FST: Keep Your Enemies Closer
The soundtrack for my story Keep Your Enemies Closer, an American Idol AU set in the New York club scene of the mid-90s, when a rapidly gentrifying East Village contained chain stores and after hours clubs, hungry young artists and heroin dealers. Kris/Adam with Ryan/Simon and David/Michael, NC-17, seven chapters and 47,000 words total. ( Livejournal | Dreamwidth | Archive of Our Own)
- Crystal Waters | 100% Pure Love
Ch.1: Adam "welcomes" David back to Club Idol
Around to the middle and back again
I'm gonna be there to the end
- Yazoo | Goodbye '70's
Ch.1: Kris meets David
I'm tired of fighting in your fashion war
- Björk | Violently Happy
Ch.1: Blake plays David's favorite song as he goes to see Simon
Come calm me down before I get into trouble
- Smashing Pumpkins | Tonight, Tonight
Ch.1: Kris and Adam sing along in Kris's car
That life can change
That you're not stuck in vain
We're not the same, we're different
Tonight, tonight, tonight
- Smashing Pumpkins | Bullet With Butterfly Wings
Ch.1: Adam in bed and Kris driving over the Williamsburg bridge listen to the same song
The world is a vampire
- The Knack | My Sharona
Ch.2: Ryan watches Reality Bites
Always get it up for the touch of the younger kind
- Liz Phair | Supernova
Ch.2: Carly, Michael and Archie tease David about not being a morning person
Your eyelashes sparkle like gilded grass
- Tori Amos | Cornflake Girl
Ch.2: Kris and Katy have their daily morning phone call
Never was a cornflake girl
Thought that was a good solution
Hanging with the raisin girls
- Dionne Warwick | I Say A Little Prayer
Ch.2: David and Adam have lunch in a diner and work out their list of suspects
The moment I wake up
Before I put on my makeup
I say a little prayer for you
- The Sounds | Song With A Mission
Ch.2: Cherry Bomb rehearse at Club AGT
Hey what do you say
I gotta fifteen million dollar contract coming my way
- Kris Allen | Ain't No Sunshine
Ch.3: Kris auditions at Club Idol
Wonder this time where she's gone
Wonder if she's gone to stay
- Pizzicato Five | Go Go Dancer
Ch.3: Ryan treats Kris, Adam and David to sushi while they discuss Simon's case
Ooh, anatawa watashi wo
Zenzen manzoku
Sasete kurenai
- Sly & The Family Stone | You Can Make It If You Try
Ch.3: Kris, Adam, Matt and Jason set up at Club Idol
You'll get what's due you
Everything coming to you
You got to move if you want to be ahead
- Erykah Badu | On & On
Ch.3: Ryan visits Simon at Riker's Island
Oh what a day
What a day
What a day
- Duncan Sheik | Out Of Order
Ch.4: Kris and Katy discuss their marriage
It may be unwise
You may be right
But I don't mind
- Luscious Jackson | Strongman
Ch.4: Adam and David question Ramiele and Chris
I will call him supersolid
- Jewel | Who Will Save Your Soul
Ch.4: Adam and David question Danny Gokey
Who will save your souls if you won't save your own
- Des'ree | You Gotta Be
Ch.4: Adam and David question Katie Lee
Challenge what the future holds
Try and keep your head up to the sky
- Mariah Carey | Always Be My Baby
Ch.4: Adam and David question Paula
You'll always be a part of me
I'm part of you indefinitely
- Oasis | Wonderwall
Ch.4: Kris and Adam talk to Giuliana
By now you should've somehow
Realized what you gotta do
- Michael Jackson | Don't Stop 'Till You Get Enough
Ch.4: Kris and Adam drive over the bridge into Manhattan
Keep on with the force don't stop
- Donald Fagen | Snowbound
Ch.4: Kris and Adam cook dinner for Ryan, David and Michael
Heat up
These white nights
We're gonna turn this town
Into a city of lights
- Salt-N-Pepa | Shoop
Ch.5: Kris raps in Ryan's living room
Brotha wanna thank your mother for a butt like that
- Bryan Adams | Heaven
Ch.5: Archie auditions at Club AGT
Baby you're all that I want
When you're lyin' here in my arms
- Wild Orchid | Talk To Me
Ch.5: Adam and David hang out at the door of Club Idol
Talk to me tonight about love
- The Sounds | Queen Of Apology
Ch.5: Cherry Bomb play a show at AGT
I blame no one, but myself
so honestly, is this how it's gonna be?
Tell me, who's the enemy?
- Pat Benatar | Promises In The Dark
Ch.5: Adam sings a song backed by Cherry Bomb at their show
Never again, isn't that what you said?
- Ryan Adams | Sylvia Plath
Ch.5: Kris sings his new song for Adam and Ryan
She'd ash on the carpets and slip me a pill
And she'd get me pretty loaded on gin
And maybe she'd give me a bath
Oh I wish I had a Sylvia Plath
- Adam Lambert | Mad World
Ch.5: Adam sings a song for Kris and Ryan
hide my head I wanna drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow
- Alanis Morissette | Head Over Feet
Ch.6: Kris and Adam serve Ryan coffee in his kitchen
I have no choice but to hear you
- Curtis Mayfield | Pusherman
Ch.6: David brings his band over to Club Idol
You know me
I'm your friend
Your main boy thick and thin
- Amber | This Is Your Night
Ch.6: Anoop finally returns to Club Idol
It's time to move up, and to face what I feel
- Duran Duran | Come Undone
Ch.7: Ryan comes to Simon's rescue
Who do you need
Who do you love
- Billie Holiday | I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
Ch.7: Adam, David and Kris explain how Simon was framed
What do I care how much it may storm?
I've got my love to keep me warm
- Everything But The Girl | Missing [Todd Terry Remix]
Ch.7: The crowd awaits the showcase at Club AGT
And I miss you like the deserts miss the rain
- Radiohead | Bullet Proof...I Wish I Was
Ch.7: Adam sings at the showcase
Limb by limb and tooth by tooth
Tearing up inside of me
Every day, every hour
Wish that I was … was bullet proof
- Shocking Blue | Send Me A Postcard
Ch.7: Allie sings at the showcase
Before loneliness will break my heart
Send me a postcard darling
- Herb Alpert | This Guy's In Love With You
Ch.7: Archie sings at the showcase
Say you're in love
In love with this guy
If not I'll just die
- R.E.M. | Crush With Eyeliner
Ch.7: Kris sings to Adam at the showcase
I'm imbibed, I'm infatuated
It's all too much passion, he's all that I can take
What position should I wear? Cop an attitude?
How can I convince him that I'm invented too, yeah
- Blinker The Star | Pretty Pictures
Bonus track!
I saw your pretty pictures
Your face could never tell a lie
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Cover by ali_wildgoose, who also provided technical assistance with the soundtrack.