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minutia_r ([personal profile] minutia_r) wrote in [community profile] jukebox_fest2023-02-15 01:44 pm

Dime in the Jukebox Fest 2023



Welcome to the Dime in the Jukebox Fest, a prompt fest for fanworks based on songs and music videos! Have fun, and feel free to promote it on your journal/community/tumblr/discord server/whatever if you want. You can copy the code in this box wherever HTML applies:



Rules

1) Leave a song or a music video as a prompt. Please include a listening/watching link. Links to the lyrics (if any) and translations of the lyrics (if they are not in English) are appreciated but not required. You may also include a short phrase, such as a quote from the lyrics or something that particularly interests you about the song/video, as an additional prompt; this is optional but not required. One prompt per comment. Leave as many prompts as you like.

Here's a possible template for prompting:



2) Reply to other people’s prompts with fanworks. All mediums of fanworks are welcome! But please create the fanwork about the prompted song/video only; no other fandom knowledge should be necessary in order to appreciate the work. Exception: if you are making fanvids, a vid to the prompted song for any fandom is considered an acceptable fill.

Update: There's now an index of prompts and fills and a playlist for easier browsing! We will try to keep these updated, but things might not always make it up immediately.

FAQ

Q: When you say all mediums of fanwork are welcome, what do you mean?

A: Really, all mediums of fanwork. Fic, art, meta, playlists, vids, songs, memes, crochet patterns, whatever you want to make, go ahead and post it or link to it here.

Q: Can I create fills without leaving any prompts, or leave prompts without creating any fills?

A: Go ahead!

Q: I want to fill a prompt, but someone else has already filled it.

A: That’s okay, prompts can be filled multiple times.

Q: I want to create explicit erotica, or fanwork with potentially disturbing themes, or prompt a song/video that contains such materials. Is that okay, and what sort of content do I need to warn for?

A: Sure, that's fine. Warnings are considerate and appreciated, but they're also up to the discretion of the individual poster. Consider this a warnings-optional space and read at your own risk accordingly.

Q: Are the fills I create considered to be gifts to the prompter?

A: Only if you and the prompter want them to be! Otherwise feel free to treat the prompt simply as inspiration.

Q: I want to participate, but I don't have a dreamwidth account/I'm shy.

A: That's okay--anonymous posting is on.

Q: How long is the fest going to be running for?

A: Currently, there’s no set end date, but we may close this post to comments once nominations for the Jukebox Exchange open, just so we don’t have two events running at once. However, we don’t yet have solid dates for this year’s exchange, and honestly I’ll be impressed if people are still actively posting here by that point.

Q: Is there a collection on AO3 where I can post my fills?

A: Right here.

Q: I want to participate, but I can’t think of any songs or videos to prompt.

A: Lucky for you, there’s a playlist tag right here in this community where you can find playlists of songs and videos that people have requested and created for during Jukeboxes past! There’s a lot of good stuff there; hopefully you can find some inspiration.

Q: I want to create fills, but I don’t know any of these songs.

A: Maybe you’ll find something you like if you give them a listen; discovering new music is part of what we’re all here for.
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[personal profile] something_ignites 2023-02-15 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Song or music video: "Samson" - Regina Spektor

Listen/watch link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p62rfWxs6a8

Lyrics:
You are my sweetest downfall
I loved you first, I loved you first
Beneath the sheets of paper lies my truth
I have to go, I have to go
Your hair was long when we first met

https://genius.com/Regina-spektor-samson-lyrics

Additional prompt: Who is the narrator? Is she Delilah, whose love was misrepresented in history books? Or is she someone who loved him first, before Delilah, and had to stand by while her man was betrayed by the woman he loved? Would love to hear what you come up!
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[personal profile] something_ignites 2023-02-15 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Song or music video: "Landslide"

Listen/watch link: Original / Covers

Lyrics:
Well, I've been afraid of changing
'Cause I've built my life around you
But time makes you bolder, even children get older
And I'm getting older too

https://genius.com/Fleetwood-mac-landslide-lyrics

Additional prompt: I'm excited for whatever you come up with, whether for the original or one of the cover versions! Maybe a narrative for the original song? Or a re-mix of that narrative, based on one of the covers? Bonus points if you incorporate multiple versions, in a fun multi-verse kind of way.
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[personal profile] something_ignites 2023-02-15 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Song or music video: "The Boys of Summer"

