#flo's swift september

[lavenderbradshaw]

Swift September!

Hi! Okay, so I had a little fun thought. If you look at my profile, you'll notice my wicked love for Taylor Swift. 9/10, the things I write are inspired by her lyrics. SO! I thought I'd compile a list of lyrics that I'd love to write to and let y'all pick what you want to see.

I'll do these all throughout September, so please send in stuff! (No, seriously, I’m genuinely desperate)

If there's a lyric here you'd like to see, send it in an ask. If there's a character from Top Gun you'd like to see it with, add that, too! If there’s no character, I will pick, so be warned! If there's a lyric I haven't included (and it's Taylor Swift) please send it! Also, combos are so totally acceptable!

They'd just be pretty short blurbs, quick little scenes. But they all do have the possibility of becoming something someday ;)

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SMUT

i feel the lavender haze creepin' up on me

you know i'm not a bad girl, but i'd do bad things with you

i said, 'no one has to know what we do', his hands are in my hair, his clothes are in my room

i could see you in your suit and your necktie, pass me a note saying 'meet me tonight'

the altar is my hips, even if it's a false god

lord, save me, my drug is my baby

devils roll the dice, angels roll their eyes, what doesn't kill me makes me want you more

'cause all the boys and their expensive cars, the range rovers and their jaguars, never took me quite where you do

ANGST

you drew stars around my scars, but now i'm bleeding

losing him was blue like i'd never known

from sprinkler splashes to fire place ashes, i gave my blood, sweat, and tears for this

you're not gone, you can't be gone, no

she would've been such a lovely bride, what a shame she's fucked in the head

maybe i was naive, got lost in your eyes and never really had a chance

crawling up the beaches now, 'sir, i think he's bleeding out', and some things you just can't speak about

tell me that you're still mine, tell me that we'll be just fine, even when i lose my mind

is it really your anxiety that stops you from giving me everything, or do you just not want to?

last night i heard my own heart beating, sounded like footsteps on my stairs, six months gone and i'm still reaching, even though i know you're not there

i can go anywhere i want, anywhere i want just not home

i pulled your body into mine every god damn night

the idea you had of me, who was she? a never needy, ever lovely jewel, whose shine reflects on you

if our love died young, i can't bear witness

FLUFF

you are the best thing that's ever been mine

there's a dazzling haze, a mysterious way about you, dear

i'm begging for you to take my hand, wreck my plans, that's my man

if you were here, we'd laugh about their vacant stares but for now, my time is theirs

there's a chain 'round your throat, piece of paper where i wrote 'i'll wait for you'

i once believed love would be black and white, but it's golden

i'm so thankful for all of the girls you loved before, but i love you more

MISC

**anything from this category might need a little more vision from the requester**

i can feel the flames on my skin, crimson red paint on my lips, if a man talks shit then i owe him nothing

how's one to know, i'd meet you where the spirit meets the bone

all the liars are calling me one, nobody's heard from me for months

[thepinkjupiter]

so i just finished me and my moms annual tvd june-september rewatch (i am in pain.) and i can't decide which dr i want to go to from my wr tonight, so i will give some info from each dr and you can choose!!

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scarlett gilbert

species: angel/demon/witch tribrid

s/o: elijah mikaelson

5 songs i would use to describe this reality: season of the witch by lana del rey, donttrustme by 3OH!3, haunted (tv) by taylor swift, lonesome by sabrina carpenter, all your exes by julia michaels

valentine forbes

species: vampire/oysi/condyine/witch quadbrid (species i made up dont ask the logistics of it 💀)

s/o: kol mikaelson

5 songs i would use to describe this reality: liar by camila cabello, i love it by icona pop ft charli xcx, boys boys boys by lady gaga, my boyfriends back by the raveonettes, right where you left me by taylor swift

melody salvatore

species: heretic

s/o: kol mikaelson (i have a problem ik)

5 songs i would use to describe this reality: tears to shed by danny elfman, scott street by phoebe bridgers, once upon a dream by emily osment, salvatore by lana del rey, forever and always by minnz piano

ruby forbes

species: heretic

s/o: rebekah mikaelson/kol mikaelson..

5 songs i would use to describe this reality: good girl gone bad by rihanna, whos afraid of little old me? by taylor swift, butterflies by kacey musgraves, daughter of a cop by tv girl, after midnight by chappell roan

vienna marshall

species: slarisk (essentially a siren-witch-demon)

s/o: kai parker

5 songs i would use to describe this reality: please please please by sabrina carpenter, happiness is a butterfly by lana del rey, love potions by bj lips ft princess paparazzi, western nights by ethel cain, and change for me by emlyn

serena mikaelson

(not related to the mikaelsons but was adopted by hayley so hope is my older sister..its very weird and complicated so i like to ignore the logistics)

species: heretic

s/o: lizzie saltzman/ryan clarke

5 songs i would use to describe this reality: family tree (intro) by ethel cain, sugar by flo rida ft wynter, shut up and dance by victoria duffield, hard times by ethel cain, screwed by paris hilton

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MTV VMAs 2023: vea la lista completa de ganadores

MTV VMAs 2023:

The 2023 MTV Video Music Awards celebrated the past and embraced the future in a memorable ceremony. The event honored pop icons Shakira and Diddy for their significant contributions to the music world and paid tribute to the rich 50-year history of hip-hop. It also showcased emerging artists from around the globe.

Shakira was the recipient of the prestigious Video Vanguard Award, and her performance covered her illustrious career, highlighting the evolution of Latin pop music. This was a fitting choice for an awards show that introduced Colombian reggaeton sensation Karol G and Peso Pluma, a talented 24-year-old artist from Guadalajara, Mexico, whose music blends regional Mexican, reggaeton, and hip-hop influences from his upbringing.

The VMAs also showcased diverse international genres, including the thriving Afrobeats from West Africa and the global sensation of K-pop. Nigerian singer Rema and Selena Gomez were honored with the first-ever Afrobeats award for their hit “Calm Down,” which recently achieved a remarkable billion streams on Spotify. South Korean boy band Tomorrow X Together and Brazilian pop star Anitta presented their new collaboration, “Back for More.”

Additionally, the event featured special appearances by ‘N Sync, Ashanti, Timbaland, and Nelly Furtado.

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In summary, the 2023 VMAs, hosted by Nicki Minaj for the second year in a row, celebrated the past, embraced the future, and showcased the global diversity of music.

VÍDEO DEL AÑO

GANADORA : Taylor Swift – “Anti-Hero”

Doja Cat – “Attention”

Miley Cyrus – “Flowers”

Nicki Minaj – “Super Freaky Girl”

Olivia Rodrigo – “vampire”

Sam Smith, Kim Petras – “Unholy”

SZA – “Kill Bill”

ARTISTA DEL AÑO

Beyoncé

Doja Cat

Karol G

Nicki Minaj

Shakira

Taylor Swif

LA CANCIÓN DEL AÑO

GANADORA : Taylor Swift – “Anti-Hero” 

Miley Cyrus – “Flowers”

Olivia Rodrigo – “vampire”

Rema & Selena Gomez – “Calm Down”

Sam Smith, Kim Petras – “Unholy”

Steve Lacy – “Bad Habit”

SZA – “Kill Bill”

MEJOR ARTISTA NUEVO

GANADORA : Ice Spice

GloRilla

Kaliii

Peso Pluma

PinkPantheress

Reneé Rapp

EMPUJE EL RENDIMIENTO DEL AÑO

GANADORA :April 2023: Tomorrow X Together – “Sugar Rush Ride”

August 2022: Saucy Santana – “Booty”

September 2022: Stephen Sanchez – “Until I Found You”

October 2022: JVKE – “golden hour”

November 2022: Flo Milli – “Conceited”

December 2022: Reneé Rapp – “Colorado”

January 2023: Sam Ryder – “All The Way Over”

February 2023: Armani White – “GOATED”

March 2023: Fletcher – “Becky’s So Hot”

May 2023: Ice Spice – “Princess Diana”

June 2023: FLO – “Losing You”

July 2023: Lauren Spencer Smith – “That Part”

