1.6 FlareFlow - 99 Charms, 99 Heartbreaks

Talking about FlareFlow's 99 Charms, 99 Heartbreaks. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to my vertical obsession, and today we are talking
about ninety nine Charms ninety nine heartbreaks, which is located
on flare Flow. So this one is about Lila and
Kevin who are married and Kevin is currently living his
dream as a rock star about to get signed by
a label, but instead of celebrating it with his wife Lila,

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he celebrates with his ex girlfriend, Madison, and this ends
up driving Lila away. And Lila kept giving chance after
chance for Kevin, but he kept breaking her heart, and
every single time he broke her heart, she asked for
a charm bracelet, and in the end she ended up
with ninety nine charms and that was her deciding factor
of whether or not to leave him. So she ends

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up leaving behind her songbook and divorce papers which she
had signed for him to sign so they could end
their marriage because he had chosen Madison over Lila, especially
when he thought that Lila had caused Madison's miscarriage, when
in truth, Madison had lost the baby months ago, and

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since he didn't believe her, Lila, she took this as
a sign this is the end. He will never believe her.
He'll always take Madison's side, so she ends up going
back to her parents. Meanwhile, Kevin is trying to figure
out where Lila went and realizing just how much Lila
had helped him and had really been a part of

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his career because she had done so much to get
him to where he is, and it's now affecting him.
He's not being able to sing well and not being
able to create the music he wants to create. And
Lila ends up connecting and running into Jack Lennox, who
is in music exact that she once sent her music

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to but he never did anything with it, and he
says that he got it and he liked it and
he was going to rectify not doing anything with it
in the past by helping her become an artist now.
But he also wanted to date her, and after they
had gone out to lunch one day, he proposed to her,
and Leilah was a little, i want to say, apprehensive,

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because she didn't want to be a secret and she
felt that she might be a secret if he was
helping her with her music. So instead, Jack got down
on one knee and proposed to her in front of
everyone so that the world would know that they were
a couple and she said yes, which Kevin ended up
finding out and not being okay with. It was something

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that really upset him and it kind of threw him
off his game, and when he went to see Madison
in the hospital, she also tricked him into signing the
divorce papers, which he was not happy about, and then
she blackmailed him into marrying her because of what happened
at the pool, which Madison says caused her miscarriage, but

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of course that wasn't the case. When Kevin went to
the house to see if Lila was there, he found
her songbook and that kind of made him see how
much he had hurt her because of the song, especially
the one name Charms, which was about all the charms
that she had asked Keavin to get her each time
he broke her heart. And he tried to mend things

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with Lila but ended up making things a little bit worse.
And her response to him was if you can write
me a song, I will think about getting back together.
But she didn't really actually say those words. She just
told him, you can write me a song, maybe maybe
there's a chance. So he took that and he left
and he said he was going to do it, but
of course, she was the one who wrote all their songs,

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so he found it hard to write the songs, and
he tried to get out from underneath Madison's blackmailing by
showing the ring footage that proved Lila didn't hurt Madison,
but Madison ended up just deleting it, so now it's
just her word against Lila and his, and now he's
back to being blackmailed. And also in that moment, Madison

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took the song, took the book Lila's book of songs,
so that way he didn't have them and she could
use them, which after connecting with Taros, a evil music producer,
they came up with a plan to get Kevin to
ask him to help write the songs, which would then
put Kevin in Taros's debt forever and they would just

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continue to make money both of them and Madison also
worked with Tarot's to release the songs that Lila had
in her book as if they were Madison's own songs.
But Kevin wasn't one to just work with Taro's. Madison
knew that it had to be his thought, that it
had to be Kevin's decision, so they had to make

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it in a way to be that. Kevin was making
the decision to work with Taro's, while Jack was doing
everything in his power to get Lila and her songs
out there and make her a star. So he had
them posted on YouTube for people to see, posted out
there for people to listen to, and when Madison came
out with her songs, he made sure that they were

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all out there. All of Lila's songs were out there
so that way everyone knew that these were Lila songs
and not Madison's. To try and stop Madison. When Kevin
came back to record the song for the label that
he wrote with Taros, his manager knew that this was
not going to end well, that they were going to
be indebted to Taro's forever, so he went rushing to Lila,

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and of course it happened to be on her wedding
day to try and get her to help stop this
from happening. Lyla says she will help to keep Kevin
from being under Taros's thumb, and the two end up
singing for this showcase. Lila's song Charms, but of course
after they finished singing, she tells him this is the
one time thing They're done and goes back to Jack

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to marry him, and Kevin follows but realizes that she's
happy and he doesn't want to ruin that, so leaves
the sign divorce papers leaves to let them be happy.
Which this is another one that is very similar to
Flareflow's other series called Forgiveness No Heartbreak after ninety nine Forgivenesses,

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which starred Mariah and Eric. So it was basically along
the same lines that you know, these two were married.
She gave him ninety nine chances, he stuck with the
ex girlfriend, broke her heart, she laughed and married someone else.
But it was a boxer in the Mariah and Eric
one versus singers, but they were both on Flareflow. So

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I know I've mentioned it in another episode another podcast episode,
that this is something that tends to happen sometimes with
these apps. I don't think I've ever really seen it
happen on the same app. I know I've seen it
on like two different apps that they basically dropped the
same series or story at the same time. There's just

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a little bit of a difference to them. So I
do know that it does happen. But I loved that
this one had like a musical element, and there was
actually songs and Kenny, who played Kevin, and Nicole who
played Lilah were both singing in this, and I loved
hearing them both sing. Would love for them to do
another series that involved singing too, because both have really

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good voices and I loved it, So hopefully maybe more
projects will come for them to sing Fingers crossed. So
going into this, some of my thoughts was definitely questioning
two different things. One of them was Lilah left the
songbook behind. I mean, I get leaving behind like the

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song that showed how much he hurt her, but I
was kind of confused as to why she left the
whole book because wouldn't she want those songs like to
be able to use them or was it just one
of those things that these were specifically for his band
and she was going to let him use it. So
that just kind of confused me a bit as to
why she left the whole book behind, because in not

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to compare the two in a sense, but in Heartbreaks
after ninety nine forgivenesses, she left the journal behind because
it detailed every single time he hurt her and every
single time she asked for the Pearl, which was her
version of the Charm, so that one I could understand
because he could read through that versus the song book,
which there was only really two songs that we saw.

