kirishima doesn’t tell fatgum and amajiki that it’s his birthday because he doesn’t want them to be distracted during fights and stuff but right before their patrol shift ends fatgum is like “wait- there’s an injustice in that convenience store! riot, stay out here, suneater, you’re coming with me” and kirishima is like WHAT is there a VILLAIN in there or something are they gonna FIGHT someone in a CONVENIENCE STORE is it SO DANGEROUS THAT I’M NOT ALLOWED TO COME but then they come out like a minute later with a piece of cake in a box and fatgum’s like “the injustice was that you thought you’d get away with not letting us celebrate your birthday!!!!” and they have a little agency family celebration right then and there on the street in front of a 711
i don’t have a fancy name for it or anything but this is my kirishima playlist
I posted about my krbk playlist a little while ago but since it’s Boy Day I wanted to finally post about my solo Kirishima playlist too!! The only other thing I have to say is that I Love The Boy and that’s what this playlist is for :)
Spotify Link
song descriptions under the cut!
(bc of how i want to format the explanations, this list will be out of order with the actual playlist but that doesn’t actually matter that much!)
i. Teenage Icon - The Vaccines
“Oh look at me, so ordinary
No mystery with no great capabilities”
-I guess it’s pretty fitting to start the list off with a very Middle School Kirishima kinda song! Something I really love about this one is that it’s very steeped in this idea that “oh I’m not great, I’ve been blown up my whole life but I’m really nothing special, I should just stop pretending to be” but then the choruses and the bridge are so upbeat that it feels like it’s made peace with it! Maybe even like it’s celebrating it? Like, this isn’t wallowing in self hatred, it’s an anthem and I feel like it’s the kind of thing Kirishima would listen to in middle school and think “yeah, I’m not special, so what, who cares”
ii. Whatta Man - I.O.I
the one w the classic “whatta man whatta man whatta man” hook but a kpop song
-as kirishima is the only boy alive, this song talking about a very good man must be dedicated to him
-put in the ioi ver instead of the classic one bc i love girls
iii. Embers - Owl City
“And we'll watch the sky as it fills with light
And though the embers are new, whatever you do just don't let the fire die”
-Something you are gonna learn very quickly about me is that I Love Owl City
-A lot of Owl City songs are about overcoming hard times and facing forward and this one hits me more than a lot of other generic Encouraging Songs because “don’t let the fire die” feels like such a genuine sentiment, like more than “you’re a firework” or whatever because it encapsulates the idea of “this is your decision to make and something you’re gonna have to put in the effort but you can turn your life around, you don’t have to hate yourself, you can make the decision not to” which I feel is a very Kirishima sentiment
iv. I’m Gay - Bowling For Soup
“It sells records when you're sad these days, it's super cool to be mad these days -
I think rock and roll is really funny when it's serious”
-now. there is the very obvious meaning here
-But mostly this feels like a very Kirishima-ish song to me since it’s all about getting out of the “everything sucks and talking about that all the time makes you cool” mentality and not taking things so seriously, focusing on the positives and trying to make other people happy too!
v. I’ll Make a Man Out of You - Mulan
(picking a lyric to express kirishima in this one feels dumb when all you need to see this as a Him song is to imagine him belting it out)
-the 12 year old that still lives somewhere inside of me and spent hours watching videos w titles like Total Drama Character Theme Songs on youtube is Extremely proud of herself for this one
vi. The Squip Song - BMC
“Freshman year, I didn't have a girlfriend or a clue
I was a loser, just like you”
-Look the fact of it is this song has extreme Kirishima Energy and to convince you of that I could write a lot of stuff or I could just link you the animatic I made please watch it I worked very hard
-Lyrical content aside I think the funky guitar and the horns and the amount of screaming in this song are Very kirishima
vii. Fiji Water - Owl City
“If I only knew then what I know now, I’d stand like a one man band, and I’d say
‘All this is new to me, but here’s how it’s gonna be - there is more to me than meets the eye”
-owl city part 2! It’s about him seeing himself as a regular kid but getting called by a record label and flown out to talk about a record deal, and it’s cast in this light of “I didn’t see myself as much then and I was surprised it could all happen to me” but trying to make the most of it anyway, which reminds me a lot of Kirishima still doubting himself but getting to UA anyway
-The last line “I laughed when I got back home and I thought, ‘there’s no such thing as luck’” is my absolute favorite part of the song and when I imagine that as kirishima getting home after crushing the entrance exam and falling face-first onto his bed laughing...well! a bitch is soft!
viii. I Wanna Meet Richard Dreyfuss - Gabriel Gundacker (the guy who made the “you are my dad” vine)
“Hello, don’t mean to interrupt your flow
But I’ve got something you need to know, and it’s very specific, so here we go:
I wanna meet Richard Dreyfuss”
-This song is from an album dedicated to a fan’s process of wanting to meet, NEEDING to meet, giving up on, trying to forget about, (brief intermission about saddles as he forgets about), apologizing to, finally meeting, and saying a satisfied goodbye to Richard Dreyfuss and it’s one of my favorite albums of all time
-At first I just thought the song sounded pretty Kirishima in terms of earnest effort and slightly-soulful high notes but then someone sent me an ask like “WHY IS THE RICHARD DREYFUSS SONG ON YOUR KIRISHIMA PLAYLIST” and I realized it would totally make sense for Kirishima to write an entire album about wanting to meet Crimson Riot, so, checkmate
ix. Angel, Please - Ra Ra Riot
“Long as I feel I can tell the danger did it - oh, you guard yourself, you do
I wasn't hurt but I know you're the curse, I know you were”
-i am not gonna lie the first time i heard this song I just wanted so so badly to make it abt kirishima bc 1) album cover is red 2) band name has riot in it
-Anyway so after a month of listening to it w that mindset I can say pretty confidently that this song makes me think of Kirishima’s big fat crush on bkg so really it should be in the krbk playlist instead of this one but I do what I want
x. Beautiful Times - Owl City
“My heart's burning bad and it's turning black but I'm learning how to be stronger”
-Owl City part 3 :)
-This one is the most focused on the dark side of things and the “struggling through the depression” angle but I really do think the ending is a beautiful sentiment and that line up there reminds me of him
-I feel like...things never get easy right away and there’s always gonna be some doubt there no matter how good you feel, and the only thing we can do about that is to keep trying to make things better
Songs that are also in my krbk playlist which I wrote about here that I won’t describe at length again but that I mostly associate with Kirishima:
xi. Hooked on a Feeling - Blue Swede
xii. Kimi Janakya Dame Mitai - Masayoshi Oishi
xiii. Knock Three Times - Tony Orlando & Dawn
xiv. If You Wanna - The Vaccines
xv. Slayers - Matt Fishel (I do want to say that this one is a big one bc it literally feels like what Kirishima would come up with if he tried to write bkg a song)
xvi. I’m Totally Obsessed With Him - Matt Fishel
xvii. Television/So Far So Good - Rex Orange County
xviii. Mamma Mia - ABBA
Aaaand, songs that all remind me of Kirishima just because they’re bops filled with loud, boisterous, cheerful, and at times comedic Kirishima Energy:
Hands-on time with #konami ‘s new Contra: Rogue Corps. Hilarious and fun request of the old school classic. #e3 #e2019 #konami #contra https://www.instagram.com/p/ByqxYPLHoSn/?igshid=9c4d201f7b0r
