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the stars and the moon shine together
a fanmix for zhang zhehan and gong jun
DISC ONE: DAY || youtube playlist || spotify playlist (apologies, it's missing the first track)
INTRO: Matt and Kim – Daylight (instrumental)
The camera pans over bright and sunny Hengdian, over the booting ceremony and our two shy and awkward protagonists, blissfully unaware that it would be a meeting that would surely change their fates. Meanwhile, Ma-jie is probably off to the side thinking, "shit, these two aren't hitting it off, we're fucked."
Tegan & Sara - Closer || lyrics
All you think of lately is getting underneath me
All I dream of lately is how to get you underneath me
Here comes the heat before we meet, a little bit closer
Here comes the spark before the dark, come a little closer
Didn't take long to fix that, did it. Zhehan wants the D and he won't be stopped! While Ma-jie's probably to the side being all "shit, I've unleashed a monster in these two." Seriously, when I think about everything the cast and crew and fansites must have seen, I get a little X_x.
Selena Gomez - Hands to Myself || lyrics
Can't keep my hands to myself
No matter how hard I'm trying to
I want you all to myself
Your metaphorical gin and juice
So come on, give me a taste
Of what it's like to be next to you
Won't let one drop go to waste
Your metaphorical gin and juice
I mean, I'm sure by now we've all seen Real-ge's BTS and how absolutely shameless laopo was in pursuit of the big gong, haven't we?
Troye Sivan, Allday - for him || lyrics
We are runnin' so fast
And we never look back
And whatever I lack, you make up
We make a really good team
And not everyone sees
We got this crazy chemistry
Between us
From feeding apples to each other to all the tietie in the blistering summer heat, I'm sure all the cast and crew were absolutely filled with dog food. Hat tip to the LLDFest2k22 event because someone posted this absolutely perfect song in response to a prompt and I couldn't *not* include it. Also, hat tip for Gong Jun for including this in *his* own playlist, making my job so much easier.
Ariana Grande - positions || lyrics
This some shit that I usually don't do
But for you, I kinda, kinda want to
'Cause you're down for me and I'm down too
Yeah, I'm down too, switching the positions for you
When you're spending *so* much time with each other, both in bed and out of it (cough), and you adore what you see in each other, it's inevitable that both of you would catch feelings I guess. (I like how the song is both domestic and sensual at once, which I think encapsulates the ship a lot!)
Turnover - Dizzy on the Countdown || lyrics
Would you come here and spin with me?
I've been dying to get you dizzy
Find a way up into your head
So I can make you feel like new again
Now collapse, take delight in the fall and catch your breath
I know you feel the ring from it
So try and collect yourself now
It's just a euphoric comedown
Gong Jun gets his word in edgewise. Must be nice to be dating on set and having so much fun with your boyfriend while working, lucky bastards. The rest of us can't relate.
Ingrid Michaelson - Young and In Love || lyrics
Old enough, old enough, old enough to know that
We are young in love, young in love, young and in love
You and me, we can see, time will stand still
If we stay young in love, young in love, young and in love
As someone roughly contemporaneous in age with them (cough), 30 years old is pretty young in the grand scheme of things, but I have to wonder how would it feel to have been working roughly a decade in the industry and still be patiently grinding away for the chance of one's big break, looking at others vaulting past you into success. Or even, as Gong Jun admits candidly in his memoir, to have never experienced a grand, passionate love before.
Mike Mains and the Branches - I Love You Always Forever || lyrics
Feels like I'm standing in a timeless dream
Of light mists with pale amber rose
Feels like I'm lost in a deep cloud of heavenly scent
Touching, discovering you
Those days of warm rains come rushing back to me
Miles of windless summer night air
Secret moments shared in the heat of the afternoon
Out of the stillness, soft spoken words
Say it, say it again
Shaqing comes, and with it comes a temporary parting.
Fiji Blue - Butterflies || lyrics
You
You should've seen the way that you bloomed
I think I saw your face in the moon
I promise I'll be with you as soon as I find a way up (ya)
'Cause you
You're farther than a kiss on the phone
There's things about you I'll never know
I hope that one day we'll be in love when you're not far away
Being in a long-distance relationship after being so tietie with each other all summer must be a special kind of agony.
Daydream about me
And I know that you hate the nights without me
Baby, I hate 'em too
But you know, but you know, but you know
I'm comin' back to you
Midnight, my heart is racing
We're wide awake in
This hotel room
We only got six hours
But sleep don't matter
When I'm with you
One Night in Nanjing is the sort of lld lore that deserves immortalizing. What could be more romantic than driving all through the night, just for the chance to hold your loved one in your arms for a few short hours?
Bleachers - Let's Get Married || lyrics
Change me at all costs
Starlight and star-crossed
Take me so breathless
We could be reckless
Why don't you change me at all costs?
Starlight and star-crossed
Take me so breathless
Yeah, woke up in a safe house singing
The SHL concert in Suzhou, and the vow that shook the fandom. Bravely taking each other's hands, looking into the future, and saying I know it's bad when we look out, but bad, bad people don't live in our house.
Hellogoodbye - Baby, It's Fact || lyrics
Just in case they're wondering
They've got us pinned terribly
They don't believe our love is real
Cause they don't know how real love feels
You should know it's true
Just now, the part about my love for you
And how my heart's about burst
Into a thousand pieces
Oh it must be true
And they'll believe us too soon
Horrible people don't believe love is rio? Double lawsuit at Shanghai will put a rest to that right quick.
The Postal Service - Such Great Heights || lyrics
I am thinking it's a sign
That the freckles in our eyes
Are mirror images and when
We kiss they're perfectly aligned
And I have to speculate
That God himself did make
Us into corresponding shapes
Like puzzle pieces from the clay
And true, it may seem like a stretch,
But its thoughts like this that catch
My troubled head when you're away
When I am missing you to death
Ending Disc One with a melancholy meditation on fate and the red string that ties them both even over distance and time. (How can one have matching moles and birthmarks in *so* many places? At some point one *has* to suspect divine intervention.)