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Let me put it that way, two songs that we saw,
one of which was never really written because she had
put on the top. It's over was one of the
other ones, and then Charms was the other one. So
I feel like if she had just left the Charm song,
it still would have had the same impact. But I
guess they needed the whole Madison trying to steal everything too,

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so maybe that's why they kind of did that. It
was just one of those things where it was like, wait,
why is she leaving the whole book behind and not
just the song Charms. And speaking of the book, so
we know that Madison stole Llila's book out of Kevin's bag.
She had possession of it. She had possession of the
song Charms. So in the end, when Lila showed up

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with the song ripped from the book, where did she
get it and how did she get it? Because it
was in Madison's possession, I could understand if maybe she
had another copy, like she wrote it out or she
put it somewhere, so that way she had multiple copies
or something, but it looked like the actual copy ripped

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from the notebook, So where where did that come from?
How did she get that? Like that confused me and
kind of made me want to go, like, that's not
how that works. And I don't always like to nitpick,
but I had to nickpick at this because I'm just like,
how Madison has it? So how did she get it?

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I think it would have been better had she rewrote
it on another piece of paper and it didn't look
like it was supposed to be the one in the notebook,
because that's what it was. Was like the copy she
had made it look like it was the one that
was in the notebook, and she just wripped it out,
which she didn't have possession of. So so it's just

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she shouldn't have had that paper. They should have had
two copies. Is kind of like a prop one that
looked like it was from the notebook and then one
that looked like it was rewritten by hand type of thing.
But that's just me questioning that one thing, and then
another thing with this, which isn't really a nitpick or

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an issue. It's just me kind of watching it going,
I was kind of hoping that Kevin Andlilah might end
up not together because I knew they weren't going to
end up together, because that's not how this was going
to end up. She was going to end up with
Jack no matter what. But I was kind of rooting
for them to make amends and him to write this
song about how much he knew he heard her and

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exposing Madison for all the shit she did, and then
I kind of like, Okay, maybe we'll give it a
second shot. And again, I know that's never gonna happen
because that's not how the'se right, but that's kind of
where I was hoping this was going for, like, because
it just felt that there was more of an opportunity
for Kevin and Lilah to kind of find forgiveness and

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find their way back to each other. A little bit
verse when watching like ninety nine Heartbreaks after ninety nine
forgiveness is there wasn't really a way. And I know
that doesn't all make sense, but I think the way
the story was written kind of made it seem one
was never going to find forgiveness, whereas the other one.

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You could kind of see that there may be a
chance for forgiveness. So this one ninety nine Charms ninety
nine Heartbreaks, I saw a chance for forgiveness with Lila
and Kevin, and I was kind of rooting for that,
and I was kind of sad that that didn't happen,
But at the same time I knew what it never
was because he had heard her too much and he

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didn't believe her in all this. But I was also
definitely kind of hoping, like I said, he would write
this hit that would show he knew he had hurt
Lila and exposed Madison. And it was sad that that's
not how they went, but I think that would have
been a fun way to go that if he took
all the manipulating and anger he had with what was

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happening with Madison and turned that into a song and
took all that pain he caused, not Madison but Lila
and wrote it into I think it could have been
a great song. And I wish they had done that,
because I don't know. I think it would have been
a great way to do things versus having him not
being able to write and then looking to help and

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ended up making a deal with the devil in a sense,
but I see how that kind of brings a little
bit more drama doing it that way, and these are
very much about bringing the drama and bringing the issues.
So this is how we ended up with him not
being able to write the song, needing the help her
ending up with the music producer instead, which it still

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ends up with a good story, and it still ends
up with a nice kind of ending because he being Kevin,
walked away and let Lila be happy, and that was
the best thing he could do, was to allow Lilah
to finally be happy have someone who chooses her and
only her. So it was a happy ending in a sense,

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especially for Lila. She was getting her music career in
a way and getting the guy at the same time.
It was a great way to end it. And I
would definitely, probably, definitely, probably, I would definitely watch it again,
especially just to hear the songs in it. And I
do believe that Flair Flow posted those on YouTube as well,

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so we'll have to check those out just to listen
to them again and again. I hope, you know, Nicole
and Kenny are able to do more projects where they
get to sing, because they do have good voices and
I really enjoyed listening to the songs, and I kind
of hope that verticals do more series like this where
the actors are singing or an actor slash actresses singing,
because I think there definitely should be more of those.

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I feel like there really aren't as many out there
or I just haven't seen them, which I might have
to go looking into that to see if there are more.
But I would definitely love to see more of these
type of verticals and series where you got the actors singing,
because I do enjoy a musical here and there. So
this has been Flare Flows ninety nine, Charms ninety nine Heartbreaks,

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and I keep forgetting I've started reading everything, so I'm like,
I haven't written down what I would rate it, but
this one would probably be an eight out of ten
because I really enjoyed it. But I was also very
sad that Leila and Kevin didn't get back together, even
though I know it wasn't going to happen, but I
was still sad about that, but it was still very cute.
I enjoyed everything about it, and this has been my

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vertical of session till next time.