Jukebox Letter 2026
May. 4th, 2026 08:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daisyninjagirl Hello Jukebox Writer,
This is my second time in this exchange, and I'm really looking forward to what you write - I hope you have a great time! I am opt-in for treats, poetry and interactive fiction.
Take On Me - a-Ha
I am old enough to remember when this song first came out, and I *adored* it. I would love to know more about the characters in the music video: what is that weird comic book world where people are riding around on bikes and attacking each other with wrenches? How does Comic Book World exist? Is it just one comic, or are they all blended together in some kind of meta way. Does the art thing change the rules? Like can people change their environment by picking up a pencil? In a later music video (The Sun Always Shines on TV), we see that the relationship doesn't work out - what happens to the girl after that?
Bad Habits - Ed Sheeran (Music Video)
Another music video that's hecka weird. What's with these vampires? Ed Sheeran seems to be going around with them, but when they burn up in the sun, he's turned back into a normalish musician wholesomely playing the guitar. Do the other vampires represent vices? What's with the other Ed Sheeran flying out of a car and melting. From a visual perspective, I really enjoy the hyper crushed colours and sense of style. Vampires dressing up to the nines to do nightclubs and eat bad takeaways, while around them a crowd riots and flees. It's a great look.
Wait For Me - Hadestown (Song)
This version of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth firmly places itself into the Modern Period, and Depression-era Modern at that. The images that Hermes uses to describe the way to hell are so vivid and compelling - a telephone wire and a railway track, cinder blocks and razor wire, a young man who's on the lam. I would really like a depiction of Orpheus' journey - what are the episodes along the way, what are the moments of despair, of muses singing in his head, that he can keep walking through? Bonus prompt for if you're familiar with the musical - the Wait For Me reprise is about Orpheus taking Eurydice up to the living lands, and the factory workers realising that if Orpheus and Eurydice make the journey, maybe they can as well. Do any of them try? Do any of them make it?
Cabinet Battle #1 - Hamilton (Song)
Every time I listen to this, I can't help thinking about how much more efficient and effective parliamentary debates would be if *everyone* used the rap battle format. Or other spoken word and verse forms. I think that politicians would get to the point a lot faster. Would you like to write a version of another Hamilton-era political dispute? Do the Gettysburg Address in rap? Relitigate a more modern political dispute? (In line with my DNWs, please keep 'more modern' to before the year 2000.) I live in New Zealand where Te Pāti Māori recently broke into a full blown haka in protest of a law they very much did not like - I think there should be more of this kind of thing!
Kiss From A Rose - Seal (Song)
So, I'm watching a 'What Makes This Song Great' video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhgoli8klLA), and the commentator gets to a song that was ubiquitous for a reason in my teenage years, and I'm struck again by how interesting this song is, with its swirling, layered orchestrations, and the mediaeval feel to the instruments, and the sort of casual "la la la" intro, and the casual "did you know" introduction before Seal gets to talking about these really important things like someone brings light to the "dark side of [him]", and is his "power, [his] pleasure, [his] pain" - basically a lot of really intense feeling things, with this light, deliberately casual approach and then getting super deep super fast, which takes a lot of skill to do well.
Three Little Maids From School - Gilbert & Sullivan (Song)
What did these three girls get up to in boarding school? I think there must have been some terrible battles of plot and counterplot between each other, and between them and the other girls in the school. Possible with hockey sticks... (Hopefully there were some midnight feasts in there as well.)
River - Leon Bridges (Music Video)
This is an incredibly moving music video, with all these lives in a dark place overlapping with each other, with actual violence, and actual death, and people trying to find their different kinds of grace - with each other, with their faith, with letting the thunderstorm happen. Would you like to show more about them? About how their lives go forward? With respect to my Do Not Want, and this canon where it's obvious that violence is happening - if you want to show violence, can you, like the music video, keep a degree of arm's length to it?
This is my second time in this exchange, and I'm really looking forward to what you write - I hope you have a great time! I am opt-in for treats, poetry and interactive fiction.