Listen/watch link: Bree Sharp Cover / Daddy Issues Cover / The Ataris Cover

Lyrics:
I can see you
Your brown skin shining in the sun
I see you walking real slow and
Smiling at everyone
I can tell you, my love for you will still be strong
After the boys of summer have gone

https://genius.com/Don-henley-the-boys-of-summer-lyrics

Additional prompt: I've selected 3 of my favorite covers for this song because I'm excited to see what people do with it! There are a lot of potential tensions to explore here. Swapping the vocalist from male to female changes the gender dynamics a lot, and I'd love to see a queer reading of Bree Sharp & Daddy Issues' covers: tell me about a female vocalist competing with the vacationing boys for the object of her affection. There's also the class tension that's deeply embedded in this song (townie vocalist vs vacationing boys with cadillacs) that's ripe for exploration, with any of covers.
Edited 2023-02-15 19:05 (UTC)
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[personal profile] something_ignites 2023-02-15 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Song or music video: "Jolene" - Dolly Parton

Listen/watch link: Original / Lil Nas X Cover

Lyrics:
You could have your choice of men
But I could never love again
He's the only one for me, Jolene
I had to have this talk with you
My happiness depends on you
And whatever you decide to do, Jolene

https://genius.com/Dolly-parton-jolene-lyrics

Additional prompt: Unrequited love; that liminal space where he's slipping through your fingers but not gone yet. This song is so beautiful and haunting, that I just want to linger in that feeling of a heart slowly breaking.

What feels so powerful about this song for me is that it's still in the "inciting action" phase of the narrative - we're not at the climax, where the narrator confronts them, or at the end, where the narrator is picking up the pieces of her broken heart. Instead, she's watching a slow-moving trainwreck here, one that she knows she doesn't have the power to stop, but ostensibly still could, because he hasn't actually left yet. That part of unrequited love, of witnessing your love fall out of love with you? Please give me more of that ouch!
Edited 2023-02-15 19:12 (UTC)
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[personal profile] something_ignites 2023-02-15 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Song or music video: "Marvin's Room (Can't Do Better)" - JoJo

Lyrics:
Fuck that new girl that you like so bad
She’s not crazy like me I bet you like that
I said fuck that new girl that’s been in your bed
And when you’re in her I know I’m in your head

https://genius.com/Jojo-marvins-room-cant-do-better-lyrics

Additional prompt: This cover of "Marvin's Room" by Drake is so hauntingly beautiful that it stuck with me all these years, and I'd love to see whatever you do with it.

If you want something more specific, I'm interested in seeing how the narrative plays out with a gender-swapped vocalist, especially if the original song gets brought in somehow.
Edited 2023-02-15 19:04 (UTC)
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[personal profile] something_ignites 2023-02-15 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
When the stars came falling, like sparks from the tails of foxes running across the sky, what could I do but burn?

This line is so beautiful <3
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[personal profile] miramira 2023-02-16 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
Music Video: Chained to the Rhythm - Katy Perry

Watch Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um7pMggPnug

Lyrics:
Turn it up, it's your favorite song
Dance, dance, dance to the distortion

https://genius.com/Katy-perry-chained-to-the-rhythm-lyrics

Additional prompt: I am so curious about this theme park and whoever designed/operates it.
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[personal profile] kiraly 2023-02-16 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
Song or music video: Riverside - James Spaite

Listen/watch link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUL9MpY9wl4

Lyrics: https://genius.com/James-spaite-riverside-lyrics
The water's cold and it’s dangerous
But it brings me to life
So we stand to read tongues of green and white

I’m sure that the water won’t mind if we
Rest here for the night and leave before sunrise
I’m sure that the current won’t mind if we
Rest our bodies for the night and leave before sunrise


Additional prompt: I find the specificity of this very intriguing - the water won't mind if we leave before sunrise. What happens if they don't? The repetitive nature of the song almost feels like a charm against danger, and in fact the lyrics do call the water dangerous several times. There's a subtle undercurrent of magic or mystery going on here, with the riverside being a place to rest but maybe not easily.
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[personal profile] kiraly 2023-02-16 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
Song or music video: The Last Time - Juniper Vale

Listen/watch link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bbKJsVdIXQ

Lyrics: https://genius.com/Juniper-vale-the-last-time-lyrics
What tomorrow will bring
What tomorrow will bring
What tomorrow will bring
I just don't know, I just don't know, I just don't know

Paint the dusty air red with your motion
Brush your fingers 'gainst a fleeting sky
Night is falling here and pulling the curtain
With the closing of our eyes
I don't wanna leave your side
Leave your side


Additional prompt: This song gives me a strong sense of two people together at the end of something significant - whether it's the end of the world, or moving from one stage of life to another. There's a real sense of uncertainty, but also a feeling that whatever is coming, they will face it together.
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[personal profile] kiraly 2023-02-16 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
Song or music video: Enchanté - Dirt Poor Robins

Listen/watch link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XSTgVQzGEA

Lyrics: https://genius.com/Dirt-poor-robins-enchante-lyrics
Enchanté, enchanté, enchanté, enchanté
Every myth to crack its lips
Has nothing more to say
It's okay, it's okay, it's okay
If we can't raise the dead
We're gonna raise, we're gonna raise
We're gonna raise hell instead


Additional prompt: This song has SO much going on. Stained glass angels? Guarded by gargoyles? Pinned like butterflies by jealous grounded men? You could honestly pull out so many different stories from the imagery in here. I could see a story about failed necromancers-turned-revolutionaries, or a character dealing with religious trauma, or simply someone who has grown past their own limits in a world full of magic and mayhem.
Edited (forgot to delete part of the template, whoops) 2023-02-16 03:10 (UTC)
theseatheseatheopensea: Lyrics from the song Stolen property, by The Triffids, handwritten by David McComb. (Stolen property.)

