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You guys
You're awesome. You just are. For all that fandom disappoints, saddens, even infuriates me, you guys always come in and remind me how fucking wonderful it is to be here. You are my cool crowd that I can't quite believe exists. It's like, I look around and see myself surrounded by all these awesome people, and I'm kind of flabbergasted by it; it seems too good to be true. How did I even get here?!
I love your comments, and I don't just mean the reviews (though don't get me wrong, those are awesome!). I love the discussion, the back and forth, the character analyzation, the voicing of our frustrations, the celebration of what triumphs there are, and the complete and utter cracktitious madness that helps keep us sane (or laughing, at least). It's all incredibly healing. Every time I lose my faith in fandom you come in and restore it back a hundredfold.
I love you guys. Team FList, forever xoxo
So! All this talk of music and songing and the like... quite a few of you were posting your playlists for awhile, and I was like I GOTTA GET IN ON THIS AT SOME POINT but keep finding myself incredibly daunted by the SHEER MAGNITUDE of the task it would be to list out every single song on my PpG-related playlists. Because, see, the thing is. I don't just have pairing playlists. As you know, I have playlists for action scenes, scenes for specific scenes in TEF, scenes that will never see the light of written day but evoke something I like that gets worked into my fic in some other way (or just a contemplative lj post), and then there's the songs for individual characters, and this isn't just the Girls and the Boys, you guys. IDEK where the fuck to start.
So I'm going to do it this way - I'm going to turn on my mp3 player and skip till I hit a song that is somehow related to PpG for me, and then you guys get to be subjected to me nerding out about it for a bit. LUCKY YOU.(You even get downloads!) All downloads are for preview purposes only and are not intended to infringe on any artist's benefits, please download responsibly or Mojo's going to come talk your ear off before he threatens to shoot you with his giant laser which will give the Girls ample time to sweep in and rescue you BUT THAT'S NEITHER HERE NOR THERE
First up on the list...
HYPER SWEET POWER by TsuShiMaMiRe
VERY FEW PEOPLE IN PPG FANDOM KNOW ABOUT TSUSHIMAMIRE AND THAT IS A SHAME. They are Japanese punk rock pop and they released a mini-album with CTN Japan centered SOLELY AROUND THE PPG.![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
jupitrie is like the only other person I've seen who has blogged about them and I share her sentiments about the music - it totally captures the original spirit and energy of the show. I mean, all of it, from the instrumentation, the very Japanese vocals, the even MORE Japanese lyrics, and even the God damn design of the album which showcases the Girls interacting with the band (BUTTERCUP IS PUNCHING HER GIRL IN THE FACE, IT'S AWESOME). I love it.
This particular song is the English version of the first track. This is on my "GirlFight" playlist. (That's not the actual name; it's just on my "Fight" playlist, but the specificity is needed to differentiate from the Fight playlist centering on the Boys. Plus it pretty much fits.)
again by Yui
OH SHIT ANOTHER J-POP SONG. Um, I haven't even watched FMA: Brotherhood, but I do love this song. It actually started on my "BoyFight" playlist (you may eventually see a recurring theme on my BoyFight playlist (spoiler: MOSTLY POP, AND GIRL!POP AT THAT)) but when I realized my GirlFight playlist was woefully lacking it migrated there. Mostly my Fight playlists are montages of the Girls/Boys kicking ass. This is all the Girls. By themselves. KICKING ASS.
Morning Grace by Ritsuko Okazaki
Okay Mojo Jojo this is not funny anymore cut it out with all the Japanese music. (Yes, my mp3 player is named Mojo Jojo.) Uhhhh so this is admittedly on my Blossom playlist. It involves TEF, so it involves dancing. She's usually practicing to this song in my head (with Brick JUST SO HAPPENING to stroll by and watch her unawares, because he's a weirdass stalker).
Kawaranai Mono (Strings version) by Yoshida Kiyoshi
... Guys I swear I have non-Japanese stuff too. I can't really get into this one too heavily, but it plays out for a very specific scene in TEF. I will tell you that it is on my Greens playlist. (And for some reason my computer always wants to rip this song with the Korean info. So, uh, IDK.)
Between Two Lungs by Florence + the Machine
OH FLORENCE YOU'VE SAVED ME. This is a fairly recent addition, and I'm not entirely sure it's going to stay, but for SOME CRAZY REASON my head keeps putting it on my Brick playlist. Freedom, release, etc. shows up a lot on my Brick playlist. He's very tightly wound.