Para saber más ganadoras de MTV VMAs 2023 — haga clic aquí

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VMA 2023 Nominees

Video of the Year 

Doja Cat - "Attention"

Miley Cyrus - "Flowers"

Nicki Minaj - "Super Freaky Girl"

Olivia Rodrigo - "Vampire"

Sam Smith & Kim Petras - "Unholy"

SZA - "Kill Bill"

Taylor Swift - "Anti-Hero"

Artist of the Year

Beyoncé

Doja Cat

Karol G

Nicki Minaj

Shakira

Taylor Swift

Song of the Year

Miley Cyrus - "Flowers"

Olivia Rodrigo - "Vampire"

Rema & Selena Gomez - "Calm Down"

Sam Smith & Kim Petras - "Unholy"

Steve Lacy - "Bad Habit"

SZA - "Kill Bill"

Taylor Swift - "Anti-Hero"

Best New Artist

GloRilla

Ice Spice

Kaliii

Peso Pluma

PinkPantheress

Reneé Rapp

PUSH Performance of the Year

August 2022: Saucy Santana - "Booty"

September 2022: Stephen Sanchez - "Until I Found You"

October 2022: JVKE - "golden hour"

November 2022: Flo Milli - "Conceited"

December 2022: Reneé Rapp - "Colorado"

January 2023: Sam Ryder - "All The Way Over"

February 2023: Armani White - "GOATED"

March 2023: Fletcher - "Becky's So Hot"

April 2023: Tomorrow X Together - "Sugar Rush Ride"

May 2023: Ice Spice - "Princess Diana"

June 2023: FLO - "Losing You"

July 2023: Lauren Spencer Smith - "That Part"

Best Collaboration

David Guetta & Bebe Rexha - "I'm Good (Blue)"

Post Malone & Doja Cat - "I Like You (A Happier Song)"

Diddy ft. Bryson Tiller, Ashanti, Yung Miami - "Gotta Move On"

KAROL G & Shakira - "TQG"

Metro Boomin ft. The Weeknd, 21 Savage, Diddy - "Creepin' (Remix)"

Rema & Selena Gomez - "Calm Down"

Best Latin

Anitta - "Funk Rave"

Bad Bunny - "Where She Goes"

Eslabon Armado & Peso Pluma - "Ella Baila Sola"

Grupo Frontera & Bad Bunny - "un x100to"

Karol G & Shakira - "TQG"

Rosalía - "Despechá"

Shakira - "Acróstico"

Best Pop

Demi Lovato - "Swine"

Dua Lipa - "Dance the Night"

Ed Sheeran - "Eyes Closed"

Miley Cyrus - "Flowers"

Olivia Rodrigo - "Vampire"

P!NK - "Trustfall"

Taylor Swift - "Anti-Hero"

Best Hip-Hop

Diddy ft. Bryson Tiller, Ashanti, Yung Miami - "Gotta Move On"

DJ Khaled ft. Drake & Lil Baby - "STAYING ALIVE"

GloRilla & Cardi B - "Tomorrow 2"

Lil Uzi Vert - "Just Wanna Rock"

Lil Wayne ft. Swizz Beatz & DMX - "Kant Nobody"

Metro Boomin ft. Future - "Superhero (Heroes and Villains)"

Nicki Minaj - "Super Freaky Girl"

Best R&B 

Alicia Keys ft. Lucky Daye - "Stay"

Chlöe ft. Chris Brown - "How Does It Feel"

Metro Boomin ft. The Weeknd, 21 Savage, Diddy - "Creepin' (Remix)"

SZA - "Shirt"

Toosii - "Favorite Song"

Yung Bleu & Nicki Minaj - "Love In The Way"

Best Alternative

Blink-182 - "Edging"

Boygenius - "The Film"

Fall Out Boy - "Hold Me Like a Grudge"

Lana Del Rey ft. Jon Batiste - "Candy Necklace"

Paramore - "This Is Why"

Thirty Seconds To Mars - "Stuck"

Best Rock

Foo Fighters - "The Teacher"

Linkin Park - "Lost (Original Version)"

Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Tippa My Tongue"

Måneskin - "The Loneliest"

Metallica - "Lux Æterna"

Muse - "You Make Me Feel Like It's Halloween"

Best K-Pop 

Aespa - "Girls"

Blackpink - "Pink Venom"

Fiffty Fifty - "Cupid"

Seventeen - "Super"

Stray Kids - "S-Class"

Tomorrow X Together - "Sugar Rush Ride"

Best Afrobeats 

Ayra Starr - "Rush"

Burna Boy - "It's Plenty"

Davido ft. Musa Keys - "Unavailable"

Fireboy DML & Asake - "Bandana"

Libianca - "People"

Rema & Selena Gomez - "Calm Down"

Wizkid ft. Ayra Starr - "2 Sugar"

Video for Good

Alicia Keys - "If I Ain't Got You (Orchestral)"

Bad Bunny - "El Apagón - Aquí Vive Gente"

Demi Lovato - "Swine"

Dove Cameron - "Breakfast"

Imagine Dragons - "Crushed"

Maluma - "La Reina"

Best Direction

Doja Cat - "Attention"

Drake - "Falling Back"

Kendrick Lamar - "Count Me Out"

Megan Thee Stallion - "Her"

Sam Smith & Kim Petras - "Unholy"

SZA - "Kill Bill"

Taylor Swift - "Anti-Hero"

Best Cinematography

Adele - "I Drink Wine"

Ed Sheeran - "Eyes Closed"

Janelle Monae - "Lipstick Lover"

Kendrick Lamar - "Count Me Out"

Miley Cyrus - "Flowers"

Olivia Rodrigo - "Vampire"

Taylor Swift - "Anti-Hero"

Best Visual Effects 

Fall Out Boy - "Love From the Other Side"

Harry Styles - "Music for a Sushi Restaurant"

Melanie Martinez - "Void"

Nicki Minaj - "Super Freaky Girl"

Sam Smith & Kim Petras - "Unholy"

Taylor Swift - "Anti-Hero"

Best Choreography

Blackpink - "Pink Venom"

Dua Lipa - "Dance the Night"

Jonas Brothers - "Waffle House"

Megan Thee Stallion - "Her"

Panic! at the Disco - "Middle of a Breakup"

Sam Smith & Kim Petras - "Unholy"

Best Art Direction

Boygenius - "The Film"

Blackpink - "Pink Venom"

Doja Cat - "Attention"

Lana Del Rey ft. Jon Batiste - "Candy Necklace"

Megan Thee Stallion - "Her"

SZA - "Shirt"

Best Editing 

Blackpink - "Pink Venom"

Kendrick Lamar - "Rich Spirit"

Miley Cyrus - "River"

Olivia Rodrigo - "Vampire"

SZA - "Kill Bill"

Taylor Swift - "Anti-Hero"

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Burna Boy, Davido, Rema, Asake & Ayra Starr Nominated for 2023 MTV EMAs | See Full List

