I managed to do a full length animatic, it tooks me weeks(or longer) to draw that out. By the time I'm ready to post something like that, I was ready to be done with it. I also have audio processing disorders(and I'm physically disabled, which doesnt makes the art process easier), so I understand being frustrated. If I'm unable to make something out and its from a media/musical, I look it up and hope theres a transcript.
For the section after Dont lose your head, there isnt one, so there isnt even a way to properly subtitle it unless the artist just knows 10000% whats being said
I think a better way to handle the subtitle is just for someone to ask the artist if theyre able to add subtitles, or ask if they'd be open to someone adding them for them. Its not always a possibility for the artist to, be that for time or physical reasons (Ive added subtitles for things, and even a minute of audio can take hours on hours to makes sure you get everything in order and timed right
I'm not upset at you, ofc!! I just think the artists need to be given some slack, since we're already providing these videos completely for free, taking weeks or months of our time without anything back other than knowing people might like it (which that isn't even a guarantee all the time). If theyre able to add subtitles thats awesome, and if theyre not then it sucks, but there could be reasons why they didnt
This is some really valuable insight and I agree. Captions are obviously ideal to have for accessibility and if at all possible they should be there. But I really think it’s important for everyone who watches these animatics (myself included) to keep in mind that these are fan videos usually made by one single person putting dozens if not hundreds of hours of work in. It’s their passion project, and usually not their job.
I think it’s amazing that these videos are the way that people get to experience theatre that cannot otherwise do so. However, it’s not fair to hold the *fans* who make them to a higher standard than the professionals who own the rights to produce, stage, and distribute recordings of the shows. Theatre is inaccessible because it is gatekept by them, not because of random internet videos. The reason the audio used here is bad enough to make the lack of captions especially noticeable is because it comes from an *illegal* recording of the show that fans have to use because no option to use a high quality legal one is available.
So yeah, artists should absolutely caption their fan videos if they can. It’s unfair that people who have hearing loss or auditory processing problems or any other issues with hearing cannot experience the videos in the same ways as people who don’t. Captioning the videos absolutely helps with that and is a great feature to add for that reason. But at the end of the day these are fan works by people usually making them for passion and their own enjoyment and graciously sharing their art with the rest of us. Complaining that they aren’t doing that to a high enough standard rubs me the wrong way.
Edits: minor spelling and rephrased a few things
@@anony-missy Absolutely agreed!! The reason I like hamilton so much is that every song leads into the next and anyone can ust listen to the soundtrack and understand the entire musical. I wish more musicals did that, or had tracks for the dialogue.
It sucks that theres no way to know what all of the dialogue says since its just from someones phone camera likely (which im still greatful for any illegal musical recording)
More musicals and plays in general really SHOULD have a high quality recording of their productions, since even in person one might not be able to understand what was said. Hopefully one day :((
@@Moth-Bells Yeah it’s way easier to figure out what’s going on in cast albums where basically the entire musical is sung through. It’s even nice when they at least include some bits of dialogue in the songs to help keep everyone listening oriented as to what’s happening in the story.
I also hope they start releasing more professionally recorded versions of plays and musicals. The fear seems to be that having a proshot means that no one will want to see it anymore. But I’d think the benefits of exposing a new audience to your show and creating future fans for potential revivals or even just amateur productions, as well as just bringing in ongoing revenue after the show closes seems like it would be worth it in the long run. Hopefully that becomes more standard in the future. Until then I’m also grateful for the recordings we have, both legal and illegal.
The "LOL, say oh well, or go to Hell" was based off one of one of Anne Boleyn's actual mottos. She was known to say “Let them grumble; that is how it is going to be”
Also! With the Queens and their styles, they all also have different unique hairstyles that might be easier to Recognize?
Catherine of Aragon has a short coily bob, Anne Bolelyn has the hair buns, Jane Seymor has long Blonde hair, Anna of Cleves her a short straight bob, Katherine Howard has a pony tail and Catherine Parr has a short Afro
Disclaimer! I love all of the cast - UK and Broadway:
I really recommend checking out both versions - Andrea Macasaet's vocals and mannerisms brought a similar but oddly distinct vibe to her performance. That's actually the case for many of the songs (which maybe should be obvious). But on your own time, definitely worth admiring approaches from both sides of the pond! Introduced me to a lot of cool new voices and performers ❤.
Perhaps I should do a little bit of my own back story before this comment... for years, I have participated in the arts, including musical theater (on stage, in the pit, musical directing, and directing) .. and, in addition, my day job is teaching music Pre-K throught 8th, band, chorus, and musicals. To say the least... I eat, sleep, and breathe this stuff.
