Subject: Hm, I'd always interpreted it as...
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Posted on: 2012-09-09 06:41:00 UTC
simply someone wanting their significant other to accept them as they are, warts and all. Never anything about someone hiding away a dark side from the rest of the world on purpose.
Or that could just be me seeing it as a Johnlock song, woops.
But I'm kind of disappointed about the lack of call me maybe, and the one song that never fails to remind me of Mary Sues.
Dark Side. Kelly Clarkson. Angsty Sue all the way.
And I did make that with Alexis Gilmore in mind sooooo.
Is Johnlock or Alexis Gilmore an anti-hero of sorts? Because that's how the song always sounded to me, what with the refrain, if I may:
"Everybody's got a dark side,
Do you live me?
Can you love mine?
...
Don't run away,
Promise you'll stay."
Dunno. It just seems more right.
(also, feel free to reprimand me if those names are not characters, as I think they are.)
I have just never liked that song. It's just so perky and happy with the darker subject matter. Sometimes that works, but sometimes... Eh, it just annoys me.
simply someone wanting their significant other to accept them as they are, warts and all. Never anything about someone hiding away a dark side from the rest of the world on purpose.
Or that could just be me seeing it as a Johnlock song, woops.
There are songs that can pull it off well. I couldn't tell you which ones, but there are some.
Dark Side just kind of... On the scale of anti-heroes, I think it would be about a 3? Maybe?
For me, the tune is what kills the song's mood. The singing is fine, but that little music box jingle just doesn't mix well with it.
The jingling grates on my nerves. There are some good ones, I agree. I love f*** you by Lily Allen for example.
Or a similar song by Ceelo Greene.
It's just so funny. (well, to me. I saw the music video first - poor Young!Ceelo.
Johnlock (John/Sherlock) is a very popular slash pairing in BBC Sherlock and I feel like it fits Dark Side really well and thus I don't want to ruin it by associating it with a Mary Sue.
The mixtape on the other hand was made with a certain BBC Sherlock-verse Mary Sue in mind whose name is Alexis Gilmore, and who was killed by my Agents.
... if all the bizarre pairing names were written as characters in their own right? Even with my own negligable knowledge, I can imagine Captain Johnlock of the Good Ship Harmony... :P
hS
Has happened.
Yeah.
...
...
I may be forever in your debt.
hS
Right?
Or Jonlock, historical theorist and philosopher. (Hey, history buffs! You're welcome!)
Ah, okay.
Still though, if I had an anti-hero sue (properly contained, of course), I would use that song for it. It works well for both situations, huh?
Don't know if it's on there, but be sure not to forget Crawling In My Skin by Linkin Park for Angsty!Sues.
Hehe, I know the last one. They used it as the Master's theme in Nu Hu.
-Hums the song-
Clicked the Tumblr link, got the lyrics for the songs on here that I don't know.
Side A: How the Sue feels on the outside.
Side B: How the Sue feels on the inside/ How other people would see the Sue were the fic real life.
Is side A the Suethor's perspective and side B a PPC agent's perspective? "Give Your Heart A Break" is a good song, but strikes me as one that may already be quoted in badfics. Especially ones targeting villains as love interests...
I keep on seeing it as a Sue-trying-to-change-Sherlock-Holmes sort of song, even if it's a lovely piece (a lot of these songs are good yeah?)
B-side is mostly just a general Sue parody side, from the Sue being viewed as a prima donna slut (first two pieces), to confused canon characters (I'm So Sick and You Don't Know Me), to pissy canons whose relationships were messed with (Better Than Revenge), to the PPC (I Can't Decide).
I know! That's what threw me off at first - I really, really like most of these songs, but then I remembered the lyrics to "Give Your Heart A Break" and applied them to Boromir (not sure why he came up first), and I realized the awful truth.
-sighs resignedly-
