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terrainofheartfelt · 3 years

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"I've waited a really long time for this" - A Serenate playlist

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she's back with another ship playlist! (and this one's happy I promise). Unlisted youtube list here.

and, as always, more details under the cut

Electric Love - BØRNS And every night my mind is running around her / Thunder's getting louder and louder and louder

So Emotional - Whitney Houston This has big preseries Yearning vibes, but also s1a yearning vibes

I got a love of my own, babe / I shouldn't get so hung up on you / I remember the way that we touched / I wish I didn't like it so much

Tête-à-Tête - Walk the Moon I want you just as bad / Just as bad as I always have

Stand Too Close - Motion City Soundtrack To me this is about all their little friendship moments over the series, and what they build up to

If you believe in me, I might just wanna spend some time with you again

All this distance… / Years of sweet resistance / Swirling overhead like angry clouds of discontent

So Close - Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness This literally is the “I’ve waited a long time for this” / “Me too” song. And there’s this line that I really love: There’s no safety in desire / Preserving life is as good as dying. And when I got to thinking about it, I thought that encapsulated Serena and Nate perfectly, and how they approach each other and their relationship, but it was such a contrast to Dair, because for them, there is only safety in desire. It was just a really interesting contrast.

And these could be the best or darkest days / The lines we walk are paper thin / And we could pull this off or push away / Cause you and me have always been / So close

Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? - as performed by Amy Winehouse I love her cover soooo much because it combines my favorite things from the originals: the restless, young, heart-palpitation-y energy of the Shirelles & the more mature, hopeful melancholy of Tapestry. And I can think of no better song that embodies that whole anxiety Nate must have RE the Shepherd wedding.

Tonight with words unspoken / You said that I'm the only one / But will my heart be broken / When the night / Meets the morning sun?

I Think We’re Alone Now - Tiffany Obligatory coat check song

Children behave / That's what they say when we're together

Every Single Night - Computer Games This Criss brothers side-act has such an 80s Duran Duran feel which I think is such a Serenate vibe tbh

And every single night I have a dream where I can find / You underneath the lights smiling at me / And every single time I wake you, kiss me to remind / Me in the dead of night smiling at me

I Feel Fine - The Beatles “Now I’m with Serena and I’m so happy”

She’s in love with me and I feel fine

Finding You - Kesha I’m incapable of making a Serena-centric playlist without Kesha and I will not apologize for that.

I know forever don't exist / But after this life, I'll find you in the next / So when I say "forever," it's the goddamn truth

XO - Beyonce It’s that vibe of, having a very public life but creating your own private world with your person which this high society couple def has to deal with. Also like...the coincidence of the title…

Nobody sees what we see / They’re just hopelessly gazing

I Walk the Line - as performed by Halsey Halsey is better than Johnny Cash I said what I said

You've got a way to keep me on your side / You give me cause for love that I can't hide

Go Find Yourself Or Whatever - Carly Rae Jepsen s3 breakup song

Tell me that we'll meet up someday / I tell you that I'm no good tellin' lies / Maybe when my heart's done breakin' / Then I could forgive what you tried

Scars - James Bay It is the song for really being in love with somebody but just being a victim of poor timing so you have to let go of each other for now but you’re holding onto the hope that you won’t have to be apart forever.

We'll have to hurt for now / But next time there's no doubt / Cause I can't go without you, anymore

Don't Go Dark - Bleachers You know, all this time apart, I finally see it, honey / Yeah, you've just been waiting your whole life to find someone who can stand in your storm

Walking in my Sleep - Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness It’s about being constantly on the move but you keep coming back to the same someone.

I'll never stop trying / You're my silver lining

Light On - Maggie Rogers The self-indulgent reconciliation chapter

And do you believe me now that I always had the best intentions, babe? / Always wanted to stay / Can you feel me now that I'm vulnerable in oh-so-many ways?