MTV has announced the full list of nominees and introduced a new category for the 2023 MTV EMAs. African music stars Burna Boy, Davido, Rema, Asake, Ayra Starr, and Aya Nakamura have been nominated for the “Best Afrobeat” category, while Asake, Burna Boy, Libianca, Diamond Platnumz, and Tyler ICU bagged nominations in the “Best African Act” category. Rema also received a nomination in the “Best Song” category for the “Calm Down” remix with Selena Gomez. “Big 7” singer Burna Boy was also nominated in the “Best Live” category. Monde Twala, Senior Vice President and General Manager for Paramount Africa and Lead for BET International, said, “2023 marks a historic moment for the MTV EMAs as we proudly embrace and celebrate the rich diversity of talent from across the globe. This year’s nominations reflect our commitment to showcasing artists from all corners of the world, highlighting their unique voices and talent. We are thrilled to introduce the ‘Best Afrobeats’ category, a testament to the global impact and influence of this vibrant genre.” Paris Nord Villepinte, operated by Viparis, is the official venue for the 2023 MTV EMAs. The live event is marking its first return to Paris since 1995 with a colourful, immersive MTV EMA wonderland for fans to enjoy. The 2023 MTV EMAs will be broadcast live on MTV in more than 150 countries. The show will broadcast live from Paris on Sunday, November 5, at 20:00 WAT, across 150+ countries on MTV (DSTV Channel 130) and MTV Base (DSTV Channel 322). See the full list of nominees below: BEST AFROBEATS Asake Aya Nakamura Ayra Starr Burna Boy Davido Rema BEST AFRICAN ACT  Asake Burna Boy Libianca Tyler ICU Diamond Platnumz BEST SONG Doja Cat – Paint The Town Red Jung Kook feat. Latto – Seven Miley Cyrus – Flowers Olivia Rodrigo – vampire SZA – Kill Bill Taylor Swift – Anti-Hero Rema, Selena Gomez – Calm Down BEST VIDEO Cardi B feat. Megan Thee Stallion – Bongos Doja Cat – Paint The Town Red Little Simz – Gorilla Miley Cyrus – Flowers Olivia Rodrigo – vampire SZA – Kill Bill Taylor Swift – Anti-Hero BEST ARTIST Doja Cat Miley Cyrus Nicki Minaj Olivia Rodrigo SZA Taylor Swift BEST COLLABORATION Central Cee x Dave – Sprinter David Guetta, Anne-Marie, Coi Leray – Baby Don’t Hurt Me KAROL G, Shakira – TQG Metro Boomin, The Weeknd, 21 Savage – Creepin’ PinkPantheress, Ice Spice – Boy’s a Liar Pt. 2 Rema, Selena Gomez – Calm Down BEST NEW Coi Leray FLO Ice Spice Peso Pluma PinkPantheress Reneé Rapp BEST POP Billie Eilish Dua Lipa Ed Sheeran Miley Cyrus Olivia Rodrigo Taylor Swift BEST ROCK Arctic Monkeys Foo Fighters Måneskin Metallica Red Hot Chili Peppers The Killers BEST LATIN  Anitta Bad Bunny KAROL G Peso Pluma ROSALÍA Shakira BEST K-POP FIFTY FIFTY Jung Kook NewJeans SEVENTEEN Stray Kids TOMORROW X TOGETHER BEST ALTERNATIVE Blur Fall Out Boy Lana Del Rey Paramore Thirty Seconds To Mars YUNGBLUD BEST ELECTRONIC Alesso Calvin Harris David Guetta Swedish House Mafia Peggy Gou Tiësto BEST HIP HOP Cardi B Central Cee Lil Wayne Lil Uzi Vert Metro Boomin Nicki Minaj Travis Scott BEST R&B Chlöe Chris Brown Steve Lacy Summer Walker SZA Usher BEST LIVE Beyoncé Burna Boy Ed Sheeran Måneskin SZA Taylor Swift The Weeknd BEST PUSH November 2022: Flo Milli December 2022: Reneé Rapp January 2023: Sam Ryder February 2023: Armani White March 2023: FLETCHER April 2023: TOMORROW X TOGETHER May 2023: Ice Spice June 2023: FLO July 2023: Lauren Spencer Smith August 2023: Kaliii September 2023: GloRilla October 2023: Benson Boone BIGGEST FANS Anitta Billie Eilish BLACKPINK Jung Kook Nicki Minaj Olivia Rodrigo Sabrina Carpenter Selena Gomez Taylor Swift BEST GROUP aespa FLO Jonas Brothers Måneskin NewJeans OneRepublic SEVENTEEN TOMORROW X TOGETHER COMPLETE LIST OF 2023 MTV EMA BEST LOCAL ACT NOMINEES: BEST ASIA ACT BE:FIRST BRIGHT Moria Tiara Andini TREASURE BEST AUSTRALIAN ACT Budjerah G Flip Kylie Minogue The Kid LAROI Troye Sivan BEST BRASILIAN ACT Anavitoria Kevin O Chris Luisa Sonza Manu Gavassi Matue BEST CANADIAN ACT Charlotte Cardin Drake Jamie Fine Shania Twain The Beaches BEST CARIBBEAN ACT Eladio Carrion Mora Myke Towers Rauw Alejandro Young Miko BEST DUTCH ACT FLEMMING Idaly Kriss Kross Amsterdam S10 Zoë Tauran BEST FRENCH ACT Aime Simone Aya Nakamura Bigflo & Oli Louane Ninho Slimane BEST GERMAN ACT Apache 207 AYLIVA Kontra K Luciano Nina Chuba Ski Aggu BEST HUNGARIAN ACT ajsa luna Analog Balaton Beton.Hofi Co Lee Hundred Sins BEST INDIA ACT Dee MC DIVINE Mali Tsymyoki When Chai Met Toast BEST ITALIAN ACT Annalisa Elodie Lazza Måneskin The Kolors BEST ISRAELI ACT Anna Zak Liad Meir Noa Kirel Nunu Shira Margalit BEST LAT AM CENTRAL ACT  Blessd Feid Manuel Turizo Ryan Castro Sebastian Yatra BEST LAT AM NORTH ACT Danna Paola Kenia Os Kevin Kaarl Siddhartha Natanael Cano BEST LAT AM SOUTH ACT Bizarrap Duki Fito Paez Lali Nicki Nicole BEST NEW ZEALAND ACT BENEE JessB Jolyon Petch L.A.B. SIX60 BEST NORDIC ACT Alessandra Käärijä Loreen Swedish House Mafia Zara Larsson BEST POLISH ACT Doda Kasia Nosowska Mrozu Sanah Vito Bambino BEST PORTUGUESE ACT Bárbara Bandeira Bispo Carolina Deslandes Marisa Liz PIRUKA BEST SPANISH ACT Abraham Mateo Álvaro de Luna Lola Índigo Quevedo Samantha Hudson BEST SWISS ACT Danitsa Gjon’s Tears KT Gorique Monet192 Stress BEST UK & IRELAND ACT  Calvin Harris Central Cee PinkPantheress Raye Sam Smith Tom Grennan BEST US ACT Doja Cat Nicki Minaj Olivia Rodrigo SZA Taylor Swift Read the full article

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Thanks @rainyhoundanimemusic

Well, let’s go

Let your playlist predict your yr, play it on shuffle & 1st 12 songs are your 2024

January: Nico & Chelsea Collins-Alien (umm…ok, I don’t know how to feel about this)

February: Jesse McCartney-Beautiful Soul (I’m gonna say this means a good Valentine’s Day)

March: 5 Seconds Of Summer-She Looks So Perfect (sounds like it’s gonna be party time)

April: Blink-182-Always (huh??? Again, I don’t know how to feel about this)

May: Metro Station-Shake It (sounds like we’re gonna kick off a fun summer)

June: Justin Timberlake-Not A Bad Thing (Aww…love)

July: Hunter Hayes-Amen (Aww…more love)

August: Sleeping W/ Sirens-If You Can’t Hang (uh-oh…I don’t know, depends on how you look @ it)

September: Taylor Swift-22 (ooh…gonna be a dope birthday)

October: Justin Bieber ft. Nicki Minaj-Beauty & A Beat (plenty of fun)

November: Flo Rida ft. Sia-Wild Ones (holiday season, we’re gonna turn up)

December: Zedd ft. Foxes-Clarity (sounds like a good way to wrap up the yr I think)

Not sure this’ll be so accurate haha; nonetheless, I’m pulling for a good yr & hope you’re all doing the same

Tags: @maceline27 @princess-kayleigh @five-sos-five @alyson-mae-sweetheart3 @caityrayeraye @jaysee049 @jjfrommn @theblueteamblocker @calumhoodaily

i wanna start a tag game so: let your spotify predict your 2024!

shuffle your on repeat playlist, and the first twelve songs represent your 2024

january- guns and ships- hamilton (idek what this could represent but okay)

february- we fell in love in october- girl in red (PLEASE)

march- say no to this- hamilton (…i have nothing to say about this)

april- castles crumbling- taylor swift ft hayley williams (damnit sad month then?)

