Stuck Like Glue - Brenda/Sharon Fanmix
This is War by Good Girls & Smokers
I don't really like you but I respect you
'cause everyone calls you the queen of the hive
showed us your moves, gave us songs we can sing to
but i'm hoping that soon we will cast you aside
At the beginning Sharon has some respect for Brenda because she is the highest ranking female officer in the LAPD and Sharon's very sensitive to women's issues. She acknowledges that she gets results but they pretty immediately butt heads in regards to how they think things should be done and they continually antagonize each other.
So Long by Zooey Deschanel
I won't get to sappy I had no epiphany
I just enjoy your company
You test my nerves it makes me stronger
So can you bother me a little bit longer?
...
Because it's been so long since I made a friend like you
When Brenda realizes that Sharon isn't the enemy they realize they have a uniquely beneficial friendship and that they actually just have each other's best interest in mind. Particularly Sharon has Brenda's intersts at heart.
Contagious by Avril Lavigne
When you're around I don't know what to do
I do not think that I can wait
To go over and to talk to you
I do not know what I should say
And I walk out in silence
That's when i start to realize
What you bring to my life
Then this is where we depart from canon and it's how I imagine their move from antagonists to friends to more. It would be kind of gradual and it would be a pull towards each other and it would be covert until they suddenly realize that they've been falling in love.
Push by Avril Lavigne
It's really great to be with you
This is how I could spend my life
But I'm capable of taking care of myself
So if you fuck this up then go take a hike
...
If it's really meant to be
Then you could find a way to see
And maybe you should just shut up
Even when it gets tough
Baby 'cause this is love.
And you know when push comes to shove
It's gonna take the both of us
this song and the next song is about how they realize they have to work together to make a relationship work. Also, I think that Sharon would absolutely not put up with as much shit as Fritz did. Fritz just wanted to be with her so much that he often gave up or compromised a lot more than she did and Sharon loves her but she's also fine alone and they're not going to take shit from each other.
I Will... But by SheDaisy
I won't be your dirty secret
I won't be your cure-all pill
And I won't run to fetch the water
Just to tumble down the hill
I won't be your Friday paycheck
I won't be the prize you flaunt
And I won't be your Martha Stewart, baby
Or your all night restaurant
But I will, I will, I will be your everything
If you make me feel like a woman should
I will, I will, I will be the whole shebang
I think of this song as mostly Sharon to Brenda. Their relationship has to be out in the open, she won't hide. I feel like Brenda's good southern girl upbringing would make her a little more anxious to be open than Sharon's unapologetic Los Angeles attitude. And Brenda definitely let Fritz make the dinner and do the cleaning and Sharon would be fine to share those responsibilities but wouldn't abide taking it all on and basically be Brenda's keeper.
Every Girl Like Me by Sugarland
Because I, I, I am not perfect
But I, I, I, I know I'm worth it
And I, I, I gotta believe, there has to be a you
For every girl like me.
I'll be the candy that feels like a firecracker pop
And the toy on the cake with the chocolate top
This is Brenda to Sharon. I think when she realizes how cathartic it is to have someone who challenges her from the getgo - not just once in a while puts her foot down. And there's a little bit "I can't promise that I won't ever take advantage of you sometimes but I love you and I need you and I want to try."
I Couldn't Live Without Your Love by Petula Clark
Didn't like you much when I first met you
But somehow I couldn't quite forget you
Said you didn't want a friend or lover
That your life was happy with another
But as time went by my love grew stronger
Knew that I just couldn't wait any longer
For I couldn't let you go
And I had to tell you so
That I loved you, then you'd know
I couldn't live without your love
Now I know you're really mine
I think this song encompasses the whole arc of relationship that I imagine for Brenda and Sharon. They really didn't like each other for pretty much two seasons. Brenda was with Fritz but then as they got to know each other better they get really close and it's eventually a very deep, honest love.
Stuck Like Glue by Sugarland
Absolutely no one that knows me better
No one that can make me feel sooo goooood
How did we stay so long together?
When everybody, everybody said we never would
And just when I, I start to think they're right
That love has died...
There you go making my heart beat again
...
You and me baby we're stuck like glue
I feel like people who know them wouldn't believe that this odd couple would be able to maintain a relationship but I think it's exactly the things that people consider their glaring differences is how they would function and complement each other. Despite any problems, their love and respect for each other would win out.
Created for femslashverse - I only needed 5 songs and I only needed to do a cover or an explanation but I had 8 songs and I couldn't/didn't want to cut it down, they were all important to the narrative and it's force of habit to write an explanation :) so it is what it is. This fits "b. Make an upbeat, celebratory (but not necessarily shallow) fanmix" this is celebratory of their relationship and also upbeat music.