Sunday, August 28, 2011

For Credit: Fantomina (The Playlist)

Suggest a track or two for the Fantomina (and/or Beauplaisir) soundtrack, and say why you think it's a good choice.  You are welcome (encouraged!) to include links, but unfortunately it is not possible to embed video or audio clips in blog responses.

To get credit, your response must include a thoughtful rationale for the track you suggest.

Deadline: Tuesday (8/30), 5pm.

12 comments:

  1. I would say that the song "Red Hands" by The Dear Hunter would be a fitting song for a Fantomina soundtrack.

    The song is about feelings of betrayal in a relationship, and it also deals with the issue of lust over love. These themes are both present within Fantomina. I would say this song would fit when she receives the two letters from Beauplaisir, to Fantomina and The widow Bloomer, and she realizes he's two timing her and being fake. This song would accurately portray how she is feeling at that moment.

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  2. I think a good song for the Fantomina soundtrack would be "Taking Over Me" by Evanescence. This song deals with a person that is so taken by another to the point that she is willing to give up everything to be with him (I'll give up everything just to find you/I have to be with you to live to breathe). The song represents the desperation that Fantomina has to be with Beauplaisir.

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  3. "Mr. Brightside" by The Killers is representative of the intense emotions that Fantomina experiences. She is constantly "stalking," and watching Beauplaisir from afar trying to concoct new ways of getting close to him. She is intensely jealous and suspicious. I think this songs represents someone who is watching the one they "love" through a window. They can see them but never get close enough or really make an impact or get them to love them back. Sure, Fantomina is always physically with B. as one character or another, but she is never able to be with him as herself.

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  4. "Womanizer" by Britney Spears I believe takes the cake. Just simply because I think Fantomina and all her identities is exactly that. Beauplaisir is just a pawn in her game in getting what she desires. This song is about a male, but I think in this case she is a "man-izer" :)

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  5. "Before he cheats" by Carrie Underwood because it is the anthem of women empowerment. Carrie and Fantomina both have anger towards men and in this song you can hear the anger and frustration in in Carrie's voice. This song explains that men cannot be trusted and they will do what it takes to get what they (Carrie & Fantomina) want.

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  6. I think "requiem for dream" would be a fitting song to be included in a sound track if Fantomina was made into a movie. Now, there are no words to it as anyone who has heard it knows. However, I feel like the piece is filled well enough with suspense and intensity, and could well be suited to displays fantomina's fall into total obsession over Beauplaisir.

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  7. I think that the all-time classic, "Can't Make You Love Me," by none other than Britney Spears, would be a fitting track for Hollywood's version of Fantomina, were it ever to be made. In the song, the always clever Ms. Spears laments her well-off economic status and repeatedly assures her beau that she would give up everything (money AND fancy cars) if only she could have him. Fantomina, of course, takes this literally and decides to abandon her presumably classy upbringing and go slumming, as a fellow classmate articulated last week, as a prostitute to attract her man. Later in the song, Britney also admits that she has been through changes (yeah), but she's still the girl her crush has always known. Nothing could be more true of our Fantomina; she and Britney seem to have a lot in common, wouldn't you agree? Poor girl. Thankfully, I trust Fantomina never went so far as to shave her head, but, then again, who knows. Maybe the sequel, set in the convent, would have included such a spectacle. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0zy7FhcmKY (Maybe it'll remind you of your days as a 6th grade girl too?)

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  8. This might be stretching it a bit, but parts of "Hot and Cold" by Katy Perry seem to fit. In reference to Beauplasir's fleeting affections and inability to settle on just one woman, as well as the fact that he'll never rise above his libertine nature to actually settle on one woman of breeding to marry.

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  9. I think that the song "I'm gonna find another you" by John Mayer would be the perfect song for a soundtrack to Fantomina. The fact that Fantomina has to continue to change her appearance and identity so often in order to please this man means that rather than him getting several different versions of her, she needs to find a "different version" of him. There is obviously an attachment that she has to some different aspects in him, so she may bet better off looking for these aspects in another person.

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  10. I think a good song for Beausplaisir would be "Imma Flirt" by R Kelly. He can't be settled with just one woman, and so he flirts around and gets around with other girls (but really the same one). He goes to the theatre, flirts around, then to Bath, and so on.

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  11. The opening lines of Lupe Fiasco's "We Love You" fit the situation coming from Beauplaisir's point of view:

    *female voice: We love you, we love you, we looove you! Yes we do, we love you, yes we do!

    Lupe Fiasco: Uh, that's what they say to me, and I entertain it quite playfully...

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  12. Well, *someone* has to suggest it:

    Lady Gaga, "Bad Romance" (particularly the video, with its manic costume changes, minus the setting-the-bed-on-fire bit at the end: http://youtu.be/qrO4YZeyl0I). Of course, neither Fantomina nor the narrator pathologize her obsession in quite Lady Gaga's self-aware way.

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