Tara Gilesbie, author of My Immortal, is a fan of what she calls "goffic" music, consisting mostly of My Chemical Romance and Good Charlotte. She occasionally listens to Evanescence, Linkin Park, Green Day and "Marlin" Manson. The following is a record of songs mentioned or referenced by Tara as she was "writing" My Immortal.
My Chemical Romance[]
- Main article: My Chemical Romance
Also known as MCR.
- "I'm Not Okay" (title of Chapter Nineteen, the lyrics are also a spell, and the title of the fanfiction written by Raven.)
- "Helena" (also check out the Bloody Gothic Rose 666 cover. Apparently the song that inspired Tara to not kill herself.)
- "Thank You for the Venom" (Fang u 4 da Venom)
- "Demolition Lovers" (Desolation Livers)
- "Vampires Will Never Hurt You" (the title of Chapter Twenty-Seven, played, but did not exist in the ‘80s.)
- "I Don't Love You Like I Did Yesterday" (I don't 3 u lyk I did yesterday)
- "Teenagers"
- "The Ghost of You" ("Gost of U", which is the title for Chapter Thirty-Five. The song played in Chapter Twenty-Five. Also the name of the last collaboration fic between Tara and Raven.)
- "Welcome to the Black Parade" (Welcum 2 da Blak Prade. She acknowledges the fact that this song didn't exist in the ‘80s but tells the reader to just pretend it did.)
- "The Black Parade" (title of Chapter Forty-Two)
Good Charlotte[]
- Main article: Good Charlotte
Also known as GC.
- "I Just Wanna Live" (played in but did not exist in the 80s)
- "The Chronicles of Life and Death" (the song played in Chapter 3)
- "The World is Black" (not a single)
- "The River" (which is about the band discovering Christianity.)
Evanescence[]
- Main article: Evanescence
- "My Immortal"
- "Going Under" (Gong Under)
- "Bring Me To Life" (title of Chapter 7)
Marilyn Manson[]
- Main article: Marilyn Manson
- "1996" ("jeus christ superstar")
Green Day[]
- Main article: Green Day
- "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" (Billie Joe Armstrong says you can keep the lyrics to "The Bolevrad of Borken Dremz".)
Other bands[]
- Linkin Park (When they don't have you-know-what to a MCR song, Draco and Ebondy have you-know-what to Linkin Park songs.)
- Slipknot
- Simple Plan
- HIM
- Panic! At the Disco (or panic?! at da dizcko, Ebony at least accurately points out that Marilyn Manson is older than them, in a feeble attempt to justify Marilyn being around in the 1980s)
- Dracula has a "Wurped " (Warped) tee-shirt. MCR and Simple Plan were apart of the Vans Warped Tour, among others.
More apparently "goffic" artists[]
- The Beatles (who wore eyeliner in 1980)
- 50 Cent (Goffik versions of his songs exist. A favorite of Hargrid's.)
- Billy Joel (who apparently recorded with Green Day in the '80s and had blonde hair. Tara probably meant "Billie Joe Armstrong", the frontman of Green Day, but still. Maybe Billie Joe Armstrong + Joel Madden = Billy Joel? Tara logic.)
- Cute Is What We Aim For (Ebony apparently has a 'blak Kute is What we Aim 4 cideo ipod that I could take videos wif'. (that could later become a time machine) At the time that chapter was written, however, there were no iPods capable of recording video; the first was the 5th generation iPod Nano in 2009. Whether or not the band actually did have a licensed iPod is unknown)
Prep bands and artists[]
- Ashlee Simpson (a poser band, apparently)
- The Backstreet Boys
- NSYNC
- Britney Spears (this is never directly said but implied via Britney the Prep.)
- Avril Lavigne (owning an Avril Lavigne robe a good way of scaring Volxemort and reminding people you're a poser. Ebony's iPod apparently has Avril's music on it, since when Dumbledore confiscates it in the past, he listens to one of her songs)
- Hilary Duff (Ebony "fucking hates that little bitch" since she's going out with Joel Madden and has an "ugly blonde face")
- Paris Hillton (who Snape thinks is goffik for some reason)