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1. KILLING TIME by Jordan Fiction

his edgy villain intro song

I just fucking love it when they run

Nah, they never make it easy

I'll admit it, that's the fun

I done been so hungry, baby you've been such a tease

Never gonna stop until you're dripping from my teeth

bad bitch, watch your step, fun fun fun – but also sets up the throughline of emptiness that this playlist is based around with the constant refrain of “just killing time”.

2. The Man by The Killers

based on his cocky swagger walking into Em City:

I know the score like the back of my hand

Them other boys, I don't give a damn

They kiss on the ring, I carry the crown

Nothing can break, nothing can break me down

Don't need no advice, I got a plan

I know the direction, the lay of the land

I know the score like the back of my hand

Them other boys, I don't give a damn

but again, with an undercurrent of: maybe the lady doth protest?

I got skin in the game

I don't feel no pain

I got news for you baby, you're looking at the man

I don't give a damn

I'm the man

Haa! Ha-ah!

3. Amazing by Kanye West

A combination of the first two song’s vibes, and pulling it further down. I have this really vivid mental image of him walking around his clubs to this.

I'm a monster, I'm a killer

I know I'm wrong, yeah

I'm a problem

That'll never ever be solved

And no matter what, you'll never take that from me

My reign is as far as your eyes can see

also reinforces my own personal lore of Alonzo being someone who worked up to his position from nothing (no specific reason to believe that, nepo baby Alonzo is an equally fun headcanon I like to toy around with from time to time, but I like the rags to riches trope better myself)

Standing at my podium, I'm trying to watch my sodium

Die high blood pressure, either let the Feds catch ya

I'm amazing, born on a full moon

I was bred to get it in, no spoon

They like, "Oh God, why he go so hard?

Look what he's been through, he deserves an applause"

4. Plastic Hearts by Miley Cyrus

More pre-canon vibes, referencing the orgies and clubs etc. “I hate everybody at these parties but I just keep throwing them.”

The sunny place for shady people

A crowded room where nobody goes

You can be whoever you wanna be here

Frightened by my own reflection

Desperate for a new connection

Pull you in, but don't you get too close

Lost in black hole conversation

Sunrise suffocation

Keep me up all night

I just wanna feel

I just wanna feel somethin'

But I keep feeling nothin' all night long

5. Yes Man by Dorian Electra

The consequences of being a fake faker who refuses to get close to anybody.

Nobody understands me

Nobody, I'm so fucking random

Nobody tried to understand me

They're just standing in my way

When you're standing on the grave

Of everyone who used to try to save you

Well, they used to try to save me

But then I went and pushed them all away from me

They're all playing yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes

Laughing to their death, death, death, death, death, death

They're all saying yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes

I pay these people to laugh at my jokes and they're not even funny

The ending pleading for the audience to “cut the fucking fanfare” gets me every time...

6. Worst in the World by Uncle Outrage

Look at me, I'm a superstar

All I need, is what I have right now

Can I never finish, never win it

Fall apart into sand, to sand, to sand, to sand

Now I'm left half a man, with still a lot of shit

On my hands, my hands, my hands, my hands

First you wash, and then you rinse

I am no king, I am no prince

Pull back your boys, retract your girls

I am the worst in the world

calling back to The Man with “I just wanna be a man” over and over again – “maybe I don’t care about the fame and fortune anymore, maybe I just want to be human”. Which leads to:

7. Almost Human by Aurelio Voltaire

Though I love to rule in Hell here

How I miss the taste of Heaven, its soft and cool embrace

If I were a big boy I wouldn't cry

But since I'm not a big boy

I'll have to close my eyes and picture what it's like

These tears are real - I'm jealousy

I'm spite and hate, to the core, I'm mean

I'm nearly human

Look at me, I'm almost a human being

I'm just like you, better than He

To Hell with they, I'm almost me

I'm nearly human

Pity me, I'm almost a human being

a classic flip-flop emotions song, ending with “don’t touch me / touch me” back and forth, over and over

8. Mic Check by Sophie Hunter

a different sort of flip-flop song, ending in the opposite vein. "Actually, fuck everyone."

I'm loaded like the dice, still I bet I'm 'bout to Yahtzee

I need one valid reason not to end it all (Chemicals!)

That's a good point, to piggyback, where are my edibles?

Mommy's medicine, I'm a congenital bitch

I'm sick of myself, I'm sicker than hell, it goes

I'm an anxious avoidant attention whore

But I'll be so cringe before I'll ever be boring

I'll be so fringe, yeah, I'll be so unimportant

I'm so unimportant; I hate my whole wardrobe, but my body more, so

I need the type of therapy you gotta pay for out of pocket (Clock it)

I'm never in my bag, I'm in that pocket (Locked in)

Certain I've got toxins causing my brain to rot and my life to be so exhausting

Meanwhile, I turn my throat to an exhaust pipe

Meanwhile, I take the bait, I rage until I'm cross-eyed

Meanwhile, I'm gagging on an apple, like I'm hogtied

I'm boiling in a deep-fryer, tryna win a cockfight

Shut the fuck up, bitch, I'll win that shit too

Top off this ten-piece, like cock-doodle-doo

Flip off my enemies like, what's it to you?

They all say it's the end; not with that attitude!

I do it cause my personality is bad vibes

I don't like myself and I don't like you either

Cypher with all of my selves; I'm the preacher and the choir

For Christ's sake, every single one of you sounds tired

Take five! The fire under your ass is getting fired!

Whatever goofy motherfucker's gassing you is lying!

No, I'm not doing well, I'm not looking good; if I'm just being honest

I got one foot in the grave and I got one in the comments

I got a devil on my shoulder, in my details, in my commas

Mic chеck, think I got a jacked up preset

Been feeling mysеlf start to regress

All I want to be is decent, yeah, I need a pick-me-up

9. Feeling Good by Muse

no particular lyrics stick out for this song – I like it for the hard vibe shift back to “it’s all fine, actually” and the new day / dawn motif, as if everything preceding it was one long bad night of questioning life, identity, etc. Pop a pill and every doubt and fear goes away. For now...