Days Apart - A Llewerius “Playlist”
I’m posting this late af because I’m a bastard.
So like, there are a few songs I like to listen to while drawing these two. Because these songs make me think of them. It’s nowhere near a proper playlist’s worth, but I thought I may as well share them with you for people who were looking for more Llewerius content before me and Lolly are ready to unveil what we’re working on. I’ll even give little explanations as to why they’re up here.
Elaborate Lives & Elaborate Lives (Reprise) from the Aida Soundtrack - This is probably one of the most “out there” choices, which is why it’s at the top, so we can get to the real meat, next. I can’t really explain myself outside of the fact that the Aida musical soundtrack still really moves me and this song always inspires me when I’m drawing more “adversarial” couples, in this case, Louie being deadset in the idea that he doesn’t actually like Ty, Ty being deadset in the idea that he’s straight, and the both of them lamenting in repressed yearning as a result. Naturally, the nature of the reprise in particular is MUCH more serious in the context of the musical, and that’s actually why it inspired the out-of-context drawing I did based on the scenario of THE kiss.
Rezonate’s The Phoenix - Okay. So. I’mma be real with you guys. This is the song that sparked the very concept of the scenario surrounding the kiss. Y’know, THE kiss. It doesn’t actually spoil anything because there are barely any lyrics in the song, and even then, the lyrics are fairly generic. It’s mostly due to the fact that, as I listen to music, I tend to think of what I could potentially animate to it, what feelings I want to express through it, what feelings I think the song expresses to me. And as a result, a specific portion of the song (I will not say which) fine-tuned my brain into thinking “I want to see Ty and Louie in THIS situation”. It was a very rough, very vague, honestly rather strange concept. I relayed the concept to Lolly, and, good gods, she took the inch I offered and gave me a mile in return. The story she managed to concoct from such an odd idea was not only WAY more fleshed out, but also engaging and emotional. I really can’t wait for you all to finally see what she’s done, but for now, you can have the piece that allowed that first little spark of an idea.
Tatsuro Yamashita’s Ride on Time - Obligatory City Pop song because I listen to that too much. Not only is this my favorite Tatsuro Yamashita song, and thus, I must tie it to what I happen to be currently hyperfixated on, but I also really like to consider it a Llewerius song because the lyrics (as far as I can tell from the translation) are about falling in love without even realizing it, and gods does that ring true with our two little disasters here. It’s a bop, please listen.
Cascada’s A Neverending Dream - HELL YEAH BITCHES WE GOT SOME CASCADA ON THE LIST. Honestly you can just throw any Cascada song from the Everytime We Touch album on and I could probably relate it to Llewerius somehow (Except Miracle. Not That One.) But this one in particular makes me think of the Fairytale AU! It’s a good AU and I hope either me or Lolly (or both) have more time to make content for that.
Studio Killers’s Grande Finale - This is actually another song I attribute to multiple pairings, but I feel like it fits here particularly well. Louie inspires Ty to be a better person because Ty thinks so highly of Louie’s ability to use their natural advantages (traits Ty had always considered “evil) for the sake of, as Ty sees it, being a hero. On the flipside, Ty brings out the best in Louie by driving him to put more effort into what he does due to the naturally competitive nature of their relationship, as well as the fact that Ty is able to check Louie on his more… morally unsound behavior, just by having a much stronger moral compass. It just kinda works with this song. These two are the respective “ends” (life is more complicated than that) of their bad sides.
Klaus Veen’s Ordinary Days (V2) - This song is mostly here because most of the Lethal League soundtrack makes me think of Ty, and this is the piece on the soundtrack that most reminds me of Louie, so it kinda of just merges into making me think of the both of them!
HOME’s Resonance - Is it a surprise that this song is here? Maybe?? I dunno. I like this song a lot so I listen to it a lot regardless of what I’m thinking of. But it is relevant, trust me. By now you’ve probably been curious about the drawing atop this post. Well, Louie has spent a lot of nights at Ty’s house as a friend (and, well, moreso because Ty has this inexplicable ability to calm Louie down if he wakes up in the middle of the night anxious, more effectively than anyone else in his life has been able to. But he would never say that out loud. They’re friends, they’re having a sleepover, they’re capable of being normal about it, most of the time) and Ty has a little radio in his room that’s constantly playing at low volume as a “white noise maker”. This song just makes me think about that room, comfortable, nostalgic, sleepy, music coming from somewhere. IDK it works for me.
The Beatles’s You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away - Yeah, I was raised on the Beatles and Jethro Tull, I’m not surprised this made it here. (I’m actually a little bummed I didn’t get any Jethro Tull on this list) This is my favorite (one of my favorites?) Beatles song and I can easily imagine Ty singing this idly while he’s thinking about Louie.
That’s pretty much the end of the list. I wanted to put the Moulin Rouge! version of Your Song on here, but, ehhhh. I like the scenario of Ty becoming flustered and fed up and just belting out a heartfelt serenade to Louie, but part of it just feels too weird to throw into the mix. Instead, let me leave you with this raw line from Moulin Rouge! that’s 100% relevant to these fuckers:
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return”
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