TASK 002: MOODBOARD FT @ashwrths + @sloanemlx [4/4] - The Girls
Moving onto Wiseria Lane was like a suburban dream come true, made complete by the neighbours that had slowly but surely become her best friends. Spending holidays together, attending game nights, suffering through dinner parties, watching each other’s children grow up - these girls have done everything together since they moved onto the lane. Losing Rose was hard, she was the first of their little pack to move onto the street and therefore the one that Piper had known the longest, and the gap she left in their circle hasn’t gone unnoticed. However, that’s just made Piper even more determined to value the friends she still had. In a year filled with betrayal and grief, she’s learnt to hold the people she loves and trusts close and never let them go. Sloane and Emily are top of that list.
Honestly, this is just an absolute wreck waiting to implode. They’re the best fucked up friends and if anyone knows each others secrets, it’s these two. Caroline won’t lie, sometimes she encourages emily to fuck up just to have someone to stick around but that’s one hundred percent how they work.
moodboard 03 / 04: how caroline feels about her family.
For someone who never had a solid family dynamic growing up, Caroline wants to give her kids the best. She knows that she and her husband don’t have the best relationship so she really lays it on thick with her children. Although she can at times be overbearing and she’s sure, annoying, she makes sure that they always know she loves them. These are the people she’d never give up, which is why the thought of leaving her absentee husband is so hard for her to come to terms with though she knows she deserves better.
moodboard 02 / 04: caroline’s feelings on mr. abello.
Truth be told, as the years go on Caroline is learning that maybe high-school sweethearts just aren’t meant to last. Though she loves her husband, she just doesn’t know if she can trust him or deal with the type of person that he is any longer. The way that she is always putting their family first and he’s always more worried about work, is just beginning to be too much which is why, she’s started to find comfort in someone else.
Honestly, if there was a word for Caroline, it would be complicated. She’s full of sadness, regret and angst but yet, there are pieces of her that make her a good person. She doesn’t hide her faults as well as she thinks, but she’s a lot less horrible than she thinks too, but if you catch her on one of those off days? The answer is that you just don’t want to. Like they say, keep your friends close and your enemies closer and that is so true for her.
30 something songs and counting. Continue below for the significance of the first 15 songs. Give the playlist a listen, maybe you’ll find your own favorites too.
i. steady love by india arie — I have never met a man that I wanted to be his wife/And then he came along, it's so natural to make a life/ 'Cause he's a perfect compliment, 'cause I'm a boss in my world/But when we're together, he just makes me feel like his girl
This song is literally the very least Sloane wants in her marriage. It used to be her goal song but knowing she’s worth it, made it her ‘this is where the bar is’ song. This is also her, ‘I just want to slow dance with my husband because I’m in a very loving mood’ song.
ii. rocket by en vogue — Don't think I ever felt so small/But darkness never felt so bright/And in your arms/It's hard to feel afraid at all
Honestly En Vogue has always been Sloane’s favorite girl group. Above SWV, TLC, and even Destiny’s child. So anything they release would easily be on any of Sloane’s playlists. She has no reason why but Rocket is one of her top two songs by them. Maybe it’s the background sound? Who knows.
iii. i’ll make love to you by boyz ii men — Throw your clothes on the floor/I'm gonna take my clothes off too/I made plans to be with you/Girl whatever you ask me you know I can do
Not that she’s looking to have kids right now, though baby fever is real sometimes, there’s no better ‘getting in the mood’ song like this one. Sloane also has a love, very strong love and crush, on boyz ii men. If she wasn’t married....
iv. like this by kelly rowland — Told y'all I was gonna bump like this/Y'all didn't think that I could bump like this/Said I told y'all I was gonna bump like this (uh-uh)/Turn around then I make it jump like this (Ladies)
Currently her favorite getting ready song. It’s top tier. It’s on her girlfriend’s playlist, aka great songs to jump around to when with your friends. Maybe she shouldn’t actually do her make up during this song because she would just be moving around all the time but it’s great in theory.
v. vibe by deraj — And if it goes up, then it goes up/And if it goes down, then it goes down/And if it goes up, then it goes up/And if it's a vibe, let it vibe out
If she smoked weed, this would be her weed song, but she doesn’t so it’s a great relaxing, sit in the sun (with sunscreen, spf is important folks) and enjoy your day kind of song. Sloane feels like this song is the epitome of her on a good day or at least a day where she’s fine with life moving the way it wants.
