desertvixen | Jukebox 2024 (Reply)

First, my apologies! I thought I had posted this already. If you already have an awesome idea, keep going!

My general preferences are here.

I love treats!

Prefer het couples in general.

Did I Mention - Jeff Lewis (Song)

So this is from the delightfully cracky Descendants movie, and if you want to play with that I am in - but really what I'm looking for is the vibe between the more serious half and the over-the-top half, where he is trying to impress her and she is all "why is this idiot so in love with ME?" (I also like Haruhi/Tamaki (and Kyouya) from Ouran for this vibe if you need another inspiration.). Prefer a modern setting.

So go crazy with this one! If you want to keep rolling with the Descendants vibe, I really enjoyed the first one, and you can spin from there. Alternatively, if you’re watching Strange New Worlds, this has James/La’an written ALL over it. Or original characters in an original setting. I like the over-the-top, the public setting, the fun.

The Heart Wants What It Wants - Selena Gomez (Song)

I'm totally here for the vibe of "I should not be doing this but I want them too bad

So on this one, you have a chance to go a little unhealthy/dark – the heart wants what it wants has been used for any number of excuses for bad decisions, but sometimes you roll with it.

Kings and 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. A helpful/grateful prince would not go amiss.

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. (Family Tradition was not nominated this year because I have received an incredible gift story for it but I am still down for you to get inspired by this crossover idea).

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.

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

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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.

Strip It Down - Luke Bryan (Song)

I am here for the vibe of a couple reconnecting with the physical after getting lost in other roles.

In my current season of life, this is very much a couple with kids who have gotten out of the habit, but it could be something else. Why do they need to get back to how it used to be? Let them get there.

Stranded - Plumb (Song)

If you want to draw on the movie Drive Me Crazy (it's on the soundtrack), feel free! But the vibe I want is a couple who's stuck in their situation, who knows it, but can't move on from each other. Help them be happy.

So yes, this comes from some of the excellent 90s soundtracks. Stranded hits me different than The Heart Wants What It Wants. In the latter, they know it’s a bad idea but don’t care enough to stop. In Stranded, I see them as stuck – they could improve things, or screw them up more, if they’d only act. Also on my James/La’an SNW playlist…