Now, my comment... I SO agree with you! My feeling about general music is that I am not under the ridiculous assumption that every student I teach is going to go on to being this fantastic performer (or even a so so performer). No. I do understand, though music is very important, only a small handful of people that I teach will go on and have any type of musical performance in their future. But they will ALL end up experiencing music appreciation on practically daily basis. I think this musical goes to illustrate 3 of the most common aspects of music appreciation:
Popular Music
Live Music Performance (and)
Musicals (opera, stories, or lessons told/taught with the help of music)
The problem with the last 2 is that it's very expensive and it's not always available for people to partake of
Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard were first cousins, and both were the wives who were execute
I have a feeling Mortius is going to lose his head.
Is he going to even survive KH song? XD
@@JadePlayzSide Probably not
Mortius, I seriously suggest you check out gigi's animatics for Six, or at the very least for the next song: Heart of Stone. All of their Six animatics are unlisted, but gigi has a Playlist on their channel of their Six animatics that you can still watch! I really hope you choose gigi's for Heart of Stone because it is FANTASTIC.
Damn and I thought "All you wanna do" was intense, nothing could have prepared me for don't loose your head! Especially since I've heard a few snippets (not to spoil anything btw)
If you get the chance I highly recommend ‘don’t cry for your daughters Eve’ it’s by Lydia the bard and has an amazing animatic with lyrics, and also it made me cry
When he gets to "all you wanna do" I'd really like him going with the stage version because is just so much more emotion and heartbreak!!
Yeah I need him to watch the Sam Pauley version
I had been saying that all the way through so far, but realized that if he's willing to do other reactions on Patreon its kinda better in a way to get the reaction from the 'original' first, then it will be so much more powerful - I can't wait to are him do a compare/contrast of the different versions!
The whole rumor thing about that comment is because Anne supposedly said that to Catherine when they were in church. And the people loved Catherine.
I love your reactions so much. At 11:09 especially we were very much in tune. The baffled/amused silence followed by the breakaway of laughter 😂 It was like we were watching this in the same room. Very much felt like I was showing a friend the musical/animatic and following along with their response. And your excitement about whatever you’re reacting to is always such a blessing regardless!
Also, very much a breath of fresh air hearing someone say they like a character as a CHARACTER, not as a person. Messy characters are so much fun, but so many people judge characters with real-people morals as if they’re only allowed to be entertaining if they’re spotless 😭
Thinking about the heart attack he is going to have during All You Wanna Do is giving me life right now.
It’s gonna be awesome
I really enjoy Mortius's reactions to heel turns in musicals. Odysseus, now Anne... I've watched both ~several~ times now.
Pretty sure Anne and her sister were both sleeping with Henry at the same time? Their dad really wanted a Boleyn on the throne. Also, the other dead wife is Anne’s cousin. Politics man.
Anne is actually famous for refusing to sleep with Henry until they were married! Her sister was his mistress, but Anne held off on sleeping with him until he divorced Catherine of Aragon. That's why in the song there's the verse about how she doesn't want to be a girl in a threesome
thats not true. henry and mary boleyn slept while she was in france and he was still married. anne was firm with the decision of only sleeping with him if he put the ring.
So, as someone who is super duper into Tudor history, Anne Boleyn’s song kinda made me tiffed at first, but I got over it with time. At least they didn’t use the sixth finger myth.
They do make a joke about the sixth finger in one of the dialogue portion of the show 😂
One important thing. Both "beheaded" queens were very young. Anne's song is playful, teen-like, because she actually WAS a teen.
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@@officialmortius Yeah, wait until you get to unravel KH. THAT's grim.
there's a few inaccuracies in this show and really, anne boleyn was done the dirtiest. the show offers a very stereotypical portrayal of her - ditzy, naive, but also a seductive temptress (which is what she was more or less accused of when henry decided to behead her). she's definitely considered the most significant of the six for how she indirectly caused the split from the catholic church and birthed elizabeth i, one of england's most successful monarchs.
the truth of her (as far as we know) is instead that she was very politically minded and excelled in court on her own merit. she had some other family involved there, such as her father thomas and her sister mary, who served alongside her as a lady in waiting to the first queen Catherine of aragon. mary is more accurately one of the women mentioned in 'no way', having been a mistress of the king and then subsequently thrown out. anne knew this, she was weary of the king as a result.
