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GOOD OMENS PLAYLIST - CROWLEY EDITION

⤷ A compilation of songs I think fit the Good Omens series and its characters, particularly Crowley. (please someone with talent and skill use these songs for edits i beg you)

⤷ Anyways, welcome to my essay where I overanalyze Queen songs :)

⤷ SEMI SPOILERS FOR S2

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▶ LOVE OF MY LIFE

"Love of my life, you've hurt me/ You've broken my heart and now you leave me/ Love of my life, can't you see?/ Bring it back, bring it back/ Don't take it away from me"

Starting out with a bang, this 1975 song by Queen tears at its audience's heartstrings and portrays Crowley's devastation following the confrontation in S2E6. GO fans could interpret this song as Crowley's lament to Aziraphale after the Divorce.

▶ THE GREAT PRETENDER

"Ooh ooh yes I'm the great pretender (ooh ooh)/Just laughing and gay like a clown (ooh ooh)/I seem to be what I'm not (you see)/I'm wearing my heart like a crown/Pretending that you're still around"

More angst for Crowley, unfortunately. Again, I think this song could serve to express Crowley's 5 stages of grief that he will probably go through after Aziraphale leaves him. Crowley is a being of 'conceal, don't feel' yet with Aziraphale, he feels many emotions. This song is him trying to bottle it up but eventually failing to and succumbing to his heartache.

▶ IT'S A HARD LIFE

"Yeah yeah/It's a hard life/To be true lovers together/To love and live forever in each others hearts/It's a long hard fight/To learn to care for each other/To trust in one another right from the start/When you're in love"

Ineffable Husbands angst! This song could be used to portray Ineffable Husbands in both S1 and S2, but I think particularly in S1 as they realize they have to be on their own side against Heaven and Hell. This song could be interpreted as the struggles Crowley and Aziraphale endure with their feelings for one another and about their respective "offices."

▶ LET ME LIVE

"Why don't you take another little piece of my heart?/Why don't you take it and break it and tear it all apart?/All I do is give and all you do is take/Baby, why don't ya gimme a brand new start?"

This song could be applied to two situations: post-Divorce Crowley with his feelings about Aziraphale, OR Crowley's yearning for freedom from Hell. Either way, let my baby boy Crowley free pls.

▶ WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER

"Who wants to live forever/Who wants to live forever/Ooh/Who dares to love forever/Oh oo woh, when love must die/But touch my tears with your lips/Touch my world with your fingertips/And we can have forever/And we can love forever/Forever is our today"

S1 bandstand divorce, perhaps? Crowley's declarations that they could run away before Armageddon destroys Earth, maybe? Wink, wink.

▶ WINNER TAKES IT ALL

"The gods may throw a dice/Their minds as cold as ice/And someone way down here/Loses someone dear/The winner takes it all (takes it all)/The loser has to fall (has to fall)/It's simple and it's plain (it's so plain)/Why should I complain? (Why complain?)"

This ABBA song can be interpreted as expressing Crowley's emotions regarding his Fall from Heaven due to asking too many questions. Whereas the rest of the song implies the loss of a partner to someone else, I think these lyrics in particular can represent Crowley's anti-Heaven and Hell stance, especially when Aziraphale chooses Heaven over him.

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That's it, folks. If there are requests for Aziraphale or any other characters/dynamics from Good Omens, please let me know. These were a few songs that I interpreted and connected to the show, though I know there are several others that you should give a listen. (Queen: Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Somebody to Love; Regina Spektor: Two Birds).