[personal profile] theseatheseatheopensea 2023-02-16 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
Song or music video: Bury Me Deep In Love (The Triffids).

Listen/watch link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioTzNU3_6ks

Lyrics: https://thetriffids.com/bury-me-deep-in-love/

When the rock below is shaking
The heart inside is quaking
How long this cold dark night is taking
Bury me deep in love


Additional prompt: I love this song's intense, almost ominous mood. Is it about love, faith, sentient nature, a journey to the underworld, or something else? I'd love to see any ideas!
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[personal profile] kiraly 2023-02-16 05:55 am (UTC)(link)
The Gilded Cage. Three figures stood beneath the neon sign announcing their location. They looked at it, then at each other, then back at the sign. Without a word, they crossed the threshold.

"Are you sure she's here?" Jay asked, pulling their hood closer over their hair. "This doesn't seem like her kind of place." In all honesty, the nightclub didn't seem like anyone's kind of place—more like somewhere to go to forget you were anyone at all. The heavy fug of stale cigarettes settled into their lungs with every breath, almost drowning out the stench of sweat and cheap booze.

"She's here," Jackdaw said, no room for argument in her voice. "You know she is. We all heard."

Jay and Magpie exchanged a glance. They'd all heard - they'd all been hearing their missing sister for weeks. And yet, every time they got close, the trail went cold.

"The question is," Mags offered, more delicately than Jay would have, "does she want us to be here? This is a bad place. No shine at all." Magpie loved shiny things, kept his fiddle polished until it gleamed. Even here, his bright eyes roved the room, searching for any scrap of beauty.

Jackdaw ruffled her brother’s hair, not gentle but without intent to wound. “Whether she wants us or not, we’re here. Her song has changed. She needs us.” She strode further into the gloom, not waiting to see if her siblings would follow. They always did, whether Jackdaw set a rhythm with her battered guitar or set off on a rescue mission. She carved a path through the club now, daring anyone to get in her way. No one dared.

Someone did stumble into Jay, though, with a poor excuse for a fake apology. “Didn’ see you there, sweetheart.”

“I’m surprised you can see anything, it smells like you’ve been drinking nail polish remover.” Jay’s nails were done in midnight blue and silver, pinprick constellations sparkling on their many-ringed fingers. More metal studded their face, reflecting bits of neon light from the signs behind the bar. “Good thing you didn’t spill any on my banjo case. You know what happens when you get a witch wet, right?”

“Uh.” The guy’s brow furrowed, like no one had ever asked him to think in his life. “They…melt?”

“Oh, no,” Jay said, leaning close. “Everyone thinks that, but it’s wrong. We melt you.”

“Jay, come on,” Jackdaw called. “I found her.”

The nightclub’s back room was as impressive as the rest of it. Nothing worth looking at except its sole occupant, who was so focused on doing her makeup in a cloudy mirror that she didn’t bother to look up when Jackdaw opened the door. “Oh, good,” she said, “you came.”

“Redwing, where the hell have you been?”

Redwing shrugged. She’d lost weight since the last time they saw her, sharper lines to her cheekbones and elbows. “Here and there. Mostly here, the past few weeks. Met some trouble, and not the good kind.” That much was obvious; brighter than her sequined crimson dress, the lines of power binding her lit up the room.

“Where is he?” Jackdaw folded her arms. “I’ll kill him.”

“Will you let me play with him first?” Jay asked, drifting in to lean against the wall.

“Only if you do it tastefully,” Mags said, poking through the odds and ends on the vanity. “As tasteful as this place gets, anyway.”

“He’s not here yet,” Redwing said, “but he will be soon. I’m supposed to go on stage in five minutes.” She smiled, tossed a used-up lipstick tube on the table, and stood.

One by one, all three of her siblings smiled back.

“Perfect,” Jackdaw said, unslinging the guitar case from her shoulder, “that gives us time to warm up.”

The Gilded Cage nightclub never particularly lived up to its name. Even when it was new, all attempts at polish simply faded into dinge and drudgery. It was not an escape; it did not pretend to be anything more than another kind of prison. But tonight, for just a little while, the whole place lit up.

First came the guitar, a scatter of notes building into a steady beat. Its player never took her eyes from the audience, daring them to look away. No one dared.

