aira 6 Share Posted June 4, 2021 (edited) (I saw a similar thread to this at the end of this board, but since it hasn't been updated since 2016, I thought it would be fun to "revive" the idea!) I don't know about anyone else, but sometimes, when I hear a song, I IMMEDIATELY think of one of my characters! It's to the point that I have a Spotify account completely devoted to character playlists- I think at one point I had well over 50 songs total for three characters? I digress! My point is- I wanted to know if 1) anyone else is the same, and 2) what those songs are and 3) why they fit your character! It could be a song that YOU think would fit your character, a song you think your character would listen too; anything that has to do with your lovely character creations! I'll start.. Not Dead Yet by Lord Huron fits my character Adrian Bell to a tee. An ex-cop who just happens to be a werewolf, Adrian has been through a lot, but he refuses to give up hope (at least so far). From losing his father weeks after his nineteenth birthday, to his best friend's disappearance fifteen years later, to a brutal injury that almost cost him his independence mere months ago, it's a wonder he's not dead yet. (I'm editing this after less than a half hour, because browsing YouTube, I found another one! This Sam Tsui and Kurt Hugo Schneider cover of Swedish House Mafia's song, Don't You Worry Child, really encapsulates Adrian's memories of his past.) Edited June 4, 2021 by aira Working on it... Check back soon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hysteria 56 Share Posted June 5, 2021 (edited) Music is a love of mine, so of course I'd devote several songs to an array of characters, a recent one being Rain Paris's cover of Montero for Evelyn (rich, talented, obsessive, and used by others - often knowingly, - for the thrill of it). Something about it just...fits. >.>;;; Spoiler because mild cursing involved. Spoiler A sign of the times every time that I speak A dime and a nine, it was mine every week What a time, an incline, God was shinin' on me Now I can't leave And now I'm actin' hella elite Never want the bitches that's in my league I wanna fuck the ones I envy, I envy - Montero (lyric snippet), Rain Paris Edited June 5, 2021 by Hysteria Lil edit for warning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophie Hatter 38 Share Posted June 12, 2021 i love this! for my main bb nell, she has several themes and all of them are SAD. she's the kind of easy-breezy, nice to talk to character with deep secrets and a past that haunts her. a lot of the songs that make me think of her have to do with leaving and feeling far away, or of loneliness and disappointment. nova scotia - the mountain goats always gives me this wistful feeling and even being short, it's probably THE theme song for her. Spoiler Coming in off Nova Scotia Yellow sun in the blue sky All those cattails in the wind I got something in my eye Listen, everything I love I will devour And bury the bones down in the snow Put me in a beat up el camino Just let me go, just let me go are you ten years ago? (demo) - tegan and sara - probably the one song i feel like perfectly captures a lot of her mindset and her struggle with depression. Spoiler Taken, I am yours (If you go, you go) I'm up and doing circles I am taken, I am yours (If you go, you go) I'm up and doing circles I am taken, I am yours (If you go, you go) I'm up and doing circles I am taken, I am yours (If you go, you go) I'm up and doing circles I collapse I might stay out longer then I left a light on for you then If you show, you show If you show, you show When I feel like this When I get so into myself I lose track of where I'm going then Lose track of how to get going again I feel myself slowing down Feel myself turning round Is this taken? When I feel like this When I get so sick of myself Where are you going then Without me and not knowing then That we're slowing down You've got to turn right around And tell me that I'm taken then Tell me if I'm yours You collapse The pressure of this life is so You can't be held accountable If you go, you go If you go, you go When you act like this When you get so sick of yourself The whole world falls away and since I feel like I have only missed The feeling that I'm here again The feeling that I'm clear again I'm not taken When you act like this When you get so into yourself I lose sight of common goals And letting go, so I can be all alone Feel myself going slow Feel myself letting go Not taken Not feeling like I'm yours I am taken, I am yours (If you go, you go) I'm up and doing circles I am taken, I am yours (If you go, you go) I'm up and doing circles I am taken, I am yours (If you go, you go) I'm up and doing circles I am taken, I am yours (If you go, you go) I'm up and doing circles I collapse This life looks like a sentence Though a constant game of falling short If you know, you know If you know, you know When I feel like this When I'm just so sick of feeling less than perfect Isn't right for me I never fight to see If coming clean would get to me I feel myself holding back I feel the pressure, it's finally back I'm taken When you felt like this When you saw it all come crashing down Subtle but not underground I was there, I saw the signs I saw unfair and so I write to you through other means I let myself finally feel taken Like I was yours I am taken, I am yours (I feel sick) I'm up and doing circles (I feel) (x10) I collapse I collapse I collapse vienna - the fray after what, a decade? this is still the song that inspires me to write this character when i hear it. as someone who left home when she was very young to become a pokemon master only to have that dream ripped away, it has this other layer for the universe i write her in now. Spoiler The day's last one-way ticket train pulls in We smile for the casual closure capturing There goes the downpour Here goes my fair thee well There's really no way to reach me There's really no way to reach me There's really no way to reach me 'Cause I'm already gone Only so many words that we can say Spoken upon long-distance melody This is my hello This is my goodness There's really no way to reach me There's really no way to reach me There's really no way to reach me 'Cause I'm already gone Maybe in five or ten yours and mine will meet again Straighten this whole thing out Maybe then honesty need not be feared as a friend or an enemy This is the distance And this is my game face There's really no way to reach me There's really no way to reach me Is there really no way to reach me? Am I already gone? So this is your maverick This is Vienna the ocean is a good place to think of the future - los campesinos! since my character has a connection with the ocean, this just always makes me think of her. and the "a thousand lines in perfect symmetry" always gets me, considering she had a twin she lost at a young age. Spoiler I grabbed hold of her wrist and my hand closed from tip to tip I said, you've