may- you’re losing me- taylor swift (FUCK TWO SAD MONTHS?? breakup songs are even worse now that im actually in a relationship. please. better not be accurate)

june- astronomy- conan gray (please stop why am i having so many sad songs)

july- stoned- ed sheeran (oh fuck this)

august- new year’s day- taylor swift (hm okay. idk what to say about this)

september- heather- conan gray (i consider heather to be a happy song AND it’s mine and my partners song so i’m taking this as a good one)

october- 18- one direction (yessss we’re going okay now)

november- king of my heart- taylor swift (YESSS)

december- all too well (ten minute version)- taylor swift (i take it back ugh)

no pressure tags!!- @autumnleavesforwinter @weeping-in-the-willows @swiftieannah @felizusnavidad @jittyjames @anixknowsnothin (please help me get this off the ground, but also if this flops you saw nothing)

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september '22 | playlist

monster in me // little mix

september // earth, wind & fire

forever 1 // snsd

freaky deaky // tyga, doja cat

i like you (a happier song) // post malone, doja cat

conceited // flo milli

lonely // demi lovato, lil' wayne

stay together // noah cyrus

angel // kacey musgraves

gold rush // taylor swift

hurricane - arty remix // halsey

si te preguntan... // prince royce, nicky jam, jay wheeler

sunset // demi lovato

sad girl // lana del rey

get 2 love // amber van day, alexander oscar

see you in tears // amber van day, ilira

help me // demi lovato, dead sara

this is why i'm hot // kailee morgue

i'm good (blue) // david guetta, bebe rexha

you asked for this // halsey

29 // demi lovato

block me out // gracie abrams

indieedgycool // gayle

seize the power // yonaka

happiness // the 1975

i don't know why // notd, astrid s

polaroid film // kayden

tokyo love hotel // rina sawayama

sweetest pie // megan thee stallion, dua lipa

how will i know // whitney houston

wake me up before you go-go // wham!

jealous - remix // nick jonas, tinashe

jealousy, jealousy // olivia rodrigo

pink venom // blackpink

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This past week I reached 100 followers!! I’m incredibly excited, so to celebrate I’ve decided to run a challenge!

Since everyone had a blast with the Party Rock Anthem edit series during the tlkafterparty, I've decided to base the challenge prompts on party songs. All the prompts are inspired by songs from the 2010s (with a few 2000s bangers sprinkled in).

There are 60 prompts in total, each one is a song title. I’ve broke the prompts out into four separate categories based on vibes 😎.

You don’t have to follow me to participate. The more people who join the better!!!

See below for the Rules, Deadline, and Prompts.

Rules:

You can fill out however many prompts you like! There isn’t a limit to how many you can do and there isn’t a limit to how many times a specific prompt can be filled. Feel free to also combine prompts if you want to.

Prompt fills can be edits, icons, moodboards, fics, videos or anything you come up with!

Please tag me and use the tag #aelflaeds100challenge so that I know you’ve made something.

All TLK characters and ships are welcome!

The prompts can be used in anyway.

Some examples on ways to use the prompts:

The song/title/artist reminds you of another song that’s not on the list, so you could use that other song to fill the prompt.

The song/title reminds you of another work, like a poem or a book, so you could use that other work to fill the prompt.

You could base your prompt fill on the title/song/artist only, if you want to create a moodboard the title could be the theme or if you write a fic you could incorporate the song lyrics or artist into it.

If you end up wanting to use another song I only ask that you keep it within the 2010s timeframe. If there is a specific song you would like to use and its not from the 2010s please reach out to me and we can discuss it.

Deadline:

The challenge will officially run from September 10th to December 10th, but if you can’t make it until after that deadline don’t worry!!! Submit whenever you can, the more participation the better :)

If you have any questions feel free to reach out or drop a note in my inbox!

Prompts:

White Girl Wasted

TikTok by Ke$ha

Bang Bang by Niki Minaj

California Gurls by Katy Perry

Last Friday Night by Katy Perry

Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen

Blah blah blah by Ke$ha

We R Who We by Ke$ha

All About that Bass by Meghan Trainor

That’s Not my Name by The Ting Tings

Single Ladies by Beyoncé

Raise Your Glass by P!nk

Starships by Niki Minaj

S&M by Rihanna

I’m so Fancy by Iggy Azalea

Partition by Beyoncé

Primadonna by Marina and the Diamonds

Worth it by Fifth Harmony

Side to side by Arianna Grande

Party Rock

Uptown Funk by Mark Ronson & Bruno Mars

Sorry For Party Rocking by LMFAO

Dynamite by Taio Cruz

Talk Dirty by Jason Derulo

I Gotta Feeling by The Black Eyed Peas

I’m Sexy and I know it by LMFAO

Fireball by Pitbull

Gangnam Style by PSY

Club Can’t Handle Me by Flo Rida

Scream & Shout by will.I.am

Don’t Stop the Party by Pitbull

Time of Our Lives by Pitbull & Ne-Yo

Wild Ones by Pitbull

Die Young by Ke$ha & LMFAO

My House by Flo Rida

A Little Party Never Killed Nobody by Fergie

On The Floor by Jennifer Lopez

Feel Good Vibes

Viva La Vida by Coldplay

Counting Stars by One Republic

Shape of You by Ed Sheeran

Chasing the Sun by The Wanted

Evacuate the Dance Floor by Cascada

Dancin by Aaron Smith

Shut Up and Dance by Walk the Moon

Only Girl in the World by Rihanna

Payphone by Maroon 5

DJ Got Us Fallin’ in Love by Usher

The Good, The Bad, and The Dirty by Panic at The Disco

Cake by the Ocean by DNCE

My First Kiss by 3OH!3

Mmm Yeah by Austin Mahone

Black Magic by Little Mix

Karaoke

Baby by Justin Beiber

Rolling in the Deep by Adele

Telephone by Lady GaGa

Poker Face by Lady GaGa

Shake it off by Taylor Swift

We are young by FUN.

We Can’t Stop by Miley Cyrus

Titanium by David Guetta

Just Dance by Lady GaGa

Party in the USA by Miley Cyrus

Too Late to Say Sorry by Justin Beiber

[nevergonnnalietoyou]

oh my thanks for tagging me!!

January: It won't always be like this - Inhaler

February: Now that we don't talk - Taylor Swift

March: I always wanna die sometimes (live from MSG) - The 1975

April: Speed drive - Charli XCX

May: Happiness (live from MSG) - The 1975

June: Hurricane - Bridgit Mendler

July: Unwritten - Natasha Bedingfield

August: Tear in my heart - Twenty one pilots

September: Timber - Pitbull, Kesha

October: Troublemaker - Olly Murs, Flo Rida

November: Scar tissue - Red hot chili peppers

December: Roadkill - The 1975

Let your spotify predict your 2024!

Rules: shuffle your On Repeat playlist, and the first twelve songs represent your 2024.

Thanks for the tag @redwidow616!

January: Late Night Talking by Harry Styles.

February: West Coast by Lana Del Rey.

March: Until I Found You by Stephen Sanchez.

April: invisible string by Taylor Swift.

June: Now That We Don't Talk by Taylor Swift.

July: Summertime Sadness by Lana Del Rey.

August: Is It Over Now by Taylor Swift.

September: Paris by Taylor Swift.

October: Don't Stop Believin' by Journey.

November: Sign of the Times by Harry Styles.

December: Hymn for the Weekend by Coldplay.

No pressure tagging @aintinacage, @accidental-spice, @brekker-by-brekkerr, @daisyssousa, @beachesgetpeaches and @thatnerdybookgirliscool!

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Top 10 Songs of this week on the Global Music Chart!

