History YMMV / AidaJohnRice

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: "Dance of the Robe," "The Gods Love Nubia," "Fortune Favors the Brave," "My Strongest Suit," "Like Father Like Son," "Written in the Stars," "Every Story is a Love Story," just to name a few songs. Almost all the music in Aida is this.

* {{Narm}}: "Every Story is a Love Story".
* StrangledByTheRedString: The transfer between captor and slave to secret lovers between Radames and Aida was not very smooth. They just sort of spontaneously stop hating each other.
** Not so much on Radames' part--it's established from the beginning that he has at least a grudging respect for her and he sends her and her friends off for the easier positions of handmaidens rather than dangerous work in the mines. Plus, his efforts to change for the better are clearly an attempt to impress and woo her.

* PainfulRhyme: "''A stranger I just met/A woman whom I barely know at all and will forget''."
** Also the whole premise of the song "Like Father, Like Son."
-->'''Radames''': I've done wrong I can't deny.\\
But at least I know that I\\
Shouldn't blame that on my stock.\\
Well this may come as quite a shock!\\
But I'm no chip off any block!
** "''Just like me he's found that flesh/Can excite but will enmesh''"

!!The opera:
* AuthorTract: In the Judgment Scene, Amneris denounces the priests for having the only man she ever loved BuriedAlive. Giuseppe Verdi is said to have had anti-clerical views.
-->'''Amneris''': Ever vengeful, bloodthirsty and blind,\\
they call themselves ministers of heaven!...\\
Priests: you have committed a crime!\\
Tigers ever exulting in bloodshed,\\
you insult both earthly and divine justice,\\
your sentence falls on an innocent victim!
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Being an opera, a grand opera no less, Verdi's Aida is chock full of musical numbers: "Celeste Aida," "Ritorna vincitor," the "Triumphal March," and so on.
* JerkassWoobie: By all accounts, Amneris is a ClingyJealousGirl, but when she realizes that her jealousy has become the death of Radames, you can't help but feel sorry for her, especially when she prays that Radames make a safe journey to the afterlife, right at the end.
* NightmareFuel: The final scene, also known as the "Tomb Scene," can be this and/or a TearJerker.

!!The musical:

* TheWoobie: Aida

* AuthorTract: In the Judgment Scene, Amneris denounces the priests for having the only man she ever loved BuriedAlive. Giuseppe Verdi is said to have had anti-clerical views.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Being an opera, a grand opera no less, Verdi's Aida is chock full of musical numbers: "Celeste Aida," "Ritorna vincitor," the "Triumphal March," and so on.
* NightmareFuel: The final scene, also known as the "Tomb Scene," can be this and/or a TearJerker.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: "Dance of the Robe," "The Gods Love Nubia," "Fortune Favors the Brave," "My Strongest Suit," "Like Father Like Son," "Written in the Stars," "Every Story is a Love Story," just to name a few songs. Almost all the music in Aida is this.

-->'''Radames''': I've done wrong I can't deny.
-->But at least I know that I
-->Shouldn't blame that on my stock.
-->Well this may come as quite a shock!
-->But I'm no chip off any block!

* PainfulRhyme: "''A stranger I just met/ A woman whom I barely know at all and will forget''."

* {{Narm}}: "Every Story is a Love Story".

* {{Narm}}: "Every Story is a Love Story"

** Not so much on Radames part--it's established from the beginning that he has at least a grudging respect for her and he sends her and her friends off for the easier positions of handmaidens rather than dangerous work in the mines. Plus, his efforts to change for the better are clearly an attempt to impress and woo her.

** Not so much on Radames part--it's established from the beginning that he has at least a grudging respect for her and he sends her and her friends off for the easier positions of handmaidens rather than dangerous work in the mines. Plus, his efforts to change for the better are clearly an attempt to impress and woo her.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: "Dance of the Robe," "The Gods Love Nubia," "Fortune Favors the Brave," "My Strongest Suit," "Like Father Like Son," "Written in the Stars," "Every Story is a Love Story," just to name a few songs. Basically, almost all the music in Aida is this.

* UnfortunateImplications: Radames removing his shirt, in a clear attempt to intimidate Aida into thinking he's about to force himself on her--then commanding her to wash his back, something which essentially symbolizes exactly that. Later, during an argument, she snaps that he can't force her to show him affection, to which he basically responds, that yes, he could--again, the threat of rape. Yet within a few minutes of this conversation, they're singing a love duet and she's (willingly) falling into his arms.

** Not so much on Radames part--it's established from the beginning that he has at least a grudging respect for her and he sends her and her friends off for the easier positions of handmaidens rather than dangerous work in the mines. Plus, his efforts to change for the better are clearly an attempt to impress and woe her.

* UnfortunateImplications [=/=] RapeIsLove: Radames removing his shirt, in a clear attempt to intimidate Aida into thinking he's about to force himself on her--then commanding her to wash his back, something which essentially symbolizes exactly that. Later, during an argument, she snaps that he can't force her to show him affection, to which he basically responds, that yes, he could--again, the threat of rape. Yet within a few minutes of this conversation, they're singing a love duet and she's (willingly) falling into his arms.

** Not so much on Radames part--it's established from the beginning that he has at least a grudging respect for her and he sends her and her friends off for the easier positions of handmaidens rather than dangerous work in the mines. Plus, his efforts to change for the better are clearly an attempt to impress and woe her.

* StrangledByTheRedString: The transfer between captor and slave to secret lovers between Radames and Aida was not very smooth. They just sort of spontaneously stop hating each other.

* PainfulRhyme: A stranger I just met/ A woman whom I barely know at all and will forget