icouldwritebooks:

uwuboyfs:

Broke: The line “Michael flying solo/ Who you think that you know” being directed at the partygoers who assume they know everything about Michael based on a few things about him

Woke: The line being directed at Jeremy calling him a loser, and the fact that Michael most likely hid his own anxiety and issues from Jeremy, meaning Jeremy didn’t know everything about Michael like he’d thought. 

I’ve always wondered if it might be directed at the audience? Not from Michael’s POV really, but on a meta level. I haven’t experienced going in to watch BMC as somebody who doesn’t already know the show backwards and forwards, but for somebody who is going into the theatre fresh, up until this point Michael will have seemed to embody the role of the plucky comedic relief sidekick/best friend , and not much else. They might even be laughing during the first line of Michael in the Bathroom, because bathrooms are funny (lol bathrooms) and Michael is the Funny Character. Then, before the song is over, they realize that they had no clue who he really was, and were viewing him based on the specific role he plays in Jeremy’s story, rather than as a full fledged person who would be telling a very different story, if he were the protagonist.