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I hoped I'd never have to make this post but we all heard the news so I guess I'm gonna have to do it anyways:

Netflix cancelled JATP, like everyone else I am heartbroken. This show has done so much for me in the past year, ever since I watched it for the first time in October 2020 it changed my life.

Much like Julie I got back into music again, I sang again for the first time in a while. The music it gave us, the songs and the lyrics and their messages helped me so much. For that I am so thankful.

Through Alex I got to see anxiety portrayed properly onscreen and felt like I actually saw myself. As well as that I saw him dealing with it which helped a lot.

With Luke I saw resilience and determination that really helped motivate me through some tough times. His constant hype for Julie also helped me hype up myself.

Willie and Alex's relationship was something I hadn't seen before, a queer couple that wasn't played for laughs, that wasn't a stereotype or bad rep. The way that they helped drive the plot is something so powerful and I am so glad that they were my first experience of that.

And Julie and Luke's relationship. Their support for each other, the way they helped each other navigate their grief, the way they lit up when singing with each other. They truly are soulmates and to see them look so in love in screen, there was something so magical there that can't be replicated.

Then of course for the cast, Madison, Jeremy, Owen, Charlie, Savannah, Jadah, Sacha and everyone else. They are all so talented and I cannot thank them enough for bringing the characters they played to life.

Kenny I am eternally grateful for you giving us this show even if only for a single season.

Finally I want to talk about all of the friends I've made, all of the amazing people that I've met thanks to this show. Everyone who's become more than a fandom friend and become someone I talk to in my every day life. That something that they can never take away from us.

@thedragonemperess @angelwiththeblue-box @radio-silences @taylorwilsons @thedeathdeelers @molinashimbos @im-not-fine @redacted-thething @fanfics-she-wrote and so so many more of you.

You've all changed my life, and I will always love you all for that

So up yours @netflix #no unfinished business

#julie and the phantoms#netflixwewantjatp2#jatp#netflixwewantjatps2#no unfinished business#jynx speaks
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takaraphoenix

Netflix were fucking fools and idiots for cancelling Julie and the Phantoms, that show had EVERYTHING!

Amazing songs, a powerful leading lady, a band of himbos, a beautiful mlm romance, absolutely AMAZING music, Cheyenne Jackson absolutely killing it, and did I mention the incredible soundtrack yet?

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isjatprenewed

Coming back from the dead because I hear we’re clowning again???

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isjatprenewed

Okay hi me again, for the peeps in the notes I missed you all

I’m still very confused why we’re clowning but happy to be in the face paint trenches with you all

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nickyandmikey

when two musicians sing into the same microphone and lean in very close to each other… like omg are you guys gonna kiss now to relieve the homoerotic tension?😳

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nickyandmikey

THIS IS NOT ABOUT ONE DIRECTION I DON’T KNOW WHO THIS “HARRY” PERSON IS GO WATCH BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND CLARENCE CLEMONS KISS ON STAGE RIGHT NOW

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irrelevantlyvalid

op is the only valid person i’ve ever met. everyone else needs to come to the light

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chokolattejedi

Okay, but this is really important: Bruce Springsteen occupied this really weird place in music history. His songs were all from this pessimistic, nihilistic view of an America that had let him down:

Just like the anti-Vietnam War protest songs that we associate with the 1960s, or the early nihilism that spawned punk music in the 1970s. But he didn’t *sound* like a punk anarchist; he sounded like a country rock singer. When he released Born in the U.S.A. people completely misinterpreted (or possibly ignored) the lyrics in favor of the tone of the music.

Politicians used his music to promote their ‘Murica Yes! brand, and he had to literally explain that that was not what he was about. He’s over here asking when we’re going to have jobs and heathcare, not stanning the politicians who weren’t helping the people.

It was also kind of a big deal that he had an integrated band, because even as late as the 1980s music was still kind of segregated and MTV was straight up racist. They refused to play and promote black artists and then claimed that were no black artists in the first place. Michael Jackson’s record company had to threaten a boycott of their white artists to get MTV to play his Thriller video.

Plus, the first black/white interracial kiss on TV was in 1968 (OG Star Trek). Also it took us until the 70s to get sympathetic gay characters on screen, and the 90s to get gay characters to kiss onscreen. And all of those firsts were met with outrage.

So keep that in mind when you see Bruce Springsteen not just playing with an interracial band, but engaging in an interracial, gay kiss on stage repeatedly.

Passages from American Popular Music by Larry Starr and Christopher Waterman

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I used to think that Bruce and Clarence kissing onstage was exuberance, showmanship, and telling racist homophobes to fuck off. Like, they picked up a certain kind of audience and went “Racist homophobes? Not in our house!” And started the kissing then but then I actually looked it up and

https://www.gq.com/story/this-fucked-me-up-bruce-springsteen-singing-about-clarence-clemons

It was a story where… we remade the city. We remade the city, shaping it into the kind of place where our friendship and our love for one another wouldn’t have been such an exceptional thing. - Bruce Springsteen

It wasn’t about showmanship or rejecting bigots or anything it was just. Damn right that was one of the loves of his life and damn right he was going to kiss him onstage

It gets me a little that Bruce has had a divorce, that he’s been married twice, but he loved Clarence for the rest of Clarence’s life and will presumably love him the rest of his own

Clemons said in one interview. “Bruce and I looked at each other and didn’t say anything, we just knew. We knew we were the missing links in each other’s lives. He was what I’d been searching for.” In another version of the story, Clemons says “He looked at me, and I looked at him, and we fell in love.”

I’m having some emotions about it!

“He was elemental in my life,“ Springsteen adds, “and losing him was like losing the rain.”

Not just! I love you pure and deep and true but! I am going to love you like that in front of the whole damn world!

We have fewer narratives about taking risks and making statements for platonic love rather than romantic and supposedly it would be easier to downplay this onstage than romance and! They refused! They fucking refused! In front of hundreds of thousands of people, over the course of years! In the spotlight, in word and deed, I love you!

God I’m not okay about it

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ramshacklefey

Now I’m mad that this is not among any of the things I was ever told about this artist.

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jbbartram-illu

I knew about this in general (& via all those fabulous photos), but this just adds even more beautiful context

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eregyrn-falls

Just to add to the pile: this was the cover of Springsteen’s break-through album Born to Run, in 1975:

I mean, will you LOOK at this:

This was the pic chosen for the album cover from an extensive photoshoot, too. A few others:

There’s a lot more online if you search. They’re all pretty amazing. But the photographer is right, the one chosen for the album cover just pops.

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