Music

So was thinking about what to write about to keep people interested, and decided upon the music I select for my stories.

First, a quick update, I am starting to feel better each day.  Appreciate the comments wishing me well.  What started out as allergies turned into the flu, and now I've been having a lingering cough and congestion for about 4 days.  Still sucking down cough drops, and as long as I have one, I'm not coughing...but getting tired of Hall's and Ricola cough drops.  I may just switch to hard candies...I think it's more just having something that keeps me swallowing more than any medicated crap in them, hehehe.

Anyways, back to music...

As many have noticed, I pay particular attention to the music playing in the background, especially for Lapdancing Girlfriend.  I have quite a collection of songs in my repetoire, and always looking for new stuff that is both sexy and a character in my stories can dance to...whether it be rock, pop, hip-hop, rap, or even heavy metal or goth, I'm always looking for the right song.  I go through various sites monthly to see what new music is out there, as well as listening to various radio stations and XM Satellite radio and when I find a song that "rings" with me, I grab it for my collection.

Writing my stories, if there's a part where music is playing in the background, I start to go through my collection.  I keep a playlist of "sexy songs" and when I find one that again reverberates within me, I add it and play it while I'm writing.  I try to keep the songs limited by the character's actions, so if the song ends and she hasn't really done anything while I'm writing, I'll play it again until I'm done with that scene.  Then I start the song over again as I read the scene, imagining how she would act, to make sure the length is appropriate.  In that way, if you play the soundtrack while reading the story, things "click" and "make sense" to what she is doing, how she is moving.  I also add a few hints to where in the middle of the song I expect her to be so readers can pace themselves.

Here's an example from Lapdancing Girlfriend Chapter 01...and I've linked the song on YouTube so you can play it while you read the insert!

Rob Zombie’s ‘Pussy Liquor’ came on as she got up, strutting her hips while her arm still covered her breasts.  She began swaying her hips seductively before the crowd, moving rhythmically to the beginnings of the song.  Her arms would alternate back and forth, still hiding her breasts as the crowd started cheering “Show us more!” 

Finally Jen, or Diamond as her stage persona, slowly smiled and seductively raised both her arms over her head, exposing her breasts fully to the crowd while her hips swaying as Rob Zombie’s voice came over the speakers, “Get fucked up and fuck up with you!”

Jen moved her hands across her stomach, moving them up to cup her breasts as she swayed, bouncing one after the other, alternating them to the beat of the song. Strutting to the crowd, she pulled one guy into her chest as others reached out to insert dollars into her thong. Jen looked over at Dan and then turned around, bending down, her crotch only inches from the face of one guy, who grinned like a kid in the candy store as he took the dollar bill in his hand and pulled the crotch of Jen’s thong out, blatantly shoving the money between it and her pussy.

Even from his angle Dan could tell Jen was turned on, as the guy held up his finger to his and his buddies’ noses. Dan could see it glistening, a testament to how wet she was. Typically the more Jen worked the crowd, the more turned on she got, another thing Dan hated when she danced, but he was too engrossed in her display on the stage to give it much thought.

Jen turned back to the pole, spinning on it to the music in nothing but her thigh-high red boots and white laced thong, swaying to the beat, occasionally running her body over herself as she danced for the crowd’s delight. She continued to work the pole, undulating her body up and down the metal rod, mimicking humping it. Moving away, Jen slowly lowered herself towards the crowd until she was on her knees, thrusting her crotch forward and back, humping the stage in beat to the music while she pulled the sides of her thong up her hips with her hands. Dan knew from the cheers of the guys in front of her they were getting a glimpse of her pussy lips surrounding the crotch of her thong as she tightened the material into her crotch.

Typically the girls did three songs to a set; however, Jen stayed where she was as a fourth song came on and Dan groaned,recognizing Theory of a Deadman’s ‘Bad Girlfriend’ starting to play.

Now that's only a few paragraphs, way too much for a 4:46 song, but if you play the music, you start to get a feel of the pace of the Jen's dancing compared to the song.  The first two paragraphs she is swaying and teasing the crowd, purposely to make Dan pay for their argument earlier in the morning.  I specifically leave the chorus "Get fucked up and fuck up with you!" so people who are listening to the song know to wait before reading further.  That sets the pace for the rest of the paragraphs, so hopefully you, the reader, read the story slower, imagining Jen dancing to the crowd to the beat of the music.

To me, it adds a bit more "realism" to the story, and something the reader can enjoy both visually through reading, and aurally through listening to the songs...as well as mentally when you put the two together.

Some people care, some people thing it may be too frivolous to write about, but to me, it adds to the story and makes it much more "believable" to me and hopefully you, the reader!