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fandomhigh2018-02-09 08:44 am
furnaceface) wrote in fandomhigh2018-02-09 08:44 am
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Music Appreciation, Friday, 1st Period
"So," Hannibal began. "There is a holiday coming up."
//Garbage holiday,// Jono muttered. //Overrated Hallmark holiday. Too commercial for its own bloody good, is what that holiday is.//
Yes, Jono. Whatever you said. Hannibal was just giving you a fondly exasperated smile.
"A holiday that perhaps can cause individuals not in a relationship, or not prone to romance, to have a rather bad day. Or even for those in a relationship to become stressed. It's meant to be about love, but the focus on it can be anything but romantic."
//It's all roses and pink candy hearts and chocolates,// Jono continued to mutter. //Bloody chocolates. And,// he rolled his eyes exaggeratedly, //of course, soppy love songs.//
It was possible that his grudge here was about the chocolate. It was difficult to say, with Jonothon.
//So today, we're going to play love songs. Obligatory at this time of year, I know. But because I'm not about to get bloody mushy here, we're going to take a sharp veer to the left. We're going to edge into the unusual, the unhealthy, and the outright unhinged, this week.//
So, the sorts of songs they related to much better anyway.
"There are, fortunately, just as many songs of that sort as of the other," Hannibal said.
//Take, for example, Tainted Love, originally recorded by Gloria Jones. Though I imagine most students here would be more familiar with the Soft Cell version. Or even Marilyn Manson, somewhat more recently.// Jono gave his shoulders a shrug while the music played. //Nothing to be done for it, I suppose.//
He said that, but he happened to enjoy both covers himself, so…
"And on the older side, we can begin with Lucia di Lammermoor, "Il dolce suono", Hannibal said, "in which Lucia, having gone quite mad and killed her husband, sings about the wonderful life she hopes to have with the lover she gave up. While covered in her husband's blood."
He possibly sounded too cheerful about that. It was a very good aria!
//While we're on the topic of utterly twisted romance,// Jono said, shaking his head a little, //there are songs like Ludo's Love Me Dead, and Tom Lehrer's Masochism Tango, both of which highlight unhealthy or dangerous relationships in a manner so extreme that they become outright absurd.//
Hannibal could argue about masochism being unhealthy, but in front of class possibly wasn't the time. He'd just send Jono a bit of amusement. And Jono, catching that amusement, was going to just roll his eyes. He was definitely not about to get into that conversation in front of the students.
On the other hand...well, to be honest Hannibal would discuss practically anything with anyone, but he had other topics to get to. "There are also songs of less twisted but equally unhealthy habits, such as Don Giovanni's "Il catalogo è questo", in which a servant sings to a woman his master has proposed to of all of the man's extensive and varied conquests. Which eventually lead to him being dragged down to Hell."
"And because men have no exclusive rights to being terrible to their loves, Chicago's "Cell Block Tango" depicts what can happen when love goes wrong with the wrong person."
If you didn't have a good defense, anyway.
//Oh, I dunno. I'd say they had it coming,// Jono mused.
Because he was terrible and couldn't resist.
Hannibal chuckled.
"There are, of course, a wide variety of songs that do not involve death, maiming, or madness, but that still are somewhat twisted. "Bad Romance", for example." He had a special place in his heart for that one.
//The fact that you know that one makes me swoon a little,// Jono admitted. //So I'm going to see that one and raise you Toxic.//
Because this was where they were going, now.
If Hannibal were feeling particularly horrible, he could have played Sug★r K★ne.
But then Jono would've filed for divorce.
Your teachers, people.
"So, without becoming overly sentimental or cow-eyed, what songs about romance or love do you enjoy?" Hannibal asked.
//Garbage holiday,// Jono muttered. //Overrated Hallmark holiday. Too commercial for its own bloody good, is what that holiday is.//
Yes, Jono. Whatever you said. Hannibal was just giving you a fondly exasperated smile.
"A holiday that perhaps can cause individuals not in a relationship, or not prone to romance, to have a rather bad day. Or even for those in a relationship to become stressed. It's meant to be about love, but the focus on it can be anything but romantic."
//It's all roses and pink candy hearts and chocolates,// Jono continued to mutter. //Bloody chocolates. And,// he rolled his eyes exaggeratedly, //of course, soppy love songs.//
It was possible that his grudge here was about the chocolate. It was difficult to say, with Jonothon.
//So today, we're going to play love songs. Obligatory at this time of year, I know. But because I'm not about to get bloody mushy here, we're going to take a sharp veer to the left. We're going to edge into the unusual, the unhealthy, and the outright unhinged, this week.//
So, the sorts of songs they related to much better anyway.
"There are, fortunately, just as many songs of that sort as of the other," Hannibal said.
//Take, for example, Tainted Love, originally recorded by Gloria Jones. Though I imagine most students here would be more familiar with the Soft Cell version. Or even Marilyn Manson, somewhat more recently.// Jono gave his shoulders a shrug while the music played. //Nothing to be done for it, I suppose.//
He said that, but he happened to enjoy both covers himself, so…
"And on the older side, we can begin with Lucia di Lammermoor, "Il dolce suono", Hannibal said, "in which Lucia, having gone quite mad and killed her husband, sings about the wonderful life she hopes to have with the lover she gave up. While covered in her husband's blood."
