Jukebox 2023

[desertvixen]

My general preferences are here.

My blanket DNW are nominated character death, cruelty/death to childeren/animals, explicit/graphic/sexual violence.

 

Treats: Yes please!

 

 

 

The Ride - David Allan Coe (Song) 

 

I love vanishing hitchhikers and this is a reverse. Please make main character (passenger) female.  Pretty much what it says. I’m cool with the driver being Hank Williams, but love the idea of the passenger being a female country singer.

 

OR…since Hank Williams died when his son was 4, if you wanted to cross this with Family Tradition, I’m totally on board for that. I want the interaction, and would love to see the singer looking back. Especially if they belatedly realize...the driver was their parent.

Pretty much this.   Except it doesn’t have to be Hank Sr if you’d prefer to create your own character. 

But I love the impact of the line, You don’t have to call me mister mister/the whole world called me Hank. 

If you look at my past requests, I love vanishing hitchhikers. 

I’m good with it being Hank, or being an original character, or crossing over…I just love the reverse vanishing hitchhiker in the song, the slow realization that the driver isn’t/wasn’t of this world.  Or playing off the Telly Savalas meeting, interacting with their relative.

Telly Savalas claimed to have had one of these encounters.  Details vary, but here is one of the accounts and it’s the vibe I’m looking for:

It was late when he began his drive home from a friends house at Long Island to his own home in New York. He was also out of gas, but the lights from an all night cafe lit up the darkness. He managed to pull in, and having a coffee, asked the way to the nearest garage. He was told to take a path through the wood at the back of the cafe until he reached the freeway. Just about to set off on the daunting walk, a voice called out, asking if he wanted a lift. It was gratefully received and Telly got into the Cadilac of this good Samaritan.

It wasn't until he got to the gas station that he realised his wallet was missing and the man kindly gave him some money with Telly insisting on having his name and phone number. Harry Agannis wrote his name on a scrap of paper and Telly thanked him for all he had done.

When it came to contacting the man he spoke to his wife who told him the sad news that he had died. Telling her what had happened and how her husband had helped him, she said that was impossible as his death was not recent. He had been dead three years. The star was shocked, and then intrigued. He described the car which she agreed was the same as her husband's. The clothes, which she said he was buried in. Then there was the voice which was unusually high pitched. That could have accounted for the fact that Harry Agannis had taken his own life, shooting himself in the throat. Telly eventually met the widow and showed her the piece of paper on which the man had written. She was more than sure that it was her husband's handwriting. It was certainly an experience that Telly Savalas never forgot, and earned him a new friend in Mrs Agannis.

 

River Bank - Brad Paisley (Song) 

 

The part where they tell the boss to suck it and travel around the world on a cruise ship/yacht.

 

This is what I want:

 

Still, can you imagine if we ever struck it

I’d go shoot tequila, take a lime and suck it

And we’d tell our bosses they can do the same

We’ll find a big cruise ship and buy the whole dang thing

We’d sail around the world and go to shore in a dingy

 

If you wanted to cross this over with 9 to 5, I’m there for it! Or…if they use the strike to get back at the boss!

 

Or even just what is it like to live on the cruise ship? Maybe they find out there’s a (ghostly) reason the ship was relatively cheap.

 

Pretty much all of the above.  This one I see as ripe for fun/comedic, maybe a little mystery, or even an outsider/media/social media POV on it.  Play it light.

 

star-crossed - Kacey Musgraves (Song) 

 

So I love how this takes a very modern event that many of us have lived through, and gives it a very fairy tale feeling. Prefer focus on the female narrator.

 

    Let me set the scene

    Two lovers ripped right at the seams

    They woke up from the perfect dream

    And then the darkness came

 

I love the beginning with the guitar opening, and the narrator telling a story.  The song is about divorce, but maybe your story is about something more dramatic?  The end of the world as we know it – maybe they find each other again?

Or divorce. 

Breaking Up Was Easy in the 90s - Sam Hunt (Song) 

 

As someone who lived it, it was not. I'd be interested in somehow comparing the 2 experiences, or even time travel and finding themselves back in the 90s...or maybe tell me about how the broken-up is coping. (Please no revenge taking)

 

Back then, I could've convinced myself that maybe you called when I was out

And you didn't know what to say, so you didn't leave a message

And that you're probably at home right now, sound asleep

'Cause goin' out isn't really your thing

And I wouldn't have a clue what you've been up to lately

Or who you've been up to it with

But when I don't miss your calls, I miss you callin'

And I go 'round and 'round again

Modern love leads to modern hearts breakin'

I'm just a product of my generation

 

So, some petty revenge is okay – no revenge killing/violence please.  Otherwise, what it says on the tin. Or maybe a parent watching their modern teen going through it and remembering the good old days?

 

Holding Out for a Hero - Bonnie Tyler (Song) 

 

Give it a fairy tale-type setting or maybe tend toward action/adventure?

 

Where have all the good men gone

And where are all the gods?

Where's the streetwise Hercules

To fight the rising odds?

 

This is a good one to belt out on the elliptical and in the car, and it’s been used in probably a million fanvids.  If you’re an 80s cartoon fan, you know my favorite one. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YWJk-nBLAM)

Fairy tale (or Fairy Tail, if you’re familiar…) or maybe this is the song that is keeping someone sane in the post-apocalyptic world?  Here for it.  Feel free to cross over with Kings and Queens, or use the 80s cartoons for inspo (see my fandoms).

 

Kings & Queens - Ava Max (Song) 

 

Young queens unite! I'd love some sort of case where they're brought together, not damsels in distress!

 

No damsel in distress, don't need to save me

Once I start breathin' fire, you can't tame me

And you might think I'm weak without a sword

But if I had one, it'd be bigger than yours

If all of the kings had their queens on the throne

We would pop champagne and raise a toast

To all of the queens who are fighting alone

Baby, you're not dancin' on your own

 

Also here for delicious formal events – maybe after the queens have done their bit? Have fun with it.  Prefer keeping this one light and upbeat, or triumphant.

 

Why Does It Have to Be (Wrong or Right) - Restless Heart (Song) 

 

Star-crossed lovers on opposing sides - why? Or maybe give them an interlude of peace, all the sweeter because it can't last?

 

If you know the G.I. Joe cartoon, Zarana/Mainframe?  That’s the vibe I’m looking for.  Good for pining or that one perfect weekend.