Maddie McClouskey
@soundofmaddie.bsky.social
singer at the showtune bar. published in catapult, lyrics in big easy queens. older work: everyday feminism, everything sondheim, new musical theatre. brunette multi-hyphenate stereotype. they/them.
“it wasn’t me” by shaggy is musical theatre that united the culture.
April 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
“it wasn’t me” by shaggy is musical theatre that united the culture.
tonight i listened to “she loves me” and learned that you can sing “benanti benanti benanti benanti” to the tune of “dentata.”
February 11, 2025 at 4:38 AM
tonight i listened to “she loves me” and learned that you can sing “benanti benanti benanti benanti” to the tune of “dentata.”
drake is going to make a fantastic billy flynn in chicago one day.
January 31, 2025 at 2:18 AM
drake is going to make a fantastic billy flynn in chicago one day.
babygirl girlboss boss baby
January 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
babygirl girlboss boss baby
i think Love Island On The Spectrum would heal me
January 21, 2025 at 5:05 AM
i think Love Island On The Spectrum would heal me
clang clang clang went the trolley problem
December 19, 2024 at 4:53 PM
clang clang clang went the trolley problem
being predominantly a lyricist and wishing i could write a musical with someone who is also predominantly a lyricist is like seeing a cutie on an app and realizing you’re both bottoms.
December 5, 2024 at 6:26 AM
being predominantly a lyricist and wishing i could write a musical with someone who is also predominantly a lyricist is like seeing a cutie on an app and realizing you’re both bottoms.
wicked: millennium approaches is the middle of the venn diagram between barbie and oppenheimer.
November 25, 2024 at 5:13 AM
wicked: millennium approaches is the middle of the venn diagram between barbie and oppenheimer.
dear future depressed maddie:
you don’t want chip*tle. you are just sad. it is more expensive and worse than you remember. you will be just as sad if not worse when you are done eating it.
love, past depressed maddie
you don’t want chip*tle. you are just sad. it is more expensive and worse than you remember. you will be just as sad if not worse when you are done eating it.
love, past depressed maddie
November 21, 2024 at 1:20 AM
dear future depressed maddie:
you don’t want chip*tle. you are just sad. it is more expensive and worse than you remember. you will be just as sad if not worse when you are done eating it.
love, past depressed maddie
you don’t want chip*tle. you are just sad. it is more expensive and worse than you remember. you will be just as sad if not worse when you are done eating it.
love, past depressed maddie
zoo animals must develop a craving for hot dogs that they wouldn’t have otherwise had in the wild, right?
like, some koala who has lived at the san diego zoo at some point has to have looked out at a townie eating glorified fair food and been like “you gonna eat all that?”
like, some koala who has lived at the san diego zoo at some point has to have looked out at a townie eating glorified fair food and been like “you gonna eat all that?”
November 20, 2024 at 6:15 PM
zoo animals must develop a craving for hot dogs that they wouldn’t have otherwise had in the wild, right?
like, some koala who has lived at the san diego zoo at some point has to have looked out at a townie eating glorified fair food and been like “you gonna eat all that?”
like, some koala who has lived at the san diego zoo at some point has to have looked out at a townie eating glorified fair food and been like “you gonna eat all that?”
instagram stories must have been invented by someone with abandonment issues who wanted to watch the world burn.
November 20, 2024 at 5:07 PM
instagram stories must have been invented by someone with abandonment issues who wanted to watch the world burn.
guys, remember Bean Dad ? ever try to explain it to someone who has Real Friendships and Is Kind Of Happy?
November 17, 2024 at 9:55 PM
guys, remember Bean Dad ? ever try to explain it to someone who has Real Friendships and Is Kind Of Happy?
“What I didn’t know is that I would see a different part of myself in Maddy’s intensity and Owen’s yearning for connection…”
My latest on literary coding, canon, trans narratives and my connection to I Saw the TV Glow:
My latest on literary coding, canon, trans narratives and my connection to I Saw the TV Glow:
In 'I Saw the TV Glow,' I Saw My Transness - And My Autism.
