Fandom: The Musical
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fictional_fansLet's talk music and fandom!
- What songs do you think would suit a character, scene or plotline in one your fandoms perfectly?
- Have you ever written a filk (song parody) or posted a fanvid? Link to it below!
- Do you like musicals? How about musical movies and TV shows?
- Are you in any music-related fandoms? (Theater, bandom...)
- What songs do you think would suit a character, scene or plotline in one your fandoms perfectly?
- Have you ever written a filk (song parody) or posted a fanvid? Link to it below!
- Do you like musicals? How about musical movies and TV shows?
- Are you in any music-related fandoms? (Theater, bandom...)
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Date: 2020-04-20 02:17 pm (UTC)I've been into Les Miserables fandom on and off, I also really enjoy "Wicked" but don't do fandom for it. I have a love/hate relationship with Chess: the musical, mostly because I wanted it to be more about, you know, chess, and also because it has about twenty different versions so it can't decide on what plot it wants to be never mind themes. (I'm exaggerating, but not by much.)
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Date: 2020-04-20 02:26 pm (UTC)I love "Wicked" but haven't done much with the fandom in years! I never did a whole lot to begin with.
Part I: Filks
Date: 2020-04-20 02:48 pm (UTC)- What songs do you think would suit a character, scene or plotline in one your fandoms perfectly?
- I think Wicked's "The Wizard and I" fits the trio and Draco (Harry Potter) post-Sorting. I actually see Neville, Ginny and Luna joining them at the second stanza.
- "Strip Away My Conscience" from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend brings Buffy and Spike to mind. "Hello, Nice To Meet You" makes me think of Buffy/Faith, kind of. (Even if Buffy/Faith was never technically canon. But even Eliza Dushku ships it, so...)
- Speaking of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, I see "For the First Time In Forever" as being very season one Rebecca. Elsa's darker addition to the song would be Rebecca in her sadder moments. :(
- Have you ever written a filk (song parody) or posted a fanvid? Link to it below!
I've written quite a few filks. Here are two that I could find.
1. This isn't really a filk, but it's "Walk Through the Fire" from Buffy's Once More With Feeling merged with "Let It Go" from Frozen.
2. My commentary on LJ selling out to Mother Russia once and for all, to the tune of "Somebody That I Used to Know." https://author-by-night.dreamwidth.org/1024810.html#cutid1
- Do you like musicals? How about musical movies and TV shows?
I very much enjoy stage musicals. I don't want to claim I have any expertise, I very much do not, but I definitely like them. I also enjoy movie musicals and TV shows. That said, I don't really seek movie/show musicals or stage musicals out, for some reason.
My favorite stage musical is probably Wicked, although I honestly don't think I've ever NOT liked a stage musical. Movie and TV musicals, on the other hand... well, I won't go into a rant. Let's just say some are better than others. :)
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Date: 2020-04-20 03:06 pm (UTC)I have written a few song parody filks, they can be found here.
I tried posting a fanvid before, but it got eaten by a copyright claim. I haven't been inspired since. However, I have thought about singing covers of songs before (and maybe my filks).
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Date: 2020-04-20 03:29 pm (UTC)That didn't stop me with Les Miserables, though! I even posted a fic for it based on song lyrics.
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Date: 2020-04-20 03:36 pm (UTC)Recently another Jeeves and Wooster fan started writing a "Joostical". I've been kicking around a rewrite of "Bill" from Showboat (lyrics co-written by P.G. Wodehouse) called "Just My Jeeves". And perhaps a reprise by Jeeves, "Just My Sir". I love writing lyrics!
I adore musicals and have probably seen 99% of all musicals made before 1960.
Addendum: I just finished a project on Tumblr where I tracked down all of the songs referenced in the TV show and dug up the original recordings from the 1920s. Then I combed through "Thank You Jeeves" (the novel) and dug up the songs mentioned in the book where he plays the banjolele!
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Date: 2020-04-20 03:41 pm (UTC)but I adapted it to French too) but uh as English is not my first language I fear that rhymes were all over the place and I feel doubly self-conscious about it.no subject
Date: 2020-04-20 04:07 pm (UTC)I like musicals, if I like the music, but I don't seek them out intentionally, so I don't see/hear many. However, I've played several rhythm games (my favorite is
cheertappingOsu! Tatakae! Ouendan!) and like the soundtracks for a lot of games. And I'm into figure skating, where music choice and cuts are kind of important and get discussed a lot.no subject
Date: 2020-04-20 04:09 pm (UTC)The best musical ever is Once More With Feeling. But I'm generally in favour of musicals.
