i literally cannot stop thinking ab the emoji song teasers for hazbin s2 so i'm putting my two cents / predictions out into the world to look back and laugh at how wrong i was once the season's out. needlessly long and mildly incoherent analysis under the cut:
first, let's get the obvious ones out of the way.
2) 📺⚡🪜(once we get up there) is vox's "how bad can i be" / "be prepared" villain song from the trailer. the stairs are literally a visual motif (important note for later predictions). also, i would not be surprised if the song is about "climbing the ladder" of hell / vox convincing the vees to aim for more power ("we have the chance to be gods" vibes).
EDIT (10/29): so obviously i was right about the song contents but I CAN'T BELIEVE THESE STAIRS WEREN'T THERE AND THEY USED A "MINIONS TONIGHT WE STEAL THE MOON" VISUAL INSTEAD LMAOOO
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3) 🪽🐍🍭 (like you) is pentious's introduction to heaven. probably a duet with emily since we always see them together in the trailer. i think it'd make sense for it to be the third song of episode 1 (one song to set up each narrative thread of the season) but wouldn't be surprised if it opens episode 2 instead.
EDIT (10/16): we have episode title and descriptions now!! based on that, plus the nycc comment that 2x2 ocurrs at the same time as the first episode but in heaven, this song's def gonna be the episode 2 opener.
EDIT (10/29): damn so turns out there WAS a welcome to heaven rehash :/ this better not be the only place they used patrick stump's abel though bc what a misuse otherwise.
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4) 😇🪽🙏(sera's confession) is giving a "welcome to heaven" rehash, but that'd be repetitive considering the song above, so i propose this is about the angels going to visit hell / where those scenes of emily in the hotel are from. it ties in nicely narratively with my guess for the next song (places lute in hell), but it surprises me to think that such a scene would happen this early in the season.
EDIT (10/10): based on what we saw of gravity, i'm walking back this prediction bc lute and abel are in heaven so i assume everyone is. going to my backup idea that this is a sera solo 🙏 i really hope it's related to those scenes of her walking past the exterminations.
EDIT (10/16): sticking to my sera prediction, but now we know that hell is gonna find out about pentious's redemption by episode 3 so?? i'm confused gang, how will they be told??
EDIT (10/29): so i should've gone with my gut ab the sera solo bc i got it all absolutely correct minus the speaker of god (i was not familiar with your game, ma'am). as for emily telling charlie in the most confusing way possible, i should've guessed lmao.
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5) 🪽🎸⚔️ (gravity) is a lute song. again, the guitar is most likely a visual motif (adam's old guitar), so i'm hoping alex brightman gets to duet🤞. wildly speculating that this will happen after the embassy gets destroyed by heaven (which has insane implications for how early in the season that could happen) bc the place looks trashed in every shot we've gotten of lute in there so far. would make the guess for the previous song make sense though.
EDIT (10/8): i didn't know this song was leaked lol. welcome home gravity 🫶 super pleased that all signs point to it being a lute and adam duet.
EDIT (10/10): okay so not really a duet but hooooooly shit those harmonies 🙏 seeing the full set of visuals, though, i'm walking back my idea that this is at the heaven embassy. it's giving adam's bachelor flat ?? bare minimum it's set somewhere in heaven bc that sky looks heaven-esque. which throws a wrench in my guess for the previous song.
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6) 🐍🍒❤️ (piss, a love song) is the cherrisnake duet that we were already told was gonna be in this season. i'm also betting this is where those "pentious in hell" shots from the teaser + trailer are from.
EDIT (11/2): PISS LMFAOOOOO no one is doing it like them 🫶 curious about angel's credited role in this though. my guess is voice lines but if he gets to tease cherri i am soooo down.
EDIT (11/5): i completely forgot blake also voices the egg boiz lmfao. the lyrics and vocals go waaaaaay harder than they have any right to bc why did this song get me into the ship singlehandedly??
