#music industry au

[noonaishere]

Music of the Heart [Jeong Yunho] - Masterlist

By: noonaishere (main blog: symphonyofmars)

Fic type: social media au / traditional

Pairing: Yunho x fem!reader

Genre: music industry setting, musician/producer, enemies to lovers, mutual pining, running from the past

Warnings: overbearing parents, verbal abuse, sexual harassment

Status: Currently updating

Updates: Thursdays and Fridays at 12pm EST

Synchronously posted with Online/Offline (any asterisked (*) chapters means they’re shared between both fics)

[intro post explaining y/n and t/n]

SYNOPSIS:

T/n has always loved music, though her experience of it wasn’t always the greatest. Forced by her parents to learn the violin - almost purely to climb the socio-economic ladder - she’s since forged her own path. She auditions at Wonderland Entertainment and becomes one of their studio musicians, but how will she deal with seeing her ex-best friend who also happens to be contracted under the company?

Also, how does t/n’s existence connect to y/n, someone she’s never met?

🎵 main cast

Chapters:

🎵 Prologue | a long time ago… in a town far, far away…

🎵 one | “local celebrity”

🎵 two | mahler

🎵 three | emperor nero

🎵 four | come meet the kids

🎵 five | duck and cover

🎵 six | his feefees were a little hurt

🎵 seven | homework

🎵 eight | give her my number

🎵 nine | canard et couverture parte deux

🎵 ten | a date?

🎵 eleven | the fight scene at the end of the count of monte cristo

🎵 twelve | we never talk

🎵 thirteen | youtube recommendations

🎵 fourteen | calendar man

🎵 fifteen | a ✨godsend✨

🎵 sixteen | no ducking nor covering

🎵 seventeen | he’s got pipes

🎵 eighteen | thinking about hats

🎵 nineteen | it is still apples

🎵 twenty | i know exactly who you are

🎵 twenty-one | busking

🎵 twenty-two | he got an audition or something

🎵 twenty-three | best friend

🎵 twenty-four | garage band

🎵 twenty-five | it’ll be worth it

🎵 twenty-six | more like “drone strike parenting”

🎵 twenty-seven | interrogation

🎵 twenty-eight | it’s over

🎵 twenty-nine | more like constipated

🎵 thirty | maybe

🎵 thirty-one | JUPiTER

🎵 thirty-two | no horses in space

🎵 thirty-three | Crom3r

🎵 thirty-four | punk rock

🎵 thirty-five | what a feeling

🎵 thirty-six | do we need a hot air balloon?

🎵 thirty-seven | gotta let the fans know

🎵 thirty-eight | i’ll bring the wine

🎵 thirty-nine | girl’s night

🎵 forty | that’s a no on the hot air balloon

🎵 forty-one | new kids

🎵 forty-two | splash fight

🎵 forty-three | a recluse and a traitor

🎵 forty-four | merch drop

🎵 forty-five | lol i’m screencapping

🎵 forty-six | do you know how to do cubes?

🎵 forty-seven | surprise modu girip baksu

🎵 forty-eight | sometimes the kickball inspires music

🎵 forty-nine | but what can you do

🎵 fifty | no need for sunglasses

🎵 fifty-one | need for sunglasses

🎵 fifty-two | D-Day

🎵 fifty-three | best friends forever

🎵 fifty-four | mission update

🎵 fifty-five | miss me?

🎵 fifty-six | that was really weird and I hated it

🎵 fifty-seven | good point

🎵 fifty-eight | the great outdoors

🎵 fifty-nine | please don’t use memes of yourself

🎵 sixty | ballad mashup with choi jongho!

🎵 sixty-one | scandal??

🎵 sixty-two | two giants

🎵 sixty-three | you really *are* a capitalist

🎵 sixty-four | benevolence and beef

🎵 sixty-five | lyrical content

🎵 sixty-six | principles

🎵 sixty-seven | well?

🎵 sixty-eight | can’t sleep

🎵 sixty-nine | what’d you say?

🎵 seventy | looking for an Ans:wer

🎵 seventy-one | whirlwind

🎵 seventy-two | she’s a me

🎵 seventy-three | solving problems

🎵 seventy-four | the great (less confined) indoors

🎵 seventy-five | pedagogy

🎵 seventy-six | going for a walk

🎵 seventy-seven* | WHAT?

