Dime in the Jukebox Fest 2024

[minutia_r]

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:

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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:

<strong>Song or music video</strong>: <strong>Listen/watch link</strong>: <strong>Lyrics</strong>: <strong>Translation:</strong>: <strong>Additional prompt</strong>: <strong>Warnings</strong>:

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.

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.

Comments

[minutia_r]

Song or music video: Maggie's Ship - The Longest Johns

Listen/watch link: https://youtu.be/sNmaFrcOJhs?si=2Ajkn_F9CB0xIJAd

Lyrics: https://genius.com/The-longest-johns-maggies-ship-lyrics

Additional prompt: Pirate captain, dominatrix, or both? I'd love to see more shenanigans that happen on Maggie's ship, F/f, F/m, and F/other all welcome

[minutia_r]

Song: Pont Mirabeau - Ana Silvera

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

[minutia_r]

Song or music video: Feuer - Faun

Listen/watch link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J4AuEj4zHE

Lyrics: https://genius.com/Faun-feuer-lyrics

Translation:: https://genius.com/Faun-fire-lyrics

Additional prompt: Castles! Swords and axes! Evil kings and ragtag bands of forest outlaws! Magical musical instruments!

[avidrosette]

Song or music video: French Perfume by Great Big Sea

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

Lyrics: https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/greatbigsea/frenchperfume.html

Additional prompt: Smugglers sailing the Atlantic coast of North America under cover of darkness, running contraband, like rum, perfume, silk, and French lace

[dontstophernow]

Music video: De Selby (pt 2) by Hozier

Listen/watch link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSRJCw4FyNI

Lyrics: (at the Youtube link)

Additional prompt: Time Loops, Murdering pieces of yourself, graves, pubs, desperation, doppelgangers

Warnings: Violence, Death, Blood

[(Anonymous)]

Song or music video:
Grey Blues, by Carry Hatchet

Listen/watch link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNWJJN3b3iQ

Lyrics:
https://genius.com/Carry-hatchet-grey-blues-lyrics

Additional prompt:
That's a lot of awkward grinning while karaoking a song about depressive disassociation!

[eccentric_hat]

Song: Vesoul, by Jacques Brel

Listen/watch link: I like this cover by Pomplamoose https://youtu.be/hvrBWn0KxEc?si=dna6SRRoPvNvLKuS

Lyrics: https://genius.com/Jacques-brel-vesoul-lyrics

Translation:: Of the English translations available online, this seems like the best one: https://lyricfluent.com/lyrics_translation/florent_pagny_vesoul_lyrics_english_translation (but I suspect what they translate as "you loved your mother more" might be "you didn't like your mother anymore")

Additional prompt: Why are they so restless? What's going on between the narrator and the sister? Is there some unspoken reason not to go to Paris?

Warnings: Faint suggestion of infidelity

[robberbaroness]

Song or music video: Pumped Up Kicks - Hildegard von Blingen'

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

Lyrics: At the youtube link

Additional prompt: This version seems to be a really violent Robin Hood ballad- what can you do with that?

[robberbaroness]

Song or music video: Daisy Bell- IBM 7094 and Hatsune Miku

Listen/watch link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXK_cE9AqAI

Lyrics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Bell

Additional prompt: Is Miku comforting a dying robot? Having a singalong with her grandfather? Pacifying HAL9000?

[robberbaroness]

Song or music video: Devil is Fine - Zeal & Ardor

Listen/watch link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlGBer0VoF8

Lyrics: https://genius.com/Zeal-and-ardor-devil-is-fine-lyrics

Additional prompt: The concept for this album was "slave spirituals sung to the devil" which is a great place to start!

[juushika]

Song or music video: Hurt Me by The Jezabels

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

Lyrics: https://genius.com/The-jezabels-hurt-me-lyrics

Additional prompt: Codependent relationships, metaphorical or actual cannibalism, choosing violence - I'd love to see this in a speculative concept where all the metaphors are literal.

Warnings: violent imagery including cannibalism, possible implied domestic violence, religious imagery

[juushika]

Song or music video: Aviary by Ego Likeness

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

Lyrics: https://genius.com/Ego-likeness-aviary-lyrics

Additional prompt: A perfect, beautiful, strange cage - what is this place like as a real place, a portal world, fairytale, a horror story?

Warnings: fantasy/fairytale violence

[kiraly]

Song: You Told The Drunks I Knew Karate - Zoey Van Goey

Listen/watch link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EwBNm1Uhs0

Lyrics: https://genius.com/Zoey-van-goey-you-told-the-drunks-i-knew-karate-lyrics

Additional prompt: "I do the dumbest things for you. Why do I do the dumbest things for you?" I want to know what kind of person inspires the kind of loyalty we see in this song - and what goes on in the head of the person who will follow them into any kind of trouble, even knowing it's a bad idea.