Jane Schoenbrun's sophomore feature canonizes the trans and queer narratives that were once only coded in genre film, but I saw parts of myself beyond those lit in neon. Caution: Spoilers ahead!
soundofmaddie.substack.com
May 29, 2024 at 6:17 PM
“What I didn’t know is that I would see a different part of myself in Maddy’s intensity and Owen’s yearning for connection…”
My latest on literary coding, canon, trans narratives and my connection to I Saw the TV Glow:
My latest on literary coding, canon, trans narratives and my connection to I Saw the TV Glow:
your friends with badly built butch bodies are listening to your commentary on marjorie taylor green! (just kidding, they’re listening to the new billie eilish album with the fun song about cunnilingus)
May 18, 2024 at 11:01 PM
your friends with badly built butch bodies are listening to your commentary on marjorie taylor green! (just kidding, they’re listening to the new billie eilish album with the fun song about cunnilingus)
not gonna lie to you, i had just enough diet coke (one liter) but not enough bisexuality (two scenes maybe?) in the zendaya bisexual tennis movie that i will henceforth be calling BALL ME BY YOUR NAME.
April 27, 2024 at 8:40 PM
not gonna lie to you, i had just enough diet coke (one liter) but not enough bisexuality (two scenes maybe?) in the zendaya bisexual tennis movie that i will henceforth be calling BALL ME BY YOUR NAME.
i am a playwright this is my text
April 11, 2024 at 3:30 PM
i am a playwright this is my text
fine— if new york is taking free reign to make the earthquake about ourselves, here’s a sonnet from the play i’m currently writing (working title: BRIDE ALMIGHTY)
April 6, 2024 at 12:53 AM
fine— if new york is taking free reign to make the earthquake about ourselves, here’s a sonnet from the play i’m currently writing (working title: BRIDE ALMIGHTY)
sorry to anyone in astoria who may have heard me break out my guitar for the first time in months, only to play lorde’s “liability” but sing it as judy garland. i would say i will never do it again, but we both know that is a lie.
April 3, 2024 at 10:11 PM
sorry to anyone in astoria who may have heard me break out my guitar for the first time in months, only to play lorde’s “liability” but sing it as judy garland. i would say i will never do it again, but we both know that is a lie.
the notebook the musical is if/ then for straight people and you know what straight people deserve an if/then that michael put his whole greifussy into.
March 29, 2024 at 1:25 AM
the notebook the musical is if/ then for straight people and you know what straight people deserve an if/then that michael put his whole greifussy into.
RIP joseph moncure march you would have loved lorde’s melodrama album.
March 25, 2024 at 7:55 PM
RIP joseph moncure march you would have loved lorde’s melodrama album.
RIP the baker’s wife from into the woods you would have loved the ethical slut
March 14, 2024 at 6:14 AM
RIP the baker’s wife from into the woods you would have loved the ethical slut
super-stoked to join the fictional jack mcfarland and my real-life friends in marie’s crisis and beyond as a nominee for the MAC awards in the downtown piano bar vocalist category alongside my wednesday night comrade brandon james gwinn in the downtown piano bar instrumentalist category! come visit!
March 13, 2024 at 5:41 PM
super-stoked to join the fictional jack mcfarland and my real-life friends in marie’s crisis and beyond as a nominee for the MAC awards in the downtown piano bar vocalist category alongside my wednesday night comrade brandon james gwinn in the downtown piano bar instrumentalist category! come visit!
oh no we’re going to get a facebook outage joke in the oscars telecast aren’t we
March 5, 2024 at 4:37 PM
oh no we’re going to get a facebook outage joke in the oscars telecast aren’t we
Reposted by Maddie McClouskey
We absolutely need an alternative to Twitter, but Threads, Instagram, and Facebook all being down at the same time shows how dangerous it is to consolidate all social media under a single corporation, and people need to stop encouraging it.
March 5, 2024 at 4:20 PM
We absolutely need an alternative to Twitter, but Threads, Instagram, and Facebook all being down at the same time shows how dangerous it is to consolidate all social media under a single corporation, and people need to stop encouraging it.
attn: gay men who love to sing “fifty percent”
one of youse needs to sing “does he love you?” by rilo kiley at a fifty four below of center establishment with someone videotaping so i can watch it on my phone and cry please and thank you
one of youse needs to sing “does he love you?” by rilo kiley at a fifty four below of center establishment with someone videotaping so i can watch it on my phone and cry please and thank you
March 4, 2024 at 2:07 AM
attn: gay men who love to sing “fifty percent”
one of youse needs to sing “does he love you?” by rilo kiley at a fifty four below of center establishment with someone videotaping so i can watch it on my phone and cry please and thank you
one of youse needs to sing “does he love you?” by rilo kiley at a fifty four below of center establishment with someone videotaping so i can watch it on my phone and cry please and thank you