🎵 seventy-eight | misc

🎵 seventy-nine | where the hell are you

🎵 eighty | chauffeur

🎵 eighty-one | public breakup

🎵 eighty-two | somewhere nice

🎵 eighty-three | the start of an apology

🎵 eighty-four | meeting ONiiX

🎵 eighty-five | sting operation

🎵 eighty-six | hack behavior

🎵 eighty-seven | doubleho7 reporting in

🎵 eighty-eight | being kind is punk

🎵 eighty-nine | listening to it for the background noise

🎵 ninety | Devious Deviants Devianting Deviously

🎵 ninety-one | it’s not gossiping, it’s ✨helping✨

🎵 ninety-two | lessons and small dogs

🎵 ninety-three | *distressed memeing*

🎵 ninety-four | fifteen minutes late with no starbucks

🎵 ninety-five | Game Day!

🎵 ninety-six | it’s a metaphor

🎵 ninety-seven* | suspicious group chat

🎵 ninety-eight* | more boba, less ice

🎵 ninety-nine* | ensemble transition (1/3)

🎵 ninety-nine* | ensemble transition (2/3)

🎵 ninety-nine* | ensemble transition (3/3)

🎵 one hundred* | an even more suspicious group chat

🎵 one hundred and one* | we’re both here now

🎵 one hundred and two | time off

🎵 one hundred and three | what’s it like having normal parents?

🎵 one hundred and four |

🎵 one hundred and five |

🎵 one hundred and six |

🎵 one hundred and seven |

🎵 one hundred and eight |

🎵 one hundred and nine |

🎵 one hundred and ten |

🎵 one hundred and eleven* |

🎵 one hundred and twelve* |

🎵 one hundred and thirteen |

🎵 one hundred and fourteen* |

🎵 one hundred and fifteen* |

🎵 one hundred and sixteen |

🎵 one hundred and seventeen* |

Epilogue 1

Epilogue 2

Epilogue 3

Epilogue 4

Epilogue 5

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[justastrugglinghotchocolate]

Yall the 80s rock au has not left my brain so here’s some random ideas:

Dorian is a rising pop star (possibly even moving away from being a child star) who meets Basil in the same way he does in the book. Basil paints him and then introduces him to Henry. The only difference is that Basil does this out of the belief that Henry might be able to talk Dorian out of becoming a full pop star. Obviously, that doesn't happen. Henry becomes Dorian's producer/songwriter while also taking on a more mentor-like figure for Dorian. A lot of the songs Henry has Dorian perform are much more provocative and explicit than what Dorian used to do. 

Basil is still an artist, just with a small expansion from portrait painting. He still does that, but now he also doubles as sort of a talent scout/Henry’s designer/muse (he doesn’t know, but all of Henry’s songs are complaints about/odes to him and their relationship).

Henry was specifically a punk rock star in the 70s, in lieu of the Sex Pistols and the Clash. Henry was popular because he was controversial, charismatic, and pretty, all things that captured the hearts of the UK. However, much of popularity was contained in the UK, though he had like one or two world wide hits. Still his name is still considered legendary for the time. 

By the time Dorian meets him through Basil, Henry has long stopped performing his own songs, more or less writing and producing them for other stars. He despises Pop as a genre but since that is what sells now, he has had to pivot away from punk. Dorian becomes a sort of new hope for him because Dorian, being pretty and charismatic, could be the mix for the two genres.

Also this AU/Adaptation would take more of a focus on the complicated rivalry/relationship between Dorian and Henry. Because Henry, despite being hopeful of what Dorian could be, is also very resentful for the fact he is basically making his own replacement. I am using the “Henry as a bitter ex” characterization, so, along with that whole thing regarding Basil, now Henry literally has to watch Dorian reach higher heights in the same career he had. I think that conflict would take mainstage in the third act, replacing the Hetty Merton thing.

Dorian's corruption is a mix of the og book’s and 80s entertainment industry. While some stuff is definitely Henry’s fault, a whole lot of it is also just the entertainment industry being an exploitative place in general. Dorian grows worse as the years go by and Basil’s portrait of him does its usual thing.

CW: for mention of false accusations and grooming

Also, I think I figured out a way Basil doesn’t die! So England in the 1980s also had a moral panic regarding the LGBTQ+ and grooming (exactly like the ones of today). When Basil finds out about the portrait, Dorian doesn’t get the chance to murder him (for reasons) so instead, he outs Basil and falsely accuses him of grooming him, Basil’s rep is shot to pieces and he has to flee from his home country because no one is willing to believe his side of the story (except Henry, but at this point he is far too involved with Dorian to make a difference. Maybe this is the point where Henry’s dream breaks or something else which transitions into the third act.)

