Day 244 - music

[farad]

Over on fic_promptly  today, the prompts were all based on Beatles' songs and/or lyrics, and it seems to have gotten quite a lovely turn out of writers, and a goodly number of us Mag 7 writers.  It makes me wonder: how much are we influenced by music, either as a 'muse' (hearing a song that makes us think of a situation involving our fave pair or characters) or as a 'mood creator' (setting the atmosphere that comes across in the story itself)?  Or - for anything else?

I haven't been a big music fan for a number of years now, though I do still hear the random song that I can't ignore (Seal's "Kiss from a Rose", Dido's "White Flag", anything by Suzanne Vega, but especially "Solitude Standing", "Straight Lines", "Soap and Water" or "Solitaire" - well, you get the idea), the one that 'gets to me' and makes me want to write *something*. 

What song or performer or even style makes you think of  writing, especially writing 'the boys'?

(I'm also asking this because recently, Denorios asked me what my soundtrack was for Chris and Vin and - I honestly can't whittle it down enough to make it a top ten!)
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Comments

[solosundance]

I find songs tend to give me visuals rather than words and therefore translate to vids and not stories... although of course it's still all the same narrative in the end :D Not sure if there's a particular type of music that makes me think of the boys. I've got two unfinished Mag7 vids in cold storage - one Vin/Ezra from a Rufus Wainwright track and one JD and the Seven from a track called Wild West Hero by the Electric Light Orchestra (who I don't think ever travelled across the pond...). I can't decide whether to engage in the struggle (for me) of trying to finish them or just try to write down those stories instead.

Music and writing is an interesting combo. I know lots of people like/need to have music on while they write, and sometimes very specific tracks, but I immediately lose focus when there's music in the background!

[farad]

OOHHHH - I definitely vote for writing them! Not that I don't love vids, but I do love a story even more *g*

And ELO did cross the pond, at least for a couple of albums. I remember them with much affection. "Evil Woman" and "Strange Magic" are formative to my musical interpretations.

And my - wouldn't "Strange Magic" be a great C/E song?

[randi2204]

I know that I'm influenced by music - some of my fic is inspired by a song, or even just a particular line in a song, or, more rarely, by the feeling evoked by a song. I have music playing pretty much no matter what I'm doing - I love my mp3 player because it frees me from having to have a radio in the kitchen while I'm washing dishes - but I don't know that the music I have on influences the tone/mood of my writing as I'm writing. It's mostly there as background noise.

(Also, eee! Suzanne Vega! I do so love "Solitude Standing" and "Straight Lines", but also "The Queen and the Solider" and "The World Before Columbus".)