Sandcastles - Beyonce And your heart is broken 'cause I walked away / Show me your scars and I won't walk away

Lovesong - as performed by Adele However long I stay / I will always love you

All Our Lives - Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness It’s about the shared History

You always walked before me / But you came back to warn me

This Love - tswift I had to do it. Your kiss, my cheek / I watched you leave literally!!! The breakup!!!

When you're young, you just run / But you come back to what you need

It’s Nice to Have a Friend - tswift It's about the Best Friends (tm)

Call my bluff, call you "Babe" / Have my back, yeah, every day

#source: ggcaps #source: sena marais #serenate #serena van der woodsen #nate archibald #serena x nate #nate x serena #playlist #me making this playlist: *blair waldorf voice* that’s Mythic

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terrainofheartfelt · 3 years

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The Derena Breakup(s) Album, A Playlist

was going through it a couple weeks ago, apparently, so I made this playlist. It is very sad. I've no excuse. idk I think I'm most drawn to the tragedy of them? I guess? anyways: Here is the youtube link.

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track listing & color commentary under the cut:

Little Bit of Love - Kesha We begin our journey in the last handful of episodes of season 1. Desperately Seeking Serena vibes.

Babe, I know that's it's late, I know that I'm drunk / I haven't had a night like this in months

Into Your Arms - The Maine I'm fallin' in love / But it's fallin' apart

I Need My Girl - The National Surface level it’s a love song, but it sounds so...sad.

There's some things that I should never / Laugh about in front of family / I tried to call you from the party / It's full of punks and cannonballers

Plain Sailing Weather - Frank Turner I titled this thing “derena sads” in my spotify library, and this is why. This song is just, ugh, the foyer scene in 1x17. Very few lyrics make me lose my mind as much as the bridge of this song:

Of laying down the bare facts / Like a burden I can't bear / And I can almost find the words / But I can see the way you'd /Fold your hands, speak my name like a curse upon your pretty lips / The pressured white behind your fingertips

Yesterday - The Beatles Love was such an easy game to play / Now I need a place to hide away

Songs for Teenagers - as done by The Gaslight Anthem It's a shame, all the ways we build ourselves up / Just to let each other down

Let It Go - James Bay When we're becoming something else / I think it's time to walk away

The Scientist - Coldplay Very cliche of me I know, but it’s my playlist I do what I want

Questions of science, science and progress / Do not speak as loud as my heart

The Harold Song - Kesha Apart from being an absolute banger, this is Extra in that teen first breakup kinda way

Young love murder, that is what this must be

Bruised - Jack’s Mannequin It’s just because it’s mutual doesn’t mean that it doesn’t hurt. Maybe the context isn’t directly relatable, but the emotion definitely is

Hours pass, and she still counts the minutes / That I am not there / I swear I didn't mean for it to feel like this / Like every inch of me is bruised

drivers license - Olivia Rodrigo Do you - do you think Dan helped Serena practice for her drivers exam (bc Lily wouldn’t) or are you normal?

I know we weren't perfect / But I've never felt this way for no one / And I just can't imagine / How you could be so okay now that I'm gone

Good in Bed - Dua Lipa Obligatory song for the Hamptons and post-Hamptons summer hookups: "You sure that's your heart you're following?"

In the long nights where we did everything but talk it through

Yeah, we don't know how to talk / But damn, we know how to fuck

Come Under the Covers - Walk the Moon The realizing that they’re not going to last past the summer. The elevator break-up.

(Summer is over) / And I can feel the cold changing us inside

The Moon She Has a Jealous Eye - J. Small “I still -” / “I know” are we having fun yet?

