#murder ballad

[doyouknowthismusical]

#do you know this musical #musical theater #poll #murder ballad #murder ballad musical #juliana nash #julia jordan #language: english

[cosmica-candy]

Finally! After lots of long days of work, we finally have the first chapter of the Muder Ballad out!

You can go to our website here! to find it and our other stories there, or go here to read it directly!

I hope you enjoy it, and be on the lookout for more to come!

Just, please don't be too surprised if it takes a little bit. College is kicking my ass and I'm kinda making it? Regardless, enjoy!

#cookie run #cookie run overbreak #cookie run kingdom #Cheddar cheese cookie #macaroni cookie #murder ballad

[kellyaroman]

An ink drawing of my visual interpretation of the murder ballad, Down in the Willow Garden - one of my favorite ballads.  Website | Shop | Instagram

#art #illustration #artists on tumblr #sketchbook #murder ballad #down in the willow garden #wings #antique #vintage #drawing

[songofbalduran]

all will, by and by.

#murder ballad #murder ballad the musical #murder ballad musical #rebecca naomi jones #musicaledit #musicaltheatreedit

[linearao3]

BTS on child ballad or Perspective Flip on monster ballad... either one :)

Perhaps you were hoping for Kaz or Inej’s POV from a perspective flip on Murder Ballad… sorry, here’s Wylan.

He knocks gently on the cabin door, and Matthias opens it. Wylan can feel how red he is; it’s all louder in the corridor, and he feels like he’s standing in a rainstorm of sound. Matthias gets rosier in the cheeks himself, but his face stays calm, and he gestures Wylan inside. Nina is lying with her face to the wall, and, blessedly, when Matthias shuts the door behind him, everything gets much quieter. Not that he can’t still hear it. But at least he can’t make out any words anymore.

“I don’t mean to — to question your judgement,” Wylan says hesitantly, “but are you sure it was a good idea? To let him out?”

Matthias frowns. “My judgement? I didn’t let him out. I thought you let him out.”

“Did Jesper do it? Surely if he’d come below decks to open the door he’d just — ” he feels the blush rising again, wonders how it looks on Kuwei’s cheeks “ — just help her himself?”

He would like to think that he’s kind enough to prefer that outcome — yes, he would be jealous, but it would be better for Inej. But just a moment of imagining it, imagining how Jesper would take care of her and how he’d have to listen to it, makes a lump swell in his chest and his fists clench and his vision go just a little dark around the edges. He doesn’t owe you anything, and you don’t owe him anything, he reminds himself.

“He must have let himself out,” Matthias says.

“Didn’t he give Jesper his lock picks?”

Matthias shakes his head. “Locks don’t keep out demons,” he says darkly.

“Do you think he’s — do you think she’s in danger? Should we try to — to stop him?” He doesn’t relish the idea of fighting Kaz Brekker under any circumstances, but when he’s in rush, in front of an ankopje he’s evidently decided is his, without Nina’s magic or Jesper’s guns to back them — someone will probably die, and he’d put his own money on himself.

“Don’t be an idiot,” Nina mumbles. “He won’t hurt her. He’d rather have her than his four million.”

“Are you sure?” Wylan asks doubtfully. Glad as he’d be not to worry that they’re standing by while Kaz murders another ankopje. “I mean, I’ve heard about him. And he does sound — ”

Nina just snorts.

“Would you like some food?” Matthias asks her. She doesn’t answer, and there’s a long silence into which spill the faint sounds of things Wylan would really prefer not to have to think about. After a while, Matthias breathes in deeply and turns back to Wylan. “Well,” he says stolidly, “if she is safe, then all we can do is hope that he will be an honorable ulvemann to her.”

Nina snorts again, and Matthias looks at her with soft, troubled eyes. “You were honorable to me,” he says quietly. “Maybe the demjin has it in him too.”

Wylan takes his meaning. He isn’t at all sure that Kaz biting Inej is an outcome anybody, least of all Inej, actually wants, but there isn’t much to do about it now. Nina doesn’t make any answer, but she doesn’t shake him off when Matthias runs one finger lightly over the inside of her wrist.

It’s painful, to see Nina like that. Wylan doesn’t linger. As bad as it was in the first days when she screamed and cajoled and hissed, her apathy, too, is disturbing.

Out in the corridor, with the sounds filling his ears again, he hesitates. They’ll have to finish this round sometime soon, won’t they? He can go back to his cabin and put a pillow over his head, and then there’ll be quiet soon enough, at least for a while.