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8) 📺🎙️🧠 (don't you forget reprise) is "stayed gone" part 2 electric boogaloo. kind of insane to have the radiostatic confrontation this early in the season (i estimate episode 3 or 4), but i can see how they could pull it off. the brain emoji immediately made me think of vox hypnotizing alastor and this shot from the teaser only adds fuel to that fire. to what narrative end, though, i have no idea, especially this soon. i saw a leak that is likely related, but again, this soon??
EDIT (10/16): based on the new episode descriptions i'd bet money that this is in episode 4 which might as well be called "alastor's terrible horrible no good very bad wednesday"
EDIT (10/29): the vees teaser leads me to believe that this is actually a vees vs alastor fight which has so many insane implications for this scene actually lmao. doesn't directly contradict my ideas for what's gonna happen here though, other than it's gonna be vees harmonies instead of a vox + alastor duet.
EDIT (11/2): REPRISE OF ALASTOR'S DUET WITH ROSIE??? FT VALENTINO??? FUCKING KILL ME DEAD WE'RE FINALLY GONNA FIND OUT WHY VAL THINKS ALASTOR OWES THEM "MUCH MORE THAN MONEY" !!
EDIT (11/5): i feel robbed!! let val sing more!! but other than that woooow this truly was stayed gone part 2 lmao it even gets referenced. easily top three songs so far with the visuals and the "once we get up there" motif coming back at the end oh christian borle and sam haft you spoil me 🤌 love the radiostatic backstory but i do still wonder what valentino's side of the beef with alastor is. also pleased to have been right about 1) the shot being here and 2) the leak (alastor getting voxnapped) being related 😌
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9) 🧹🫧🪳 (clean it up!) is a nifty song for sure!! she finally (hopefully) gets a solo!! baxter maybe features bc i don't see anywhere else for him to do it, the trailer is setting them up as a duo, and it'd be really weird to not have him sing outside of the chorus the whole season.
EDIT (10/16): so based on the episode description and nycc, i guess nifty's rapping on 666 news. i never knew i wanted this but now i want it so bad.
EDIT (11/5): KIMIKO I WASN'T FAMILIAR WITH YOUR GAME WDYM YOU CAN RAP IN JAPANESE??
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10) 🎙️👒🦴 (don't you forget) is an alastor and rosie duet!! unfortunately stumbled upon some leaks regarding this storyline (not the song though!) so without saying more i am sooooo excited for this. if i'm right and this is AFTER alastor fights vox, it adds a whole other layer to what this conversation could be about, but alastor seems chill at rosie's in the trailer so idk.
EDIT (10/16): alastor's wearing the rosie's outfit in the thumbnail for episode 4, so i HAVE to assume we're getting both alastor songs the same episode, which is actually bonkers but go off.
EDIT (11/2): now we know that this is going to happen BEFORE alastor fights vox and voxval are going to throw this same melody back in his face during their confrontration oooooooh alastor is sooooo fucked LMFAO
EDIT (11/5): god this was so good!! as i imagined, it's alastor going to his manager to complain about his demotion 😭 thank you for the human alastor backstory and knocking him down a few notches rosie. suuuuuper fascinated by the various little things implied and hinted at in this number though (the theory of alastor having a deal with lilth somehow survived this which is impressive).
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11) 📺💪⚔️ (bad with us) is vox's whole "resist" shtick / rallying hell to fight heaven, kind of like a "ready for this" equivalent. pretty straightforward. i'd like to add, though, that i think this shot from the trailer (that i can't believe isn't being talked about more bc the implications are insane) is most likely part of this song (bc joel is cursed to never get solos, this shot is obviously part of a song, and i don't see an emoji set that could be exclusively about this):
everything we've seen so far leads me to believe val isn't really sold on the "war with heaven" plan. possibly worried that vox is flying too close to the sun / going mad with power / taking an unnecessary risk (vox's "if you're not with me, then you're against me" is absolutely directed @ the vees if not val exclusively, quote me on that). plus, if i'm not misremembering, viv said we'd be exploring staticmoth's weird fwb situationship (it'd be insane not to do it in the literal vees season), and this seems like a logical spot / narrative beat to do it in (does vox's affection for val's companionship outweigh the threat of val questioning him?)
