This is for @lesmisshippingshowdown which allows fanworks to give extra points in the polls. We are trying to get the very canonical and important pairing of Turning Woman #3 (a chorus member from the 2012 movie) and Musichetta (Joly's never-onscreen girlfriend from the book) onto the next round.
Even if you don't have a clue what Les Miserables is, can you vote Turnchetta here? As a favor? And if you're not sure, maybe this playlist will convince you of their deep canonicity and long-term importance to the fandom. Or just do it for chaos. Either one as long as you do it.
Spotify playlist:
Tracklist
Three Coins in the Fountain - Connie Francis
Musichetta stupidotta, scanzonata, innocente - Commenti Sonori
My Baby Loves A Bunch of Authors - Moxy Fruvous
What's Love Got To Do With It - Tina Turner
You Turn The Screws - Cake
Turn, Turn, Turn - Dolly Parton
Who Will Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet - Tennesse Ernie Ford
The World Spins Madly On - The Weepies
Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
飛哥跌落坑渠 (Teddy Boy in the Gutter) - 李寶瑩, 鄧寄塵, 鄭君綿 歡場三怪
Turn Around - They Might Be Giants
Tangled Up In Blue
Heartaches by the Number - Cyndi Lauper
Three Times a Lady - Sissel
Let's Face The Music And Dance - Diana Krall
Turn The World Around - Womansong
Liner notes and Youtube links under the cut. (Fanmix liner notes means "write a synopsis of an entire hypothetical musical" right? That's how I've always done it.)
These are largely old standards, which meant I had a range of cover options, and I went with women's covers most of the time. However some of them I couldn't find an exact match on Youtube and Spotify so a few tracks will be different between the two.
Three Coins in the Fountain - Connie Francis
This was the first song I thought of for a Musichetta and Three mix! You can read this either as the three being Musichetta, Joly and Bossuet, and only one of them gets a happy ever after - or you can read it as Musichetta, Three, and one of their other working woman friends, and only one of them ends up marrying rich.
2. Musichetta stupidotta, scanzonata, innocente - Commenti Sonori
We needed an actual musichetta on this mix. The title translates as "Muschetta stupid, carefree, and innocent" - this is her in her early days, working, spending time with the girlfriends of her youth like Three, dreaming of a superb future.
3. My Baby Loves A Bunch of Authors - Moxy Fruvous
Here she is getting as she gets more involved with the students, gets drawn into the artistic world, goes to fancy parties, becomes someone's mistress.
4. What's Love Got To Do With It - Tina Turner
That world of surface romance and semi-transactional sex starts to harden her, even as she has one (two?) boys who delight in her and she in them.
5. You Turn The Screws - Cake
In the full musical version this would be a duet between Three and Musichetta where they are growing apart as she draws further into the political, literary, and bourgeois world of her students and Three commits to staying as she is and they both become scornful of each other's priorities. They see each other in passing around the Corinthe and don't speak. (This is probably happening around the time of the July revolution.)
6. Turn, Turn, Turn - Dolly Parton
And time passes and everyone gets older, and maybe it can go on like this forever but time passes and it won't, but it's always been that way. (This song is a quote from the book of Ecclesiastes which is very good poetry to read when you're disillusioned with the world and not sure what the point of keeping going is when it's just more of the same.)
7. Who Will Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet - Tennessee Ernie Ford
There start to be ominous undertones in Musichetta's world. It feels like July 1830 only somehow not the same. Her sweet boys fuss over her but at the same time start making noises about what she'll do when they're gone (but with very little understanding of what she *will* do if they're gone. She doesn't disillusion them of course.
8. The World Spins Madly On - The Weepies
This song plays while both Musichetta and Three are hold up in their separate apartments across town from each other, hearing the gunshots go off and staying in bed, Musichetta thinking about how she's abandoned her boys to fight without her and Three thinking about how she's let Musichetta get involved in all that without her
9. Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
They wake up and go down to the Rue Chanvrerie and get blood all over their pretty little feet and their eyes meet while they sing.
10. 飛哥跌落坑渠 (Teddy Boy in the Gutter) - 李寶瑩, 鄧寄塵, 鄭君綿 歡場三怪
This is a reprise of the first song, courtesy of 1960s Catonese cinema which rewrote the lyrics as being about a girl of the town finding her boy stinking and disgusting in the gutter. I think it's supposed to be a scathing parody and he's just drunk and wearing too much perfume, but to the extent of my ability to translate the Cantonese, I think it also works here, as Three and Musichetta find the remains of her boys and Three is scornful of her squeamishness while hiding her compassion for her grief
11. Turn Around - They Might Be Giants
Trauma. They don't deal well with the survivor's guilt.
12. Tangled Up In Blue - Indigo Girls
This is the key to the whole love story, I knew this song in the Indigo Girls cover first, so it's always been a song about start-cross lesbians; they knew each other once, and they weren't even that different in class, but one of them ended up drifting and taking whatever manual work she could to get by, and one committed to spending time with college boys and reading medieval Italian poetry, and they keep coming together and separating again because they can't stay apart but they can't compromise with each other either. This is Three's song for Musichetta (how the specific incidents in the song line up with the plot is up to the person who ends up writing the book.)
13. Heartaches by the Number - Cyndi Lauper
This is Musichetta's song for Three - from her POV Three keeps leaving and breaking her heart while stays still, even though at the time Three left she thought it didn't matter and she didn't care, looking back from this end she can't stand it, and she's determined the next time she sees Three she makes it clear how much it hurt her.
14. Three Times a Lady - Sissel
And here she finally meets up with Three again but instead of pouring out her hurt she ends up pouring out her love instead!
15. Let's Face The Music And Dance - Diana Krall
Well, says Three, the world is awful and nothing we do matters, so we might as well keep trying to make it better (this is Three admitting that she loves Musichetta too, and her boys and their lost causes weren't all wrong.)
16. Turn The World Around
(Couldn't find the version on spotify on Youtube, so this is a random women's community chorus.)
With Musichetta's and Three's views reconciled, they realize that the key is to forget everyone's old grievances and come together in solidarity to make the world better for everyone with everyone's skills and resources together, and it does matter, and they lead the Turning women (who have also all paired off now) in this song instead.
Curtain call!