The top ten songs that are currently popular on international music streaming services have been chosen by the WhatsOn editorial staff. However, you may add these amazing songs to your playlist and listen to them whenever you want on YouTube or Spotify thanks to the list we've put up.   1. Monotonía, Shakira & Ozuna The eagerly awaited song "Monotonia," which features Ozuna, has been released by Shakira. The vocalist from Colombia enters the music video for the song crying at a store. The first lyric of the song begins, "It wasn't your fault, nor was it mine / It was the monotony's fault nobody said anything, but it pained me I knew this would happen." https://youtu.be/j5y6xLpRwx4 https://open.spotify.com/track/6G12ZafqofSq7YtrMqUm76?si=84d8ed0768eb42b8 2. Anti-Hero, Taylor Swift With no fanfare, Taylor Swift removed a clip from the music video for her new track "Anti-Hero" on Apple Music that some listeners believed to be fatphobic. The album Midnights by Taylor Swift, which was released on October 21 and immediately set two Spotify records, was eagerly anticipated by fans. https://youtu.be/b1kbLwvqugk https://open.spotify.com/track/0V3wPSX9ygBnCm8psDIegu?si=a8b73b148cf54e2c 3. Kesariya Arijit Singh Before the whole Kesariya song from Brahmastra was even released, people already referred to it as the "Love Anthem" of the year. People have been pleading with the film's creators to release the song quickly ever since the publication of the one-minute song trailer, which went viral. https://youtu.be/BddP6PYo2gs https://open.spotify.com/track/6VBhH7CyP56BXjp8VsDFPZ?si=dad20a3b72c74e02 4. Unholy, Sam Smith & Kim Petras With the help of Kim Petras and Sam Smith, the song "Unholy" has climbed to the top of Billboard's Hot 100. For each artist, it is their first #1 hit. "Stay With Me," by Smith, peaked at #2 in 2014; "Unholy," by Petras, is her first chart-topper. https://youtu.be/Uq9gPaIzbe8 https://open.spotify.com/track/3nqQXoyQOWXiESFLlDF1hG?si=0b283c0e58784b75 5. Under The Influence, Chris Brown American Hip-hop Superstar Chris Brown, a multiple award winner, dropped his much anticipated single, "Under The Influence." The most popular song in the world right now is called "Under The Influence." The song's sensuous, captivating lyrics include phrases like "Your body lightweight, talks to me," which are frequently cited on social media. https://youtu.be/pfxyk1glEq4 https://open.spotify.com/track/5IgjP7X4th6nMNDh4akUHb?si=36da276fffaf4597 6. Nxde, (G) I-DLE As of October 25 at 8:30 AM KST, the newest title track from (G)I-fifth DLE's mini album, "I Love," "Nxde," has scored its first flawless all-kill on the iChart since launch. A song must be at the top of each of the six major real-time and daily music charts—Mellon, Genie, YouTube Music, FLO, VIBE, and Bugs—as well as ranking first on the real-time and weekly charts—in order to accomplish a flawless all-kill (PAK). https://youtu.be/4gEU566J5qs https://open.spotify.com/track/6NnCWIWV740gP7DQ8kqdIE?si=4518a3c9aed14c63 7. La Bachata, Manuel Turizo Colombian reggaeton artist Manuel Turizo Zapata is also referred to as Manuel Turizo or MTZ. His most famous song, "Una Lady Como T" from 2016, gave him enormous fame in Latin America. As of July 2019, the music video for the song had amassed over 1.3 billion views on YouTube. The next year, he worked with Puerto Rican reggaeton singer Valentino on the popular song "Bésame." https://youtu.be/DCaqM325CVk https://open.spotify.com/track/5ww2BF9slyYgNOk37BlC4u?si=e07c242d3c1b4665 8. Shut Down, BLACKPINK Following the release of their new album Born Pink on September 16, BLACKPINK becomes the second artist to top the Billboard Hot Trending Songs chart (dated September 24), sponsored by Twitter, with "Shut Down," which climbs from No. 16 to No. 1.      https://youtu.be/POe9SOEKotk https://open.spotify.com/track/6tCd8bPvYnceDG7W9M1RMk?si=d97a29144b9447b3 9. Pink Venom, BLACKPINK As of last month, BLACKPINK’s pre-release single “Pink Venom” had amassed over 100 million views on YouTube, making it the fastest music video by a female artist to ever reach that milestone. And “Pink Venom,” “Shut Down” is now BLACKPINK’s 12th total group music video with over 100 million views. https://youtu.be/gQlMMD8auMs https://open.spotify.com/track/7EyhPjrJzjx0fk2i7vUJCS?si=0328b41d954749e0 10. Calm Down, Rema & Selena Gomez According to Luminate, the song entered with 5.5 million U.S. streams (up 12%), 763,000 radio airplay audiences (up 16%), and 1,000 downloads sold in the tracking week of September 2–8 (all versions combined). It was released under Jonzing World/Mavin/SMG Music/Virgin/Interscope Records. And the song is currently trending on both TikTok and the streaming service. https://youtu.be/WcIcVapfqXw https://open.spotify.com/track/0WtM2NBVQNNJLh6scP13H8?si=d1374baaf829413e Read the full article

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I’m at work for 12 hours today and am making a playlist for the lobby so I don’t murder anyone, working list so far is under the cut because I wasted 25 mninutes on typing this up. PLEASE rec songs to add with the understanding it can’t be excessively swear-y.

Countdown- Beyonce

Escape- Rupert Holmes

Sit Next to Me- Foster the People

El Perdedor- Maluma

The Louvre- Lorde

Magnets- Disclosure ft. Lorde

Into You- Ariana Grande

The Greatest- Raleigh Ritchie

Do The Panic- Phantom Planet

Africa- Toto

Uptown Girl- Billy Joel

Season Two Episode Three- Glass Animals

Safety Dance- Men Without Hats

Kinks Shirt- Matt Nathanson

Good Day- DNCE

Mother & Father- Broods

Young and Wild- The Strumbellas

Sleep On The Floor- The Lumineers

Sweater Weather- The Neighborhood

West Coast- The Neighborhood

Don’t You Want Me- Human League

Hymn for the Weekend- Coldplay ft. Beyonce

Meteor- The Bird and the Bee

Chocolate- The 1975

Papaoutai- Stromae

The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades- Sufjan Stevens

There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Back- Shawn Mendes

Chantaje- Shakira ft. Maluma

Carried Away- Passion Pit

Thunder- Imagine Dragons

Ready To Go- Panic! At The Disco

Her Morning Elegance- Oren Lavie

Sight of Spira- Final Fantasy X

Something I Need- One Republic

Take Me to Church- Hozier

It’s A Disaster- OKGO

Here It Goes Again- OKGO

Obsession- OKGO

So Cruel- Young Empires

Sunshine- Young Empires

My Body- Young the Giant

Cough Syrup- Young the Giant

You Told The Drunks I Knew Karate- Zoey Van Goey

Can’t Sleep Love- Pentatonix ft. Tink

Boy Problems- Carly Rae Jepsen

Run Away With Me- Carly Rae Jepsen

Lone Digger- Caravan Palace

Safe and Sound- Capital Cities

Heatstroke- Calvin Harris ft. Young Thug, Pharrell, and Ariana Grande

Come and Get Your Love- Redbone

September- Earth Wind and Fire

Mama Say- Betty Who

Some Kinda Wonderful- Betty Who

Arabella- Arctic Monkeys

Honey I’m Good- Andy Grammar

C’Mon- Ke$ha

Let ‘Em Talk- Kesha

One Dance- Drake ft. Wizkid and Kyla

Just Dance- Lady Gaga

Can’t Stop the Feeling- Justin Timberlake

Cassiopeia- Sara Bareilles

Brave- Sara Bareilles

Cold Cold Man- Saint Motel

My Type- Saint Motel

Don’t Stop Me Now- Queen

Somebody to Love- Queen

Say My Name- Peking Duck

Unpack Your Heart- Phillip Phillips

Get Up Get Down- Phillip Phillips

Without You- Oh Wonder

Lose It- Oh Wonder

Crazy In Love- Emili Sande cover of Beyonce

Find You- Nick Jonas

Polish Girl- Neon Indian

Make Your Mind Up- Moon Taxi

Grace Kelly- Mika

Lollipop- Mika

Animal- Miike Snow

Sugar- Maroon 5 ft. Nicki Minaj

Cold- Maroon 5 ft. Future

I Am Not A Robot- Marina and The Diamonds

Girls- Marina and The Diamonds

Can’t Hold Us- Macklememe ft. Ray Dalton

Glorious- Mackleless ft. Skylar Grey

New Rules- Dua Lipa

The Mother We Share (Errors Remix)- Chvrches

Ohmygodiloveyoupleasedontleaveme- Clever Girl

Talk Too Much- Coin

Boys- Charli XCX

Blessings- Chance the Rapper

Love On Top- Beyonce

Harbour Lights- A Silent Film

The Girl is Mine- 99 Souls ft. Destiny’s Child and Brandy

Feather- Nujabes ft. Cise Starr and Akin From Cyne

Money- Mystery Skulls

Earthquake Weather- Matt Nathanson

Secrets- Mary Lambert

Uptown Funk- Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars

Ain’t No Mountain High Enough- Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell

Gorgeous- Taylor Swift

Blank Space- Taylor Swift

Ours- Taylor Swift

Chelsea Dagger- The Fratellis

Uruwashiki Hito- Ikimono Gakari

Hanabi- Ikimono Gakari

Way Back When- Kodaline

Tuesday- Hippo Campus

Hand Clap- Fitz and the Tantrums

Don’t Kill the Magic- Magic

Love Lockdown- Glass Animals cover of Kanye West

Drunk on a Plane- Dierks Bentley

Shooting Stars- Bag Raiders

Lips Are Movin- Meghan Trainer

Tenerife Sea- Ed Sheeran

My House- Flo Rida

Dance Dance- Fall Out Boy

Uma Thurman- Fall Out Boy

Young Volcanos- Fall Out Boy

[carelessflower]

January - Don't Cha by The Pussycat Dolls

February - Juice by Lizzo

March - blame game by mxmtoon

April - Perfect by Counsin Stizz feat doja cat & bia

May - Daisy 2.0 by Ashniko

June - Karma by Taylor Swift

July - In The Party by Flo Milli

August - Side to Side by Ariana Grande

September - Potential Breakup Song by Aly & AJ

October - Stay by Zedd & Alessia Cara

November - Hit and Run by LOL

December - Arcade by Duncan Laurance feat FLETCHER

it gonna be a partying yeat?!?!??

new game! shuffle your playlist 12 times and let it predict your 2023. i'll start:

January -> Never Too Late // Three Days Grace

February -> Going to Hell // The Pretty Reckless

March -> my tears ricochet // Taylor Swift

April -> The Sound // The 1975

May -> More Than A Friend // girli

June -> Cloudburst // Oasis

July -> exile (feat. Bon Iver) // Taylor Swift (i don't like this chrissy)

August -> Girl From The Internet // Lauren Sanderson

September -> Promise Me // Badflower

October -> hug & kiss // dress, fka, Lydia Paek, Miso, sogumm

November -> Once // Liam Gallagher

December -> Never Know - Unplugged // Bad Omens

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How to Create The Perfect Wedding Song Playlist?

Music is an integral piece of the wedding. It gives the guests a glimpse of who the bride and groom really are by adding a personalized touch to the soundtrack of the night. Not only that, but it sets the tone. Whether it be all night rager, or a dignified and refined reception, the wedding song playlist should be chosen carefully. Keep reading to gain some tips and tricks on making the perfect wedding song set.

How many songs do I need for a 6 hour wedding?

Since the average song is around 3 minutes, it is recommended that you add twenty songs to your playlist for every hour of the event.  For a 6 hour wedding that means you would need to add 120 wedding songs.  

What are the most popular wedding songs?

According to Spotify, the top 10 most popular wedding songs are:

“Thinking Out Loud” by Ed Sheeran

“Marry You” by Bruno Mars

“Perfect” by Ed Sheeran

“I Wanna Dance with Somebody” by Whitney Houston

“All of Me” by John Legend

“Uptown Funk” by Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars

“My Girl” by The Temptations

“A Thousand Years” by Christina Perri

“Marry Me” by Train

“You Make My Dreams” by Daryl Hall & John Oates

However, bridal websites name the following as the top ten wedding songs:

Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars, “Uptown Funk”

Taylor Swift, “Shake It Off”

Walk the Moon, “Shut Up and Dance”

Justin Timberlake, “Can’t Stop the Feeling!”

Whitney Houston, “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)”

Earth, Wind & Fire, “September”

Usher feat. Lil Jon & Ludacris, “Yeah”

Journey, “Don’t Stop Believin'”

Michael Jackson, “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough”

The Isley Brothers, “Shout – Part 1″

How often should you play a slow song at a wedding?

People like to dance for about half an hour before needing a break.  It’s not a good idea to abruptly play a slow song in between fast paced songs.  Instead, play a slow song every 30-40 minutes and follow up the slow song with a build up in tempo for another 30-40 minutes.   

What songs do you not play at a wedding?

Some songs are overly played, cliche, cringy, and people generally don’t want to hear them…again. The Huffington Post names the following ten songs to add to the do not play list:

“The Chicken Dance” by The Tweets

“YMCA” by Village People

“Electric Boogie” by Marcia Griffiths (a.k.a. “Electric Slide”)

″Macarena” by Los Del Rio

″Cotton-Eye Joe” by Rednex

“Cupid Shuffle” by Cupid

“I Gotta Feeling” by The Black Eyed Peas

″Cha Cha Slide” by DJ Casper

“Single Ladies” by Beyoncé

″Sweet Home Alabama” by Lynyrd Skynyrd

  Other songs are added to bridal “do not play” lists because their lyrics feature taboo relationship topics like stalking, break-ups, demeaning lyrics for women, or are generally depressing. The top ten topical “do not play” weddings songs are:

“Every Breath You Take,” by the Police. …

“I Will Always Love You,” by Whitney Houston (or Dolly Parton) …

“Make You Feel My Love,” by Adele. …

“The Scientist,” by Coldplay. …

“My Heart Will Go On,” by Celine Dion. …

“The Sweetest Thing,” by U2. …

“I Will Survive,” by Gloria Gaynor. …

“White Wedding,” by Billy Idol.

“Tainted Love,” by Soft Cell

“If You Wanna Be Happy,” by Jimmy Soul

What are good wedding dance songs?

The best wedding dance songs are different for people of different generations and with different music genre tastes. Therefore, it’s a good idea to vary the age of the songs and include hip-hop, pop, funk, indie, and electronic tunes. These songs can be extremely popular, or just have uplifting beats and positive lyrics. Most songs that get people moving are songs that bring back great memories, so even if a song isn’t well known, add it to your list if you and your guests have a shared experience that makes the song special. Some of the best wedding dance songs of all time include:

“Shape of You” by Ed Sheeran

“Hey Ya!” by Outkast

“I Gotta Feeling” by Black Eyed Peas

“Yeah!” by Usher

“Electric Boogie” by Marcia Griffiths

“Love Shack” by B-52s

“Respect” by Aretha Franklin

“ABC�� by The Jackson 5

“This Is How We Do It” by Montell Jordan

“Jungle Boogie” by Kool and The Gang

“Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I’m Yours” by Stevie Wonder

“September” by Earth, Wind, and Fire

“Respect” by Aretha Franklin

“Time to Pretend” by MGMT

“Get Lucky” by Daft Punk

“We Found Love” by Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris

“Low” by Flo Rida

“Baby Got Back” by Sir Mix-a-Lot

“Shake It Off” by Taylor Swift

What is the most uplifting wedding song ever?

Songs with happy lyrics, in major keys, and with upbeat tempos are scientifically proven to be the most uplifting music for listeners.  Whether these songs are right for your wedding is up to you, but some of the most uplifting songs are:

“Don’t Stop Me Now” by Queen

“Dancing Queen” by Abba

“Good Vibrations” by The Beach Boys

“Uptown Girl” by Billie Joel

“Eye of the Tiger” by Survivor

What are the most popular first wedding dance songs?

There are some songs that are very popular as first dance wedding songs because they so beautifully articulate the love shared by newlyweds the top ten most popular first dance wedding songs according to insider magazine are:

“Thinking Out Loud” by Ed Sheeran

“At Last” by Etta James

“You Are the Best Thing” by Ray LaMontagne

“All of Me” by John Legend

“A Thousand Years” by Christina Perri.

“Make You Feel My Love” by Adele

“I Won’t Give Up” by Jason Mraz

“Everything” by Michael Bublé

“Better Together” by Jack Johnson

“Amazed” by Lonestar

Other bridal websites mention some other classic first dance songs:

“As” by Stevie Wonder, “As Time Goes By” by Dooley Wilson, “By Your Side,” by Sade, “Can’t Help Falling In Love,” by Elvis Presley, “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You,” by Frankie Valli or Lauryn Hill, “Come Rain or Come Shine,” by Ray Charles, and “Crazy Love,” by Van Morrison. 