Instead he climbs out onto the deck. Jesper is at the rail as he always is, looking out at the dark sea and the stars. Wylan, as he always does, comes and leans on the rail beside him. The smell of the baffle in Jesper’s hat band, coffee and jurda and cinnamon, seems a little stronger than usual, carried a little further by Jesper’s own scent, hidden beneath it.

Wylan wonders if it's Inej's scarcity or Kaz's rush that he's responding to, if he'll be aggressive, or if he might be... amorous. But before he can decide how he'd feel about that, Jesper just nods to him, and looks away again.

“Not very pleasant down there, I imagine,” Jesper says, and Wylan doesn’t answer, because Kuwei wouldn’t and Jesper doesn’t want an answer. He’s looking out to sea. “Poor kid,” he says. “She must be having a rough time of it. I’d offer to help her, you know. Just see her through it, no biting or anything. But Kaz would never forgive me. And I don’t think she’d ever forgive me, either, for not being him.”

Wylan keeps his face still. Inej is very pretty. It doesn’t shock him too much, to know that Kaz loves her. On the trip out, he’d taken what Kaz did to Oomen as pure savagery, the bastard of the Barrel showing his cruel colors. Looking back now, he sees the fear in it — Kaz hurting Oomen because he was helpless to heal Inej. It surprises him a little more to hear that she loves him. Kaz is handsome, in his way, but he would have thought Inej would prefer someone kinder.

Wylan wonders how she feels, knowing that Kaz came through a locked door to get to her. How it feels to have a koper who would do impossible things, just to have you. A lock wouldn’t keep Jesper out for long, any more than it kept Kaz, and just for a moment, Wylan lets himself imagine the pain and desperation of scarcity, the hopeless pleading, and Jesper, doing magic for his sake.

“Poor kid,” Jesper says again. He looks out at the stars, and Wylan looks at him, and the boat rushes south through the waves, to Kerch, and to his father.

#asks #murder ballad

[mountaingnomes]

I’ve never Blazed anything, but it’s Halloween & the 2-year anniversary of our music video for our song The Dancing Plague. May it fill you with spooky and raucous vibes. 

https://theforgetmenauts.bandcamp.com/

https://open.spotify.com/artist/0GFHXlrYzlAHkU2OKypmap?si=I1riczrPQ2muvKO_Y_iQ7Q

#the forgetmenauts #halloween #gay #werewolf #murder ballad #dancing plague #music #music video

[cactus-cactus-cactus]

GIRL WHO IS SEEING MURDER BALLAD RIGHT NOW

#murder ballad #murder ballad musical

[asthe-crow-flies]

so i’m listening to murder ballad again and does anyone know anything about like. old words? cause there’s a line “Three will unfain but played their part” in clubs and diamonds/prattle 6, and i didn’t know what unfain meant so i looked it up and the only definitions i can l find say it’s an adjective, but it’s being used as a verb here and i was wondering if that was just a mistake or if there was like. precedent

#the adjective definition is sorrowful or sorry which like fits the context it’s just not a verb #idk what to tag this as #uhhhh #linguistics #? #murder ballad

[musical-failgirl-fight]

Round 2 Poll 4

Who is the most failgirl?

For Veronica:

she killed people because her boyfriend urged her to, she had to literally play dead to get rid of said boyfriend and she couldn't stop him from blowing the school up. literally the most pathetic high school experience i can think of

For Sara:

Literally she IS the bad decisions machine. Girl the best way to spice up your marriage is NOT to have an affair with your creepy ex. Girl. SARA JUST GO TO YOUR DAUGHTER’S SHOW AND TELL I. NO. Stop singing about trying to kill your ex for ruining your marriage BABE YOU CALLED HIM………. At least she’s self aware about being the bad decisions machine?? Makes me want to scream so loud.

#musical failgirl bracket #veronica sawyer #heathers #sara mcrae #murder ballad

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Videos for the narrative songs I mentioned

(in tags to this post)

"Goodbye, Earl" from The Chicks:

Eye Contact. Proper closed captions. Murder Ballad. Southern Gothic. Domestic Violence (fictional).

