Fantasy Playlist

So, while we have discussed fantasy in books, in movies, and even in video games, we have not really touched on fantasy in modern music. I would have originally thought this would be because it is not the norm for most songwriters to include such elements in their music, but just having my ipod on shuffle today walking around campus, my own music collection proved me wrong.

Here are some songs and the fantasy elements they include below. If anyone can think of any more they have heard of, please let me know. 

"Sweet Sweet Heartkiller"- Say Hi To Your Mom

.....it's all about a boy who falls in love with a vampire women: "And she is pale and I am smitten/and in the moonlight we both still like/ the smell of anything night blooming/ and she bites through the necks like Ginsu..."

"OUCH"- Be Your Own Pet

.....Zombies take over the earth, yay!: "They're on the streets with their eyes of hunger/ It's a disease it's a death to one another/ There's no stopping it, it gets too late..."

"Zombie Graveyard Party"- Be Your Own Pet

.....A lovestruck zombie wants to have a party in the graveyard. A party where he tries to eat his still living girlfriend with this CLASSIC line : "Life is so lame, so let me eat your brain"

"Of Moons, Birds, and Monsters"- MGMT

"White Winter Hymnal"- Fleet Foxes

....It isn't really about anything particular, but it reminds me of Little Red Riding Hood and the wolves from all the stories: "I was following the pack/all swallowed in their coats/ with scarves of red tied 'round their throats/ to keep their little heads/ from fallin' in the snow..."