The Essential Key (soundtrack)
Since everybody's doing it, here we go: The Essential Key. ETA: EVERYONE IS LAZY, HERE'S THE ZIP, YOU BASTARDS
1. Blind Melon- "No Rain"
"I just want some one to say to me/
I'll always be there when you wake/
You know, I'd like to keep my cheeks dry today/
So stay with me and I'll have it made"
Key is painfully 90's-- an affliction we both share. As a person, she's very up-with-people in public, very outgoing and always cracking jokes, but when she's alone or at home, she spends a lot of time just sitting in the window staring at the streetlight across the street. She's insecure and has a powerful need to be loved unconditionally, and this song speaks to her periodic bouts with depression and loneliness.
2. Train- "Ordinary"
"I think I'm trying to save the world from you/
You’ve been saving me too/
We could just stay in and save each other.../
I'm anything but ordinary"
Something Key feels very strongly about is the difference between being "normal" versus being "ordinary", or being "a freak" versus being "exceptional". When I write about Key, I talk about the concept of transcendance a lot, being more than what you are and becoming what you can be, realizing the full human potential. It's a very interesting difference between herself and Shawn, that she wants to be transcendant, to save everyone, to do everything she can possibly do and then some, while Shawn just wants to be a normal person and not have to deal with any of it. It frustrates her quite a lot, and he still doesn't have an answer to her constant, pained question of "Why do you only want to be ordinary?"
3. Green Day- "She's A Rebel"
"She's a rebel/
Vigilante/
Missing link on the brink of destruction"
Everybody and their mom uses this song for their characters, but in context to Key, I think it's very descriptive of her attitude towards things. She doesn't just rebel against the establishment, she ignores it altogether, sticks her fingers in her ears and goes LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU. Key does things her way, and fuck everything else that gets in her way. Puny laws cannot contain her-- she's got opinions AND superpowers, goddamnit, try and stop her from fucking your shit up.
4. Everclear- "Amphetamine"
"She is perfect in that fucked up way/
That all the magazines seem to want to glorify these days/
She looks like a teenage anthem/
And she looks like she used to be happy with the girl inside/
She looks so bored sometimes/
She has that super-pale skin and those soft green eyes/
She looks just like she could have been happy in a better life"
This song is Key, full stop. I didn't hear it until after I created Key, ironically enough, but it is the reason I decided that her birth name was Amy. Everything about it is perfect, the tempo, the beat, the guitars, the lyrics... It's just her, bar none. Even the slow bit at the end... I get the feeling that she does that to Shawn, when she can't sleep, she'll just sit up listening to the sirens go by, wake him up, and tell him that everything will be alright.
5. Tilly And The Wall- "Nights Of The Living Dead"
"So you better speak up, better raise that voice/
Come on, scream loud all you girls and boys/
Let's get wild, wild, wild, let's rejoice/
Come on, come on/
I want to hear that fucking noise/
Oh the push and pull of everything/
Oh this nightmare of electricity/
We are the living dead, yeah the living dead/
That's the way it is/
That's the way it's always been"
Key feels life like probably nobody else in the universe does. She's connected to it on a fundamental level, which is probably the source of all her psychoses and personality issues-- Life is short. Short, and beautiful, so use it while you got it, because we're all just frankensteins shambling around with the magic lightning coursing through our veins, waiting for some farmer with a pitchfork to shank us into the oblivion from whence we came. There's no reason not to do what you believe-- human beings don't have the time to obey. Party while you still can.
6. OK Go- "Crash The Party"
"You're not the prettiest girl in town/
I'm not the only boy with sullied clothes and a sullen frown, so/
...
Cuz while the rest of the girls are drowning in roses and songs he composes/
And while the rest of the guys are all trying/
All trying so hard/
Oh girl, let's crash the party"
Jaypee is Key's best friend in the entire universe. Their relationship is one of a strange connection between fag and hag that outsiders do not deign to understand, and Key herself doesn't quite get it, but she's not about to question it, either. It's possible that they're so tight because they both see life, although for likely astronomically different reasons, as NOT AT ALL SERIOUS BUSINESS like the rest of the world does. All the little people running around trying so hard, and all Key and JP can do is point and laugh, and crash the party, because somebody has to.
