Brainstorming and welcome to Jukebox 2019!

[morbane]

Welcome to Jukebox 2019! This is a fanworks gift exchange in which art, fic, and podfic is created for the narratives in songs and music videos.

Canon nominations will occur during 13-22 March this year. The rules about what can be nominated can be found here and haven't changed from last year.

Please use this post or its LiveJournal equivalent to discuss what you're thinking of nominating! See also the past brainstorming tag. Other questions also welcome.


Directory
For fun, here's a directory of the songs and music videos that were nominated and requested in previous years.

2013
Tag set | Tables of canons: A-L, by song; M-Z, by song| Requests

2014
Tag set | Tables of canons: LJ, by song; LJ, by artist; DW, by song; DW, by artist | Requests

2015
Tag set | Tables of canons: by song; by artist | Requests

2016
Tag set | Tables of canons: by song; by artist | Requests

2017
Tag set | Tables of canons: by song; by artist | Requests

2018
Tag set | Tables of canons: by song; by artist | Requests

This post is also on LJ

(nb: all admin posts are cross-posted between LJ and DW, though you're welcome to participate at only one or the other if you prefer.)

Comments

Help me narrow down this list of music videos?

[ashling]

thoughts/questions/constructive criticism v welcome cause I’m trying to narrow down the list. I always end up asking for everything in monster letters and I need to chill (also these are only music videos; I have a whole different list of songs alone)

hard rain - Lykke Li (music video)
-cinematography goes hard. that PALETTE
-chemistry between the leads is real, sometimes mysterious, sometimes frightening, sometimes tender
-there's still plenty of questions left and plenty of space for someone to write a story to fit the vibe
-did I mention the cinematography

Don’t Pull Away - J.Views (music video)
-give Indya Moore all the acting awards for this one. she can make looking at the camera mesmerizing, an entire storyline in a few blinks
-(spoilers spoilers spoilers) is so GOOD i SCREAMED
-this one is for all the romantics out there. If you have a soft heart brace yourself
-the palette??? again?????? any still of this is a work of art

Apeshit - The Carters (music video)
-Beyoncé is a queen and a goddess and it will likely be easy to get people to write about one of her songs
-the juxtaposition of dynamic black wealth, joy, and success against the stillness of the Louvre aka one of the most establishment institutions in the art world and highkey located in a country that has of the top 3 most colonialist histories of all time
-her MIND. is so powerful
-there's so many layers to this someone could probably write a dissertation on the fashion alone so like, 1k words about it shouldn't be hard

No Church in the Wild - Kanye West (music video)
-all the symbolism you could ask for, plus magical realism and enough raw energy to power a city
-the sheer brilliant chaotic energy of such images as: a shirtless man mounting a police horse, the silent white figures of old statues lit up amid smoke, an elephant rampaging in the streets in a crowd of protesters
-like this is as powerful as the Apeshit video, but here the revolution is coming from the nameless rather than from a goddess
-Frank Ocean can do absolutely no wrong
-surely someone out there wants to write a fic about the nature of revolution? People like Les Mis and stuff right???

Wolf Totem - THE HU (music video)
-the pre-battle vibes of the Rohirrim galloping across a field in Lord of the Rings
-but with the aesthetic of Mongolian biker gang singing menacingly...vests headbands braided hair long hair flowing free a thing that sounds like an electric guitar but maybe it’s a traditional instrument but also it has a bow and arrow shape to it??? And lots of motorcycles obviously
-I WANNA SEE THE BATTLE

Youngblood - 5 Seconds of Summer (music video)
-STRONG soulmate vibes
-magical realism/Black Mirror San Junipero vibes
-just a bunch of hot young Japanese people dressed as 50s era bikers + their big-skirt-wearing girlfriends
-tattoos
-fistfight in middle of the forest for no particular reason
-the ending is too sad and I just wanna live in the middle forever so that’s almost a fic prompt

Truth Hurts - Lizzo (music video)
-carefree, getting-rid-of-a-bad-ex vibes with incredibly charismatic lead and diverse quirky background cast
-literally so many shipping opportunities, m/m, m/f, f/f, and maybe poly??? Depending on ur interpretation
-the opening verse is absolutely iconic: “I just took a DNA test, turns out: I’m 100% that bitch”
-lingerie!!!