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But I was thinking about what I would do, though. After all, I've already done my snarky little comments all the way up to the Kingdom of Women arc, and I want to do something new. And then it hit me: I can do song recommendations based on the chapter! I can read the chapter, give you all a song or two to listen to, and then explain why I associate the song/s with with the chapter.

So, without further ado, the song for Chapter 8 is Ain't No Rest For The Wicked by Cage the Elephant

The way the song follows one narrator encountering a series of people in low places of course connects to Guanyin meeting all of the future disciples and questioning them as to why they are living the lives that they are. The narrator has a certain amount of compassion for the people he meets, as he takes the time to ask them about their circumstances and seems to genuinely care about the characters of the prostitute and the mugger, matching the attitude of our Merciful Bodhisattva. The quote "I got bills to pay, I got mouths to feed, there ain't nothing in this world for free" reminds me of Bajie and Wujing, who are killing and eating people just to survive when Guanyin meets them, telling her they are committing evil deeds merely out of desperation (though how true that is for each of them... varies). And the final verse and chorus make me think of Wukong— the quote "He'd stuffed his bank account with righteous dollar bills" particularly reminds me of how he stole all the peaches from the heavenly orchard. The final chorus also connects us, the audience, to the characters by using inclusive pronouns (we/our) to describe the quote unquote "wicked" that ain't getting no rest, nicely matching up with jttw's allegory where each of the characters correspond to a part of us!

...Unfortunately I couldn't find a brilliant one-to-one for Ao Lie with the lyrics. Sorry.

Ahh! Sorry I didn't see this earlier, I didn't get notified!!