OH MAN THE NEXT SONG WAS A GOOD ONE, TOO. (Of COURSE now I'm getting all the non-Japanese stuff. Mojo you suck.) Well. We'll just save that for next time~
I love your comments, and I don't just mean the reviews (though don't get me wrong, those are awesome!). I love the discussion, the back and forth, the character analyzation, the voicing of our frustrations, the celebration of what triumphs there are, and the complete and utter cracktitious madness that helps keep us sane (or laughing, at least). It's all incredibly healing. Every time I lose my faith in fandom you come in and restore it back a hundredfold.
I love you guys. Team FList, forever xoxo
So! All this talk of music and songing and the like... quite a few of you were posting your playlists for awhile, and I was like I GOTTA GET IN ON THIS AT SOME POINT but keep finding myself incredibly daunted by the SHEER MAGNITUDE of the task it would be to list out every single song on my PpG-related playlists. Because, see, the thing is. I don't just have pairing playlists. As you know, I have playlists for action scenes, scenes for specific scenes in TEF, scenes that will never see the light of written day but evoke something I like that gets worked into my fic in some other way (or just a contemplative lj post), and then there's the songs for individual characters, and this isn't just the Girls and the Boys, you guys. IDEK where the fuck to start.
So I'm going to do it this way - I'm going to turn on my mp3 player and skip till I hit a song that is somehow related to PpG for me, and then you guys get to be subjected to me nerding out about it for a bit. LUCKY YOU.
First up on the list...
HYPER SWEET POWER by TsuShiMaMiRe
VERY FEW PEOPLE IN PPG FANDOM KNOW ABOUT TSUSHIMAMIRE AND THAT IS A SHAME. They are Japanese punk rock pop and they released a mini-album with CTN Japan centered SOLELY AROUND THE PPG.
jupitrie is like the only other person I've seen who has blogged about them and I share her sentiments about the music - it totally captures the original spirit and energy of the show. I mean, all of it, from the instrumentation, the very Japanese vocals, the even MORE Japanese lyrics, and even the God damn design of the album which showcases the Girls interacting with the band (BUTTERCUP IS PUNCHING HER GIRL IN THE FACE, IT'S AWESOME). I love it.This particular song is the English version of the first track. This is on my "GirlFight" playlist. (That's not the actual name; it's just on my "Fight" playlist, but the specificity is needed to differentiate from the Fight playlist centering on the Boys. Plus it pretty much fits.)
again by Yui
OH SHIT ANOTHER J-POP SONG. Um, I haven't even watched FMA: Brotherhood, but I do love this song. It actually started on my "BoyFight" playlist (you may eventually see a recurring theme on my BoyFight playlist (spoiler: MOSTLY POP, AND GIRL!POP AT THAT)) but when I realized my GirlFight playlist was woefully lacking it migrated there. Mostly my Fight playlists are montages of the Girls/Boys kicking ass. This is all the Girls. By themselves. KICKING ASS.
Morning Grace by Ritsuko Okazaki
Okay Mojo Jojo this is not funny anymore cut it out with all the Japanese music. (Yes, my mp3 player is named Mojo Jojo.) Uhhhh so this is admittedly on my Blossom playlist. It involves TEF, so it involves dancing. She's usually practicing to this song in my head (with Brick JUST SO HAPPENING to stroll by and watch her unawares, because he's a weirdass stalker).
Kawaranai Mono (Strings version) by Yoshida Kiyoshi
... Guys I swear I have non-Japanese stuff too. I can't really get into this one too heavily, but it plays out for a very specific scene in TEF. I will tell you that it is on my Greens playlist. (And for some reason my computer always wants to rip this song with the Korean info. So, uh, IDK.)
Between Two Lungs by Florence + the Machine
OH FLORENCE YOU'VE SAVED ME. This is a fairly recent addition, and I'm not entirely sure it's going to stay, but for SOME CRAZY REASON my head keeps putting it on my Brick playlist. Freedom, release, etc. shows up a lot on my Brick playlist. He's very tightly wound.
OH MAN THE NEXT SONG WAS A GOOD ONE, TOO. (Of COURSE now I'm getting all the non-Japanese stuff. Mojo you suck.) Well. We'll just save that for next time~