Playlist Prompt #3: Holding Us Both Hostage

This playlist is a bit different from the other ones, because I usually try to order the songs into a chronological story, but this playlist is in no specific order. It’s rather based on a central theme: holding each other hostage in an unhealthy relationship. I was listening to “Skinny Love,” Birdy’s version, and I was drawn to the idea that either one or both people in a relationship are desperately manipulative. Not out of maliciousness, but because they are using their partner as a crutch. Leaning too heavily on them and breaking them in the process, damaging them too permanently for future use. 

So I went scanning in my song library for the same theme. It was harder than I expected it to be, but I think each song builds off one another and adds a new element to its combined story. The songs are from both the perspective of the manipulator and from the one being manipulating.

Hope it inspires! Stay lit, comrades.

Playlist Prompt #3: Holding Us Both Hostage

Skinny Love by Birdy (cover of Bon Iver)

Brave Enough by Arizona

Already Mine by Us the Duo

Waiting Game by BANKS

Million Reasons by Lady Gaga

Scared to be Lonely by Martin Garrix and Dua Lipa

Take Me Home by Cash Cash

Really Gone by Chvrches

change ur mind by Sarcastic Sounds

I Never Wanted to Go by Willamette Stone