Squicks and Do Not Wants
I'm seriously not into non-consensual or underage sex. I also don't like graphic torture scenes or incest, and I'm not much interested in reading a story about consensual BDSM, or where pregnancy or infertility is the main focus. I'm more interested in how characters' relationships work out with each other than erotica and I would rather not get an M or E rated story. I think it would be hard to link my current prompts to current world events, but please don't try, I want some escapism! (Ta :-) ) Take On Me - a-Ha
I am old enough to remember when this song first came out, and I *adored* it. I would love to know more about the characters in the music video: what is that weird comic book world where people are riding around on bikes and attacking each other with wrenches? How does Comic Book World exist? Is it just one comic, or are they all blended together in some kind of meta way. Does the art thing change the rules? Like can people change their environment by picking up a pencil? In a later music video (The Sun Always Shines on TV), we see that the relationship doesn't work out - what happens to the girl after that?
Bad Habits - Ed Sheeran (Music Video)
Another music video that's hecka weird. What's with these vampires? Ed Sheeran seems to be going around with them, but when they burn up in the sun, he's turned back into a normalish musician wholesomely playing the guitar. Do the other vampires represent vices? What's with the other Ed Sheeran flying out of a car and melting. From a visual perspective, I really enjoy the hyper crushed colours and sense of style. Vampires dressing up to the nines to do nightclubs and eat bad takeaways, while around them a crowd riots and flees. It's a great look.
Wait For Me - Hadestown (Song)
This version of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth firmly places itself into the Modern Period, and Depression-era Modern at that. The images that Hermes uses to describe the way to hell are so vivid and compelling - a telephone wire and a railway track, cinder blocks and razor wire, a young man who's on the lam. I would really like a depiction of Orpheus' journey - what are the episodes along the way, what are the moments of despair, of muses singing in his head, that he can keep walking through? Bonus prompt for if you're familiar with the musical - the Wait For Me reprise is about Orpheus taking Eurydice up to the living lands, and the factory workers realising that if Orpheus and Eurydice make the journey, maybe they can as well. Do any of them try? Do any of them make it?
Cabinet Battle #1 - Hamilton (Song)
Every time I listen to this, I can't help thinking about how much more efficient and effective parliamentary debates would be if *everyone* used the rap battle format. Or other spoken word and verse forms. I think that politicians would get to the point a lot faster. Would you like to write a version of another Hamilton-era political dispute? Do the Gettysburg Address in rap? Relitigate a more modern political dispute? (In line with my DNWs, please keep 'more modern' to before the year 2000.) I live in New Zealand where Te Pāti Māori recently broke into a full blown haka in protest of a law they very much did not like - I think there should be more of this kind of thing!
Kiss From A Rose - Seal (Song)
So, I'm watching a 'What Makes This Song Great' video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhgoli8klLA), and the commentator gets to a song that was ubiquitous for a reason in my teenage years, and I'm struck again by how interesting this song is, with its swirling, layered orchestrations, and the mediaeval feel to the instruments, and the sort of casual "la la la" intro, and the casual "did you know" introduction before Seal gets to talking about these really important things like someone brings light to the "dark side of [him]", and is his "power, [his] pleasure, [his] pain" - basically a lot of really intense feeling things, with this light, deliberately casual approach and then getting super deep super fast, which takes a lot of skill to do well.
Three Little Maids From School - Gilbert & Sullivan (Song)
What did these three girls get up to in boarding school? I think there must have been some terrible battles of plot and counterplot between each other, and between them and the other girls in the school. Possible with hockey sticks... (Hopefully there were some midnight feasts in there as well.)
River - Leon Bridges (Music Video)
This is an incredibly moving music video, with all these lives in a dark place overlapping with each other, with actual violence, and actual death, and people trying to find their different kinds of grace - with each other, with their faith, with letting the thunderstorm happen. Would you like to show more about them? About how their lives go forward? With respect to my Do Not Want, and this canon where it's obvious that violence is happening - if you want to show violence, can you, like the music video, keep a degree of arm's length to it?