I am trying to think of music for people; but Crowley's Queen based soundtrack is drowning anything else out.
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Date: 2020-04-20 04:28 pm (UTC)As for musical TV shows, I'm a big fan of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. I also tried Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist but that one wasn't really for me.
I used to make fanvids but I don't really post them online anymore. Some songs I used that I thought fit certain shows/characters pretty well:
-Storytime (Nightwish) for the Eleventh Doctor and his various companions
-Brick By Boring Brick (Paramore) for Amy Pond
-Runaway (P!nk) for Amy Pond
-Dog Days Are Over (Florence + the Machine) for Clara Oswald
-So Happy I Could Die (Lady Gaga) for Clara Oswald
-Long Way Around (Dixie Chicks) for DW companions in general
-Starlight (Muse) for the Voyager crew in general
I stopped making them before I got into Discovery but there's a whole list of songs I think fit that and other shows that I never got to make vids for...
I sometimes try to make song parodies but usually don't get very far with them. I did, however, make a parody of "Wicked Girls" by Seanan McGuire that was about Doctor Who companions but I never posted it anywhere. I then tried to make another parody of the same song about the mirror universe but that one didn't get finished.
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Date: 2020-04-20 05:10 pm (UTC)i'm in the hello project fandom right now! h!p is basically a collective of japanese female idol groups (and soloists, but not currently lol) and they're known for being really skilled and always releasing bops. i'm super obsessed with it right now, it's all i talk about hehe. i don't write any fics because rpf isn't my thing but i make a lot of idol graphics over at my graphics journal.
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Date: 2020-04-20 05:17 pm (UTC)I always and ever love music and musical fandoms, and have even defiantly written a couple of stories about musical performances (only in LOTR, though, I think, since the characters sing all the time there). This question is inspiring me to get back to work on the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy story I keep meaning to write about Oscar Isaac's beautiful singing ability.
I also ADORE musicals. I probably shouldn't even get started on that.
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Date: 2020-04-20 05:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-04-20 05:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-04-20 10:06 pm (UTC)and if I'm really lucky, they can point me at a free and preferably open-source video editor that won't crash my computer. million bonus points if I can figure out how to use it! (I miss Windows Movie Maker so bad)
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Date: 2020-04-20 10:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-04-21 12:15 am (UTC)maybe it won't crash this one?
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Date: 2020-04-28 12:06 am (UTC)If you're still looking for programs, I've had a little bit of luck with Wondershare Filmora for doing the really basic cut-video-into-bits-and-put-music-over-it type things, and have been pretty happy with HitFilm Express for doing slightly more complicated things. I have to look up tutorials for HitFilm every once and a while, but for the most part the things I want to do come pretty easy.
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Date: 2020-04-28 12:13 am (UTC)SWEET
not gonna download HitFilm at this time because the emoji on the name-your-price slider sobs when I slide it down to zero and then they ask for my email address, and I might download it if they did only one of those two things, but since they are doing both, I shall not unless Wondershare Filmora turns out not to do something I want it to.
thank you!
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Date: 2020-04-28 09:16 pm (UTC)Dell: your machine has the most recent drivers! also your warranty expired in 2011
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so when's my corona stimulus money turning up, again?
(I mailed my paper 2019 return at the start of the month, so soon? in theory?)
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Date: 2020-04-20 06:38 pm (UTC)- There are so, so many songs on various character playlists, and not a one of them is coming to mind right now.
- Both! A lot of the filk is very old and not very good, and I haven't completed any in quite a while, but there's a couple I tossed up online that I'm still mostly proud of - Evil Book, to Seanan McGuire's Evil Laugh, and Why Did We All Have to Go?, a road trip story set to Somebody That We Used to Know.
I have made exactly two vids almost ten years ago, and keep meaning to try and start making more. One of them was basically an in-joke; the other is a Doctor Who vid that still lives on youtube here.
- Musicals and musical movies are some of my favorite forms of entertainment. I've done a few TV shows too -- I loved Galavant, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and the first season of Smash (still have to watch the second).
