#aro playlists

I meant to post this on Valentine’s Day but then I forgor 💀

Spotify Playlist

1) The Royal We - Silversun Pickups

2) Ridin’ Solo - Jason Derulo

3) Bacon - Nick Jonas ft. Ty Dolla $ign

4) Love Song - Sara Bareilles

5) Black Horse And The Cherry Tree

6) No Guilt - The Waitresses

7) Sick Muse - Metric

8) Midnight Sky - Miley Cyrus

9) Calling All - Phantogram

The Perfect Home from The Civility of Albert Cashier. The musicals is one of my favourites, about the life of a trans man who was an American Civil War soldier from history. As a transmasculine person I freaking love this show. The song is a spoiler, but it’s about the guy who’s in love with Albert trying to convince him (thinking he’s a girl) to marry him, but Albert doesn’t want that. I cry. All the feelings.

I Gotta Try also from The Civility of Albert Cashier. The song after the previous one, about deciding to live a good life alone. More upbeat.

Something Different from The Band’s Visit. The show is about a band that accidentally ends up in a tiny town in Israel where nothing happens and people connect and things change. This song is the main female character singing about her strange and hard-to-define attraction to the main male character. Attraction is weird so I relate. Also a great song.

One Kiss from Bare: A Pop Opera. The show is basically Romeo and Juliet but gay and modern. So sure, the guy isn’t really into things because he’s gay, not because he’s aro, but it captures the “heteronormativity is a bitch” feeling quite well nonetheless.

Touch My Soul from Bare: A Pop Opera. Same show, a little later. The same characters from the previous song. The guy character is rejecting the girl character because he doesn’t love her romantically. It’s kind of sad but also really beautiful.

The entirety of The Bridges of Madison County musical could fit under this. The main storyline is about a woman in a marriage where she doesn’t romantically love her husband, and then meets this really hot dude and they are super into each other and have an affair. But it seems to me a lot more like super strong sexual attraction than instant romantic love. All in all, I love it; the songs are great and it’s very reflective of the allo-aro experience. Or they actually are in romantic love that fast and I super cannot relate, being a demi person.

Nichts Ist Schwer from Elisabeth das Musical. The show is about Sissi, empress of Austria and queen of Hungary and her sad life. Here, she’s married or about to marry (can’t remember) her husband. They’re singing a love song, but it feels more like they’re just saying what’s expected. (#amatonormativity)

The entirety of Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812. It’s based on 70 pages of War and Peace and is my favourite musical ever. Natasha’s character can very easily be interpreted as allosexual aromantic, and not to spoil any of the perfect ending, but while Tolstoy might have felt differently, I interpret Natasha and Pierre as sharing a deep non-romantic love of some sort or another.

I Don’t Know How to Love Him from Jesus Christ Superstar. The show is about Jesus. Here, his follower and the only female character, Mary Magdelene, is having confusing feelings for Jesus because of course she is. I do relate to the confusing feelings part though. It also works as a song about suddenly having romantic feelings when you aren’t used to having them ever.

The Miller’s Son from A Little Night Music. The show is overall very mediocre and about people’s lives and love and all that. This song though is about wanting to have a lot of sex and not wanting romance, and it’s a lot of fun, with some great alliteration.

I Love You As Much As Someone Like Me Could Love Anyone from Galavant. This is a musical TV show so sorta different, but it’s my favourite TV show ever so I’m including it. I feel like this is self-explanatory from the title. The show is Princess Bride meets Monty Python and it’s anything you could ever want in a show.

You Matter to Me from Waitress. I made a post about it here. One of the more loving songs on this list. The show’s about a woman who gets pregnant and is wanting to leave a bad marriage.

As Long As You’re Mine from Wicked. The show is the Wizard of Oz, from the wicked witch’s perspective. The song is the main character and her love interest starting a relationship, which I’ve always seen as being more sexual attraction than romantic attraction. Grade 10 me had some confusing feelings because of Idina Menzel’s voice here.

For Good from Wicked. This song is spoilery. It’s about deep friendship. I love it.