Let's suggest theme songs for other people's characters! If you want to participate, post a comment asking for [X theme] for your character. I'll start us off.
ETA: Confession, I have a really long carefully curated murder ballad playlist because I love them, but this is the first one to come to mind as actually suiting Jedao. Too many of them are specifically about murdering lovers or avenging their mothers!
This is a real challenge - I don't remember any of the names of the cantatas my church choir sang, when I was in church. (Save that one of them involved major amounts of Handel. Oh, Handel.)
Sleepers, Wake is always a good choice, though, and suitable for the newly-conscious moth.
Woah, that is a fun music video! And very fun song- maybe a bit more upbeat and energetic than I would think for Sulen, but gosh, it's gorgeous- makes me feel like I'm going on a fantasy adventure.
HEre's another Red Velvet one that Reshad might like: Umpah Umpah [Youtube MV, work-safe]
For something a little sillier, here's Red Velvet's English version of Really Bad Boy [Youtube]. Okay, maybe a LOT sillier. Uh, content note for werewolf/Halloween imagery?
Maybe Indila's Run run run? (Though in fairness, I like it for Reshad partly because the lyrics are much less upbeat than the music: "Prêt à sacrifier tout pour ton job" indeed!)
Not pop and not a Reshad song, but I'm reminded of Margaret Davis's "Chanson de la Mariée" [Youtube] which sounds peaceful and contemplative musically but if you understand the French, oof.
especially Iron ("A soldier on my own, I don't know the way") and The Other Side ("And in the arms of endless anger / Will end the story of a soldier in the dark")
Themes for Dar -> Nostalgia *or* Her Current Situation
Peter Gabriel's "I Grieve" might be fitting. Not just for the tie to sad memories, but also because the tune changes towards the end and becomes more...I'm not sure I'd quite say upbeat, but nevertheless suits the 'life goes on' thread of the lyrics. Which seems suited to Dar.
If you've read any of the Expanse books, they talk about Belter music as a fusion of many different influences from earth, matching the cultural fusion of the Belters themselves. I was thinking a style like that would be popular in clubs and such in Xiulan's timeline. Anyone have any suggestions for music that might fit that description?
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hexarchate_rpg2020-03-31 01:20 pm
the most Jedao murder ballads
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ETA: Confession, I have a really long carefully curated murder ballad playlist because I love them, but this is the first one to come to mind as actually suiting Jedao. Too many of them are specifically about murdering lovers or avenging their mothers!
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the least Jedao ballads
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the best cantatas for the Cantata
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Sleepers, Wake is always a good choice, though, and suitable for the newly-conscious moth.
Instrumentals for Sulen?
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Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2
Mozart's Fantasia in D Minor for Piano
(I have played two out of three of these, guess which ones haha)
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Breton an Bro - Maggie Sansone and co.
Binary Sunset - John Williams and the London Symphony Orchestra (from the Star Wars A New Hope Original Soundtrack)
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Pop or electronica for Reshad?
Other strongly rhythmic and upbeat music welcome, of course.
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(What. It's definitely summer in Louisiana!)
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It is definitely not summer here, so I'll take the summery sound!
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For something a little sillier, here's Red Velvet's English version of Really Bad Boy [Youtube]. Okay, maybe a LOT sillier. Uh, content note for werewolf/Halloween imagery?
(G)I-DLE's What's in Your House? [lyric video, work-safe]
And one more for the road--Chung Ha's "Snapping" [music video] has random-ass fencers. XD
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I enjoyed this, thanks.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE9tV1WGTgE
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Well, gosh, if we want upbeat pop with surprisingly grim lyrics, there's always:
Little Talks - Of Monsters and Men
Maybe she'd also like:
San Francisco - The Mowglis
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Songs for Wayward Hawks
More on a theme than a genre, I'm a fan of all kinds of genres
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Lots of thoughts about war and being a soldier .. folk music and pop,
The Universal Soldier - Donovan (written by Buffy Sainte-Marie,)
No Mans Land - Eric Bogle (Live)
Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag - Country Joe and the Fish, live at Woodstock
Goodnight Saigon - Billy Joel
99 Red Balloons - Nena
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especially Iron ("A soldier on my own, I don't know the way") and The Other Side ("And in the arms of endless anger / Will end the story of a soldier in the dark")
Themes for Dar -> Nostalgia *or* Her Current Situation
She also hasn't told anybody much about those memories.
Have at it.
a dar for dar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PdTpGPKzmQ
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Oh, I like that! I know the first two artists a bit.
Yes, Dar's come by way of sorrow.
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old songs for Sasha
Fusion Music for Xiulan
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Tenpenny Joke's "She"
Keny Arkana's "Ils ont peur de la liberté"
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I have a theory that Moroccan pop would be right for this description, but I haven't found anything that's a really great lyrical match yet.
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