it's also because of this that she actually did her utmost to *avoid* henry, rather than encouraging his advances as is generally taught. it was a period of i think around 7 years between when henry first decided to pursue her and when the courtship ended with marriage. you obviously can't directly say 'no' to the king but it's likely that this was her trying to put it off for as long as humanly possible, despite the fact that her father was very much pushing for her to give in, what with the elevation in status it would offer (since his other daughter failed rather spectacularly at seducing the king for any meaningful length of time).
anne then spends 3 years married to henry where she has i think three miscarriages (?) and at least one of them is a stillborn son. which henry reacts to thinking, hey, god clearly doesn't want to give me a son. the introduction to 'don't lose ur head' mentions anne 'overlapping' with catherine because of how henry began the courtship while he was still married, and the same thing happens again with lady in waiting jane seymour, who served both catherine and anne and has subsequently been in court an awfully long time. there's a lot of debate as to whether anne actually said anything treasonous, but it's almost certain she didn't commit any of the deeds of adultery she was accused - partly because the accusations were often rather outlandish. the rest of england probably recognised that at least in part but again: he's the king. he wanted her dead. she was going to die.
anne boleyn is beheaded in the tower of london in may 1536, just 17 days after her initial imprisonment (the court's detective work was shoddy at best, but then again, it probably wasn't intended to actually be functional). she's beheaded in one clean swing with a sword, by a swordsman brought in from france especially. being easier to control and therefore less likely to botch, this was a strange kind of mercy from henry. the same courtesy was not extended to anne's maternal cousin katherine howard, the fifth wife, who was hit thrice with an axe before the head was fully severed, and spent the last few days before her execution practising how to correctly lay her head on the block, because she'd seen so many executions go wrong.
( also, this show was written by lucy moss and toby marlow. they were students at cambridge university at the time and must've said hey! lets make a musical! i don't know how that comes about but it's very iconic of them.
and! if you ever have trouble recognising which queen as which, they're *usually* colour-coded (aragon: yellow; boleyn: green; seymour: white; cleves: red; howard: pink; parr:blue) but on the rare occasion when they're not, they're typically in order of marriage! )
22:30 i'm from different country, sooo such animatics my ONLY way to experience my fav musicals 😅
Yeah captions should be the standard nowadays. Especially if it was made in the last 2 years since UA-cam just allows you to copy and paste captions now, instead of forcing the uploader to type them all out. Doesn't apply to this animatic, but still point stands for nowadays.
Like I think someone said in the comments on Ex-Wives (or maybe it was No Way..), each queen song is inspired by one or more modern "pop-queens". Would be interesting to see if you can guess them. 😄
Won't spoil anything here, but I will say that I tried playing a certain (theme-wise very fitting) song of the artist lending inspiration for Anne B. along with Don't Lose Ur Head, and the inspiration is very clear! The two songs could do a very good remix with each other.
Little fun fact because other comments mentioned many things :
There's the irony that Henry slept with her sister, Mary who he had a SON however he was obviously illegitimate. There are also some documentaries ive seen that mentioned that she had the son while Mary was married to a man.
Also a little bummed that the musical kind of made Anne Boleyn as a cheating airhead because she was SO intzlligent. She was even courted by aristocratic frenchmen when she was at the French Court.
Thank you so much for speaking out about captions and accessibility. I'm hard of hearing and rely heavily on captions to be able to experience any media. The fact that all of your videos are captioned is another tick in the category of why I love your channel!
Whyyyy nooo why does it have to be two days!
I absolutely cannot wait this is my favorite song! Yay!
I agree with the caption standard
for k howard you should try to find an animatic of the live version sam pauly. her live rendition is so heartbreaking
Written by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss while they were still in university. I also heard they drew inspiration for the Queens from various pop stars?
It's definitely worth a dive into the history of the musical. I've been listening to the songs on repeat a lot since I discovered it. 😂
This is the funniest song to sing. I love how the words construct with each other and her delivery of the lyrics even if it is really tragic.
Always have loved the “who am I kidding? I was PRET A MANGER!” Both because pret a manger in French (remember, “Grew up in the FRENCH court.”, so some splash of character building with that touch of French.) means “ready to eat” like she was hungry for power and…other things😅, BUT Also because it’s a reference to Pret A Manger, the sandwich and tea and coffee chain mainly in the UK. it’s such a fun way to combine the modern spin historemix vibes while bringing in the very English cultural influence of this show.
The international appeal of this musical just blows me away.
And real life, ambulance and Ken Henry the eighth were yellow to Catherine’s funeral and yellow is usually for life and happy and joy.
This is the first time I actively check my notifications so that I can watch you react to this series, I’m loving this pls continue 😭
Yep, the English Reformation was started by Henry VIII deciding that Anne Boleyn needed to be queen.