7. Muse- "Invincible"
"Follow through/
Make your dreams come true/
Don't give up the fight/
You will be alright/
'Cause there's no one like you in the universe"
A pep talk at the end of the world. Key's really only got one message for people like Shawn, people with powers or without, who are just a little lost in the world, and this song gives it pretty well. Just because you're not going to win, or make a change, or end up with any kind of net gain of some kind, doesn't mean you shouldn't do what you believe in, try your damnedest, and stand up for what's right. Even if you're alone in the world, be yourself, because that's all you have, and nobody can take that away-- in that, you're invincible.
8. The Pillows- "Advice"
"*garbledygook*"
Don't try to listen to the words; your brains will explode right out of your face. The point of this song is that it kicks ass even when you can't understand what the hell is going on, which is pretty much like Key, and there is a part in the beginning that sounds a hell of a lot like he's saying "Please don't lose your temper, you goddamn slut!", and holy crap is that ever something that Key would say. Anyway, rock out with your (phantom?) cock out.
9. The Donnas- "Too Bad About Your Girl"
"It's too bad about your girl/
She doesn't look like she's much fun/
It's too bad you've got a date tonight/
'Cause you're lookin' like you're the one"
PERHAPS YOU MAY NOT HAVE NOTICED THIS, BUT KEY IS A BIT OF A FLIRT. I am relatively sure that there is not an attractive male in the Nexus that she has not at one point made disgusting sexual overtures towards. ADMITTEDLY THIS IS A CHARACTER FLAW. Honestly, though, would she really be Key if she wasn't a nasty skank sometimes? Now that she's All Growed Up, she's a lot less... well, nasty and whorish about it, especially since she's got Shawn and all, and she's been hella monogamous for years, so her flirting now is mostly just harmless fun, but it's the kind of thing that people don't forget about her. Whether she wants them to or not.
10. The Distillers- "The Hunger"
"Hold onto the memory, it's all you got/
I know you'll be there to soak up blood lost"
I had wanted to end on a positive note, but... well, fuck that noise, anyway. Here's more sound and fury!! Speaking of fury, Key is not pretty when she is pissed, and I mean really-and-truly pissed. She has killed in the past, and she is capable of a rage that, if any of her friends saw it, would probably scare the shit out of them. It's very disturbing, and it creeps up very slowly-- one second she's rational and calm, and the next she's snapped like a rubber band. Few things can trigger this, but the biggie is rape, especially of children. Key's not, by any means, a mentally healthy individual. She just manages to hide it well, and this song represents the kind of reactionary, purely selfish anger that she feels sometimes, as well as her need to protect and love the people she cares about.
1. Blind Melon- "No Rain"
"I just want some one to say to me/
I'll always be there when you wake/
You know, I'd like to keep my cheeks dry today/
So stay with me and I'll have it made"
Key is painfully 90's-- an affliction we both share. As a person, she's very up-with-people in public, very outgoing and always cracking jokes, but when she's alone or at home, she spends a lot of time just sitting in the window staring at the streetlight across the street. She's insecure and has a powerful need to be loved unconditionally, and this song speaks to her periodic bouts with depression and loneliness.
2. Train- "Ordinary"
"I think I'm trying to save the world from you/
You’ve been saving me too/
We could just stay in and save each other.../
I'm anything but ordinary"
Something Key feels very strongly about is the difference between being "normal" versus being "ordinary", or being "a freak" versus being "exceptional". When I write about Key, I talk about the concept of transcendance a lot, being more than what you are and becoming what you can be, realizing the full human potential. It's a very interesting difference between herself and Shawn, that she wants to be transcendant, to save everyone, to do everything she can possibly do and then some, while Shawn just wants to be a normal person and not have to deal with any of it. It frustrates her quite a lot, and he still doesn't have an answer to her constant, pained question of "Why do you only want to be ordinary?"
3. Green Day- "She's A Rebel"
"She's a rebel/
Vigilante/
Missing link on the brink of destruction"
Everybody and their mom uses this song for their characters, but in context to Key, I think it's very descriptive of her attitude towards things. She doesn't just rebel against the establishment, she ignores it altogether, sticks her fingers in her ears and goes LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU. Key does things her way, and fuck everything else that gets in her way. Puny laws cannot contain her-- she's got opinions AND superpowers, goddamnit, try and stop her from fucking your shit up.
4. Everclear- "Amphetamine"
"She is perfect in that fucked up way/
That all the magazines seem to want to glorify these days/
She looks like a teenage anthem/
And she looks like she used to be happy with the girl inside/
She looks so bored sometimes/
She has that super-pale skin and those soft green eyes/
She looks just like she could have been happy in a better life"
This song is Key, full stop. I didn't hear it until after I created Key, ironically enough, but it is the reason I decided that her birth name was Amy. Everything about it is perfect, the tempo, the beat, the guitars, the lyrics... It's just her, bar none. Even the slow bit at the end... I get the feeling that she does that to Shawn, when she can't sleep, she'll just sit up listening to the sirens go by, wake him up, and tell him that everything will be alright.
