Dime in the Jukebox Fest 2023
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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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Date: 2023-02-15 12:01 pm (UTC)Listen/watch link: https://youtu.be/5a9CEpGvoFo
Lyrics: https://anasilvera.bandcamp.com/track/pont-mirabeau
Additional prompt: After the night falls, this love will remain
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Date: 2023-02-15 12:07 pm (UTC)Listen/watch link: https://youtu.be/aOtK_3TacEc
Lyrics: https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/larkinpoe/bloodharmony.html
Additional prompt: I love the idea of a witchy family that does magic with music and blood! Maybe necromancy?
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Date: 2023-02-15 12:15 pm (UTC)Listen/watch link: https://youtu.be/aMEhESVZXBg
Lyrics: https://genius.com/Charming-disaster-ghost-story-lyrics
Warnings: ambiguous implications of domestic violence, murder, corpse imagery
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Date: 2023-02-15 06:17 pm (UTC)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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Date: 2023-02-15 06:25 pm (UTC)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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Date: 2023-02-15 06:51 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2023-02-15 06:56 pm (UTC)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!
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Date: 2023-02-15 07:04 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2023-02-16 01:25 am (UTC)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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Date: 2023-02-16 02:50 am (UTC)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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Date: 2023-02-16 02:58 am (UTC)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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Date: 2023-02-16 03:08 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2023-02-16 03:57 am (UTC)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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Date: 2023-02-16 09:38 am (UTC)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
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Date: 2023-02-16 09:46 am (UTC)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
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Date: 2023-02-16 10:04 am (UTC)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
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Date: 2023-02-16 10:18 am (UTC)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"
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Date: 2023-02-16 07:37 pm (UTC)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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Date: 2023-02-16 07:44 pm (UTC)Bo Burnham - Microwave Popcorn
Listen/watch link:
https://youtu.be/cKtmf5Zj9V4
Lyrics:
I put the packet on the glass (What glass?)
The little glass dish in the microwave (Got it)
I close the door (Which door?)
The door to the microwave! What is wrong with you?!
https://genius.com/Bo-burnham-microwave-popcorn-lyrics
Additional prompt: So I know this is one guy talking to himself while failing to make microwave popcorn but I love how silly this song is and how much it sounds like two people bickering while failing to make microwave popcorn. Something where it's in fact two people (two frat bros, a couple, one human and an alien, all three or whatever else you can come up with) bickering with each other about microwave popcorn, failed cooking attempts and their life in general would be absolutely delightful.
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Date: 2023-02-16 08:24 pm (UTC)Listen/watch link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMWLX0KXwF4
Lyrics: https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/tovelo/noonediesfromlove.html
Additional prompt: Androids, AIs, and other synthetic beings falling in love! With all the difficulties and complications that entails. It doesn't need to be exactly like the music video, but continuing where it leaves off is welcome, too. Modern setting is fine, and so is space opera fantasy, straight-up sci-fi, etc.
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Date: 2023-02-16 08:28 pm (UTC)Listen/watch link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1TNqdp4WoA
Lyrics: https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/pvris/letthemin.html
Additional prompt: I get the vibes that these are two people at odds, possibly even enemies, and one of them doesn't want to let the other into their heart. Whatever plotline that makes you think of!
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Date: 2023-02-16 11:26 pm (UTC)Listen/watch link: https://youtu.be/kiVJsl6gUFw
Lyrics: https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/9105088/Tori+Amos/Mr.+Zebra
Additional prompt: Think Wes Anderson, Monty Python, Douglas Adams, Edward Gorey, Lewis Carroll, Tim Burton - whatever helps you make sense (or not) of this one, so long as it's fun
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Date: 2023-02-17 03:27 pm (UTC)Listen/watch link: YouTube link
Lyrics:
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Additional prompt: No specific prompt, but I'd be interested no matter who the 'god' named in the song is! Any real life or made up religion! Or cult?
Warnings: Some swear words
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Date: 2023-02-17 09:34 pm (UTC)Song or music video: W.I.T.C.H. - Devon Cole
Lyrics:
Rumor on the street is that her apples are delicious
The jury says she's charming but her exes say she's wicked
I swear to God I saw her howlin' at the sky
She ain't out to get you but she's better on your side
And she don't wanna be anybody else
She's a woman in total control of herself
It's such a wonder to be under her spell
What a woman in total control of herself
Additional prompt: I just love hearing about this woman! Is she an actual witch, or is that just rumour? Are her exes right, or are they exaggerating her wickedness? She says "Am I bad to the bonе, 'cause I get what I want?" What does she want? How does she get it?
The narrator says "Villainous, kitty queen, she's got tricks up her sleeve / and I got a few up mine." What's the narrator's deal? Dating/in love with/broken up with the "witch?" If you go with romance (gen is also great!) I'd love a F/F or F/NB or NB/NB romance, but any kind of romance is welcome.
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Date: 2023-02-18 12:07 am (UTC)Listen/watch link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdIgXD1-93U
Lyrics: https://genius.com/Tori-amos-past-the-mission-lyrics
Additional prompt: freedom, regret, accepting and liberating yourself -- those are some themes the song and/or video touches on. The lyrics gives me a light fairytale vibe but the video itself is interesting -- what town is Tori walking through? Who are the children she's bringing out of their homes? Is it a town at the edge of the world or some other metaphorical universe?
I like the song for its quiet heartfelt-ness too, particularly Tori's piano and the siren guitar part -- it's chills-inducing imo. Feel free to lean into the emotional vibes!
Warnings: online discussions of this song may allude to sexual violence.
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