"Nancy Mulligan" From Ed Sheeran:

Eye contact. Lyric in video. True Story. Ireland. Post-WW2. Elopement. Protestant & Catholic

#The Chicks #Ed Sheeran #narrative songs #Proper closed captions #eye contact #murder ballad #domestic violence (fictional) #marriage ballad #Youtube

[theheadlesscrow]

Settling the Score: 10 Murder Ballads by Women

There's a trail of dead bodies in the centuries worth of works songwriters have left behind: tales of countless victims who were drowned, stabbed, bludgeoned, and poisoned, set to music and passed on through the years via memorable sing-alongs. These murder ballads, an oral tradition with its roots in a number of European countries, proved so popular, they migrated across countries. England's "Hanged I Shall Be" morphed into "The Wexford Girl" in Ireland, which turned into "The Knoxville Girl" in the United States.

A common theme among murder ballads, including those mentioned above, is that they are very often populated by women who, come song's end, are no longer breathing. Adding another macabre layer to an already grisly genre, these songs are sometimes inspired by real life events. To put it simply, today's abundance of true crime podcasts is certainly not the first time humans have proven themselves intrigued by blood-soaked folklore.

For Part I of the Headless Crow's murder ballad series, we'll shift away from the usual lyrical content and instead focus on songs specifically sung by female voices. In the songs below, it's the women who are trigger-happy and the men who are dropping like flies.

Hurray for the Riff Raff - "The Body Electric" Our jumping off point isn't a typical murder ballad like those that will follow, but rather the song that inspired this article in the first place. Written, produced and sung by frontwoman Alynda Segarra, Hurray for the Riff Raff's "The Body Electric" is a powerful contemplation on the history of real life crimes against women being turned into entertainment: written, performed, and covered through generations "while the whole world sings" along. Striking images throughout the song's music video intensify the message even further: what appears to be a baby in the arms of a woman is in fact hundreds of bullet casings, cradled adoringly. Deservingly described as NPR's Political Folk Song of the Year in 2014, it's a thoughtful way to kick things off before we launch headlong into gleeful murder.

Ella Fitzgerald - "To Keep My Love Alive" Speaking of gleeful murder, nobody in these songs is having more fun disclosing their nefarious deeds than Ella Fitzgerald is on "To Keep My Love Alive." Originally composed for the 1943 Broadway revival of the musical A Connecticut Yankee, she covered the song over a decade later for her record Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Song Book. Though shortened for the album (there's twice as many dead husbands in the theatrical version), that still gives her three and a half minutes to reel off an extensive list of murdered men and her imaginative methods for offing them. Who knew serial killing could be so charmingly whimsical?

Bessie Smith - "Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair" Released in the late 1920s, Bessie Smith's "Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair" features some of the most giddily gruesome lyrics you'll find here. Describing in vivid detail what she did to her man after catching him cheating, she implores the judge to sentence her to death because she's ready to "take a journey to the devil down below." Understandably covered dozens of times since its debut a century ago, it's a wickedly jaw-dropping addition to any murder-themed playlist.

Wanda Jackson - "The Box It Came In" A hit single for country star Wanda Jackson, "The Box It Came In" busts out of the heartbreak ballad mold with one sinister line. After being abandoned and left destitute by the husband who "took everything with him that wasn't nailed down," she fantasizes about committing the ultimate revenge. For a woman who spends most of the song mournful, she sure finds some, ahem, killer closure.

Bonnie Dobson - "Winter's Going" The closing track on her self-titled 1969 record, Canadian folk artist Bonnie Dobson's "Winter's Going" is a vindictive masterpiece. Distraught over being deserted, while pregnant no less, she plots her retribution. Unnervingly calm at first, the track's unhinged psychedelia escalates to an eye-popping crescendo. "Jarvis Cocker liked that song," she would later say. "He seemed a nice boy otherwise."

Rachel Brooke - "The Barnyard" Don't let the deceptively sweet sound fool you: something incredibly dark lurks behind that carefree delivery. "The Barnyard," the 6-minute opening cut from Rachel Brooke's 2011 release Down in the Barnyard, begins innocently with the exhilaration of new love. But things unravel quickly when a kiss inadvertently reveals infidelity, and before long there's a hammer, a gun, two dead bodies, and a psychiatric hospital sentence.

The Andrews Sisters - "I Didn't Know the Gun Was Loaded" A song with several renditions released over the years, The Andrews Sisters recorded a particularly noteworthy version of "I Didn't Know the Gun Was Loaded." Published in 1949, this catchy ditty follows a woman whose empty gun has a peculiar tendency of firing bullets into people. By song's end, the tables have turned and the conveniently ditsy murderess receives some ironic comeuppance.

