Do you have a vampire Unai playlist? / sort of Spotify related.
Oooh, I have a couple of Unai songs. The vampire ones are just:
The Last Shadow Puppets - Dracula Teeth (obviously!)
I wake up in an ice-cold sweat
And my skin starts to creep
You're hovering above my bed
Looking down on me
Haunted house sound effects
Dracula Teeth
I wonder if the rival managers feel similarly when they talk to Unai after a match. If their skin starts to creep, if Unai's skin just seems to radiate cold.
Arctic Monkeys - Dangerous Animals
I love to imagine Unai's POV, it's him being "pinned down by the dark" - by the dark(ness) of his own nature as a vampire. I imagine him STRUGGLING. Also, these lyrics MY GOD:
you should have racing stripes the way you keep me in pursuit /
sharpen the heel of your boot /
and you press it to my chest and you make me wheeze/
then to my knees you do promote me
I love to picture this in Unai's relationships with the...unattainable/unreachable/dominant partners - with football, with Granit, with Mikel. And I love to imagine vampire!Unai doing the same - of course, he could be the one dominant, of course he could use his supernatural powers - but he won't, he'll suppress them, even at the expense of him being so submissive (he actually likes it. i am fairly convinced he is a masochist).
But tbh then I have a couple of Unai songs that are not directly in the vampire!lore, they're just about the desperate and unfulfilled longing that I always connect with him, no matter if he's in a vampire version or not lol. So, I'll take this as an opportunity to ramble a little:
Kino - Elektrichka (Электричка)
The Unai in Russia song, lmao. I think a lot of the 1980s depressive songs would work for Unai in 2012 Moscow. He just feels lost, without a direction, without anything positive. The elektrichka (tram) is taking him somewhere he doesn't want to and yet he can't shout, can't scream. The claustrophobic feeling of being trapped in a place where there's no dignified way of getting out (and even the alphabet laughs at him in Russia!)
Mikel Laboa - Txoria txori
Oh, the anthem of unrequited feelings and the choice of letting someone you love go. If I had cut off his wings, he would have stayed, he wouldn't have left, but then he would have no longer been a bird.
I love the Anne Etchegoyen version as well, but this one with the church-like chorus sounds even sadder.
(okay so I interpret this as a kill your darlings scenario lmao. take aim? gotta get us out of here? there's no other way for us to get out of this? i bid you farewell? tears on my shovel? hmmmmmm. idk I just love the desperation).
Duncan Dhu - En algún lugar
This is canonically what Unai listens/listened to in his youth. Very melancholic, very underlyingly sad. I like imagining Unai as an edgy teen/young adult, in a long coat or leather jacket, walking somewhere by the sea shore, wind blowing in his hair unspoiled by hair gel, looking very much like an ancient vampire, but also like a Depeche Mode fan...
Desire - Under your spell
Ah, the Arsenal advert song. I love the song, and I love the advert (if you haven't seen it, check it out). So good, so disturbing, so ambient - this is the song of obsession. I'd say it's Unai's obsession with the club even after he was sacked (he did, IRL, say that he kept dreaming of Arsenal for some time after the sack, so do with that information what you will). But it's also his obsession with Mikel. Or with Football, obviously.