Next came the banjo, ringed fingers weaving a spell over metal strings. The motion kept the crowd tongue-tied, unable to so much as whisper a word of objection as the player plucked out their hearts.

Then the bright notes of the fiddle, dancing around the others, picking up pieces of melody before setting them aside for something new. The fiddler danced too, moving between his siblings like a moth to well-loved flames.

When the singer added her voice, the room went still. If the stillness spread from a single point, a lone figure at the back of the room, that meant nothing. The song was not about him. She sang, instead, of a bird flown far from her flock, searching for a tune and finding only a cage. Of a cage, squeezed too tight. Of a song that would not be contained any longer.

Some songs can be sung alone. This song, though—it was always meant for harmony. So with four voices joined together, they brought down the house.

A while later, the siblings escaped the smoke into fresh, rain-scented air. Redwing shivered, but waved away the offer of Jay’s hoodie. “It feels good to be out,” she said. “I’m finally free.”

“You could have been all along, if you hadn’t wandered off in the first place,” Jackdaw pointed out. “It took us forever to track you down.”

“And we barely got to play around at all,” Jay lamented. “I still think we should experiment more. This crowd barely lasted one song.”

“We played so well, though!” Magpie said, skipping along the sidewalk. “Better than that nasty spell deserved.”

“We did play well together,” Redwing said. She wrapped an arm around Jay’s shoulders, caught Magpie in a side hug, and exchanged a knowing look with Jackdaw. “We always do.”

The conversation continued, even as the night swallowed them up. Behind them, the smell of smoke lingered.
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[personal profile] kiraly 2023-02-16 06:19 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you! I had a lot of fun with it, the part in the song about a blackbird "singin' for herself" got into my brain and wouldn't let go. Also, this is on AO3 now. Link! :)
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[personal profile] ungefug 2023-02-16 09:38 am (UTC)(link)
Music video: Mylène Farmer - Libertine

Listen/watch link: https://youtu.be/oGFr_NcKyfo

Lyrics: https://genius.com/Mylene-farmer-libertine-lyrics

Translation:: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/libertine-libertine.html

Additional prompt: Effeminate men in makeup, butch women in makeup, decadence and moral decay, people in hysterics, Libertines destroying each other in their unrestrained passions and petty grievances.

Warnings: sex, nudity, people being graphically shot dead
Edited 2023-02-16 10:38 (UTC)
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[personal profile] ungefug 2023-02-16 09:46 am (UTC)(link)
Music video: Sans Logique - Mylène Farmer

Listen/watch link: https://youtu.be/JqWGA5xQYqA

Lyrics: https://genius.com/Mylene-farmer-sans-logique-lyrics

Translation:: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/sans-logique-logic-defied.html

Additional prompt: The barren otherworldy scenery, the religious themes, bullfighting and Spanish culture, Farmer's Maenad rage, the goring of her lover, the eroticism of death. Also her horns just look really neat.

Warnings: a man bleeds from a stomach injury that seems to be implied to be lethal
Edited 2023-02-16 10:38 (UTC)
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[personal profile] ungefug 2023-02-16 10:04 am (UTC)(link)
Song: Comus - The Bite

Listen link: https://youtu.be/FdbE4SzTW8Y

Lyrics: https://genius.com/Comus-the-bite-lyrics

Additional prompt: christianity vs paganism, spiritual idealism vs nature as an inevitable bedrock, "a routine morning martyr's death", "he hangs above the sin", people masked as animals (think The Wicker Man)

Warnings: the lyrics describe the hanging of a man
Edited 2023-02-16 10:38 (UTC)
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[personal profile] ungefug 2023-02-16 10:18 am (UTC)(link)
Song: Current93 - The Policeman Is Dead

Listen link: https://youtu.be/Uw7vDhaddsM

Lyrics: https://genius.com/Current-93-the-policeman-is-dead-lyrics

Additional prompt: "the light is leaving us all", "Oh rose you are dead" (compare Blake's "O Rose thou art sick"), "Between her toes the flowers grow/And on her eyes the flowers die"
Edited 2023-02-16 10:39 (UTC)

(Anonymous) 2023-02-16 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Song and music video:
Matt Maeson - Put It On Me

Listen/watch link:
https://youtu.be/T0SC3NjsOiY

Lyrics:
You are the cold inescapable proof
You're the evil, the way in the life and the truth
You're revival beginnin' and you're genocide
And I watch in wonder


https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/mattmaeson/putitonme.html

Additional prompt: The person in the robes and the hearse hunting down the man/singer and being impressed by his will to survive ("I will burn down the city and string up the noose/And you'll watch in wonder") and the man finding himself impressed by the person ("You're revival beginnin' and you're genocide/And I watch in wonder").


Warnings: Somebody steps into a bear trap in the video but there's no blood and it's not graphic.

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