Reba McEntire - "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" has been covered repeatedly over the years, but none have made it more thrilling than Reba McEntire when she recorded it for her 1991 album For My Broken Heart. Its suspenseful storytelling is jam-packed with drama: a two-timing spouse, a crooked justice system, an innocent hanged for a crime they didn't commit, and a twist ending reveal where we find out exactly who pulled the trigger.

The Chicks - "Goodbye Earl" Perhaps the most joyful of all the songs here, The Chicks' "Goodbye Earl" is a devilishly good time. After a restraining order fails to protect her from her abusive husband, a woman and her best friend come up with a solution for finally ridding themselves of him: "Earl had to die." The darkly comedic, star-studded music video, complete with clumsy corpse flinging and celebratory dancing (including from a deceased Earl himself), helps drive home the point that "he was a missing person who nobody missed at all." It was the first of the Chicks' singles to not reach the top 10 on country radio, when some stations balked at playing the song. Lead singer Natalie Maines came to a blunt conclusion: "We always figured whoever was complaining must be beating their wife."

Meiko - "Maybe Next Year (X-Mas Song)" "I don't think Santa's coming this year" Meiko announces stoically at the beginning of "Maybe Next Year (X-Mas Song)," nary a hint of emotion in her voice to suggest that what's she just said is quite the understatement. While gradually revealing the magnitude of the actions that surely earned her a place on the naughty list, what began as remorseless resignation builds to impassioned indignation before she comes to an unconvincing conclusion: "Maybe next year I'll be better." Maybe.

To listen to these and more woman-sung murder ballads, stream The Headless Crow's Settling the Score: Murder Ballads by Women playlist.

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#music #murder ballads #murder ballad #murder #true crime #hurray for the riff raff #ella fitzgerald #bessie smith #wanda jackson #bonnie dobson #rachel brook #the andrews sisters #reba mcentire #the chicks #meiko #spotify #playlist #Youtube

[ithaca-my-beloved]

sometimes i love being out of the loop just saw a post about murder ballad and fully assumed that tumblr had spontaneously decided to get into nick cave

#not that i would've been complaining #and it wouldn't have been the weirdest thing tumblr spontaneously got into #tbh i kinda want to live in the Bad Timeline where we get discourse about stagger lee being bad queer rep #murder ballad #nick cave

[nyxneon]

Saw a post about murder ballads where the woman is the one who does the killing...

And there was no Henry Lee (Nick Cave and PJ Harvey)... which is actually one of the tracks in the Murder Ballads album, and also, one of the singles.

So, here it is. Enjoy this in all its dark beauty.

#murder ballad #henry lee #nick cave #pj harvey #Youtube

[songofbalduran]

lay with one in the daylight and the other all night long.

#murder ballad #murder ballad musical #murder ballad the musical #narrator #rebecca naomi jones #musicaledit #musicaltheatreedit

[linearao3]

'For want of a nail' for Murder Ballad - Kaz bites Inej on the Ferolind. Because I feel like that would have...interesting yet negative/unhinged consequences...please ❤️

This is a goddamn nightmare is what it is. First of all, it would immediately clue Van Eck into her value as a hostage, and second of all, it would reduce Kaz’s ability to be rational about her kidnapping to basically nil. If he’d bitten her then, she probably would be pregnant, and Kaz, Inej, and Jan Van Eck would probably know it. Kaz would be completely off his rocker, and would probably try to just physically fight his way to Inej. The only possible upside is that she might be able to play on Bajan’s sympathies enough to make him help her a bit, but honestly I think he’s not useful enough to do her much good. Basically the only way I can think of for them to get through this without like ten casualties and an international crisis is if the other crows are able to outflank Kaz’s insanity, either by launching their own scheme to distract all of Jan’s guards or to involve other parties who might complicate things for Jan? Maybe they could teach Wylan enough Shu to let him impersonate Kuwei to other members of the Merchant Council and swap him in and out with the real one to keep everyone confused? But Kaz would still just be trying to kill everyone he saw in the background, which would probably make any delicate scheme pretty difficult. Maybe they can lock him up and get Jesper to melt the locks? Anyway, the short answer is: chaos and disaster.

(Edited because I realized that the tone here could be mistaken for hostility to the ask, when I meant it to be just horror at the possible outcome! I appreciate the ask; thank you very much!)

#asks #murder ballad

[mudwerks]

(via Doug Wallin - "Omie Wise")

a lovely murder ballad

#youtube #Doug Wallin #Omie Wise #country music #folk #murder ballad #vintage