[ichisama]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: ヒプノシスマイク | Hypnosis Mic (Albums) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Aohitsugi Samatoki/Yamada Ichiro Characters: Yamada Ichiro, Aohitsugi Samatoki Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Music Industry Series: Part 51 of cosmic: a fic a day for samaichi Summary:

Samatoki and Ichiro had been a package deal ever since they wrote their first song together.

[hideousvampire]

doodle dump ft musical johnny cade with a lollipop and mike patton my gf

also this is my history project this year but minus the essay that goes with it except i used cuba and his teddy bear characters to stay motivated

for those who need it CW FOR BLOOD!!

[bazpango]

The outcome of the American election has me deep in regressive-nostalgia-comfortcore. I’ve had a 2005 DN Warped Tour AU in the drafts for months now, but after listening to fall out boy’s sophomore album my outline just hit 5k 🤦

[spicyraeman]

Shars favourite bassist huh? So she hasn't broken out yet? How would the nightsong stuff play out in band au?

There isn't really a one to one for the nightsong stuff but I guess the closest is her decision to renew her contract with her current record label SHAR, she can continue to renew it (dj path) or break ties (selunite path)

Going the SHAR path lets her shoot to the top of the charts but at the cost of pretty much all of her creative liberties, they control her aesthetic, her sound, and her life. The "selunite" path on the other hand gives her complete freedom but at the risk of SHAR now looming over her shoulder and threatening to spill all her secrets

There's a bit more to it than that but its all in bits and pieces and would require me to go on several tangents cus im more of character guy than a plot guy

[smellsliketeenangst]

Obsessed with the idea of a 30 year old rock star Eddie who left Hawkins almost 10 years ago and has become this mentor for young artist and gets a TIME article about his work.

[alexoreality]

....

random ass AU where everything is normal but Luffy's a music prodigy. Like he just k n o w s how to play any instrument, but because of the handicap of being poor; he never had the chance to play one.

[noonaishere]

Music of the Heart [J.YH] - ninety-five | Game Day!

You walked into the dance studio to see Mingi at the computer desk, using the computer, while Dei yelled at him from the sitting area.

“Stop!”

Mingi grinned goofily and waggled his eyebrows.

Dei laughed and turned towards you. “T/n, you’re here! Tell him to stop!”

You laughed as you walked over to Mingi. “What is he doing?”

“He’s sitting! Over at the computer! And asking me if I’m single!”

You laughed and looked at him, waiting for an answer.

“What? I’m interested.”

“That is a trap!” Dei yelled from where she was.

You shook your head and pulled a USB drive out of your pocket and put it on the desk. “New songs.”

“Ohh!” He took the drive and put it into the desk drawer. “Thanks.”

You laughed. “You’re not going to start working on choreos? I thought the crew was always hungry to create.”

“They are. That’s why I’m hiding it. They also need to relax at some point.”

You furrowed your brows at him, questioning. Before he could answer, Dei ran over and jumped at you, throwing her arms around you from behind.

“It’s Game Day!” Mingi said, smiling.

“Oh! You can join if you like,” Dei hugged you.

“What’s Game Day?”

“We take a break for a day and hang out and play games to relax.” Mingi explained.

“And everyone comes in willingly?”

He laughed. “It’s not like when you work at an office and you’re forced to go to office dinners and drink a whole bunch.”

“Yeah, we actually all like each other.” Dei added.

You chuckled.

“Come play games with us,” Dei said, shaking you by the shoulders.

“I’m on the clock though.”

“If Hongjoong comes looking for you, I’ll just tell him you died.” She said.

“I’ll bully him by being taller.” Mingi said.

“You wouldn’t bully anyone.”

Mingi looked affronted and mumbled under his breath, “I could be a bully.”

You laughed. “I guess I can play one or two.”

“Yes!” She hugged you.

“I’ll get the box of things before everyone gets here,” Mingi said and stood, walking in the direction of the doorway to the lockers and storage room.

Dei elbowed you gently in the side with a smirk and yelled in Mingi’s direction, “Ohhh! Look at that smokeshow!” 

Mingi giggled and scurried away, clipped the door frame with his shoulder and stumbled into the hall with an ‘Ahh!”