Henry's saying "Damn-ed witch!"
It is _incredibly_ complicated to 'judge' the queens as people. The one thing that can never be overlooked is A) how young many of them were and B) how little agency they had in most of the goings on. Henry held _all_ the power. he could have any woman, any wife he wanted, he could use trumpted up charges to have them killed.
Annes Marriage to Henry was mostly her fathers Idea, not hers.
I'm not saying these women had no agency and nothing to do with it, but due to the very unreliable historic accounts it is really hard to say what they _actually_ thought about all this. We know that Anne actually spoke up against Henry a few times, which probably only hastened her end and we know that Catherine was proud and strong until the end, but we will never be able to know if Anne had personal beef with Catherine as a _person_ or if she was simply an obstacle in the way because Anne could not refuse the king and after getting pregnant, marriage was the only way to reatin her honor.
Outro for the song
Bolyn: “what a weekend. Literally i’m dead.”
Howard: “Wait um did you actually die.”
Bolyn: “Yeah it was so extra, anyway yeah now I’m obvs the winner so I think I’ll do another solo. So my next song is one I wrote on the moment I found out Kathrine of Aragon had tragically died. It’s called ‘wearing yellow to a funeral’, sing along if you know the words 🎵Kathrine was a massive c-🎵” chaos from the other queens
Cleves: “who decided you were the winner?”
Parr: “She wants another turn.”
Aragon: “Over my dead body!”
Seymour: “Yeah anyway (inaudible for me too bc audience clamor) it’s my go next”
I always feel like this song is the least historically accurate but it's still one of my favorite. Anne in real life was sent to France with her sister to be a ladies in waiting at the French Court and they were very well educated. when the sisters came back to England they became ladies in waiting for Catherine of Aragon and both caught notice of Henry. Her sister became his mistress while he was still married to Catherine and when Henry turned his attention on Anne she played hard to get to the extreme and implied that he needed to marry her if he wanted to get " anything " which led to the CoE.
I really like the " what was I ment to do " lyric because in actuality what was a girl suppose to do when your father puts you and your sister in close proximity with the king for power and that king sleeps with your sister and demands you do the same,blames you when the gamble you BOTH took for an heir that was " unsuccessful " and is already looking for another mistress counting the days until he will divorce you because you helped him make divorce so easy
Captions gotta be the standard 👏👏👏YES SIR!!!
Not sure if snybody’s mentioned this yet but, Teagan Earley who plays Athena in Epic, was an investing producer for Six The Musical!
OMG I THINK I FOUND MY NEW FAVORITE UA-camR!! SIX THE MUSICAL (OR ANY MUSICAL) AND A MENTION OF DDLC(Doki Doki literature club)
Yeah Henry VIII had a habit of looking at his wives' ladies in waiting for a mistress/next wife
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Catherine of Aragon = Beyonce
Jane Seymour = Adele (I think)
Catherine Parr = Alicia Keys
The others, I can't recall.
If your interested in listening to other versions of don’t lose your head, check out Andrea’s Macaseat (the OG broadway Anne Bolyne) she created an amazing riff at the end of the song, that other Queens that cover Boleyn uses her riff.
I think Andrea Macasaet (Broadway Anne Boleyn)'s Don't lose your head is on youtube. And I think you'll love her sass
I know you've probably pre-recorded a lot of the reactions, so if you do get the chance in addition, you should also react to the live stage version of "all you wanna do" by Samantha Pauly. It's really amazing!
Ugh I can’t believe I’m up to date! 😭. Can’t wait for the next one 😭
Missed your poll a while back for musical suggestions but wanted to point out I almost want to recommend My Heart Says Go because it’s Jay’s first musical before he wrote Epic, but there’s really no animatics for it and the show is a bit harder to follow mainly just because it has a smaller, cult-like following and is mainly done as school productions or small theatre troupes.
But even if you don’t do reactions, I’d still recommend checking it out to see how the Jorgy Gorgy has grown. It’s very Lin-Manuel Miranda and Pasek and Paul inspired.
She kind of gives Aeolus vibes? (From epic the musical) She’s so mischievous! (Of her interpretation in this musical)
Hey, I just want to say that it is really worth looking into AB life AND death, especially her last words before being beheaded, as a woman I really teared up reading about her last days being stuck in that tower and being away from her child ( in case you don't know, is no one other than Elizabeth I, YEAH THAT ONE).
from what I hear Anne Boleyan is the mother of Queen Elizabeth I.
She agreed to be beheaded so her daughter wouldn't lose the throne
When you get to all you wanna do please listen to the live version!!! It shows the emotion at the end better.
