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carmarthen was doing a thing on Tumblr where people demonstrate how obsessed they are with Les Mis by playing a game where somebody says something random, and the next person has to link it to Les Mis somehow in less than six steps.(I totally would have participated, except, well, Tumblr. So Tumblr that I can't even find her post to link to it here.)
ANYWAY. Along those lines, some years back, somebody (I've no idea who) said that their test for when they're too invested in a fandom is to pick some random songs from their collection, and if they can come up with a pairing (or vid idea) that matches every song, they are exactly the right level of invested. (If you come up with the same pairing for every song, you are probably too invested.)
It's been awhile since I posted one of those here! So here, have the songs that came up at random on my Songs For Sunny Days playlist while I was walking to the library this afternoon
1. The Weather Girls - It's Raining Men - Okay somebody needs to do some sort of mashup with this and A Little Fall Of Rain. Call it Eponine's Happy Ending.
2. Yael Naim - New Soul - This is so very much a Fantine song. It even has the bit at the end where she comes back for Valjean!
3. Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight - This is on the soundtrack for that Valjean/Javert fic where Valjean's about to give himself up at Arras, but first he goes "fuck everything, for once I'm going to do something JUST FOR MYSELF" and finally seduces Javert with candlelight and wine. And Javert thinks he's getting fired in the morning, so he says "fuck everything, for once I'm going to do something JUST FOR MYSELF" and goes with it. (Does that fic exist? I don't think I've read it yet. Which kind of surprises me.)
4. McFadden & Whitehead - Ain't No Stopping Us Now - This one is pretty much a gimme. :P Although I am still waiting for a modern-day-in-America (or mid-20th-century even) Amis AU where they're militant civil rights activists (and none of them are White.)
5. Placebo - Every Me and Every You - Okay this song is mostly for fandoms that have canon AUs/reincarnation where the same doomed relationships keep happening but if I'm doing Les Mis, it's probably Grantaire singing to Enjolras. (And there's plenty of reincarnation fics - and probably enough e/R-as-universal-archetypes in canon - so it works pretty well.)
6. Train - Meet Virginia - Eponine, in a modern!AU, you pick who's singing. (Apparently a modern AU where Gavroche is a high-level political advisor. I LIKE THIS AU.)
7. Cher - Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves - TOTALLY MY JAVERT BACKSTORY FOREVER AND ALWAYS. :P
8. Maroon 5 - She Will Be Loved - This would be just a totally generic soft-focus love story except for the mildly creepy stalky overtones. So I guess it's Marius/Cosette. (Or possibly Marius/Cosette/Eponine.)
9. Blues Traveler - Hook - Full of passion and eloquence, but utterly cynical and signifying nothing = Grantaire must be talking.
10. Modern English - I'll Stop The World And Melt With You - This could be any Les Mis pairing, really, but I'm leaning toward Amis - the idea that you have to stop the world to make time for a personal life...
11. Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood - GAVROCHE BB.
12. Live - I Walk The Line - Needs to be a Javert/Justice, Valjean/Mercy vid, but with the two of them intercut so you could read it as Javert/Valjean (this cover is even a tenor and baritone in duet...)
13. Fastball - Out Of My Head - oh god this would be incredibly easy to vid to e/R. Possibly even with movie footage that actually exists.
14. Monkees - Daydream Believer - A Javert/Valjean fluff AU. Obviously.
15. Cowboy Mouth - Jenny Says - Joly/Musichetta! Or possibly Joly/Musichetta/Bossuet, given the bad-luck gambling imagery at the end.
16. Citizen King - Better Days - This could fit half the cast, but given the theatrical imagery I almost want to give it to Patron-Minette.
17. Alannah Myles - Black Velvet - As much as I hate to give him a song, this is pretty clearly Fantine/Tholomyes.
18. Lit - I Am My Own Worst Enemy - Grantaire, before he met the Amis, when he was even worse off...
19. Bonnie Tyler - Holding Out For A Hero - ENJOLRAS/PATRIA.
20. Starship - We Built This City On Rock And Roll - Yeah I think all I need to do here is link to a picture.
Come play! Can you do this with your music collection (ETA: or best playlist) and your current best fandom(s)? (it doesn't have to be Les Mis. Honest. I am still capable of other things.)
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I am so bad at this kind of game, especially since my music library is roughly 90% classical, Irish trad with no lyrics, or musicals (I can't port musical songs to other fandoms). And a lot of the rest is languages I don't speak.
But okay, skipping over all that stuff:
1. Adele - "Rolling in the Deep" - Yeah, cliched as fuck for any angsty pairing, but Valjean/Javert could work. They certainly have enough scars.
2. The Pogues - "Down in the Ground Where the Dead Men Go" - Actually, strangely appropriate for the entire Les Miz canon.
3. S.J. Tucker - "Crystal Cave" - ...okay, I can't really paste pagan anything onto Les Miz. I told you I was bad at this game!
4. Julia Ecklar - "Legends" - Um, I guess space AUs are good for...all fandoms?
5. Eminem - "Cleaning Out My Closet"
I CAN'T DO THIS. AND I HAVE JUST ADMITTED TO HAVING EMINEM ON MY COMPUTER IN PUBLIC. *sob*
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"Legends" is all about THE BETRAYAL OF THE SCIENTIFIC SPIRIT OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT. Modern!Les Amis play it when they need to get Combeferre in the mood to punch things! (Also it's full of Icarus and Apollo references! You could certainly *filk* it to Les Mis.)
...okay yes these ones are hard, now you have me wanting to not cheat and use ALL MY MUSIC instead of a subset of "Music that is singable" which is what I actually had on my mp3 player. I don't actually have a playlist with ALL The MUSIC, though.
If I go by "all the music on this computer" (which excludes all the instrumental jazz and all the celtic and non-american folk among other things), I get:
1. Trust by Sarah McLachlan (which is probably a Fantine song.)
2. Johnny Cash - Who's Gene Autry? (this is clearly Marius telling his kids about his dead friends. Although, uh, not very close.)
3. Alexander the Great by Bond (which is instrumental classical crossover by an electric string quartet. It does sound sort influenced by 19th century European folk music, though! And I'm sure Grantaire compared Enjolras to Alexander the Great at least once. You could do a disco!Amis dance vid to this, I bet.)
4. ....Slim Shady. I AM JEAN VALJEAN. ..okay moving on now.
5. Everything Changes from the Torchwood soundtrack clearly belongs with
6. A techno remix of the Sesame Street theme, artist unknown. Look, there is a Rue Sesame in Paris, just like there is in every city in the world, if you know how to get there! And Grouches are really good at barricades. That's a fic that's crying out to written. (Which of the Amis would know how to get there, I wonder.)
7. Skies of Skaia from the first Homestuck album - NOPE NOT GOING THERE. (Could go there, choosing not to. :P)
8. An instrumental fiddle version of "I Am A Man of Constant Sorrow" - Valjean. Valjean in particularly melodramatic mood, but fair.
9. "Promenade:Gnomus " from Pictures at an Exhibition - darn, if it was two tracks down it would have been "Promenade: Tuileries". :p
10. and a live bluegrass mandolin medley by Chris Thile of Nickel Creek. Yeah okay, even I'm not sure where to go with that one.
Okay, I admit it, I didn't quite make it that time. :P
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