What is a good exit song for a wedding?

Most recessional songs are upbeat and romantic.  Some even have lyrics that allude to the end of an event or “going home”. Some great choices for a recessional wedding song are:

“Beautiful Day,” by U2

“Fool For Love” by Lord Huron

“Somewhere Only We Know,” by Keane

“(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life,” by Bill Medley

“Love Will Keep Us Together” by Captain & Tennille

“You Shook Me All Night Long,” by AC/DC

“All You Need Is Love,” by the Beatles

“The Way I Am” by Ingrid Michaelson

“What a Wonderful World,” by Louis Armstrong

“We Are Family,” by Sister Sledge

“We Belong Together” by Vampire Weekend

“After Midnight,” by Eric Clapton

“Always Remember Us This Way” by Lady Gaga

“Home,” by Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes

“Closing Time,” by Semisonic

Remember that creating the perfect playlist for your reception is really all about expressing your own style and finding the music that best allows you and your guests to celebrate this special event.  The CTO Wedding bands have years of experience helping couples create and refine their best reception playlists. Don’t be afraid to reach out to us!

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Culture, especially popular culture, always has some relation to the conditions that surround it, and these days, there is no shortage of music that reflects our economic reality.

But that reflection isn’t always quite what you’d expect. During the Great Depression, which saw widespread homelessness and US unemployment reaching 25 percent, popular films showed the very rich drinking cocktails in formal dress; cheery songs like “Pennies From Heaven” charted. And in the post-2008 decade of recession, instability, and income inequality, blockbuster acts spent a lot of time telling us the incredible time they were having.

The real story of the past decade has been harder to hear. A decade ago, as some Americans remember all too well, the US economy began to crumble, and took the rest of the world’s markets along with it. First housing prices started to slide, revealing a nation caught in a deflating real estate bubble. Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers came next.

The cascade of damage was worldwide, but it took on an especially fierce pitch in the world’s largest economy: Beginning in late 2008, the US was losing more than half a million jobs a month. By 2009, the Great Recession’s first full year, national unemployment reached 15 million people, or 10 percent — the first double-digit rate since the early 1980s. Trillions of dollars of wealth disappeared from the economy, and 4 million Americans lost their homes in just two years.

Meanwhile, the nation’s biggest songs in the year after the crash were numbers by Flo Rida, Chris Brown, and Coldplay that had little to do with economic strain. It takes any cultural form — movies, books, visual art, whatever — months, sometimes years, to respond to social, political, or economic change. But pop music has less lag time than most other genres.

(In previous centuries, folk songs about hangings or train crashes could appear almost instantly. And it wasn’t for nothing that Public Enemy’s Chuck D once called hip-hop black America’s CNN.)

By the end of 2009, though, the biggest-selling singles were songs like Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind,” Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance,” and various party-hearty numbers by the Black Eyed Peas. And so it went, into the teeth of the recession.

Lady Gaga performs “Bad Romance” during the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards on September 13, 2009. Christopher Polk/Getty Images

Popular music, of course, becomes popular partly because it takes people away from their lives. Be it the blandness of affluence or the pain of personal difficulty, there has always been an element of aspiration and fantasy to popular culture.

But from Woody Guthrie singing about the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression’s devastations in the 1930s to rock and soul bands of the ’60s and ’70s writing about war and civil rights to British punks shouting about unemployment and the working class to rappers spitting about injustice and racism, popular music has always also delivered social critique — much of the time including economic issues.

What we see in the decade following the 2008 stock market crash, though, is a relatively tame popular music world in which best-selling artists and left-of-the-dial “alternative” musicians share an apparent lack of interest in the nation’s economic state.

“Most people in the mainstream music world — whether it’s pop, indie, or country — don’t want to offend any of their fans,” says Margo Price, a country singer-songwriter who has been outspoken about economic structures. “Their big labels don’t want them to, either.”

After the pain of the ’08 crash, the nation experienced an economic recovery that shifted a massive amount of income from the poor and middle class to the very rich. The big banks got bigger; huge bonuses returned. Just two years after the crash, the nation’s Gini coefficient, the standard measure of wealth distribution, was at 46.9, making the US among the most unequal of modern democracies.

We can call the past 10 years the decade of inequality. So what, then, does the music of inequality sound like?

Part of the paradox here is simply that monetary wealth gives musicians — at least, the tiny minority experiencing material bounty — something to sing about.

Musicians are not unique here: In the years since the Reagan administration, a reveling in what used to be called heartless materialism has become de rigueur. (The shift in personal style from an old-school rich man like Warren Buffett, who made his early fortune in the 1950s, to Donald Trump, a product of the gilded ’80s, is hard to miss.)

Artists singing about how much wealth they had accrued fit cleanly into a Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous culture. The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and Marvin Gaye were filthy rich, but it’s hard to imagine them crooning about their money and mansions. Nor can we imagine Joni Mitchell, Patti Smith, or Liz Phair posing in a bath of diamonds, as Taylor Swift does in the 2017 video for “Look What You Made Me Do.”

Many of the songs about luxurious possessions and lavish lifestyles — the sonic equivalent of Keeping Up With the Kardashians — are the descendants of “Mo Money Mo Problems,” the 1997 Notorious B.I.G. song. But in many cases, there seem to be no serious problems besides having too many women or possessions to choose from.

Notorious B.I.G. performs at the Riviera Theatre in Chicago in September 1994. Raymond Boyd/Getty Images

“When inequality is high, it’s driven by the superrich, because [the poor] can’t go lower than zero,” says Keith Payne, a University of North Carolina psychology professor and author of The Broken Ladder, a recent book on wealth disparity. “People feel poorer but aspire to higher standards. This leads to a risk-taking kind of life: People are more likely to gamble, play the odds, use drugs or drink, commit crimes. It also orients people to the very wealthy as opposed to the poor.”

These are the classic tropes of hip-hop, a musical style that, Payne points out, surged in ubiquity in the same years as the rise in inequality. A mixtape of conspicuous consumption and runaway consumerism could be assembled from songs like Post Malone and Ty Dolla Sign’s “Psycho” (“got diamonds by the boatload!”), Lil Uzi Vert’s “Money Longer” (“money got longer, speaker got louder, car got faster”), and Lil Pump’s “Gucci Gang” (“Spend 10 racks on a new chain / My bitch love do cocaine.”)

The style became so ubiquitous that the satirical trio the Lonely Island parodied the genre of gold-plated gloat with “I’m on a Boat,” a 2009 rap song featuring T-Pain that makes “yacht rock” numbers like Christopher Cross’s 1980 hit “Sailing” look modest and egalitarian.

More cutting is Lorde’s 2013 song “Royals,” which seems to be aware of how mismatched the music is to the times: “But every song’s like gold teeth, Grey Goose, trippin’ in the bathroom / Bloodstains, ball gowns, trashin’ the hotel room / We don’t care, we’re driving Cadillacs in our dreams …”

Lorde performs “Royals” onstage for the 56th Grammy Awards on January 26, 2014. Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images

Part of what looking across the genres shows you is that the big-selling, celebrity-driven mainstream of just about every style of music offers very little social or economic critique. If that’s what you’re looking for, look to the edges.

Mainstream country music, a genre rooted in the rural red-state South, is no stranger to poverty or songs about risk-taking. But it very rarely deals with inequality, says Payne, a native of Kentucky. “The only economic theme is, ‘We grew up poor, but we didn’t know it at the time, and now we’ve got everything we need.’ That’s the theme of countless country songs,” he says.

The country songwriters interested in exploring economics more assertively don’t find a receptive industry, whether radio, country labels, or other gatekeepers. “They are so scared of coming out on an issue that offends Trump America,” says R.J. Smith, a music journalist and author of a recent biography of photographer Robert Frank. What you get, instead, is “good short story-ish songwriting about how people are living, but with little sense of why poverty happened.”

To the extent that there’s been a consistent protest, it comes, curiously, from the fringes of country. Despite its recent political and cultural conservatism, country has been the music of the poor and working class since the days of Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family. And the alt-country movement, which has co-opted the folk tradition, continued the grit and social criticism of the old days after the big-hatted mainstream moved into formula and political reaction.

