#Ben's taste in music

[zepskies]

Hi! I would love to hear what Ben thinks of the reader's music and what HIS favorite music is. Just picturing a grumpy, old Ben grumbling about "music nowadays" 😂

Hey there, lovely Anon!

Ohohooo, what a great question. 😂 I too can imagine Mr. Grouch trying to understand modern music:

I briefly explored this in Part 5 of Break Me Down, when they're (playfully) arguing about music:

And you talked—about the old-ass TV shows he never got to see the end of, and the new music he hated. You’d enjoyed (gently) teasing him about being an old man who didn’t understand Cardi B when you played it on his phone. You suspected he didn’t quite understand how all the bells and whistles worked on an iPhone yet. (But he’d taken it back from you before you could text anyone.) “In my day, there was a little more fucking class,” he’d said. “Sinatra. Nat King Cole. Christ, the fucking Beatles.”  You’d rolled your eyes at that. You liked all those guys too, actually. But that didn’t mean you couldn’t bang out all the words to “Bodak Yellow” and “Please Me.”

😂 A little more fucking class indeed, Benjamin.

As a more general Soldier Boy (Ben) x Reader situation, I explored Ben vs. 90s music in this imagine: Taking Ben to a 90’s themed club.🕺🏻

A highlight from that one:

For a while he just sits at the bar with you while you catch up with your friends. You're so damn excited, he can tell. The inside of the club is interesting, he supposes, with dim lighting and a DJ on the stage with a very sophisticated looking setup that Ben finds wholly unfamiliar. The music, however, is ass so far. What the fuck is this, Hip Hop? Rap? R&B? He can't tell, and he doesn't know any of the songs. It sounds like a bunch of fucking whining. And don't get him started on whatever you call grunge.

But as for Ben's favorite music...

It's my headcanon that he personally identified with the likes of Frank Sinatra ("My Way"), Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, Mel Torme, Nat King Cole, etc. He definitely would've come into adulthood on that and sought to emulate their lifestyle, not just like their music.

Him coming up in the 40s, he probably would've (secretly) liked a bit of Doris Day and Ella Fitzgerald. (In BMD world, it would probably remind him of his mother.)

But there's also some edge to him. He would've embraced some "free love" to to speak lol, so getting through the 60s and 70s, I think he would've liked the Beatles, Rolling Stones, maybe some Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, and Aerosmith coming into the 80s.

Interestingly, from that scene in the Legend's penthouse we know he had Air Supply on in the background, so maybe he's secretly into some classic love songs from the 70s/80s. 😂 Maybe some Bee Gees, Spandau Ballet, stuff like that...

Though God forbid someone try to tease him about it.

Especially when he starts to dip into some of your music when you're not looking. 😏

[victorian-nymph]

This is like a modern day crack video

also @that-an made the original meme for the third clip lol I couldn't stop thinking about the live childs reaction.

[wormchamp72]

Fake Plastic Trees

It really is true...we are all just living in a "fake plastic earth."

It wears me out

Wow. Sometimes this is how I feel...worn out. Life really is hard...and it wears me out.

Sorry, was that redundant? It's just that I can't keep myself from dwelling on some of those final lines.

I wonder if on this fine, clear night, Maximus P. is looking out his window. I wonder if Maximus P. listens 2 Radiohead...he always did have such good taste in music.

Sorry...am I getting too sentimental? Ha...it's not like I miss him. It must be the music doing something 2 me.

And if I could be who you wanted If I could be who you wanted All the time All the time

I am not ashamed to say...those last lines may have made me shed a tear or 2.

[juno-box]

kenny listens to 100gecs

lingard listens to TV Girl

ben listens to Steve Lacy

louis listens to Miguel

i've locked myself in the garage by accident please help

[thatsgonnaleaveamark]

ghost boy playlist bc its a huge vibe rn

[isthistheendforus]

i’m gonna be so fr every reason that the haters have to hate on taylor is so easily debunked they literally have nothing

[jawnjendes]

hey i love ben schwartz and i make playlists for some of the roles i really love so here they are

yasper (the afterparty)

clyde oberholt (house of lies)

sonic the hedgehog (,,,,,,)

jean ralphio saperstein (parks n rec)

teddy lobo (renfield)

dewey duck (ducktales)

[yourplaceinaugust]

what bands/albums do you think the losers would have on cassette/vinyl??

or what songs/bands from the 80s-90s do you think the losers would put on their mixtapes they give to each other??

[stigmatamama]

You're still here, even without your things I feel your presence won't leave me and my thoughts.

[moonahsrobin]

Ben likes Florence and the machine!!

[lyricsdumblikethelinoleumfloor]

Making Hayloft/Hayloft II about all the characters I love can be something so personal actually

[pierswife]

I am trying to exist and do paperwork and all I can hear in my head is one particular Korn song and I am just pretending I'm not like--

Cause I know as soon as I start saying stuff out loud the old guys in my department are gonna look at me weird--

[jonny-versace]

"Rescue Me" by Madonna in the latest episode of Yellowjackets...... all the awards for this show

[hesgomorrah]

i'm going to make a ship playlist that is so anachronistic

[albeitinzane]

PLEASEEE PLEASE PLEASE I NEED MY PARTNER TO BE AS INSANE ABOUT THE OH HELLOS AS I AM

Dating app that matches people based off their music tastes

[quotes-and-lyrics-i-think-about]

“ I can fit two people under my skin, yeah, I can fit two people under my skin. And I will prove it if you will listen - you crawl up there and join me within. I can feel your heart beating under my skin, and the beating of your heart is making me bleed from within. And if we cut open your heart, pour it in a cup, do you think it'd be enough, do you think it'd be enough to fill my heart with music? „

- Under My Skin by Jukebox the Ghost, from their album Let Live & Let Ghosts (2008).