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[skygiants]

rymenhild and I spent a good chunk of the way back from Rochester passing our iPods back and forth in an attempt to compile Princess Tutu playlists, because we are giant dorks. She posted her gorgeous playlist the other day, so now it is my turn! Thanks to rymenhild and genarti both for suggestions. (Some of you will notice that a few of these songs made it onto the 'ten songs I am really into right now' list that I posted a week or so back. This . . . is not coincidence.)




1. Storytelling, Belle and Sebastian
Lyrics

One of the show's main themes is the responsibility of the storyteller. Do they have a duty to their characters? Are they just doing it for the lulz? (As far as Drosselmeyer is concerned, it is all about the lulz.)

If you're a storyteller you might think you're without responsibility
And you can lead your characters anywhere you want
You have immunity

2. Blackbird, Louisa John-Krol
Lyrics

Ravens like to steal shiny things. Like hearts!

Come blackbird and take my soul away

3. Euridyce, Noe Venable

Call this a pre-canon song for Mytho, and a during-canon song too; if you look at it a certain way Mytho basically starts out the series dead. (I cannot post the lyrics, because they're not anywhere online. I've looked!)

I am mute, I am forsaken
I am - here's from me to world
Here's from world to you
I can sing my heart out, sing myself away

4. Let Me Be Your Armor, Assemblage 23
Lyrics

Fakir's initial characterization: biggest control freak ever.

Let me be your armor
Let me be your shield
Let me take away the pain you feel

5. Princesse (Tango), Julie Zenatti
Lyrics

Kraehe's initial characterization, on the other hand: evil sexy princess! But of course there's a lot more to her than that.

Je suis une princesse
Royaume inconnu
(I am a princess
Kingdom unknown)

6. Love Loss Hope Repeat, Carbon Leaf (Ahiru/Princess Tutu)
Lyrics

What Ahiru doesn't know when she agrees to become a shoujo magical girl is that the role comes with a few preset definitions. Most of them are conveniently mentioned in the song title.

I love you more than I'll ever let on
And that's a fault of mine I'm working on

7. Storybook Love, Mark Knopfler
Lyrics

If this is a fairy tale with princes and princesses and so on, then everything is destined to work out just fine, right? (Or maybe not!)

She said, "Don't you know that storybook loves
Always have a happy ending?"

8. Broken Things, Lucy Kaplansky
Lyrics

Mytho wants his heart back together! To give it to someone maybe?

I heard that you make old things new
So I give these pieces all to you
If you want it, you can have my heart

9. The Tower, Vienna Teng
Lyrics

Yes, you have to genderswitch, and yes, I am possibly giggling a little at the idea of Fakir as a flower, but I don't care; it still works for him way too well as he tries to fill the role he thinks he has to.

I need not to need
I've always been the tower
but now I feel like I'm the flower trying to bloom in snow

10. Dirty Bird, Laika
Lyrics

Fakir has what we might call a conflicted relationship with certain ravenesque characters.

What went wrong, what went wrong
Shame on, shame on
Damn you filthy crow

11. Forever May Not Be Long Enough, Live
Lyrics

No one is saying Rue and Mytho have a healthy relationship, because that would be a lie. It is part of their charm! Um. Doubly relevant in the second season, when blood suddenly takes on twice the significance.

forever may not be long enough for this love forever forever forever
this world is never enough, and I'm not givin up my faith in love is like blood,
i'd spill it freely for some my faith in love is like blood

12. Knight Moves, Suzanne Vega
Lyrics

A second-season Rue and Mytho song, when their relationship gets even healthier as the power dynamics shift around.

Watch while the queen
In one false move
Turns herself into a pawn

13. Into the Fire, Thirteen Senses
Lyrics

Fakir knows that his power is a scary, scary thing, and rightly so.

Come on, come on
Put your hands into the fire
Explain, explain
As I turn and meet the power

14. Deja Vu, Something for Kate
Lyrics

An end of canon song for Ahiru and Fakir; they help each other become stronger versions of who they really are.