Dei laughed and hit your arm, you couldn’t help but laugh as well.

“He’s so fucking cute,” Dei said.

“I can’t believe he just ran into a door.”

“Door FRAME!” Mingi yelled from the other room, making you both laugh again.

“What about a door frame?” 

The two of you turned.

“Oh, Yunho! You came.” Dei smiled and gave him a hug.

“Mingi invited me.”

“Is that that bastard?” Mingi shouted from the other room.

“Stop yelling and come in here and call him a bastard!” Dei yelled back.

Objects could be heard crashing to the floor. Dei rolled her eyes and left to investigate. “You’re so tall, how did you-- Oh my god.” She rushed intot he hall to help him.

You and Yunho laughed quietly at Dei’s reaction to whatever she saw upon turning the corner into the hall. 

“Are you playing with us?” Yunho asked.

“I think I can stay for one or two games.” 

He smiled. 

“What do you normally play?”

Twister, but with the most flexible members pitted against each other; Red Light Green Light, but whoever moved got shot at with nerf darts by the spectators (you had played and were made the traffic cop three times in a row); a relay that you didn’t think had an actual name but consisted of several children’s games and a bunch of the younger members divided into two teams, you weren’t even sure what the prize was but they were all fired up to win. Once all of that was over, there were a few one-on-one games and the spectators placed bets against each other, and the loser had to do whatever the winner had bet.

Currently you were all sitting and waiting for Mingi to battle Yunho at a game of ‘there’s a bunch of red and blue squares on the floor and you have to flip as many to your color as possible’: you weren’t sure what it was called.

“Want to make a bet?” Mingi asked.

“What are you betting?” Yunho asked.

Mingi thought for a moment and whispered into Yunho’s ear.

“What?”

He smiled.

Yunho’s eyes darted to you, flicked nervously around the room, and back to Mingi. “Wha-- no!”

Mingi laughed. “Come on.”

“N--no.” 

Yunho turned beet red as he tried to brush off whatever it was that Mingi suggested. One of the guys in the dance crew started chanting “to-ma-to-to-to-to-to~!” and that seemed to make Yunho nervous a second time as he touched his ears to see if they were warm.

Mingi laughed at him. “What’s your bet?”

Yunho thought for a moment and dove for the squares on the floor, flipping them before Dei could start the timer.

“You can’t--!” Mingi yelled before also diving for the squares.

Dei laughed, “Thirty seconds!” 

Everyone yelled, screamed, and clapped at the sudden chaos.

Yunho laid across as many squares as he could. At first Mingi tried to pull him up so they could start the game properly, but gave up and tried to flip the squares around him instead. Mingi tried again, needing to flip the squares that were under Yunho to win, and managed to move him, sending most of the squares across the floor. You and the other spectators slid them back, but that didn’t stop the two of them from wrestling each other to try and be the only one able to flip anything. Yunho grabbed Mingi around the waist and rolled, leaving Mingi facing in the other direction before scrambling back to the squares to flip more. Mingi clambered over and tried to move Yunho again, only to have Yunho pull a wrestling move on him and roll him up so his shoulders were on the floor. Mingi yelled for him to let him go, but Yunho held him still until the timer ran out.

“Time!” Dei yelled. “It’s over! You’re done!”

Yunho let Mingi go as Dei started counting.

“Twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four! Yunho wins!”

Yunho smiled and nodded, egging everyone to clap harder for him at his win.

Mingi sighed.

Yunho bowed like a ringmaster. “A-thank you, a-thank you.”

“You never told me what it was that you bet, though.” Mingi said.

“It’s fine, as long as you didn’t win.”

Mingi looked genuinely hurt by this.

“Because I was not doing that bet.” Yunho said to himself as he helped Dei reset the squares.

You felt your phone vibrate in your pocket and took it out and checked your messages. You leaned over to Dei.

“Hey, Hongjoong asked me to come back. I have to go.”

“Aww… Mingi, go tell Joong that t/n should stay for longer.”

He pulled his phone out without question and started typing.

“No!” You laughed. “I need to go back and work on something anyway. I’ll see you around.”

Dei pouted.

“I’m not Mingi, it’s not going to work on me. I won’t do anything you want.”

“Hey!” Mingi said.

You raised your eyebrows at him. He acquiesced.

Dei sighed. “Fine. See you around.”

“See you, t/n.”  Mingi said, and then asked who wanted to play next.