EDIT (10/16): i am still so convinced about the context surrounding this moment but i'm doubting the pacing i proposed earlier. if this shot is from the vee tower penthouse (i'm dying on this unreasonable hill), the episode 7 thumbnail places valentino there, so perhaps this happens a bit later in the season?
EDIT (11/5): NO I'M BACK IN MY EPISODE 5 BULLSHIT I'M SO SURE ALASTOR IS GONNA FUCK WITH THE STATICMOTH DYNAMIC NOW THAT HE'S THERE 24/7
EDIT (11/10): FUCK ME LET JOEL SING GODDAMNIT !! i'm not giving up my crusade ab alastor getting into val's head but i have to admit this is not where that's gonna happen (it's most likely in this episode though) bc the overlords are invited here for some reason?? except for the vees??
EDIT (11/12): FUCK ME THE SHOT IS GONNA BE IN THE FINALE EPISODES 💀 mixed bag of wins and misses here. alastor IS getting between vox and val in the dumbest way imaginable (vox!!! lock tf in!!!) but we still have hope of this scene being in a song 🙏 the song itself is a great chance for christian to flex and vox has ROCKET BOOTS (???) but pretty forgettable otherwise
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15) 🎲🎰💰 (losin' streak) is a husk solo!! i used to pray for times like these y'all. what it could be about, i have no idea, but i will actually shoot my foot if these emojis are a red herring bc they're sooooo husk-coded. it'd be cool if, as part of the song, we explore husk's overlord past but i don't see a narrative reason to do that this season.
EDIT (10/16): HUSK OVERLORD SOLO CONFIRMED !! THANK YOU EPISODE 6 DESCRIPTION !!
EDIT (11/10): THE FUCK YOU MEAN THIS IS THE ANGEL SOLO I WAS ADAMANT ABOUT
EDIT (11/12): blake roman never ever EVER shut up your voice is angelic what the actual fuck. also love that the only girl husk has ever loved is angel in drag, like the prophecies foretold 🙏
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20) ❤️🤝🗣️ (hear my hope) is the finale, so your typical "defeating vox with the power of friendship and this gun we found" type shtick. would not be surprised if this is the "raise your voice" melody we heard in the trailer (going off the emojis, "raise your voice" might even be the title).
EDIT (11/19): yeah lmao they truly did defeat vox with the power of friendship but wow i'm deaf i didn't hear "hope" at all in the trailer 😭
now, for the hear me outs.
7) 🏃🙏💗 (speedrun to redemption) is an angel pov huskerdust song. it's my best guess for this shot from the teaser. plus, having this be right after the cherrisnake duet invites some delicious parallels (doomed ship bc one is in heaven vs doomed ship bc neither owns their soul). hoping angel has some feelings about val becoming more powerful / gaining more influence and it being explored in this song (does he feel like husk associating with him puts him in danger / val's line of fire?). i could see an argument for how this scene is meant to be literal (valentino revenge core), but it possibly being early in the season leads me to believe it's a visual metaphor / red herring instead.
EDIT (10/16): based on the new title and descriptions that dropped now i'm even MORE convinced this is a huskerdust moment, but i'm tempted to walk back the "this is a visual metaphor" claim bc the vees are placed at the hotel now, and this has valentino written all over it. that, or charlie's trust exercises have gotten way more intense.
EDIT (10/27): LMAOOOO i was kinda joking ab this being charlie's idea i cannot believe that's the real explanation 😭 that's my girl fr 😭
EDIT (11/2): alas, i admit defeat. this is gonna be an ensemble piece after all. really looking forward to vox and velvette as a duo, and i'm hoping to get vox + angel dynamic crumbs. also happy to see baxter here since he's not in niffty's solo.
EDIT (11/5): oh i'm kinda mad this turned out sort of lame :/ i suppose it was kind of huskerdust coded tho??