taken the diet too far, you've got to let it slip But she's not eating again, she's not eating again She's not eating again, she's not eating again I ask her to speak French and then I need her to translate I get the feeling she makes the meaning more significant She was always far too pretty for me To believe in a single word she said, believe a word she said At fourteen her mother died in a routine operation From allergic reaction to a general anesthetic Spent the rest of her teens experimenting with prescriptions In a futile attempt to know more than the doctors She said, one day to leave her Sand up to her shoulders waiting for the tide To drag her to the ocean, to another sea's shore This thing hurts like hell but what did you expect And all you can hear is the sound of your own heart And all you can feel is your lungs flood and the blood course But oh I can see five hundred years dead set ahead of me Five hundred behind, a thousand years in perfect symmetry Best known left wrist right finger through all the southern states On every video games machine they call her triple A There were racists on the radio trying to give up smoking The chat show host, he joked You have to wait for the government program You talk about your politics And I wonder if you could be one of them But you could never kiss a Tory boy Without wanting to cut off your tongue again A good place to look to the future is When you are sat at the sea With the salt up to your ankles And a view of the end of the pier You may look down at your model's feet And wish that you'd just float away And the weather here is overcast And the sea is the same shade of gray So the landscape before you looks just like the edge of the world But to the left side and the right side Either way is a crazy golf course The sea is a good place to think of the future And all you can hear is the sound of your own heart And all you can feel is your lungs flood and the blood course But oh I can see five hundred years dead set ahead of me Five hundred behind, a thousand years in perfect symmetry A thousand years no getting rid of me A thousand years in perfect symmetry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice 0 Share Posted June 18, 2021 Glitter and Gold by Barns Courtney screams to be the anthem for my bitcher lion... not really sure why but every time I hear it I think of her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indie 0 Share Posted September 9, 2021 The song "Bad Things" by Rayland Baxter just screams my character, Kaiden, to me! ❤️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caporushes 8 Share Posted September 9, 2021 Oh I absolutely love doing this! I usually have a writing playlist for each of my characters that I just throw any song that makes me think of them into. But lately I've been having fun trying to distill those lists (which get REALLY long, over 100 tracks usually) into "best of" playlists that are about an hour long. The hour is arbitrary, but it seemed a good length of something I could inflict on someone. I get really into it, so it's hard to whittle it down lower than that... (I was aiming for 10 songs originally, but a top 10 is SO hard.) But as far as top tracks for each of my current active characters go... For Aurelie, I think it's got to be Steamboat by Adrianne Lenker. Not just the lyrics but Lenker's voice and delivery on this one are just such the right vibe for her. Particularly relevant lyrics: Spoiler I guess I am human, but sometimes I feel Like I'm only a ghost, like I'm only a wall .... Oh, I wish I was better at being alone Still every night, I call you on the phone Oh, I wish I was more than my skin and my bone For Charlie, that's actually a little harder... I think it's probably Thursday Girl by Mitski, or Life of the Party by Allie X. Thursday girl has that kind of fragility/self-destructiveness that I think is really key to his character, but Life of the Party has more of the denial/attention-seeking aspect which is also important. (The boy is a mess.) Spoiler Thursday Girl: Glory, glory, glory to the night It shows me what I am (Glory) I'm not happy or sad, just up or down And always bad Life of the Party: I made so many friends last night They all wanted to know me I can't say they were polite But I know they really got me And we told a lot of jokes So clever when I'm tipsy Even when I nodded out I was center of the action And finally, my mean scrappy teen Cerise... Her anthem is actually instrumental, I think! Wildcat by Ratatat is the one I think of as being firmly the Cerise Anthem. (The breakdown at 2:00 is like really good... Just such a good Vibe.) It's harder for me to pick One Song with lyrics that I think is really the Cerise Image Song. I think if I had to pick one, it would be Seashore by the Regrettes. (Strong/explicit language in the lyrics on that one.) The chorus in particular is just perfect. Spoiler I'm like nobody else, so you can just go fuck yourself I do a lot of stupid stuff but don't act like you're so tough As you can see... I get super into it!! Hahaha. A Gilded Age 18+ Original Fantasy RPG Site | Lore | Rules | Getting Started | Discord Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
constellaria 0 Share Posted October 23, 2021 You and me by Yelawolf. There's a line in there that fits her so well. "To get everything I wanted in this lifetime, I had to put my beliefs on the front line." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
britata 6 Share Posted December 12, 2021 I'm not sure so much about anthems, but there are definitely songs that remind me of certain parts of my characters. I wouldn't say any have an overarching, defining song. I think the closest I have would be Fly by Nicki Minaj ft Rihanna for my character Sayed. He always feels like he's the underdog of his story and people want to just bring him down, but he's just going to keep fighting them back and try to survive. The unfortunate thing is that he often causes problems to happen to him lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlettpawprints 5 Share Posted December 12, 2021 Only one of mine has an anthem and every time I hear it on my playlist I think of them. Song: Happy by Young Rising Sons (please check it out. It's awesome!) Character: A quiet, grumpy type with a bad past who is generally a good person. They don't like themselves but I'm taking them on a journey of self-discovery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voidhead 3 Share Posted August 8, 2022 For my character Jaime, who's a very old man (800s and still going!), who's also embitterened by a lot of things that happened to him, it would definitely be Wilderness by Joy Division. Especially the first verses: I travelled far and wide through many different times What did you see there? I saw the saints with their toys What did you see there? I saw all knowledge destroyed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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