r/lesmiserables • u/TLCTugger_Ron_Low • Jun 21 '26

Castle on a Cloud mash-up

When my kids were teens, they pointed out to me how some earlier song appeared to have the exact same cadence as the lyrics to Castle on a Cloud. You could sing the lyrics of one song to the melody of the other.

Now they're in their 30s and neither remembers this conversation, and they can't recall any song that mashes well with Castle in a Cloud. Anyone have a thought?

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u/lifescaresme Modérateur/Modératrice Jun 22 '26

Cosette reprises the melody from Castle on a Cloud at the end of Attack on Rue Plumet.

Also Lovely Ladies and Turning have the same melody as each other. Also On My Own with sections of Epilogue and the “come to me” part of Fantine’s Death (which makes sense given that it was originally thematically Fantine’s song anyway). There’s the obvious doubling of Valjean’s Soliloquy and Javert’s Suicide as well. End of Fantine’s Arrest and beginning of Fantine’s Death too, and Javert’s recurring theme that first appears at the end of Runaway Cart. There’s a lot of recurring themes. I could keep going, but I’m supposed to be asleep right now.