Drive Fast: a Chuck and Blair season one fanmix
It's been a good four years since I posted anything on here and I'm not entirely sure anybody still even really goes on LiveJournal at all anymore, but I made this mix to post on Tumblr and I figured I'd post it here as well.
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Your mix is ridiculously on point, wow. I haven't listened to it all the way through yet but I also find it really fun to read through a mix like it's poetry and this one was perfect for that. You did such a great job cutting to the heart of their feelings here. And very specific feelings too! UGH. BLAIR AND CHUCK. OH NO, I LOVE THEM TOGETHER. :DDD
you're no good for me, but baby i want you, i want you
Reeeeally in character for Victor, Victrola Blair! YES.
and in later conversations we'll never mention car rides…
VICTOR, VICTROLA FALLOUT IN ONE LINE. Plus "variations of one another" is so them too.
I think it's safe to say that i get carried away
and liars aren't fooling anyone
WOW. This is EXACTLY the Chuck of Seventeen Candles. And I adore that Chuck. Your soft underbelly is showing, sweetie.
with your wicked blood and your curls
Oh my godddddd, I didn't know there could be a song that so perfectly captures that moment. <3 It all seems a little too perfect to all happen in one song, wicked blood and curls and church-light and an ember in the rafters… ahhhhhhh. ♥__♥
is your bed made?
is your sweater on?
do you want to fuck?
like you know i do
like you know i do
This is still of one my favorite moments of theirs and I am very satisfied with the song for it. ♥ Man, I hate when this pair gets simplified as "angsty", they're so fun like this.
we're concentrating on falling apart
we were contenders, we're throwing the fight
but i just wanna believe, i just wanna believe
i just wanna believe in us
AUGHHHHHH, this is so Chuck's rawness at that time! His feelings really were that genuine. This verse really sums them up in general too, I love it. :)
and i think that i know the bitter dismay
of a lover who brought fresh bouquets every day
when she turned him away to remember some knave
who once gave just one rose, one day, years ago
Yessssssss. I just love that his jealousy was centered on his loving her better. I'm such a sucker for the "Chuck Bass is a romantic. Who knew?" theme.
she's the kind of girl who looks for love in all the lonely places
the kind who comes to poker, pockets stuffed with kings and aces
Blairrrrrrrrrr. Gosh, this girl, I love her. I'm always in her corner. :)
feels like reckless driving when we're talking
it's fun while it lasts, and it's faster than walking
but no one's going to sympathize when we crash
they'll say "you hit what you head for, you get what you ask"
SO THEM. BLAIR AND CHUCK. ♥♥♥
I really like where you ended it too, the mood of the last track is perfect. That really was the summation of the season anyway, the end of 1.18 was just setting up the next. :D REALLY great mix, you really told a story with it. I love mixes too, they have the capability to be much more of the sum of their parts. I'm definitely going to be sitting down and listening to this all the way through ASAP. And also, um, maybe at least rewatching 1.07-1.10. Thanks, I didn't need those four hours anyway! ;)
And thanks for sharing this here too! ♥ As much I love tumblr, there's a lot of interests that aren't on my day-to-day radar so I miss projects like this. Also I find lj better for long comments… even though I really wrote nothing of substance, oops. :D But hopefully you felt the looooove. :)
OH ALSO, the art is gorgeous! :D Aha, tumblr will probably cover that point. :)
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Honestly, if you're not up to date on Gossip Girl... I don't know if it's worth catching up on, haha. Seasons four and five were basically a trainwreck. ALTHOUGH I do have some hope for season 6 and Chuck and Blair! Season one is by far my favorite, especially for them, which is why doing this mix was so enjoyable. I read mixes the same way (like poetry) and sometimes I don't even listen to them, but I'm a very linguistic person so I guess just reading the expression of feelings makes me gush and fangirl and FEEL, so I'm so glad that you enjoyed doing that!
This is still of one my favorite moments of theirs and I am very satisfied with the song for it. ♥ Man, I hate when this pair gets simplified as "angsty", they're so fun like this.
I AGREE. I wanted to make sure to have some fun songs in here because the Chuck and Blair of Season one is NOT all about angst! It's so much more than that: sexyfallinginlovedenial and pretend hate. There's enough angst in season two, gosh. And then later in seasons 3-5. I think one of my favorite things about them is that their love budded from first having a sexual relationship (and a friendship before that), and I feel like the cliche in general is love before sex, which is something I agree with in my own life, but Gossip Girl isn't my own life (thankfully) and it's so much more interesting like this.
Again, seriously, I'm so glad you saw this and took the time to write such a fantastic comment. I'm really glad I decided to post it here: I love tumblr as well, but LJ was always great for its comment system! That's the one thing tumblr is really lacking: I haven't really made "friends" on there because I just... don't see a way to, really. Also I'm not a Gossip Girl/Chuck and Blair blog so very few people have seen it so far. Making this mix made me want to return to LJ! I wonder how many people are actually still here?
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Honestly, if you're not up to date on Gossip Girl... I don't know if it's worth catching up on, haha.
Yeahhhh, I've been gathering that. XD I still click on episode reviews sometimes, because I really did have a love affair with show! I quit sometime in the early-middle of season 4, all I know is I saw 4.08 because I know I really enjoyed that one. It just got so tiring, the way the writers would jump from one dynamic to another. Sometimes they'd even strike on good ideas but two episodes later, everything would change! XD Anyway, I heard the Blair characterization was especially terrible this last season (ugh, I wouldn't relish watching that) but I'm tempted to maybe marathon everything I missed, so I can finish up the show with everyone. :)
the Chuck and Blair of Season one is NOT all about angst! It's so much more than that: sexyfallinginlovedenial and pretend hate. There's enough angst in season two, gosh. And then later in seasons 3-5.
YES. God, I wish the writers would have kept in mind how much they reveled in snide comments and sexytimes and finding excuses to wear coordinated formal wear in the early days and scaled back on their later buckets of angst. I have nothing against angst! It's fun too! But in the proper proportion, not for like a season at a time. Interrupted by five episodes of happy and then another season. XD
I think one of my favorite things about them is that their love budded from first having a sexual relationship (and a friendship before that), and I feel like the cliche in general is love before sex, which is something I agree with in my own life, but Gossip Girl isn't my own life (thankfully) and it's so much more interesting like this.
Yeah, agreed! There's so many couples that start out incredibly OTP and in love with each other and then take foreveeer to moon over each other and get the ball rolling physically. That is not Blair and Chuck. :) It feels so refreshing to see a relationship start with people being super hot for each other and handsy and then having to deal with the whole being-in-love part. Especially since Chuck is so straightforward about his catching feelings for her. XD Plus I love the idea that sex and love are so intertwined for them. Like the sex is never like any other sex for Chuck because he had feelings for her from the beginning. And whenever they fall into "hate sex" in later seasons... it's never actually very hate-sexy since as soon as they start with all the sexing, the get all drawn back into the loooove. :D Idk, it seems like it could have been cliched but the friendship + sex = love really works for me here. :DDD
Me either, I have a much easier time making friends on lj too. I think on tumblr, I get lost in viewing so much material and the ease of just reblogging and hiding all my thoughts in the tags. It all adds up to less conversation with people. Maybe other people are better at posting giant walls of text there than I am. It's not like I was ever that dedicated to lj but I definitely miss the conversations I've had here. Maybe people will wander back, the comment system just hasn't been successfully duplicated elsewhere yet! ♥
On that note, nice talking to you! :D
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