Somewhere Between Daisies and Pews: An Explanation

It's been half a year since I posted my hastily made fanmix for Vikings' Gyda Lothbrok. When I posted it, it was as part of a daily fanmix challenge, I was well aware that it was not very good, and I just wasn't that bothered about it. But I decided to give it another listen and I wanted to explain myself and justify myself.

[In case you haven't listened to it, you can click here to do so, if you like.]

A quick side note: I ship Athelstan and Gyda a little bit (sorry if that bothers you) so some undertones of that may have slipped in. None of the songs are, in my opinion, blatantly romantic, though.

Overall, however, this fanmix is about Gyda. I imagine her to be a curious girl and not one who is quick to judge, traits which I think she gets from Ragnar. She isn't necessarily like the other vikings. This fanmix imagines her as wondering who she is, faltering between the religion of her people and her own nature. That's where the title comes in and the song with the same name. She is somewhere between daisies (representing both literal nature - as I imagine she likes to be outside and listen to the quiet of the world - and her own nature, the thoughts and tendencies that make her herself) and pews (the religion of her family and village, what she is expected to be and what it would be easier to be).
It's not perfect, and some of the songs don't fit this sort of theme all that well but that is meant to be the overarching theme.

Now, in a way, I may be kind of ascribing all of this more meaning than it really has. I made most of this fanmix late, late at night. But they all kind of felt right to me. And, not in quite so many words, that's what the fanmix was about for me. And at least now, you have a little bit of insight. If you were curious about that sort of thing.

I Was Made For You (Marius/Cosette)

I Was Made For You from heyitsalyssa on 8tracks Radio.

Fanmix Day 6 - About a Certain Type of Relationship

Red Red Rivers from heyitsalyssa on 8tracks Radio.

Fanmix Day 4 - Expressing a Certain Emotion

Summersong from heyitsalyssa on 8tracks Radio.

This one got a little out of hand and doesn't really fit the prompt. Oh well. It was supposed to be "happy".

We All Go Down Together: a Les Amis fanmix

So I made a fanmix for Les Amis de l'ABC (link to 8tracks) so I thought I'd post it here as well. With the cover art and all that fun stuff.

It's essentially a war-themed fanmix, really. I attempted to put it in at least a little bit of an order, a semblance of an order. It begins with a call to arms and goes through a loss of conviction a bit then resurges with This is Why We Fight to signify them throwing themselves wholeheartedly again into the fight and, moreover, into death. Then An Ending (Ascent) which is to signify them dying and This is War ends with the refrain "the war is won" so I put that at the end to signify the final shot in the movie where they're all on the barricade.

So thanks for reading and listening (if you decide to). I really like making fanmixes and I have several more I'm working on so look forward to that.

I'll be posting some fan fiction too, I think. So yeah.

Alyssa