It does but probably not deliberately, they portray Hamilton himself as some sort proto multiculti globotwat when the reality was that the man was about three steps down from a dammed monarchist. He proposed hereditary cabinet positions, presidents ruling for life; etc. It's also got a lot of shitty rap, not as in shitty
rap but rather
shitty rap; it sounds like it was written by public school (english) children and it's painfully safe lyrically and very one note musically. It downplays the mans sins and tosses him off over his virtues while at the same time portraying the rest of America's founders as a collection of whiny weak bitches clawing at each other.
Like there's a line where they say 'Jefferson? He loves France, so elitist!' Like what? Compared to Hamilton? Fuck off.
Oh and there's a fucking shit load of blacks playing hu-whyte people during the 1700's; which is pretty fucking hilarious. Completely sidesteps the fact that some people in America weren't people so much as they were property when this musical is set.
Also there is the fact that it was like three hundred dollars a ticket, and it just comes off as this high class low trash liberal artsy bullshit that people who earn ten figures will say 'Oh how progressive' and 'it's the newist thing! So chic!'. Some of the numbers are pretty enjoyable, 'Wait for it' is fun with how it switches from soft to bombastic and back again quickly as it rolls with Burrs emotions, but most of the songs are just rap which doesn't work for a fucking musical when we're supposed to be taking emotional ques from the way the characters are singing; a great example of this is in the song Washington on Your side where Washington is literally ranting angrily about how much he fucking despises the Immigrant Hamilton and the tone is the exact same as Burr who's lamenting Hamilton endorsing Washington; it's really jarring.
If you listen to that song and then listen to something like Dracula.
You can hear how Draculas character starts off leading the duet showing off his characters role, the way his voice is stronger even when he's going in for the soft sections than Mina's. When they sing together his lays over hers and is more controlled, hers is more manic but less than his; then it's only at the end when she starts talking about what she doesn't need that her voices takes over. It fits his role as the slower more domineering personality and character and hers as a growing bloodthirsty monster who's inability to control her hunger is what eventually causes her to be killed.
In Hamilton they just rap at each other in the exact same tone despite one of them being the fucking president of the United states and the other one being the guy that lost the election.