Since I haven’t seen anybody mention it yet! The lyric in the bit after the bridge is “You Damned Witch!” (Pronounced damn-id
11:12 There’s something just so dramatic and delicious (if you’ll pardon the word) about old world royalty TEA
Edit: 20:08 She sounds so much like Billie Piper (Rose Tyler from Doctor Who) here I can’t unhear it
Yeah ur actually pretty much right about the CofE! It was during the time of the Protestant reformation in Europe, so he destroyed the Monasteries and stuff (which set back the UK a bit according to my History lessons in the times of Science cause he destroyed medical texts and stuff, since Monks used to be basically doctors) so he could marry Anne Boleyn (Catherine of Aragon was also related to the Pope SOOOO) so the England went protestant so he could marry Anne and divorce Catherine of Aragon.
There was actually a lot of religious unrest in England with the Tudor times cause they went catholic, protestant, back to Catholic with Mary I, then back to protestantism with Elizabeth I. The churches weren’t actually properly made protestant (less extravagant) until Henry’s son (Edward the 6th, I THINK!! Don’t take my word for that), they were left pretty catholic and extravagant with Henry VIII (again, I THINK!! This is according to my yr 8 history lessons lol)
The writers are Lucy Moss and Toby Marlow, hope it helps ^^
Yes! Can't wait for the other songs
I think these animatics are very interesting because I think they decisions the artist makes visually hugely impact the way we interpret the intent behind certain lyrics. Like in this version I think she comes off as a lot my conniving and in the live American version I think she comes off a lot more free spirited. Of course I'm sure the individual singing the piece also effects the interpretation as well. I hope we get more of the American cast. The original British cast is awesome but the original American cast is my favorite.
i´m so exited to him to get to "all you wanna do"
When you get to kathrine howard be prepared for lots of tears and warning it is extermly triggering.
im so exited for his reaction to all you wanna do
Haha, the song definitely shows Anne’s temper and apparent flippancy well. She was a woman with a sharp tongue and a willingness to use it - in a mistress, this was intriguing and attractive, but from his wives Henry submission to his will and rarely responded well to defiance.
This song implies that she was cheating on him (or at least flirting with other men), but as I understand it there’s a pretty strong consensus that the charges brought against her for adultery (including an accusation of incest with her brother, ew) were completely fabricated by the king and those who worked for him. By that point, Henry had grown tired of her defiance and inability to birth a living son, and had already moved on to courting his next wife, Jane Seymour. He wanted out of that marriage and was willing to make up false charges to get her killed to do it. Lovely man. :P
You could possibly infer guilt/a small mercy towards a woman he knew was innocent from his decision to hire a swordsman from France to be the executioner rather than the more typical executioner with an axe. A sword, wielded by an expert, is a much quicker death. His other beheaded wife was not afforded the same luxury…
cant believe i missed this one and heart of stone, ig that proves i gotta subscribe 😅
This is also one of my favourite songs, Anne's vocalist (Christina Modestou) is my second favourite after Katherine Howard (Aimie Atkinson).
Yes, Anne was one of Henry's mistresses while he was still married to Catherine A, and Anne did move into CA's lodgings, which I think is part of the reason CA got sent to a convent and became a nun.
Henry did in fact start the C of E to marry Anne because the pope wouldn't annul CA and Henry's marriage. This meant that future kings and queens were either catholic or protestant and usually persecuted the other (there were a lot of wars and executions because of this split in the UK's monarchy).
Henry also wrote the song Greensleeves for Anne...hence the green costume she's always shown in (if you haven't seen pictures of their show costume look up the original 2018 cast costumes their amazing!!!)
Anne did take 'revenge' in Henry continuing to be a player and had numerous affairs before Henry found out and sentenced her to death.
Anne is also the mother of Elizabeth 1, one of the 10 longest reigning royals ever (44 years). Her half-sister Mary (CA's daughter) is known as Bloody Mary because of the amount of protestants she had executed under her reign.
Honestly I'm just glad you're enjoying Six so far, it's an amazing musical, and was originally written for the Edinburgh fringe festival by Cambridge University students.
Lots of bits of history tucked into this, but not all of it is true and some of it is historically inaccurate, but it's still amazing!
I got the chance to see this show in LA with my niece and what an event. It's AMAZING live.
I hope you go back and listen to Andrea Macasaet's version of this song, because it's one of my FAVORITE performances from SiX, and it's what made Anne my favorite Queen. 💚👑
OMG THE EPIC INTERLUDE!!!!
Oh I love this one!! She’s so pretty and sassy, it’s precious. 🧡