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Torchwood: Children of Earth fanmix
I want to make Children of Earth vids to each and every one of these songs, but as I am not really a vidder any more, instead I will still share via pirating a fanmix.
I know there's that thing where when you're totally sucked into a fandom, every song is relative to your interests! But I've totally whittled down my CoE sharable playlist to thisfive six. These are the ones whose vids in my mind's eye are fully formed.
The most obvious thing that links this group of songs together is the way they've been appropriated by their cover artists to take on a different tone to the original. More often than not, a more sinister, cynical or desolate tone. Sometimes the re-imagining is quite obvious in its shift (Imagine, Unchained Melody), others it's more insidious with a key change that leaves a note more minor and/or jarring (Que Sera Sera, Umbrella).
That's the characteristic that comes together to resonate them with CoE for me, as well. I haven't been able to re-watch any of the episodes yet, so what sticks with me mostly is the not just the overwhelmingly sinister tone the whole thing took on, in contrast to the cheesy scifi of the first two seasons, but the insidious way that change made itself known. We didn't know, watching it the first time, what was in store with the overwhelming desolation left at the end.
Like listening to these covers. The audience was drawn in with this status quo of what the show was about and how it made us feel, and the upturning of all that was made even more unsettling by the fact that it was played out in a world and with characters we already felt confident in knowing. These songs for me resonate so strongly with CoE for me because it's about using the intimacy of that familiarity (with the show/with the original songs) to slide that knife between the ribs from a place of closeness. It really personalises the impact of the emotional manipulation, in both cases of the songs and the show.
The tones of cynicism/sinisterness/desolation I think apply in different levels of the whole experience of CoE too. Not just talking about the experiences of the characters and overall themes, but the way it's affected me as a fan and my community, TW fandom, in the aftermath. The cynical slant of some of the songs (Que Sera Sera, Imagine) speak to me because so many of the possibilities that made fandom such a fertile soil to grow ideas (and characters!) in were cut off by the events of CoE. Cynical not just because the potential of canon's been obliterated, but because all that possibility in fandom is tainted now, too. The canon will overshadow every exploration of those possibilities, either consciously or unconsciously. See also desolation, in relation to that.
...it's getting late and I'm devolving into senseless ramble. Here's the music:
Imagine - A Perfect Circle
Sabotage - Fourplay
Between the Bars - Chris Garneau
Unchained Melody - Sarah McLachlan*
Que Sera, Sera - Pink Martini
Umbrella - Mechanical Bride
* Seriously, can there be a fanmix in any fandom without a Sarah McLachlan song? ahahahhaha.
Anyhoo, even if you care not for Torchwood, these are all pretty fabulous songs that you should definitely grab if you have any liking for covers at all. Drop me a comment if you download!
I know there's that thing where when you're totally sucked into a fandom, every song is relative to your interests! But I've totally whittled down my CoE sharable playlist to this
The most obvious thing that links this group of songs together is the way they've been appropriated by their cover artists to take on a different tone to the original. More often than not, a more sinister, cynical or desolate tone. Sometimes the re-imagining is quite obvious in its shift (Imagine, Unchained Melody), others it's more insidious with a key change that leaves a note more minor and/or jarring (Que Sera Sera, Umbrella).
That's the characteristic that comes together to resonate them with CoE for me, as well. I haven't been able to re-watch any of the episodes yet, so what sticks with me mostly is the not just the overwhelmingly sinister tone the whole thing took on, in contrast to the cheesy scifi of the first two seasons, but the insidious way that change made itself known. We didn't know, watching it the first time, what was in store with the overwhelming desolation left at the end.
Like listening to these covers. The audience was drawn in with this status quo of what the show was about and how it made us feel, and the upturning of all that was made even more unsettling by the fact that it was played out in a world and with characters we already felt confident in knowing. These songs for me resonate so strongly with CoE for me because it's about using the intimacy of that familiarity (with the show/with the original songs) to slide that knife between the ribs from a place of closeness. It really personalises the impact of the emotional manipulation, in both cases of the songs and the show.
The tones of cynicism/sinisterness/desolation I think apply in different levels of the whole experience of CoE too. Not just talking about the experiences of the characters and overall themes, but the way it's affected me as a fan and my community, TW fandom, in the aftermath. The cynical slant of some of the songs (Que Sera Sera, Imagine) speak to me because so many of the possibilities that made fandom such a fertile soil to grow ideas (and characters!) in were cut off by the events of CoE. Cynical not just because the potential of canon's been obliterated, but because all that possibility in fandom is tainted now, too. The canon will overshadow every exploration of those possibilities, either consciously or unconsciously. See also desolation, in relation to that.
...it's getting late and I'm devolving into senseless ramble. Here's the music:
Imagine - A Perfect Circle
Sabotage - Fourplay
Between the Bars - Chris Garneau
Unchained Melody - Sarah McLachlan*
Que Sera, Sera - Pink Martini
Umbrella - Mechanical Bride
* Seriously, can there be a fanmix in any fandom without a Sarah McLachlan song? ahahahhaha.
Anyhoo, even if you care not for Torchwood, these are all pretty fabulous songs that you should definitely grab if you have any liking for covers at all. Drop me a comment if you download!
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because so many of the possibilities that made fandom such a fertile soil to grow ideas (and characters!) in were cut off by the events of CoE
CoE held out alluring things and threw them away as fast as they were presented.
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See, yes, that, exactly. There are a number of themes I like exploring while writing in any fandom, and I tend to play with variations of them over and over again. But a few of those have been badly tainted by CoE, and in a weird way, that bothers me more than the change in the show itself -- even if I'm writing a Torchwood fic that goes completely AU from CoE canon, I can't ignore it, and that changes what I'm writing about, and that kills some of the joy in fandom for me. Argh.
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*clings*
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I am going to DL the couple of songs I don't already have, thanks! And that for the Puttin' On The Ritz dl also. You were correct. I did like, very much. I want another vid like that, but with people singing, can you find me one of those?
[Speaking of vids I find this vid (http://greensilver.livejournal.com/517911.html) and this vid (http://such-heights.livejournal.com/116091.html) are nice and soothing for when I'm feeling angryfaced about the Whoniverse, just by the way. They don't necessarily make me feel better about my characters, they just give me momentary amnesia. Which, you know, is fitting in itself.]
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<3
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As my partner said after listening to me go on about CoE; got a toothache? Blame RTD!
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It's about giving up and ... well, I sort of have to give up on canon in Torchwood to preserve my fannish like of it and since I'm not willing to give up Torchwood yet as a fandom ... canon's got to go.
Yup. I'm totally with you, there. Wish I could more easily sever my disappointment in canon with my love of the fandom, so I could preserve my glee a bit better.
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I'm not finding it easy either, alas. Luckily, my mental sense of Torchwood seems to have settled on most of my stories being placed in season 1 or early season 2, but I'm definatly having a hard time getting writing again. And there's still that sense of loss - and resentment that someone else could so thouroughly take away something I enjoyed.