As you reached the door and grabbed the handle, someone behind you asked:

“Can I walk you up to the studio?” Yunho smiled.

“Are you sure you want to? You’re a little sweaty after that wrestling match.”

He laughed and held up a ‘one second’ finger to you, before running over to grab some paper towels and coming back, dabbing his forehead.

“I’m set.”

You laughed and shook your head and opened the door for him to walk through.

The walk back up to the studio was just small talk, nothing super important. It was nice to be able to walk and talk with him like you used to when you were younger, you couldn’t lie about that. It was like some puzzle piece you had lost under the couch years ago got stuck in the vacuum, and when you went to see why it wasn’t working you found the piece and thought ‘There it is!’ and you put it into the missing spot in the puzzle and everything was right with the world. 

As the two of you sat in comfortable silence in the elevator, a thought occurred to you.

“Oh, what was the bet Mingi wanted you to do?”

“Oh-- uh… it was stupid.”

You chuckled. “What was it?”

He opened his mouth, thought for a moment, and closed it. “It was dumb.”

“So dumb you can’t tell me?”

“Yeah.” His ears went pink.

You could not fathom what it was that could possibly make him blush. It must have been something embarrassing.

“You really can’t tell me?”

He looked at you and shook his head.

“Allllllright.” You shrugged.

“I…”

You turned to him.

He jolted. “Uh…maybe. But not now.”

You raised an eyebrow at him. 

He looked at you. He seemed nervous, but you couldn’t figure out why.

“Okay. Don’t tell me.”

The elevator pinged and you got out.

“See you around, Jeong.”

“L-Later!” 

The doors closed on him.

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[the-sunshine-dims]

what instrument. would armor play.

[kuriliancharlie]

Doodles I did a while ago of my Special Agent AU Lust (Will hopefully get his colored reference and stuff done soon)

[drugst0re-c0wboy]

This year is almost over, so here are the albums I've listened to more than once, mostly post-punk, industrial, harsh noise, trance, ambient, and synth-pop.

Au-Pairs

Coil

Throbbing Gristle

Cabaret Voltaire

Psychic TV

Chris & Cosey

Whitehouse

The Virgin Prunes

Soft Cell

[ultimatemissadhd]

naegiri famous/singer au concept

Kyoko is a famous singer+songwriter from a very young age. She is a legend in the music industry, despite being very young. However, once she turns eighteen she experiences a burnout and wants to give up. Her family (who put lots of pressure on her career) don't want her to do that so they keep hiring different producers and songwriters who would help her get back on track. None of them help and in a moment of desperation, her family hires Makoto aka a staring music producer who is the same age as Kyoko (who also is a huge fan of her music)

Makoto starts working with Kyoko develops feelings. He is very determined to help her find her music spirit back so he takes her on different kind of trips so she can experience the life outside fame and celebrities. Turns out it was exactly what she needed and ends up falling for Makoto too.

[lycankeyy]

Instead of drawing like I was supposed to I started working on a music headcanons doc

All these songs make my head hurt which is how I know they fit him /silly

[fighting-these-demons]

Has anyone started shipping Natasha and Chibodee yet?

I'm happy to set sail on yet another coke bottle raft. o7

[attyrocious]

I know I literally made a whole thing of how I don't normally do fanmixes, but I needed some music that was under 40min and very familiar so I played Linkin Park's Meteora album and the entire time I had the band au in my brain. except they'd need more members to make it work. and i kept trying to think of who it'd be for such a collab. maybe i'm too tired idk but it was like if the au band sang in a higher register than they probably would and since both Linkin Park's first three albums and your art live rent-free in my head it was only a matter of time

thats actually rly perfect now that i think abt it. ive always imagined the music range Law brings is more indie soft rock and they have to balance it with kid and killer's metal and punk rocks. LP feels like it fits their style hmmm as for musical collabs, i haven't really thought much about who else is in the music industry. Most everyone in the AU has regular jobs to be socially accepted adults, but Kid in particular really wants this band to be a thing (especially for killer) after many attempts, band breakups and accidents. they could wring in the other kid pirates for a gig or two but barely as regulars.

possible candidates: Uta - but luffy never thought of bringing it up that his sister is a famous singer Corazon - Law saw all the Donquixote posters on their walls and decided to gatekeep him away from them as long as he can hawkins/apoo - kinda their gigmates before? left "for greener pastures" and now theyre not allowed near each other