5. Tilly And The Wall- "Nights Of The Living Dead"
"So you better speak up, better raise that voice/
Come on, scream loud all you girls and boys/
Let's get wild, wild, wild, let's rejoice/
Come on, come on/
I want to hear that fucking noise/
Oh the push and pull of everything/
Oh this nightmare of electricity/
We are the living dead, yeah the living dead/
That's the way it is/
That's the way it's always been"
Key feels life like probably nobody else in the universe does. She's connected to it on a fundamental level, which is probably the source of all her psychoses and personality issues-- Life is short. Short, and beautiful, so use it while you got it, because we're all just frankensteins shambling around with the magic lightning coursing through our veins, waiting for some farmer with a pitchfork to shank us into the oblivion from whence we came. There's no reason not to do what you believe-- human beings don't have the time to obey. Party while you still can.
6. OK Go- "Crash The Party"
"You're not the prettiest girl in town/
I'm not the only boy with sullied clothes and a sullen frown, so/
...
Cuz while the rest of the girls are drowning in roses and songs he composes/
And while the rest of the guys are all trying/
All trying so hard/
Oh girl, let's crash the party"
Jaypee is Key's best friend in the entire universe. Their relationship is one of a strange connection between fag and hag that outsiders do not deign to understand, and Key herself doesn't quite get it, but she's not about to question it, either. It's possible that they're so tight because they both see life, although for likely astronomically different reasons, as NOT AT ALL SERIOUS BUSINESS like the rest of the world does. All the little people running around trying so hard, and all Key and JP can do is point and laugh, and crash the party, because somebody has to.
7. Muse- "Invincible"
"Follow through/
Make your dreams come true/
Don't give up the fight/
You will be alright/
'Cause there's no one like you in the universe"
A pep talk at the end of the world. Key's really only got one message for people like Shawn, people with powers or without, who are just a little lost in the world, and this song gives it pretty well. Just because you're not going to win, or make a change, or end up with any kind of net gain of some kind, doesn't mean you shouldn't do what you believe in, try your damnedest, and stand up for what's right. Even if you're alone in the world, be yourself, because that's all you have, and nobody can take that away-- in that, you're invincible.
8. The Pillows- "Advice"
"*garbledygook*"
Don't try to listen to the words; your brains will explode right out of your face. The point of this song is that it kicks ass even when you can't understand what the hell is going on, which is pretty much like Key, and there is a part in the beginning that sounds a hell of a lot like he's saying "Please don't lose your temper, you goddamn slut!", and holy crap is that ever something that Key would say. Anyway, rock out with your (phantom?) cock out.
9. The Donnas- "Too Bad About Your Girl"
"It's too bad about your girl/
She doesn't look like she's much fun/
It's too bad you've got a date tonight/
'Cause you're lookin' like you're the one"
PERHAPS YOU MAY NOT HAVE NOTICED THIS, BUT KEY IS A BIT OF A FLIRT. I am relatively sure that there is not an attractive male in the Nexus that she has not at one point made disgusting sexual overtures towards. ADMITTEDLY THIS IS A CHARACTER FLAW. Honestly, though, would she really be Key if she wasn't a nasty skank sometimes? Now that she's All Growed Up, she's a lot less... well, nasty and whorish about it, especially since she's got Shawn and all, and she's been hella monogamous for years, so her flirting now is mostly just harmless fun, but it's the kind of thing that people don't forget about her. Whether she wants them to or not.
10. The Distillers- "The Hunger"
"Hold onto the memory, it's all you got/
I know you'll be there to soak up blood lost"
I had wanted to end on a positive note, but... well, fuck that noise, anyway. Here's more sound and fury!! Speaking of fury, Key is not pretty when she is pissed, and I mean really-and-truly pissed. She has killed in the past, and she is capable of a rage that, if any of her friends saw it, would probably scare the shit out of them. It's very disturbing, and it creeps up very slowly-- one second she's rational and calm, and the next she's snapped like a rubber band. Few things can trigger this, but the biggie is rape, especially of children. Key's not, by any means, a mentally healthy individual. She just manages to hide it well, and this song represents the kind of reactionary, purely selfish anger that she feels sometimes, as well as her need to protect and love the people she cares about.