Show me your character playlists!

Posted 5 years, 10 months ago (Edited 5 years, 6 months ago) by hedgemaze

I can't believe I haven't seen this thread before, honestly!

A lot of us have associated theme songs or playlists for our characters, relationships, or stories-- show off your favorites here!

How do you choose songs? Do you pick songs whose lyrics fit the character, songs the character might listen to, songs whose feel reminds you of them-- or other reasons? I'd love to hear your thought process!


Threads that can help you find songs for your characters:

All my forum games and threads

 Taro Akiba Kattenkvvaad

I have a Spotify playlist for Taro right here (it's kinda short because I'm still working on it)

AlleycatIrony

i choose songs that i feel fit my characters like most ppl i suppose :0? i'm fairly picky w/ songs, actually, but here's a handful of songs w/ lyrics that i think rly suit him

it got long so there's the first two and the rest are in a spoiler :0

wild eyed boy - birds of tokyo 

❛❛ Say my name
If you truly wanna see
What matters and what's for real
What you should have meant to me

Sing me a lullaby
Sing me a song of change
Assuming that I don't mind
Assuming that I depend on it❜❜

RIP 2 my youth - the neighbourhood

❛❛ R.I.P. to my youth
If you really listen, then this is to you
Mama, there is only so much I can do
Tough for you to witness it but it was for me too

When I can't breathe, I won't ask you to stop
When I can't breathe, don't call for a cop
I was naive and hopeful and lost
Now I'm aware and trapped in my thoughts❜❜


dark star - jaymes young

❛❛ My heart was born out of the fire
I lost love a thousand years ago
And still, I can't find her
Now I don't love like I used to
Oh but I've got stories I could tell you, if I want to

If I told you where I've been
Would you still call me baby?
And if I told you everything
Would you call me crazy?
❜❜

grace kelly - mika (in relation to his attraction to alicia/alscia)

❛❛ Do I attract you?
Do I repulse you with my queasy smile?
Am I too dirty?
Am I too flirty?
Do I like what you like?

I could be wholesome
I could be loathsome
I guess I'm a little bit shy
Why don't you like me?
Why don't you like me without making me try?
❜❜

a little death - the neighbourhood

❛❛ Touch me, yeah
I want you to touch me there
Make me feel like I am breathing
Feel like I am human❜❜

it's just me - escape the fate

❛❛ I'm creeping my way out so you can see me
I'm crawling my way around a thousand cities
You all stop and stare
I don't need your pity
I'm living my life in this hell

Now I'm crawling away 'cause the stress has killed me
I feel like I fell from a ten story building
❜❜

Horatio d'Arques UnseelieFaerie

I'm just gonna stick the whole thing here :D

Primadonna Girl [acoustic] - Marina and the Diamonds


The Power and the Glory - IAMX


World is Mine - Hatsune Miku


Vanity - Mindless Self Indulgence


you should see me in a crown - Billie Eilish


Lie Lie Lie - Metric


Boys - Charli XCX

Sometimes the lyrics don't even fit that well and it's more about the mood and feel of the song, but most of these are pretty spot on :)

Riley BroodyPrince

here is a playlist i made for riley filled with songs that best suit his character!

i also have some personal playlists on my spotify account filled with songs you'd typically find on each ocs ipod. i haven't made them all yet, but i'll get to it eventually.

aaawhyme

Character themes


I have this playlist I continuously add to, it has a general feeling to the novels my characters are from. It doesn't necessarily have to be a theme song to a character, but just feels like it would fit to the books! And of course there are plenty of theme songs I think would fit to the characters in there too haha 

 Mikhail Kozlov Returnofmorningstar

I don't make playlists all that much, but I did make one for my son here. It's something of a mess but, mainly, is populated with songs that either remind me of him or songs that he would like to sing. (Is his music taste influenced by mine, or is mine influenced by what I think he'd like? *thinking emoji*) Here's a link to his spotify playlist.

 *Sylvester R. Walker* Fokron

*revives this* b/c... good thread.

I have playlists for all of my ocs, but syl's is prob my favorite c: ! because syl is my favorite oc

Here it is! It's a bit edgy and sad but like... that's who he is lmao. (+ like 3 somewhat sappy songs about him and his boyfriend vince lmao). I'd say out of the whole playlist, Surveillance, Yuki's Death, and Silent Movies have the Biggest Sylvester Energy lol

Linsada EtherealPrince

the only playlist i got for any of my ocs is this short one for lin here lmao

Anthias Evermist TyrianCallows

I usually use Spotify for my playlists and I have a few on there right now (my most loved is Nejire's lol)

But here's Anthias' who messed up my discover weekly playlist ;A;

mithrou

uhhhh pretty much all my character playlists are more along the lines of "these are songs that they'd probably listen to" rather than "these songs remind me of them," so they get a bit interesting haha

well, ignoring my terrible spotify username i made when i was suuuuuper young,this is felix's playlist, this is emil's, here's #1 les claypool fangirl's allie's, and here's carmen's thati don't really think is as good as the others because i have no idea what she'd really listen to yet besides a few songs

corncob

i love doing playlists ajdfklsaaaaaa

been using spotify most recently. several of my characters currently have their playlists done up to a point i'm comfortable linking, and at the top of their profiles i have them linked (i usually link the singular song i most associate with them with a single eighth note emoji, then link the playlist with the group of several notes)

in my personal files, i have playlists which are essentially meant to be soundtracks of their life; each song represents a moment from their storyline, or their emotions surrounding events from that point in their life, things like that. that's not so much true with my spotify lists; i do try to include songs that match up to important points, but they're not always in order, and they're not not exclusively meant to be soundtracks - a lot of the songs on my spotify lists just fit the character well - i try to pick songs that work both lyrically and musically for the character. i also generally try to capture a certain kind of sound, and try to emulate that with what kind of music i think they'd listen to if they had the same music to choose from that we do. Quil, for example, has a lot of Hozier and BANKS on his alongside violin tracks, while Viviani has a ton of choir music and musical numbers, and Foxglove has a lot of music from the 70s and folksy stuff.

i'll link some of my playlists here:
Quil - Lhovi - Viviani - Foxglove

Pizhke of Shoreville Cliodna

Pizhke has a little playlist

There's not a lot of songs in there. It's folk and neofolk of finnish, estonian and livonian origin (the livonian songs being particularily cherished). I've yet to find a real "theme tune" for her so it serves as a sort of...auditory aesthetic board for her whole setting, to be played whenever I work on anything finnic folklore inspired. I feel it puts me in the right kind of mood. Most of them have a, what I feel, rather calming tone. A bit monotone, with minimalistic instrumentals. A few lullabies. 

Basically this one is based on...mood. How it makes me feel. And just being able to listen to the language going on in the background.

Azrael forumsdackel

I have a lot of playlists and I hope got get every (favourite) OC of mine one.
It's a mix between lyrics that fit them, songs that they listen to or that remind me of them. Mostly though a mix between the first two (or even both). Most of them are spotify-playlists.

IC playlist would be this: (Youtube,spotify) Some German songs, a lot of Irish (speed) Folk, Rock'n'Roll. And a few 80s
Hermann has a playlist here. He loves The Beatles.
Currently working on more though