[kiraly]

Song: 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

Additional prompt: "Night is falling here / and pulling the curtain / with the closing of our eyes / I don't wanna leave your side." Something is ending unexpectedly - the world? A relationship? A phase in life? Whatever it is, what happens during its final moments?

[nuh_s]

Song or music video: Black Fox by Heather Dale

Listen/watch link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpH-pu0AtRM

Lyrics: https://heatherdale.com/lyrics-the-road-to-santiago-black-fox/

Additional prompt: I love the idea of the devil/fox not being antagonistic. "When your need is greatest, just call upon my name / And I will come and you shall have the best of sport and game." Perhaps when hard times fall upon the huntsman, he calls out again and the devil/fox returns for a brief time of chase.

Warnings: Hunting (no animals are killed in the song)

[nuh_s]

Song or music video: Mary the One Eyed Prostitute, Who Fought the Colossal Squid and Saved Us from Certain Death on the High Seas, God Rest Her One Eyed Soul by The Dreadnoughts

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

Lyrics: https://genius.com/The-dreadnoughts-mary-the-one-eyed-prostitute-who-fought-the-colossal-squid-and-saved-us-from-certain-death-on-the-high-seas-god-rest-her-one-eyed-soul-lyrics

Additional prompt: I like to imagine Mary actually survived this encounter, and this song is delivered years later as a eulogy at her funeral. And that's not even the craziest story shared at her funeral.

Warnings: colossal squid violence

[nuh_s]

Song or music video: Girl in the 4th Dimension by Sheldan Allman

Listen/watch link: https://youtu.be/eHb-Xtvqh-M?si=SE6RCamMzYyn4wJM

Lyrics: https://genius.com/Sheldon-allman-girl-in-the-4th-dimension-annotated

Additional prompt: What does a relationship with a girl in the 4th dimension look like? Bonus points for a femslash twist!

Warnings: None

[nuh_s]

Song or music video: X Square Plus 2

Listen/watch link: https://youtu.be/DiYPgee-6vA?si=_tAp9fv8AtsDaqOw

Lyrics: https://genius.com/Sheldon-allman-x-square-plus-2-lyrics

Additional prompt: An interesting form of communication that could be fun to explore

Warnings: None

Old Wounds (PVRIS)

[taken_aback_by_tuesdays]

Song or music video:

Listen/watch link: https://open.spotify.com/track/7mjBzmb1HmwJq0tkXLdoC8

Lyrics: https://genius.com/Pvris-old-wounds-lyrics

Additional prompt: something about falling in love again and the circumstances being right this time

Cat's in the Cradle - Yusuf Islam

[morbane]

Song or music video: Cat's in the Cradle - Yusuf Islam [Original by Harry Chapin also okay!]

Listen/watch link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE8b4-flSXg

Lyrics: https://genius.com/Harry-chapin-cats-in-the-cradle-lyrics

Additional prompt: There are many ways the details of these lives could be filled in! However one thing that struck me really strongly on recent listens is the story of the (presumed) other parent. I found I really cared to know about their relationship to the son, their influences on the son, their relationship with the son as an adult.

[juushika]

Song or music video: Pet by A Perfect Circle

Listen/watch link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrEP3RPgEao

Lyrics: https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858489517/

Additional prompt: "Pay no mind what other voices say / They don't care about you / Like I do." The sexiest song ever written about putting your head in the sand and ignoring an increasingly bad (political) situation. Spin this into an intimate relationship (romantic? codependent? familial? sexy???) & I'll love you forever. I'd especially love a self-aware PoV, someone that hears the words and chooses to stay, safe and ignorant.

Bonus: APC has a version of this song called Counting Bodies Like Sheep To The Rhythms Of The War Drums which goes harder and darker: music video (CW overt political imagery) / lyrics. Feel free to take inspiration!

Warnings: Lyrics imply abuse and may evoke (2000-era) politics.

[catchmeifyoucreon]

Song or music video: The Steam - Peter Doherty ft. The Puta Madres

Listen/watch link: YouTube

Lyrics: Lyrics

Additional prompt: "Dredging every dirty hole, 'til at last I found the redlit green-eyed girl from some netherworld, I said, she's the one who took my brother down"; "Please don't try to make it right, not tonight, or any other night". The glimpses of worldbuilding and character dynamics in this song are absolutely fascinating! Would love to see any of the narrative gaps filled in.