- So, so many. Random musicals have comprised a large part of my fandom history. Currently, I spend time poking around in these: the band the Mechanisms and all the albums they've done, Paul Shapera's New Albion series of albums on bandcamp, the film The Devil's Carnival, and the stage musicals Chess and Bare: A Pop Opera. Trying to get into Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, too.
There are many, many others I've been through in the past, but that list would be kind of ridiculously long.
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Date: 2020-04-20 06:46 pm (UTC)Sanders Sides actually winds up being a fairly musical fandom for all that it's not Officially A Musical-- because it's a webshow done by a musical actor, he works songs in there whenever he can, and so we get things like the 12 Days of Christmas filk-parody episode or Remus's *extremely creepy* introduction song (after which everyone is like "...okay, but who are you; that was not informative") or the Crofters musical.
There are a number of musicals I like but don't really participate in the fandoms for.
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Date: 2020-04-20 08:02 pm (UTC)Despite being a huge music enthusiast, I'm not really a fan of musicals -- the one exception being "In The Heights". (Discovered LMM in "House" and then saw a flash mob version of "In the Heights" on YT.)
Loved the "Buffy" musical episode. It meant a lot to me as a depressed teen.
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Date: 2020-04-20 08:44 pm (UTC)I am, or, perhaps I should say, I have been, in musical fandoms, as I found LiveJournal through popslash, and remain captivated by my Nsync boys, Backstreet and, rather later, Adam Lambert. In fact, I've even written a story that fits the Backstreet Boys into The Full Monty—the stage musical more than the original film. It still pleases me, not least because somebody made a trailer for the story.
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Date: 2020-04-20 10:04 pm (UTC)also there's a number of song references in my novel-length WIP; I am particularly proud of the one where Adrien knows Marinette recommended Florence + the Machine's "Strangeness and Charm" to him because she knows he likes physics and rock music, nothing whatsoever to do with how it's a love song, as she would tell him if she had any romantic or sexual attraction to him
(spoilers: she tries to tell him she's in love with him about once an episode, and in those few instances where circumstances do not conspire to screw this up for her, she has an anxiety and backtracks. why would he think she's in love with him? she's told him repeatedly she's not!)
also really proud of the passage with the line "that one extra-American-Christian song with the lying jinnī in the bottle of bourbon"—mostly not because of that line, but that's a part I can quote without spoiling my fic
and having had the idea that Adrien wielding the Butterfly or Peacock Miraculouses (both of which grant their wielder the ability to sense people's emotions from at least some distance) will experience the empathy bit as synesthesia with music, I now need to read some music theory to figure out what the hell this frickin-expert (at least compared to me) teenage pianist would connect with what emotions! and I don't get to stick to classical piano stuff, either, even though that's where most of his experience is, 'cause he's also keyboardist in a kawaii metal band whenever he can sneak out to practice with them!
and furthermore!
The Royal Test (21517 words) by silveradept
Chapters: 9/9
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Gabriel Agreste | Papillon | Hawk Moth/Nathalie Sancoeur, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir & Le Gorille | Adrien Agreste's Bodyguard
Characters: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Alya Césaire, Nino Lahiffe, Alix Kubdel, Nathalie Sancoeur, Gabriel Agreste | Papillon | Hawk Moth, Le Gorille | Adrien Agreste's Bodyguard
Additional Tags: Songfic, The A+ Parenting of Nathalie Sancoeur, The A++ Parenting of Gabriel Agreste, Abusive Parents, Identity Reveal, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir Identity Reveal, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug Identity Reveal, Gabriel Agreste | Papillon | Hawk Moth Identity Reveal, Living Down To Your Reputation
Summary:
It only takes a spark to set off events that cannot be wound back. The unexpected loss of someone dear sends dominoes down. At the very end, only the strongest survive to begin climbing up again.
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Date: 2020-04-21 02:33 am (UTC)Some specifics:
1) I am baffled that as far as I can tell, NOBODY has EVER made a Spock vid to The Logical Song by Supertramp. This would seem to be an obvious pairing of song and character, y/y?
2) Also, why did nobody in the heyday of SG-1 fandom make a vid to Jeepers Creepers?
Jeepers Creepers, where'd ya get those peepers?
Jeepers Creepers, where'd ya get those eyes?
Gosh all git up, how'd they get so lit up?
Gosh all git up, how'd they get that size?
