the playlist meme

[singhelpers]

THE PLAYLIST MEME

Inspired by a few conversations on discord (thanks Kates!)
—Post a top level with the your character, and a song or playlist that reminds you of them or you've made
—Tag in to others with songs that remind you of cr, or their character in general
—Listen to some sweet, sweet jams

Comments

Holland March | The Nice Guys

[questioningmermaids]

I have a playlist that I write his tags with here. It's a lot of instrumental 70s-esque lo-fi beats, if that makes sense.

Great for jamming, just energetic to not put you to sleep but not distracting enough to cut off your concentration.

Tom Zane | Remedyverse

[sukeltaja]

Tom's playlist is mostly psychedelic rock for obvious reasons!

A special shout out to the poet and the muse, a canonical, in-universe song about him and the events that 'took place' before the first alan wake.

Wynonna Earp | Wynonna Earp

[pacificator]

I have a frightening number of Wynonna-adjacent playlists. Here is the one I made for Sing, which is under constant construction. Some of the songs are for her, some of them are for CR, some are for the game environment. It's a mix of genres but mostly rock and country-rock.

Have some other songs (first two with fanvids to accompany them! Warnings for Wynonna Earp spoilers through season 1 and a few for season 2):

— If I had to pick only one song to represent Wynonna, it's gotta be Gun in My Hand by Dorothy. Asking was it for redemption? was it for revenge? just fits S1 Wynonna and her core conflicts too perfectly.

— Raise Hell by Brandi Carlile is another great one for her that really leans into the outlaw/wild west feel of the series.

— And, of course, the series theme song Tell That Devil by Jill Andrews, along with its acoustic version (IYKYK).

Benton Fraser | Due South

[maintiensledroit]

Fraser has a Sing playlist too!

There are a few songs that always make me think of him:

— Ride Forever is a country song written and performed by Fraser's actor, Paul Gross, in the show, and though the lyrics don't necessarily feel like Fraser to me, the overall message and feeling of the song — all about things that change and stay the same and freedom that's grounded in his homeland — definitely does. (Worth watching all the way through the video to see dozens of Mounties ride out of a train.)

— you cannot escape Sarah McLachlen while watching Due South, and the number one Sarah McLachlen song associated with the show is Possession, which is the theme to the toxic, doomed love between Fraser and the criminal Victoria Metcalfe.

— Northwest Passage by Stan Rogers could easily be Fraser's personal soundtrack. Not only does it reference the doomed Franklin expedition (which Fraser is canonically fascinated by) but it speaks to his desire to be an explorer and to leave cities and people behind and strike out alone under and open sky.

[solitarysoul]

Levi has a tiny little playlist here. The first and third songs were picked by someone else as songs that fit him, so i cant take full credit ^^;

Cornelius Hickey | The Terror (AMC)

[friendsfordinner]

so Hickey has two semi-official playlists, b/c the showrunner for The Terror has been doing a thing recently where he's made playlists for the characters (normal Hickey and an AU where Hickey's fucking medicated)

however, my playlist is better because Dave K is a COWARD and hasn't included any Eurovision songs. some highlights from my playlist include:

The Distance - Cake. Stopping and accepting your fate is for LOSERS, even if everybody else has accepted things and stopped the race. Keep going. Don't stop.

Rowboat Mayor - They Might Be Giants. What do you mean it's a bit embarrassing to be the boss of the world's smallest group. Sounds fake. Don't trust you.

Congratulations - Silvia Night. The anthem for delusional egotists everywhere.

Dorian Gray | The Confessions of Dorian Gray

[brushoff]

I've got a Dorian playlist here so time to highlight a few selections that I really like!!

"Eighth Wonder" - Lemon Demon. I am going to need everybody to google Gef the talking mongoose right now. Aside from that, it's a very Dorian coded song. Just so much bragging, so much self-aggrandizement, 'oooooh I'm so spooky and haunted' but like...it's a mongoose. Or a normal-ass dude. Just push him out a window and that'll incapacitate him for a bit.

"Chandelier" - Sia. Hey what if we just ignore all our trauma and repress all the horrors and do cocaine. Sounds great, A+ strategy, no notes.

"Love Song for a Vampire" - Annie Lennox. This is just Dorian and his dead vampire soulmate boyfriend. This is their anthem. They both are that fucking dramatic.

Edward Little | The Terror

[fidior]

→ Ned's official playlist from The Terror showrunner is a pretty incredible thing to have at-hand as a writer (with one track picked out by his actor himself, which I am perfectly normal about: Leaders of the Free World)

→ I've also been picking at creating a playlist of my own over the past couple years, but I'm notoriously bad for actually FINISHING them and I need to edit & fine-tune before properly sharing... one of these days I will finish this thing.... but until then, a song in particular that is like His Song TM for me is Two Dogs Tethered Inside by Emily Wells! The lyrics are in the description — all the Ned dog motif things, his heart, and it always reminds me of the moment when he was surrounded by the remaining men / being challenged by Tozer because I feel that was such a momentous point for him and when he started to like. Really Be Changed by everything but also he's this loyal dog that holds on / comes back... ANYWAY, please lmk if you have any Ned Songs up your sleeves because I am always on the hunt for them to add!!

Konstantin Veshnyakov | Sputnik

[sputnik]

→ It's still very much In The Works, but I do have a little Kostya playlist here that is mostly instrumental spacey horror things atm! I listen to a lot of Colin Stetson just in general too for those delicious cosmic horror sounds for several of my characters, and for Kostya, Stetson's Colour Out of Space album is perfection 👌

→ But I would honestly love any recs for him because I really want to get this one up & finished one of these days, too — any spooky space things, 80's vibes, Soviet Union vibes... general ookiness... "running away from your problems" is also always on the Kostya Table