Imagining books and music in quirky and creative ways
One of the most beautiful and heartbreaking songs I’ve ever heard has to be “I Found” by the British Indie band, Amber Run. I’ve loved this song for a while now, but recently I realized that the lyrics sound an awful lot like Éponine’s pain as Continue reading “Les Misérables and British Indie Pop (Songs For Every Book)”
Now that it’s back-to-school season, it’s time to talk about everyone’s favorite nerdy witch: Hermione Granger.
I can just picture a modern-day, edgy version of Hermione blasting this song in her headphones while frantically staying up till 2am to finish that awful potions homework.
So there’s your back-to-school motivation for the week! 😉 Continue reading “If Hermione Granger Listened to Alternative Rock”
Sia’s “Alive” could easily be heard as a retelling of the monster’s life in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The similarities are actually kind of crazy: Continue reading “Frankenstein and Sia (Songs For Every Book)”
I was jamming to some music this morning but when this song came on it transported me straight into Macbeth:
About Lady Macbeth:
“I was a loner
I was just waiting by myself
When you, warped temptress
Rose to bring me happiness and wealth”
About Macbeth:
“You convince yourself that you want it, but you don’t know
You keep trying to wash the blood from your hands, but it won’t go”
If you liked this post, you might also enjoy Songs for Every Book: Romeo and Juliet, Funniest Macbeth Quote Ever, and Songs For Every Book: Ophelia From Hamlet.
Unfortunately, infidelity is not a new thing.
From the point of view of Darya (Dolly) Alexandrovna Oblonsky
“It’s not right, but it’s okay
I’m gonna make it anyway.
Pack your bags up and leave.
Don’t you dare come running back to me.”
E.T. by Katy Perry = Heathcliff and Catherine’s relationship
Both are filled with a lot of passion and otherworldliness. Heathcliff is also someone to be afraid of, like the song suggests.
Heathcliff’s desire to be haunted also has parallels with Perry’s language:
Heathcliff: “Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!”
Perry: “Infect me with your love and fill me with your poison”…
“Wanna be a victim, ready for abduction”
“Nightingale” (Demi Lovato) reminds me of “Cinderella” (from the Brothers Grimm).
Not only does the Disney version of Cinderella have her singing specifically about a nightingale, but the feelings of exhaustion and a certain degree of hopelessness in the song also remind me strongly of how Cinderella might have felt while with her stepsisters and stepmother. I can just hear her singing this to her (at the time, imaginary) prince.
“Can you be my nightingale?
Sing to me, I know you’re there
You could be my sanity
Bring me peace, sing me to sleep
Say you’ll be my nightingale.”
Do you agree? Feel free to comment below!
This is how I imagine the little mermaid must have felt towards the prince:
Compass by Zella Day:
“Compass point you home, calling out from the east
Compass point you anywhere closer to me
If we make it out alive from the depths of the sea
Compass point you anywhere closer to me”
A heartbreaking song for a heartbreaking story.
“Tip of My Tongue” by The Civil Wars makes me think of Jane and Mr. Rochester. A love song in the form of a duet, tinged with mystery…
From Jane Eyre, spoken by Mr. Rochester to Jane:
“When you came upon me in Hay Lane last night, I thought unaccountably of fairy tales, and had half a mind to demand whether you had bewitched my horse: I am not sure yet.”
Yay or nay?
SPOILERS
“Tower (Don’t Look Down)” by Skylar Grey reminds me of Anna Karenina towards the end of the book when she turns crazy and paranoid, thinking Vronsky doesn’t love her. (Both she and the song are preeeeeetty passive aggressive.)
On top of that, the guy in the song is supposedly leaving the girl for the sake of his career. Vronsky is faced with the same dilemma–Anna vs. advancement in the military. And Anna in her befuddled state doesn’t seem all that convinced that he’s choosing her…
“Just leave me here to die
As I watch you climb
Up to the top of your ambitions.”
What do you think? Is it a match?
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