#i will definitely be thinking about to mu enemies and dam damn all week now

[theminecraftbee]

may i make suggestions for the empires playlist?

Tongues and Teeth by The Crane Wives is a good song for Xornoth and Joey and Sausage. its got like "you knew what you were getting into" vibes

Obsessed With You by The Orion Experience also fits Joey pretty well

Dam, Damn by Päter is also a good Xornoth song, but more focused on him terrorizing Jimmy and Shelby

I just think Lotta True Crime by Penelope Scott is a Lizzie song in any context

ex best friend by suggi is a great song for the ex-wither rose alliance

Word Spins Madly On by The Weepies could be a Pixlriffs song (what with his candlelight vigil)

To My Enemies by Saint Motel has Sausage vibes

you can ABSOLUTELY make suggestions. i was inviting suggestions. i am so happy to see suggestions. and you made a lot of suggestions for me to think about! now i've gotta turn on analysis brain,,, i'm going to put this under a cut because i need to ramble on all of these song ideas

ALRIGHT. first. tongues and teeth. it's a song i really like already! it's an interesting choice for xonorth i think...? it would give the demon a very, very specific sort of characterization, as i always interpreted the singer of that song as... almost regretful that she feels as though she will hurt anyone she gets close to? both regretful and bitter at the idea that someone might try to change her ("i am not a vessel for your good intent"). so applying the characterization of that song to xonorth creates a really interesting character for him, mr. "love, hate, same thing". i like this in concept. i will think about it a lot

it's also worth noting before we go on that at least part of that sense that this person is resentful of being treated like someone she isn't and regretful that she's hurting the person she's singing to comes through in the performance; lyrically alone it's a lot more "hey loving me will hurt you". the performance of the song is what suggests the more emotions to it. so WHO KNOWS.

obsessed with you is next. and, may i say. you have very good taste. orion experience good. i don't have much to say to this one other than "the idea of this being a joey song is very funny to me, even if it's accurate", because this song is just. it's so bouncy and bubbly. and also a little stalker-ish. joey are you okay,

....another interesting choice in my mind is you saying that dam, damn is a song for shelby and jimmy being tormented by xonorth, because if you take the lyrics really literally, that can absolutely work! it just requires taking the lyrics of the song almost entirely literally. my instinct listening to this song is that the demons are metaphorical, not literal, but if they're literal, they definitely fit the scenario you described.

i am going to propose that this is still a shelby song, actually, like. just straight-up a song for her. trying to build her new life after running to this dimension. no longer taking chances. (holding back the parts of her that are still hurting.) especially this verse:

Got a team of builders gathered round Got a little sunshine in my town Got a lot of time since shit went down I ain't gonna take no chances now Not now, not now

so yeah. definitely a shelby song. also a good song throwing it on all my playlists now i like it a lot.

lotta true crime is another song i already knew. (continued good taste.) it's a bubbly song about a kinda dark subject matter, which i think fits lizzie pretty well. i also like for her how the lyrics are pretty strongly stating that the singer doesn't believe that killers are somehow smart or better than other people, they're just full of themselves. this feels like a lizzie sentiment to me. good song. quietly goes to throw this on a third life playlist somewhere,

ex best friend doesn't have many lyrics but. the almost mournful and betrayed nature of the lyrics. yeah. ex-wither rose alliance. man. this is one i don't have much to add to other than "it fits i think".

alright. so. the world spins madly on is an interesting pix pick. it's a song about a destroyed relationship, but the song itself sort of fits in the sense that pix is on his messy redemption arc (redeeming himself for something he considers himself to be his fault). songs like this do sort of fit his vibes. and, if you subscribe to the immortal pix thing? "the whole world is moving and i'm standing still" i see. and that first line hurts a lot. and thanks, now i'm hurting.

like, okay, this definitely works as a pix song. you have to do a little interpreting but it definitely works as a pix song, it just also hurts me. it's a song about the world moving on as you try to cope with something that's gone and hurting you, and if you take this to be about the dragon fight, about the mistakes pix has made? yeah this works. interesting song choice i can see it i can see it.

okay. and finally. your song choice that's hurt me most. to my enemies by saint motel for sausage. i don't... i don't think i need to actually analyze this one to make you understand why i am now crying. let me just post some lyrics.

To my enemies Those were the best days of our lives When our hate made us feel so alive So wrong it's right So wrong it's right, all right

I still miss the pain It's never felt the same You took more than my dog when you ran off with my dog (Did you know that? Did you know that?)

Blood and sweat and tears We learned each other's fears and God, I'll miss the way you cry Did you know that? Did you know that?

HAHAHA. YEP. SAUSAGE SONG. FUCK ME RIGHT,

thank you SO MUCH for all of your suggestions these are excellent!