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16) 💗🩶💜 (easy) is an angel solo (another "poison" type). combined with the above, i think this 💗 emoji represents angel (bar one exception below). plus, y'all, pink + grey + purple is angel's color palette let's be fr. no clue what he'd be singing about, but it being right after the obviously husk-coded song is fascinating and exciting, especially considering these songs are in the latter half of the season (episode 6 or 7 most likely). the purple heart could possibly, maybe, be valentino but i think it's unlikely since we haven't seen them in the same room in any promotional material so far. but also, it'd be weird not to continue to explore their dynamic in the vees season.
EDIT (10/16): seeing as this is gonna end up being in episode 7, which features val and vel in the thumbnail, i could possibly see this being a vel + val feature instead? or maybe it IS a valangel duet?
EDIT (11/10): okay fine i concede defeat. this is the chaggie duet. fucking told y'all that angel was gonna get another solo though
EDIT (11/12): idk ab y'all but "anyone who can find love in hell can do anything" sounds like it's going to be more important in the long-term than it probably seems rn
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12) 📺🔥⛈️ (vox populi) is a vox / vees + lucifer confrontation. immediately thought of lucifer setting the v tower on fire + that weird flame he gets between his horns in his demon form when i saw the fire emoji (remember, visuals matter!). in the bottom of the scene, we can see vox's stage, so i imagine this is gonna be about lucifer crashing the televangelist lilith rip-off concert, which makes sense with my guess for the song right before this one.
EDIT (11/10): jeremy jordan and christian borle are gonna cook soooooooo hard with this one
EDIT (11/12): not enough jeremy / lucifer for my taste and i'm sad the tower of babel vee tower survived the number but i got the general gist correct i suppose. this is gonna eat live.
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13) 📺👑🩸(vox dei) is stumping me. the crown leads me to believe a morningstar is involved, but considering the song before this one seems likely to feature lucifer, i'm leaning toward charlie / perhaps lilith. most likely, this is vox ramping up his smear campaign against the morningstars after lucifer's stunt at v tower (as lots of people have been predicting he'll do). maybe vox momentarily winning in the court of public opinion?
EDIT (10/16): still don't have a very clear image of what this song could be about but it's for sure in episode 5.
EDIT (11/10): THIS IS GOING TO BE GROUNDBREAKING EARTH SHATTERING I COULD NOT HAVE HOPED FOR A BETTER VOX SOLO (can't wait to finally see the stairs and the cape here 🙏)
EDIT (11/12): THE FUCK YOU MEAN WE STILL HAVEN'T SEEN THE FUCKASS STAIRS AND CAPE. fantastic song though
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17) 📺⭐🦈 (brighter) is the vox + angel confrontation (perhaps duet, but if so, vox-centric). this is a shot in the dark but we know from the trailer + teaser that vox will rock angel's shit and every shot of that is dark as hell (vox's screen is the main source of lighting), which leads me to believe this is gonna happen in the v tower basement / vox's incel gamer pad with the sharks (hence the shark emoji! visuals, people!). i also think the star represents angel bc this argument is about his contract with val (angel the persona ⭐ vs anthony the person 💗). we only see vox physically throwing down when the conflict is personal (and there's no way in hell this insecure pathetic manfailure is not uncomfortable at best with val's obsession with angel), so i doubt this has to do with the hotel. from the teaser + trailer, his fight with charlie seems to be through the media / swaying the people of hell against her, anyway.
EDIT (10/16): fascinated and terrified by the implications of this being in the "vox unveils his secret weapon" episode, right after "husk returns to his old ways". i'm willing to walk back this being about angel (not entirely though), in favor of vox's "secret weapon" being that megalodon from the vinyl jacket cover. not enough information to really make up my mind, however.
EDIT (11/10): seeing as my angel solo reasoning fell apart i'm preemptively walking back this prediction. not sure what this could be about though. perhaps shock.wav?
