Fun fact: before this performance, Jeremy explained that, when first asked to sing this song at an event, he wasn't familiar with it, so at first sight he thought it was a "happy", head-over-heels, love song. To him, it made sense, since he had just started going out with his now wife back then. So he sang it from that point of view. Only afterwards he found Losing My Mind to be the famous heartbreak song that it is. So in the video his intention was to sing it to the audience the way he did it the first time: as a boy madly in love. I feel like that explains a lot of his choices. (there's a full video on youtube where he explains everything)
Losing My Mind is all anyone needs to know about the heartbreak of loving another person. Juxtaposing Jeremy Jordan's version with perhaps the best known version, by Bernadette Peters, shows significantly different interpretations: Belt vs. conversational. I'm up for conversational. Lyrics are the poor man's poetry, where music lifts words. This analysis is definitely a deep dive, illuminating, but what about the context and meaning of the song. Ultimately that's where the gold is. Nancy Wilson owned Guess Who I Saw Today by her overall interpretation, not scoops, fries, and bending notes.
You might want to check out the double CD (available digitally online I think) of the musical review done I think in London called Side by Side by Sondheim. Came out in 1976. It's amazing
Why don't I remember seeing this amazing video before about JEREMY JORDAN? Why are there so few likes? Why are there so few view.... OH, it was just released. (I just woke up, so it took me a minute to figure this out)
FYI Per internet source avg American male height-5’9” in 2016 or there about. So you need to get your comments straight. Of course none of this has anything to do with Jeremy Jordan immense TALENT.
Really enjoy your analyses. Found Jeremy J’s performance sad, not in a good way. Like, if you dump enough extras into a tub of ice cream, there’s no room left for ice cream. The singer’s equivalent isn’t adding up to anything heartfelt here.