How are you supposed to act in these sorts of situations? / The truth is / Tears and hysterics would feel more humane

Uncharted - Sara Bareilles That uncertainty before the first day of school bc they have literally no idea of how to be exes

This is no broken heart / No familiar scars / This territory goes uncharted

Left Handed Kisses - Andrew Bird feat. Fiona Apple they are BAD at being exes

The point your song here misses / Is that if you really loved me / You'd risk more than a few 50 cent / Words in your backhanded love song

Reminder - Mumford & Sons I wasn’t sure how to describe this for a while bc it was just a vibe but oh wait, it’s 2x13

So watch the world tear us apart / A stoic mind and bleeding heart / You never see my bleeding heart

Love on the Rocks - Sara Bareilles s2b weirdness

Here's a simplification of everything we're going through / You plus me is bad news

I Don’t Want to Know - Fleetwood Mac I don't want to stand between you and love / Honey, I just want you to feel fine

Breaking Up Slowly - Lana del Rey It's hard to bе lonely, but it's the right thing to do

April Come She Will - Simon & Garfunkel This playlist came to be bc this song came over my shuffle and it sent me into a Derena Sads spiral. Whoops.

A love once new has now grown old

The Last Time (Taylor’s Version) - tswift feat. Gary Lightbody the backslide ballad. obviously Serena is Gary’s voice and Dan is Taylor’s

And you open your eyes into mine / And everything feels better … You wear your best apology / But I was there to watch you leave

champagne problems - tswift Apart from the lyrics below, the imagery of the chorus reminds me of the sudsnewsletter analysis that talks about how Serena is always elevated above Dan on the staircase, never coming down to him. Idk.

"She would've made such a lovely bride / What a shame she's fucked in the head," they said / But you'll find the real thing instead / She'll patch up your tapestry that I shred

Tell Tale Signs - Frank Turner This track is the reason I’m tagging this post with a self-harm mention warning. Skip it if you need to. Big sads indeed. Y’all knew what this was

You will always be a part / Of my patched up, patchwork, taped up, tape deck heart

coney island - tswift feat. The National I have many feelings about dan humphrey singing with that Matt Berninger vocal fry…

And do you miss the rogue / Who coaxed you into paradise and left you there? / Will you forgive my soul / When you're too wise to trust me and too old to care?

Nobody Wins - Brian Fallon I guess we’re never gonna end up the lucky ones

Old Flames - Frank Turner feat. Billy the Kid They’re really bad at being exes.

But do you remember back when we were young and unformed? / It was all so much easier to give of yourself, to fall in love

Poetry by Dead Men - Sara Bareilles Line after line, the words just left to remind / The two of us, oh, what we could have been / Poetry by dead men

This Colourless Role - Susan O’Neill it's a little bit... "you were the love of my life, Dan. I just thought I was yours." but like, Dan POV

You like what is black / I what is white / Somewhere in the middle / The gray part feels right

I’ve lost my mind / but you / still think we shine

First Love - Adele Forgive me, first love, but I'm too tired

Planets of the Universe - Fleetwood Mac I will never love again the way I loved you / You will never rule again the way you've ruled

It’s Too Late - Carole King There'll be good times again for me and you / But we just can't stay together, don't you feel it, too / Still I'm glad for what we had and how I once loved you

The Conversation - Motion City Soundtrack I had a pocket full of dreams / But I gave them all to you / Now I think I want them back

Stomach - Aly & AJ I just can't stomach being your ex-wife / All these memories, they don't feel like mine

21 Days - Brian Fallon Call it breaking a habit / Call it falling out of love

Clean - as performed by Sara Bareilles let’s just extend that metaphor from the last song shall we? With Sara, because she’s just a better vocalist.

The drought was the very worst / When the flowers that we'd grown together died of thirst

happiness - tswift the! fitzgerald! references! Also: dappled with the flickers of light from the dress I wore at midnight - !!! literally the cotillion dress!

All you want from me now is the green light of forgiveness / You haven't met the new me yet / And I think she'll give you that

#source: sena marais #source: ggcaps #self harm mention cw #(it's an extended metaphor in one of the tracks' lyrics but tagging to be safe)#just an innocent listen to simon & garfunkel and then I became Unhinged #playlist

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