She wants to meet her fate, but travel by free will
But you can't have both and you can't stand still, still, still.
I'd be the luckiest man in the universe, if cause and effect doesn't get there first

15. The Show Must Go On, Queen
Lyrics

It's not easy to keep on dancing when it looks like hope is gone, which is why you need a magical duck princess superheroine to do it.

My soul is painted like the wings of butterflies
Fairytales of yesterday will grow but never die
I can fly - my friends
The show must go on

16. And We'll Dance, Thea Gilmore (Princess Tutu)
Lyrics

I am ending with my ultimate Princess Tutu song; I can't even talk about it because I identify it so much with the series and the title character. And it's beautiful.

Meet me by the ruined tower
Meet me in your final hour
Meet me as the sun goes down
And we'll dance

Comments

[tomoyoichijouji.livejournal.com]

Downloading!....Wait, the Blackbird one doesn't work! D:

[skygiants]

Oops! *sheepish* It should be fixed now, I think!

[tomoyoichijouji.livejournal.com]

Thankies and yay for being so quick! ^o^

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! I've taken all of them that I don't already have.

[kiarasayre.livejournal.com]

Oooh! These look awesome! :D

[sandrylene.livejournal.com]

Just finished the series this week. So much love! Also, your playlist looks awesome, though I am not on my computer, so cannot download yet. Will do so once I can!

And you should link me to fics and vids! Because I am a demanding bunny! :P <3

[wickedtrue.livejournal.com]

*eats the music*

Downloaded all! My mother was getting tired of packing to Led Zeppelin. Poor woman.

[mercuriazs.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU.


Eeeeeee. Musicked!Merc is Happy!Merc.

[magicdragonomg.livejournal.com]

Baww, Tainted Love so totally fits! D:

-while listening to that song, always thinks of evil!Rue turning Mytho into a Raven, all for her own endeavors-

[magicdragonomg.livejournal.com]

-accidentally did "reply" instead of "comment"- FAIL. >__>

[blacksheep91.livejournal.com]

Oooooo, pretty and epic! ^-^

Let's not forget about "They" by Jem.~

[asatira.livejournal.com]

Cool, downloaded a number of them.

[mm-rym.livejournal.com]

Also, and (mostly) off-topic:

Opinions on the userpic?

[skygiants]

Oooh, I like it a lot!

[skygiants]

*beams* Yay! Remind me, were there any I promised you that I didn't end up including on the list?

[skygiants]

:D Thank you! (Also, may I just say, your icon is gorgeous.)

[skygiants]

:O Your detailed thoughts, you should show me them! (Also, YAY!)

INDEED I SHOULD. Has Gen shown you 'Hall om mig nu'? If not it is here, for a start!

[skygiants]

Yay! :D Well, most of this should make a . . . fairly significant change from that. NOT THAT THERE IS ANYTHING WRONG WITH LED ZEPPELIN EITHER.

[skygiants]

You are welcome! I am glad to contribute to Happy!Merc.

[skygiants]

I know, it totally does! I will associate it with that heart-staining scene forevermore.

[skygiants]

Oh, you are right! I had not thought to add that because it's on a different mental soundtrack for me, but you're absolutely right, it fits Tutu totally too.

[skygiants]

Awesome! I'm glad you enjoyed. :D

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

You should friend me, too, because I have more music!

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

I can't remember any offhand, but that doesn't mean there weren't others. I'll think about it.

[magicdragonomg.livejournal.com]

Oh, most definitely! :D

[sandrylene.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, you said the M word. I'll do anything you say now. ;)

[sandrylene.livejournal.com]

Yes, I need to detailed thought at you. I'm not sure if now is the hour for it, though. I think it is actually the hour for "ugh, sleep" and "where's my antacid?" As an aside, though? I was so perversely wanting things to go badly in that last episode.

Also, no, I hadn't seen Hall Om Mig Nu yet, and that is bloody BRILLIANT. I particularly like the song, too, and so I think I'll be on the lookout for more by that artist.

