Brainstorming post: 2016

[morbane]

As nominations will begin in approximately 4 days, this post is a place to bounce ideas around, gauge interest for your preferred songs & music videos & other pieces, and decide what to nominate.

You have 8 nominations this year. This and other rule updates are on AO3.

This post is also on LiveJournal - check the comments there as well.

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[tristesses]

8? Nice! Hopefully I will think of a couple more, but here are my initial thoughts.

Bottom of the River (Delta Rae): a song about the Salem witch trials, but I think it could be expanded to be about any supernatural creature vs humans. Not sure if I'd nominate the music video or the song itself. Sort of Southern Gothic.

Desire (Meg Myers): Dark indie rock/pop song about desire. It doesn't really have a plot to it, but I love how gritty and aggressive the lyrics are (especially since you don't see that a ton from female singers). Not sure if I'd nominate the music video or the song.

Hit and Run (LOLO): pop song and music video about a woman taking bloody revenge on the men who killed her sister/friend/girlfriend (it's left open to interpretation). The linked music video has PG-13 levels of violence and sexual violence, if anyone would like to know.


Glory and Gore (Lorde): pop song that's probably about teenage cliques, but uses gladiator imagery and generally makes me think of a roving post-apocalyptic (or historical!) girl gang.

Rumbrave (Murder By Death): Alt rock/Southern goth song about the Devil. Or at least that's how I interpret it, but there are all kinds of directions you could take it.

...my noms are all kind of dark this year. Oops?

[morbane]

Oops?

It's nice to have a theme? :D