vi. bust your windows by jazmine sullivan — You see you can't just play with people's feelings/Tell them you love them and don't mean it/You'll probably say that it was juvenile/But I think that I deserve to smile
When you look for love as much as Sloane did, you’re bound to find it in the wrong place many times. Many, many times. It feels like she’s put herself through the worst, but they haven’t been that bad, but she’s had her fair share of bad relationships. She might have done things she wasn’t proud of to deal. Allegedly.
vii. better dig two by the band perry — If the ties that bind ever do come loose/If forever ever ends for you/If that ring gets a little too tight/You might as well read me my last rights
This song is dramatic and especially with the weird and terrible track of relationships in Fairview, this song might just have a second meaning. Sloane takes her vows very real and she will take it to the grave. There’s no lie or dramatization when Sloane tells Piper she’s handling everything with Eli and Mila a lot better than she think she would.
viii. one, two step by ciara — Strut my stuff and yes I flaunt it/Goodies make the boys jump on it/No I can't control myself/Now let me do my one, two step
Something very important to know, if you haven’t figured it out now, it that Sloane currently and for a long time has loved dancing. Kickbacks, house parties, doing way too much. It’s fair to say most upbeat songs got her out of a chair and to put down a beer ( a drink, but beer rhymed okay) but this one always did.
ix. brown skin by india arie — Skin so brown, lips so round/Baby how can I be down?/Beautiful mahogany, you make me feel like a queen/Tell me what's that thing you do that makes me want to get next to you, yeah
Like every kid out there, Sloane had/has/still struggles with her fair share of insecurities. Although this song came out after she had started loving herself, it is still one of her favorites on days where she’s just not sure if she belongs.
x. melodies from heaven by kirk franklin — Take me in Your arms and hold me close/Rain down on me/Rain down on me
You wouldn’t know it since she rarely goes herself except for holiday services, but her parents did raise her in a Christian household. They always woke her up on Saturday mornings - correct, she always woke up to gospel music blasting to clean up. They played many songs but melodies from heaven has one of the best bridges.
xi. not tonight by elle varner — Who would I be/To make my feelings known/I need a little audacity but it's not in my bones/I'm standing here, terrified
It may be hard to believe but once upon a time, what seems like long ago, the now social girl was a very very shy one. Not only did she struggle with talking to people, even just looking at boys was a fight, never less one she actually liked. This song reminds her of how far she’s come.
xii. 16 shots by stefflon don — No gyal can tell me 'bout my mother/16 shot, we go longer than a ladder/Dem nuh fi talk 'bout the real don dada/Put body inna pot dem a bun like grabba
Although the song talks about mothers, Sloane would do anything for her family. They haven’t always had the best relationship but even then she’d kill for them. Her list of people she’d kill for is ever growing.
xiii. get busy/like glue by sean paul — 'Til a early morn'/Let's get it on/Let's get it on 'til a early morn'/It's all good jus turn me on
Children now adays twerk like Sloane doesn’t and will not do it. She will, and hasn’t in a very good minute, whine. Then again, she spent more time in clubs than she probably should have but she also spent a lot of time hanging around people who taught her to whine.
xiv. sittin’ up in my room by brandy — Be sittin' up in my room/Back here thinkin' 'bout you/I must confess, I'm a mess for you/Be sittin' up in my room
Okay so she was like a pre-teen when this song came out but you know those songs that just have you in your feelings like you’re in a relationship when no one is even batting an eye at you?
xv. love and war by tamar braxton — As long as we make up after every fight when it's over/You know I'm comin' home right there where I belong/I'm takin' off this armor oh-oh-oh-whoa-ooh-oh-oh
Best song to lose your damn voice to. Although Sloane loves the Braxton’s and both un-break my heart and he wasn’t man enough for me are a damn hit, but tamar braxton is underrated and has some of the greatest
When Elizabeth Ashworth moved into Dorster, and met her RA for the first time, she introduced herself as Beth, as she always does. Her RA laughed and said that they share a name— although, Beth wasn’t a nickname for Beth Foreman. It quickly got confusing, and Beth’s roommate turned around and just started calling her Ellie. It stuck, and Beth Ashworth became Ellie, the hard-working law student in 5C who also knew how to party— but also could be such a mom-friend. Life was chaotic and fun and she took no shit, and it was liberating, being away from Fairview.
Beth loves her family. She loves her sister. She loves her father. She loves her mother. But families are difficult, and messy, and confusing. Being an Ashworth complicates matters too. Be that as it may, she still loves them dearly, and her loyalty knows no bounds. When things go to hell, she will close ranks with them. That doesn’t mean that they haven’t caused Beth pain, or created a whole host of issues within her.