He possibly sounded too cheerful about that. It was a very good aria!
//While we're on the topic of utterly twisted romance,// Jono said, shaking his head a little, //there are songs like Ludo's Love Me Dead, and Tom Lehrer's Masochism Tango, both of which highlight unhealthy or dangerous relationships in a manner so extreme that they become outright absurd.//
Hannibal could argue about masochism being unhealthy, but in front of class possibly wasn't the time. He'd just send Jono a bit of amusement. And Jono, catching that amusement, was going to just roll his eyes. He was definitely not about to get into that conversation in front of the students.
On the other hand...well, to be honest Hannibal would discuss practically anything with anyone, but he had other topics to get to. "There are also songs of less twisted but equally unhealthy habits, such as Don Giovanni's "Il catalogo è questo", in which a servant sings to a woman his master has proposed to of all of the man's extensive and varied conquests. Which eventually lead to him being dragged down to Hell."
"And because men have no exclusive rights to being terrible to their loves, Chicago's "Cell Block Tango" depicts what can happen when love goes wrong with the wrong person."
If you didn't have a good defense, anyway.
//Oh, I dunno. I'd say they had it coming,// Jono mused.
Because he was terrible and couldn't resist.
Hannibal chuckled.
"There are, of course, a wide variety of songs that do not involve death, maiming, or madness, but that still are somewhat twisted. "Bad Romance", for example." He had a special place in his heart for that one.
//The fact that you know that one makes me swoon a little,// Jono admitted. //So I'm going to see that one and raise you Toxic.//
Because this was where they were going, now.
If Hannibal were feeling particularly horrible, he could have played Sug★r K★ne.
But then Jono would've filed for divorce.
Your teachers, people.
"So, without becoming overly sentimental or cow-eyed, what songs about romance or love do you enjoy?" Hannibal asked.
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Or the murder. Or whatever.
Lecture!
So, that happened.
Discuss!
Talk to the Teachers!
Not that they'll ever tell you that.
OOC!
Upside, I just got a job offer in a different department in the studio. I just have to stop screaming forever so that I can do the test for it.
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He'll never admit it.
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"What's wrong with roses and chocolate?"
Plenty of people liked it after all. It didn't appeal to her, but then she was a ship and the love she had felt during her life had been expressed differently.
Actually, she was just trolling.
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//Nothing is wrong with either, on their own,// Jono replied, crossing his arms over his chest and wrinkling his nose a little. //It's the concept of the commercialization of romance, commodifying it one day a year in order for somebody to make a profit off of it, and the expectation that if people don't prove it on that one day in particular, clearly they don't care enough. Rubs me wrong. My husband knows how I feel. Roses and chocolate on the fourteenth would be a nice gesture, and I'll likely do something regardless, but it shouldn't be a requirement any more than it ought to be for every other day of the year.//
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"I have promised never to buy him chocolates for Valentine's Day," Hannibal confided cheerfully to Breq.
Heck, if he was going to do that, he was going to make them. And there were better and more appreciated things he could do instead.
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"I understand that chocolates can be the wrong kind of gift," Breq said, not adding 'if you can't eat them'. "And I know not everyone likes things that verge on the sentimental. A lot of the love songs I know are though. It's a complicated emotions to express, I suppose. In music or in other ways."
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So hopefully they'd forgive her the uncontrollable ugh sound that escaped her by the time they got to the end.
If her own relationship status wasn't what it was this time of year, she might have been singing a different tune and thought it was adorable. She liked them both! But as it was, though, they were lucky her sorry, single-with-no-prospects ass didn't just completely lose her lunch somewhere around the Masochism Tango.
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Again, if this were another dimension where she was actually dating someone, they'd be having a completely different conversation right now.
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//I'm not much for country, but that basically sums up every breakup song I've ever heard by a woman country artist,// he noted. //Ever hear Goodbye Earl? Or These Boots Are Made For Walkin'?//
They were both actually rather satisfying.
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And she had an ex-husband in another dimension to prove it.
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He paused a moment, and then, as he pulled up the song and started to play it, added, //Goodbye Earl involves a wife fed up with an abusive husband. Her solution to the problem is quite satisfying.//
[OOC: Jono mentions it here already, but I'm gonna note again before anyone clicks that the song does carry depcitions of domestic abuse. And, y'know, vengeful murder.]
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meta ofThelma and Louise of them."Aaaaand now Summer was sitting there wondering if Tip or Peridot would help her kill a dude if she ever needed to. Which was...probably not that healthy, but there you go.
"I dig it."
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//Don't let it get out or anything, but I actually rather enjoy it, too.//
The Dixie Chicks really had no patience for bullshit, and that was a stance that Jonothon could respect.
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He was incredibly amused. He was hiding it well, but Jono would probably be aware of his intense mental glee.
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Too personal, especially for class.
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She immediately regretted saying that. She had told herself not to make this personal.
"Love trapped in grief, perhaps."
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