SO hello again, april. i love you so much !!  so i’m sorry this playlist is so bad. queenie and erik have a hard relationship to put into music but goddamn if i won’t try.

kicking this playlist off is a purely erik song to contrast the queenie song at the end. cohen’s masterpiece doesn’t sound like something he would play but it does sound a little manic, a little scary but fundamentally difficult and oddly creepy and beautiful. prime erik aesthetic. 

with ghost, a little contrast is introduced. this song is about a fall, specifically the fall of lucifer but if you pry it out of its context it’s sort of this bittersweet companion piece to queenie’s life pre-erik. she hasn’t really fallen by meeting him but physically she kinda has considering where he lives and where she chooses to spend her time with him. 

flickers is a mysterious song with a good hybrid of their aesthetics. it features indie-style vocals with a backing track that sounds very classical and sampled. it’s a beautiful song about secrets and revelations as queenie tries to whittle down erik’s walls to find out who he is. 

velodrome is when you start to get some actual understanding between these two characters. they’re not just optimist vs. pessimist tbh although at a surface level, they are. queenie struggles with her purpose in a way that erik does not and from him she’s able to become more content in her own understanding of free will.

moonlight sonata is honestly one of her favourite classical pieces and the one you and i discussed erik playing to try and get her into it. it’s sort of his response musically to all her attempts to get to know him better tbh. symbolically it’s the start of the friendship after a drawn-out intro, when real ground is gained.