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EDIT (11/12): yeah okay so i was off about the scene but i might not be as off the mark about the singers?? the possibility still exists for this song to be during the """presentation""" with hypnotized angel and vox. i'm trying to manifest my vox + angel agenda okay those two still have a lot of unresolved issues.
EDIT (11/19): MY INSTINCT WAS RIGHT ABOUT A SONG FOR A SINNER BACKSTORY BUT NEVER IN MY WILDEST DREAMS DID I THINK VOX WOULD BE THE ONE TO GET IT AND HELL FUCKING YEAH I'M GLAD HE DID GET ELECTROCUTED BITCH
14) ❤️🍾🎹 (love in a bottle) is an alastor human backstory song. craziest pitch, i know, bc the emojis seem completely unrelated and alastor is otherwise represented with the🎙️emoji, but similar to angel, i think they're purposefully represented with other emojis bc these songs are gonna be about different facets of their characters. amir mentioned in an interview he had to ask himself what alastor sounded like before he became the ""radio demon"" we know (hence no radio emoji), and last season he was associated with a piano (hell's greatest dad). if we don't explore alastor's backstory here, then it's probably gonna be in the rosie duet (but i don't like the idea of it happening that early in the season). alternatively, in the opposite side of the spectrum, i could see this being a chaggie duet (that scene in the bed from the trailer with "more than anything reprise" vibes).
EDIT (10/16): okay so based on the thumbnail for episode 6 this is absolutely the chaggie duet. rip alastor backstory fans, guess we'll get it some other way, most likely in episode 4.
EDIT (11/10): WHAT THE FUCK?? WHAT THE HELL DO VELVETTE, HUSK, NIFFTY, AND CHERRI HAVE TO SING ABOUT TOGETHER?? i am so lost gang i truly have no idea what this could be about
EDIT (11/12): HUSK SOLO LIVES !! AND HOW GLORIOUS IT WAS THIS IS WHY I INSISTED ON A HUSK SOLO LOOK AT THE KITTEN GO!! probably unpopular opinion but this is the best song off this batch of episodes and it's partly bc of keith david's ethereal deliveries and partly bc electro swing hazbin never misses iktr
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18) 🐍🪽☀️ (live to live) is most likely yet another pentious song. very small chance it's about lucifer since he's also visually related to snakes but i doubt it bc every other snake emoji is very clearly referring to pentious. i unfortunately saw a leak regarding pentious that i think could be related to this song, but i'm not gonna go into details about that. regardless, it'd make sense to check in with pentious right around the finale / right before the war between heaven and hell breaks out, given his position in this conflict is messy at best.
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EDIT (10/29): so the leak i saw was pentious's human design so we can safely assume that's NOT what this is about then. i think you could make an AWESOME song about how much he fucking hates being in heaven (lol) / misses hell, but it's waaaaay too late in the season for pentious to still be struggling to settle in, and i don't see him being conflicted ab the war anymore, so 🤷♂️.
EDIT (11/19): totally unexpected combination of characters with sera but omg it starts with charlie 🥺 can't believe pentious AND "it starts with sorry" got redeemed this season
19) 🪽📺🔮 (when i think about the future) i have no concrete ideas about. it's the second to last song and definitely features in the finale, so i have to assume it's gonna be the war with heaven anthem ("can the angels come out to play?" vibes). the crystal ball visually reminds me of the heaven portal but i can't connect that to anything.
EDIT (10/16): love that every season is gonna end with vox hosting watch parties apparently. fascinated by the implication that this is gonna be a vox solo bc vox is fighting heaven ALONE??
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EDIT (11/12): is it too much to ask for this song to not be for vox but rather about him? val + vel need to decompress after how dickish vox has been presumably for weeks now.
EDIT (11/19): I GOT MY WISH (ISH) VAL AND VEL GOT TO BITCH ABOUT VOX TOGETHER 🙏 AND VAL SOLO TRUTHERS WE SO WON !!
gonna check back in as the season airs / the songs are revealed and edit with how far off i was. stay tuned :)