This has led to what we could call empathy songs and plutocrat songs: The empathy song looks at the plight of someone crushed under the economic wheel, sometimes speaking in his or her voice; the plutocrat song is typically more overtly political, targeting the damage done by the very rich.

Honorary Americana artist Billy Bragg (who is British but has made several albums of Woody Guthrie’s music with alt-country pioneers Wilco) began performing Guthrie’s ��I Ain’t Got No Home” after the ’08 crash. (The song is explicitly class-based, describing a “rich man [who] took my home and drove me from my door.”)

And Margo Price’s songs are among the strongest economic critiques post-Great Recession: Numbers like “Pay Gap,” “About to Find Out,” and “All American Made” (“And I wonder if the president gets much sleep at night / And if the folks on welfare are making it all right”) sometimes combine feminism with scenes from the class struggle.

Veteran singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III worked in a vaguely country-folk tradition with his 2010 album, 10 Songs For the New Depression. The songs alternated from despairing to lighthearted (the number “House” is both), and name-check Alan Greenspan and John Maynard Keynes. (One cheeky number is called “The Krugman Blues.”) Peter Himmelman’s “Rich Men Rule the World” is a brutal song in the same vein.

Loudon Wainwright III performs in Copenhagen in December 1976. Jorgen Angel/Redferns via Getty Images

Two classics from the edges of country actually predate the Great Recession, perhaps because the rural South never quite caught the postwar boom like the rest of the nation did. James McMurtry’s “We Can’t Make It Here,” from 2005, tells of a struggling, wounded Vietnam veteran, empty storefronts, a failing bar, and the pinch of a stagnant minimum wage. (The novelistic vision is appropriate for the son of Lonesome Dove author Larry McMurtry.) And while their most recent album is more about race and politics in general, Drive-By Truckers’ 2005 album, The Dirty South, is a forceful look at American poverty and inequality, highlighted by the song “Puttin’ People on the Moon.”

“In our hometown,” Drive-By Truckers leader Patterson Hood says of Florence, Alabama, “the economy collapsed in the early ’80s: During the so-called Reagan boom years, we were like Flint, Michigan. They closed the Ford plant, and there was a domino effect.”

Along with the songs of the late Merle Haggard, Bruce Springsteen’s work serves as a template for bands like the Truckers. The Boss has written some of the best work about the way economics shapes and limits lives — songs like “My Hometown” and the Dust Bowl-inspired Ghost of Tom Joad LP. He has not quite matched these since; his energies have largely been elsewhere. But the 2012 Wrecking Ball LP, with songs like “We Take Care of Our Own” and the Wall Street-dissing “Death to My Hometown,” is a solid stab at addressing what much of the country has been through.

And while the late, great soul musician Charles Bradley largely sang about racism and his personal travails, his “Why Is It So Hard,” from 2011, may be the single most emotionally powerful recent song about poverty and income inequality.

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Hip-hop, too, gets more political and anti-capitalist around the edges. The Coup, the Oakland hip-hop group led by Boots Riley, released a 2012 album called Sorry to Bother You, which would eventually lend its name to the new breakout movie. The album takes a far-left stance on issues of economics and inequality, heavily informed by Riley’s communist beliefs, with songs like “Strange Arithmetic” (“Economics is the symphony of hunger and theft / Mortar shells often echo out the cashing of checks / In geography class, it’s borders, mountains, and rivers / But they will never show the line between the takers and givers”) and “WAVIP” (“I am with the people on the bottom, fella / We gonna riot, loot, rob till we rich as Rockefeller”).

Meanwhile, much of mainstream hip-hop went from fierce anti-racist politics, decades ago, to celebrations of hedonism. Music historian Robert Fink of UCLA points out that in the years after the stock market crash, the nation experienced its first black president, who was widely popular, especially with black people. When Obama was replaced with a man with a reputation for antagonizing black people, alongside a rash of police killings of young African-American men, politically minded hip-hop and R&B artists increasingly focused their attention on Black Lives Matter and related movements, rather than economics.

“I can’t think of a single hip-hop song about people getting subprime mortgages or that kind of thing,” Fink says.

“There is very little in the mainstream music business about economic hardship,” says music historian Ted Gioia. “Are Katy Perry, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift trying to shake things up?” Some artists sing about race and gender, he says, but economics has largely been overlooked in the slick and commercial pop mainstream.

Gioia characterizes the lip service the music industry pays to social issues as a decades-old problem: MTV and the rest of the business largely slept through the AIDS crisis in the 1980s; this time, Gioia says, economic inequality has become the forgotten issue.

But some artists have made an end run around these forces.

One of the most realized looks at the Great Recession and its discontents may not be a political piece of hip-hop or an angry piece of outlaw country, but rather a musical. Hadestown was an off-Broadway “folk opera” in 2016, relocating the story of Orpheus and Eurydice in a post-apocalyptic Great Depression with a wink toward the present. It’s based on an album by folk singer Anais Mitchell that includes contributions from Ani DiFranco, the Haden Triplets, and Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon.

Finally, there was a four-disc compilation in 2012 called Occupy This Album: 99 Songs for the 99 Percent. The styles and quality range quite widely, from Michael Moore singing Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-Changin’” to songs by Yoko Ono, Toots and the Maytals, and Nancy Griffith. (The video for “United Tribes,” a song by Thievery Corporation with rapper Mr. Lif, captures the energy of the movement it emerged from.) Still, it’s hard to miss that many of the songs are old, or only obliquely related to Occupy itself.

One reason songs about the recession and inequality are hard to find may be psychological. The Brooklyn musician Pauline Pisano lost her job as a web designer when the recession hit, and has struggled financially since. But it wasn’t until an NYU course and an exposure to the books of David Graeber that she focused on economic matters and the corrosive effects of debt. (“I feel like the people who cheated won,” she says now. “And for the people who played by the rules, the rules changed.”) She’s since led a musical tour of the South talking to people across the political spectrum about the subject, and her work has been politically energized.

“I was hit by the recession very heavily — why didn’t I put that in my art?” Pisano asks. “Maybe I thought, ‘This is just the way things are.’”

As crucial an issue and as destructive a force as inequality is, it’s not a natural driver for songwriting. “Inequality is the ultimate abstraction,” says Keith Payne. “Art is not typically about abstractions — it tends to be about concrete images. Inequality is neither wealth nor poverty, but the distribution of resources. And who wants to sing about that?”

One glaring irony here is that the past decade has also seen the vast majority of musicians struggling even more than they did previously: The collapse of the sale of recordings has made most of them all too aware of income inequality, especially when they compare themselves to one-percenters of the past (the Eagles) or present (Lady Gaga).

Alan Krueger, President Barack Obama’s chief economist, gave an important speech about the way the winner-take-all economy devastated many rock musicians in 2012, and there are few signs that the musical middle class has been restored.

The larger issue here — the lack of genuinely popular songs about the biggest economic event since 1929 — is pop culture’s claims of being a democratic art. What if popular music does not really express and describe what the mass of Americans is experiencing? And in an era when the phrase “check your privilege” has become commonplace, does it matter if the biggest hits are being made, in many cases, by fantastically privileged people?

Taylor Swift, for instance, comes from a long line of bank presidents; her father relocated to Merrill Lynch’s Nashville office and later bought a share of a record label to help her career. (See also “Uptown Funk” producer Mark Ronson, from one of Britain’s wealthiest families.)

”If it becomes clear that our popular culture is a rich kids’ project, it loses its legitimacy,” UCLA’s Fink says. “Even more than in Britain, we have Horatio Alger pretensions here.” Once we get a sense that our popular culture is the preserve of the very rich, it’s not quite “popular” in the democratic way we typically use the term.

But it also may be that the unpopularity of a president who himself comes from the plutocrat class will finally focus musicians and their handlers on inequality and other pressing issues. “I think that we are living in a very dangerous time,” says Price. “People as a whole are distracted by social media, celebrities, unattainable wealth.”

But things can change, and Price believes they might: “We’re in a turning point right now, and musicians and visual artists have a chance to move mountains with their words. If they would only use them.”

This article was supported by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.

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