[skygiants]

Yes, now is possibly not the hour . . . but tomorrow may be the hour! When we are at work and in need of entertainment anyways. :D

(:O! BADLY HOW?)

Isn't it gorgeous? Best dancing action vid ever! I know, we tormented you with the song while you were here, but now you see why we could not show it to you yet!

[wizard-knight.livejournal.com]

Ooooo these are really well picked out! Took all~

[skygiants]

Oh thank you! I'm glad you liked them. :D

[ilikebigtoes.livejournal.com]

um Ikindaloveyou?


♥

[skygiants]

:DDD Yay!

(I MUST MAKE ALL THE WORLD'S LOVE MY OWN? *evil Mythos about*)

[genarti]

I maaaaay have taken all of these that I didn't already have.

*cheerful*

[skygiants]

OH HORRORS AND TRAGEDY. *also cheerful!*

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

I never heard this song until the radio woke me up this morning.

The Decemberists - The Crane Wife 3

(lyrics (http://www.tsrocks.com/t/the_decemberists_texts/the_crane_wife_3.html)

[skygiants]

. . . . dude. :O That is so going on the mental playlist!

(So many Kraehe songs! Here, have the lyrics to one I think is a Fakir song, too.)

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

OW. Fakir to Ahiru, if he had time to talk about a third of the way through Episode 13? I feel I need this song.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Nooo, episode 12, because of the swimming line. ROT13 spoilers for entire series (http://rot13.com): Uv, Nuveh. Lbh xabj, V'z shevbhf ng lbh sbe univat frra zr pel, ohg lbh ybbx ernyyl phgr jura lbh'er n qhpx naq lbh gbgnyyl fbyirq gur ceboyrz whfg abj. Ol gur jnl, nsgre V qvr, va nobhg na ubhe be fb, lbh fubhyq ernyyl trg gbtrgure jvgu Zlgub. Gura lbh pna obgu or unccl!

You don't happen to possess the song, do you? If you don't, I'll buy it.

[skygiants]

HAHAHA YES EXACTLY. Oh Fakir. <3 (V ybir 'V'z abg nsenvq bs yvsr, V'z nsenvq bs qrngu' sbe uvz ng gung zbzrag va cnegvphyne, orpnhfr ur'f bayl erpragyl npghnyyl nqzvggrq gb uvzfrys gung unys uvf zbgvingvba nyy nybat unf orra SERNXVAT BHG bire gur cebfcrpg bs qlvat - naq ur'f nyfb bayl whfg svtherq bhg gung url, npghnyyl yvivat (jvgu SRRRRRRRYVATF) vf abg fb onq rvgure!)

I do in fact have the song, and here is the download link! :D

(Also, I am now looking through the lyrics of the rest of this album, and what do you think about this one for season 2 Rue?)

[skygiants]

Also ahahaha for the pas de deux in the second-to-last episode?

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

I'm not convinced about the Rue song, but about the pas de deux? Yes. Yes. I don't have enough songs for that pairing. *eyes your box.net account hopefully*

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

And for Ahiru, a ridiculously cheerful version (http://www.box.net/shared/6n5l6bf9xf) of They Might Be Giants' Birdhouse In Your Soul sung by Ellen Greene and Kristin Chenoweth!

[oneechan19.livejournal.com]

Now that's I've seen the series, I feel as though I can download the songs. If you still have them up. *crosses fingers and hopes you do*

[skygiants]

I do! They are all box.net, so they should be up pretty indefinitely. :D

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

Hi! rymenhild has just pointed me toward this post, as I have finally finished all of Princess Tutu (it's her fault). is it okay if I download the songs?

[skygiants]

Absolutely! :D Welcome to the cult - I mean, TOTALLY HEALTHY OBSESSION. >.>

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

Yay! Thank you!


Healthy. Definitely healthy.

[enuwey.livejournal.com]

Oooh, snagging all but the one I already have.

[skygiants]

Yay - hope you like it!