#in-universe ice’s favorite song is night rangers sister christian which is also extremely relevant

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this is so random but i can’t stop thinking about your use of music…like Cactus Tree playing while ice and carole are talking and the fic ending with those lines from Summer, Highland Falls??? my compliments to the chef because YOU GET IT!!! it IS either sadness or euphoria!!! our reason DOES co-exist with our insanity!!! UGH!!!

see this is so embarrassing bc my first edit to that fic was axing the “summer highland falls” epigraph 😭 however it’s getting replaced by lyrics from a song that is imo even more pertinent, which is “seabird” (1977) i would recommend innovations’ version of it

it pains me so bad that I can’t link my Spotify here for obvious reasons but my playlist for this series is verging on 11 hours long and i could talk about every song on it for days. some other extremely relevant songs (based on lyrics not vibes) are the following if you’re interested: “august (acoustic)” by flipturn (for obvious reasons) / “ends of the earth” by lord huron (about ice’s ambition, + the line ‘just ‘cause i’m ready to die for you baby / doesn’t mean i’m ready to stay’) / “good guy” by julia jacklin (basically the soundtrack to icemav’s Venice excursion) / “something big” by burt bacharach (literally my #1 tom kazansky song, you pick whether the ‘something big’ is mav or that fourth star) / “kids” by busty and the bass (about bradley and parental responsibility) / “cold hearted” by zac brown band (im not a country fan i swear but god this one hits like a sucker punch. mav-centric desire for revenge) / “last time” by adam melchor (“every time you go I’m scared it’s gonna be the last time”) / “overs” by simon & garfunkel (the entirety of the airplane one-shot was written according to this song) / “aeroplane” by greer (just-before-the-mission vibes)

re: cactus tree—obv ice is the sailor out searching “in a decade full of dreams,” and peep the line “he has kissed her with his freedom…” but also it’s a song about a woman who “only means to please” the men her life revolves around, “and her heart is full and hollow…” It’s mostly a song about carole.

my favoritest piece of diegetic music in the fic is when ice & mav are driving home listening to the rolling stones’ “beast of burden.” i really don’t mean to over-analyze my own fic or suck my own dick too much but it’s one of those moments that shows the difference in honesty between ice’s narration & mav’s— ice just says theyre listening to the stones, mav is honest enough to tell us it’s a song specifically about “making love” and not feeling good enough for your partner. further on in the song (these are the lyrics i should’ve used, i realize) there’s the line: “there’s one thing, baby, / i don’t understand. / you keep on telling me / i ain’t your kind of man.” & that’s kind of the point, isn’t it?