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Patricia Wallinga ⛵🎵
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Bluesky's favorite opera composer [citation needed]. Not tonal, not atonal, but a secret third thing. Posts about music, D&D, and loads of other nonsense | she/her | midwesterner in 🌉
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Not to mention the wholly inadequate instrument selection
January 15, 2026 at 8:26 PM
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there's still like 9 months for It to Happen before then, please God show us one small mercy in this
January 15, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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I'll do half of this. No Hans Zimmer but I'll still drink
January 15, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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31/31 I sure did watch it, huh
tweets from Patricia Wallinga It just... ends like that. Nothing is recognizable. I have no idea what movie or soundtrack or assortment of the same single pitch it ended with. But it just like. was, and now it isn't The string trio and "angel/devil" percussionists deserve twice whatever they made, Yolanda deserves triple, Hans Zimmer is probably as dizzy as I am from all of that Emotional Swaying, and... well, I watched it, I guess.
January 15, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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tweets from Patricia Wallinga And.... it's over. I think. I think it's over. On no cadence worth writing home about. Now the men are bowing the random assortment of old men and the young women they hired to look uncomfortable beside them he's double-high-fiving everyone, like the dorky assistant coach dad of your brother's fifth-grade soccer team it's... over. it's finally over. I survived
January 15, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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tweets from Patricia Wallinga and we end as we start... with the cellist and Hans both swaying aggressively, while only one of the two makes a significant contribution dear god at least I HOPE this is the end. who knows. who even knows. this has taken up so much of my life. I am now forty Seriously. No one ever explained where Pete Wentz-McCartney came from. He wasn't there, then he was. In every frame. making so, so many Rock n Roll Man Faces Did he arrive late? Did they pull him out of the orchestra? Did someone see him in the crowd and give him the guitar? Is this what the Hans Zimmer BWAAAH noise foretold?
January 15, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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tweet from Patricia Wallinga the wine is gone. why is the wine gone? GIF of Jack Sparrow: But why is the rum gone?
January 15, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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tweets from Patricia Wallinga Pete Wentz-McCartney over there is back to back with Hans, making an even more pained Rock N Roll Man face than he is, and that's saying a lot absolutely incredible Weird Rock Man Dance from PWM over there dun dun dun dun dundun dun dun dun dun dundun dun dun dun dun dundun dun dun dun dun dundun dun dun dun dun dundun dun dun dun dun dundun dun dun dun dun dundun dun dun dun dun dundun dun dun dun dun dundun dun dun dun dun dundun dead set on finishing this movie and this bottle o'Chuck even though this rhythm is making me dizzy
January 15, 2026 at 8:07 PM
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tweets from Patricia Wallinga that was TEN MINUTES LONG and literally the worst? I mean idk maybe it transitioned to a movie score at somee point.... I don't watch shit, I live in a bublbe, I have no idea. but it was so bad now there is an Ominous Sound as they scan a spotlight over the crowd, like they're going to pick one of them to sacrifice IT'S THE HANS ZIMMER BWAAAAAAH NOISe bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
January 15, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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tweets from Patricia Wallinga Hans Zimmer at the piano, one head waggle per note, you know it's gettin real now Okay. This is supposed to be a piece he wrote after the Aurora shooting at one of the Batmans, and apparently it's called "Aurora" and it's his response to it but it's just? it's indistinguishable from any movie soundtrack and just... really soullless I'm maybe even more skeeved out by this than I am by the whole weird dynamic with the women on stage. This is as showboaty as anything that they've done in the special and it's supposed to be? a memorial? honestly fucking soulless piece of music, be ashamed of this Hans is all of this the Aurora piece? honestly give it a rest. say a thing and let it go. no one is here for your abstract music because it's not. fucking. good. and it's REALLY a weird opportunistic thing for you to spend so long on
January 15, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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tweets from Patricia Wallinga oh boy here comes a heavy-handed mass shooting tribute piece. out of THAT. really? "Patricia," you say, "how do you know it's going to be heavy handed?" Well for one the ominous tutti stick clicks haven't stopped
January 15, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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23/ "monologuing like the damn Rdidler" is going back in my vocabulary
"Let me tell you one last story..." [random key click from the panicked marimbist] there are all these like... dramatically placed over-the-head stick clicks from the percussion section in just... really non-dramatic places "...Heath Ledger" [OMINOUS CLICK] "...we got on a plane" [OMINOUS CLICK] "I don't use words. Words aren't the way I express myself." says the man who is just... monologuing like the damn Rdidler right now he has HIS ARMS STRETCHED OUT LIKE A JESUS
January 15, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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tweets from Patricia Wallinga ok I rewound a little bit because just like. what. what the hell is happening. (I'm at like 1:40 if you're following along for some godforsaken reason) and his. the weird chant conducting? the wild-eyed way random people like the guitarist with the confusing hair/beard combo are joining in? Hans's weird arm circles? this is really just a whole lot is he. is he trying to lead the crowd in ALSO chanting the latin and/or nonsense (time for the worst round yet of Is This Actually Supposed To Be A Language Or Nah) ok yeah second time watching the transition and I still just... really cannot parse this transition into Hans Zimmer Batman Backstory Monologue Time