3) For Terminator, given how much it's about fate vs. free will, Roll the Bones by Rush is a perfect choice.
We go out in the world and take our chances
Fate is just the weight of circumstances
That's the way that lady luck dances
Roll the bones
4) For Captain America, there's an old WWII song by Bing Crosby called "There'll be a Hot Time in the Town of Berlin" particularly if you match up the "heil" lines with Cap kicking Hydra ass.
5) Back on the subject of Star Trek, whyyyyyyyy is there not a Jean-Luc Picard vid to "Have A Cuppa Tea" by THe Kinks????????????
Also, I have a whole long list of old songs that would be perfect for vids of various themes. Like, wanna do a werewolf vid? How about "Moonlight Becomes You So"?
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Date: 2020-04-21 02:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-04-21 08:23 am (UTC)Same fandom (Alphas): The song "Dare You To Move" by Switchfoot fits the character Nina and her redemption arc in the second season perfectly. "Dare you to move / dare you to pick yourself up off the floor", "maybe redemption has stories to tell", and I actually wrote a fic called "maybe forgiveness is right where you fell" from a line of that song that was an AU version of that arc. Redemption arcs for flawed and deeply hurting people, mmm… I already loved her as a favorite character, so watching her go downhill and then recover was painfully beautiful, and the song worked SO well with that. I've got other associations of music with ships or whatnot, but that one is by far the strongest.
Don't think I've ever written a filk, at least, not that I can remember. (Maybe when I was a kid and was goofing around?) I did write a poem that was a song in the story but never wrote music to go with it. I'm not so good at composition as I am at imitation and transcription as far as music goes.
I did once write a ficmix, though! The Cover and the Title Page is among my earliest writing (I think I wrote all 16 ficlets in a week or two the summer before I got my AO3 account and posted it backdated once I started incorporating my earlier fics). I didn't dare actually link to the songs on AO3 (some are not to be found on Youtube), but would happily share them with anyone who wants, as I wrote all the ficlets while listening to the respective songs and they're meant to be read while listening to the appropriate song. It's not quite what you asked but it's tangential?
I'm a very musical person, but I strangely don't care much for musicals. I have my few exceptions for musical movies, ones I grew up with - The Sound of Music, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (but NOT the Johnny Depp remake!), On Moonlight Bay / By the Light of the Silvery Moon, and most definitely the best one, The Court Jester, come to mind - but otherwise no. I remember liking The King and I some but I can barely remember it being a musical so clearly those weren't the parts that I found notable! I think I just find the whole "let's just start singing and walking around oddly now" bit very strange in general. (Oh, and the 1999 Annie - with Alicia Morton as Annie - that one I do like too. I'm picky about which version, though - because the 1999 one had an Annie that I found cute, and who could actually sing, unlike the better-known 1982 film - and it tames some of the more ridiculously child-unfriendly bits the 1982 one had.) So I'm not in any music-related fandoms, no.
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Date: 2020-04-21 08:18 pm (UTC)I adore musicals. Theatrical, Shakespearean (As You Like It has so much music in it), movie, I'll even watch the live on TV ones though they're mostly, um, less than good.
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Date: 2020-04-28 12:35 am (UTC)I was really into Les Miserables back in 2012 when the movie came out but didn't have the chance to see it live until this year. And wow! Usually when I go back and see stuff I used to be into I sort of just feel this sense of nostalgia and wonder how I ever thought it was The Absolute Best Thing Ever, but no...Les Miserables blew me away all over again. The music is just...I don't even have words. And similarly I used to be into Hamilton and can probably still recite most of it from memory. Still haven't gotten to see that one yet, haha. Maybe one day.
Other than those I have just sort of a general appreciation for Ordinary Days, Legally Blonde, Mary Poppins, Waitress...and also really anything by Irving Berlin or the Gershwins. It's sort of odd because musical theater has a certain following around it where you're expected to know and appreciate all the classics, but I didn't really have exposure to it until the past few years so I feel a bit out of place in the wider scene sometimes. :x Still, that won't stop me from enjoying them.
As for fanvids, I love them and would love to make more someday, but the only one I've ever really done is here: youtu.be/kzkZxmMDWlA which you might like if you're into Black Sails. I was into the show while listening to The Oh Hellos' discography so they became tied together in my mind. I think the lyrics and mood generally fit the show pretty well though, in a way.