#wait are two of these entitled lullabyes

[westywrites]

WIP Playlist tag

Thank you so much @kittensartswriting for the tag! I had hoped to get to this morning, but ended up running out on some errands with my roommate instead. My whole plan for the day was severely skewed, but hey I made it here eventually anyway!

Rules: list five songs that most encapsulate your wip/the most essential songs on your wip playlist.

I will admit I don't actually keep playlists for my wips, but I do have quite a few songs that make me think of The Corvine or some of the characters in it. And I have a tendency to ramble so my explanations of why are more detailed than they need to be, whoops.

I'll put the explanations (and links to the songs) under a cut, but here are the first songs to come to mind: Factory Girl - Kronos Quartet & Rhiannon Gidden, I Will Never Die - Delta Rae, Arsonist's Lullaby - Hozier, Riverside - Agnes Obel, Wanderer's Lullaby - Adriana Figueroa, and so so many songs by Cosmo Sheldrake.

Factory Girl - Kronos Quartet with Rhiannon Gidden

This song perfectly encapsulates the vibe of The Corvine both in how it sounds (the sombre, tense but hopeful and beautiful sound of the strings? so good and it feels like such an old song) and in the lyrics. Like the girl they describe is Cambridge to a T, and the factory burning down... the lyrics of the last two verses fit this story so completely that I've actually made an edit about it before

I Will Never Die - Delta Rae

"Spread my spirit like a flock of crows"... The vibes of this song, the determination... knowing that no matter what happens you'll be alive in the love of your closest connections. Again, an older sound. The fire, the willingness to burn the world down if that's what it took. This is all my kids and the love they carry for each other. But especially Avenir (she has fire powers and trauma around fire from when she was younger. She knows "the old heat of the raging fire" very well). I could ramble about this song in relation to my characters forever.

Arsonist's Lullaby - Hozier

If we're gonna talk about fire, we should talk about this song and how it fits Avenir. "But my peace has always depended/ On all the ashes in my wake"... it's her. She would entirely agree that all she has is her fire and her demons and everything she is trying to reach. And she's almost 16... it all fits. (Look, if it weren't the 1830s, Avenir would deal with her life through music, I can't help but associate more songs with her than any other character.)

Riverside - Agnes Obel

The vibes. Another kinda somber, slower, older sounding song. The want of escape, but not really knowing what you're doing or why. Cambridge definitely sees "how everything is torn in the river deep" (I'm just realizing now, the first time she sees the tear in the universe, it's actually while looking into a river/the canal... huh)

Wanderer's Lullaby - Adriana Figueroa

Listen to this song and associate it with your characters, I guarantee you you can in some way or another. And it will almost certainly make you cry if you think about it too much...

I want to sing it to all my characters to reassure them they're on the right path and things will work out. "You are the dawn of a new day that's waking". They're gonna change the whole world, save so many people. But they're uncertain and scared and and and- I could rant about this one too.

As a treat, honourable mentions, which are all songs by Cosmo Sheldrake because he is basically my favourite musician. "Come Along" and "The Moss" make me think of Lennox because of the optimism and the idea of learning from/pursuing/joining the stories we tell. "Egg and Soldiers" applies to all the kids, but also in particular to Lennox and his lack of forethought. "Solar Waltz" is all the kids and the pressures placed on them by adults and by life. And "Linger a While" is specifically the vibes of the time they spend in the middle of the book at the safehouse (those lyrics, man, so powerful).

I will tag @ratracechronicler (I know Factory Girl was recommended to me by you, and I think Delta Rae was too. wow!), @erinnharper, @vnsmiles @charlmtte No pressure to do it, of course, but if you wanna share some music that makes you think of your writing, I'd love to see!

#west answers #writeblr #amwriting #wip playlist #music #the corvine #lennox #cambridge #avenir #tag game #wait are two of these entitled lullabyes? #that is so wild #there are other songs that really fit the vibe of this wip but don't have the right lyrics #and others that have the right lyrics but don't have the right vibes yknow? #i love all these songs a lot #you can consider any song i talk about on this blog ever to be a song rec #but especially cosmo sheldrake #alll his music is so damn good!