January 15, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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tweets from Patricia Wallinga man one of them was just really rocking out with her one chime note per measure. you go, girl. get smashed and get yours Now they're doing some shots of the crowd and like... god damn. there are so many people at this???? how much were tickets, I wonder? I'm sure it wasn't cheap-- I can't imagine like... being there? paying for this? who? how? HOLY SHIT. HOLY. SHIT. HE IS DOING A MONOLOGUE OVER SOME DRAMATIC SOUNDS ABOUT HIS OWN MUSIC. ABOUT "wanting to do a Batman movie" THIS IS NOT A DRILL this is just truly so over the top
January 15, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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tweets from Patricia Wallinga also sorry to whatever netflix intern I am accidentally tagging in the rest of the thread, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to untag you on New Twitter and I am, out of necessity, very drunk seriously this lighting design is A LOT. forget epilepsy warning, it needs a label on it saying "don't even like get really drunk and watch this, the flashing lights are NO joke" honestly s/o to all the true professionals on this stage. the string trio, Yolanda, Nathan who is scared of his marimba, everyone. these are some aggressive performance conditions my main takeaway from all of this, besides my continued dislike of Hans Zimmer, is that neither Yolanda nor the string trio have been paid enough no matter what also the two female percussionists. although they, at least, look like they're enjoying themselves and/or appropriately drunk for the occasion
January 15, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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now they are featuring the clarinet man, whomst I do not like. he is wearing some WEIRD goggles and just creepin around the stage. it's very bad I mean at least it's distracting me a little bit from thinking about a sweaty Hans Zimmer unbuttoning his vest in the dark, while the orchestra plays around him now he has a guitar again. He's mostly just waving it OK the general lighting design of this thing is VERY much disorienting! It should probably have a warning on it and if it does, I did not see it!
January 15, 2026 at 7:55 PM
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tweet from Patricia Wallinga OH IT'S FROM "A THIN RED LINE" HENCE THE THIN RED LINE GIF of Jake from Brooklyn 99 saying Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool
January 15, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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tweets from Patricia Wallinga Seems like the main unifying factor in Hans Zimmer's music is that it's not in a time signature, it's ~in a ***time signature***~ most of this number has been one note, and zooming in on a red dotted line above the stage. thrilling. compelling TV, @netflix at least it's too dark to watch Hans Zimmer and his old friends awkwardly flirt with string players! (please... please tell me this also prevents it from happening) Did he. Did he do a COSTUME CHANGE. Because Hans Zimmer is now just wearing a very tight dark T-shirt instead of the weird shirt/vest he was just wearing.
January 15, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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tweets from Patricia Wallinga What are the criteria, exactly, for who is "young" to him? I mean there aren't really any visibly middle-aged people on this stage but like... I would guess the bassist is in her early 30's? Like, definitely old enough that it's weird for him to seem mildly surprised that the highly competent professional he hired is highly competent There's a new guitarist on stage, male, kind of a knockoff Beatles/knockoff Pete Wentz lookin motherfucker. Now taking bets on whether or not he will be "the young [name]"
January 15, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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15/ in which my rooting interest, Yolanda Charles the electric bassist, finally gets a name
tweets from Patricia Wallinga The more Hans Zimmer waggles his head around while playing piano, the more certain I am that it's just dubbed over. oh FUCK YES extremely sick solos from the electric bassist who is done with this shit. she's SHREDDING. this is what she's been waiting for this is a long-ass solo, I am so happy for her and also so dreading what creepy shit Hans is gonna say about her after this "young Yolanda Charles" of fucking course. she is also apparently "so wicked"
January 15, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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tweets from Patricia Wallinga ugh ugh UGH ugh ugh creepily long hand kiss from Hans @ the cellist I'm sorry, maybe this is just super midwestern of me, but can we abolish all the general greetings involving kissing? They're basically only used by creepy old men now and it's just... it's a bad news and we're back to marimba guy, with even more panicked focus than before Again, I do not know the movies, but that was... a weird little tag ending oh, marimba boy is "young Nathan [something?]" At least the men also get to be inexplicably "young"
January 15, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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tweets from Patricia Wallinga THAT'S A COCKTAIL SHAKER. HANS ZIMMER HAS A COCKTAIL SHAKER, A MARTINI GLASS, AND BOTTLED WATER ON THE PIANO I mean, jeez man, just be honest. Is it water or is it not water? The LEAST you can do for the women in your band is let them openly get very drunk. Especially the electric bassist. She very much looks like she needs a drink. the guy. THE WOODWIND GUY. is WEARING. a WHOLE ASS MOTHER FUCKING CAPN' CRUNCH HAT NOW I have... so many questions Where did he come from? Where did he go? Where did he COME FROM, COTTON EYE JOE
January 15, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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tweets from Patricia Wallinga Now he has a bass clarinet AND is headbanging with it. It's... certainly an image? and two seconds later he's on a pennywhistle or something? still headbanging Are there multiple, very similar-looking multi-woodwind dudes? How do the cuts in this even work? I'm so, so confused. And did this production have like. a costume department? Or were the women in the string trio just told "yeah, concert black but make it nightclub-ready. As much pleather as you own, thanks"
January 15, 2026 at 7:45 PM