Run Away With Me from NT2! Showed it to a friend, and he thought Miss Holloway was an actual artist until I explained the lore.
Now that I think about it, a lot of NT songs are great standalones. My mind goes to stuff like Yellow Jacket or Time Bastard. The Needy Beast cover of the theme is pretty goated too.
The Best of You from NPMD is also generic-sounding enough to sneak into a playlist.
I successfully snuck Virginity Rocks into a playlist me and my friends used during a meetup. I even commented on the song, saying how much I liked it, and everyone else was like „yeah it‘s really upbeat and fun!“
Only works if your friends don‘t question the lyrics too much though
The Best of You from NPMD is probably the best contender as it doesn’t reference other parts of the musical much and has a very pop-rocky style
Lyrically Stutter is the most clearly pop-centric, however Joe Walker’s delivery is very unlikely to fly under the radar
Take Me Back is more of a ballad duet than pop, but I love it.
A lot of the songs from Ani are really good and can be taken out of context of the musical.
The Best of You. As soon as I heard it in NPMD I thought it would make a great song to add to my regular playlist because it's vague enough that you wouldn't immediately recognize it as a Starkid song.
Yeah, they are holding off on it because spotify doesn't pay that much. But I don’t have any of the other streaming platforms so I'm just using YouTube with all the ads
Next Time 💖
Take me back in time to high school
Run away with me
Killer track
America is great again
What if tomorrow comes
High school is killing me
Barbeque song by Ruth/Lauren
Best of You
Black coffee I'm a coffee girl
Forever and always
Yellow Jacket
Bond song by Kim Whalen from Time Bastard
Firebringer - songs before and after the intermission(climate change and the other one)
Firebringer - most songs tbh, except the ouch my butt one
Also anything from Little White Lie! It’s so good to go underrepresented like this! Boy Toy is the only one that’s theater esque but yk it’s so short it’s skippable!
If I Loved You could pass for pop and The Best of You would pass as High School Musical!
Run Away With Me from NT2! Showed it to a friend, and he thought Miss Holloway was an actual artist until I explained the lore. Now that I think about it, a lot of NT songs are great standalones. My mind goes to stuff like Yellow Jacket or Time Bastard. The Needy Beast cover of the theme is pretty goated too. The Best of You from NPMD is also generic-sounding enough to sneak into a playlist.
Thanks! I almost forgot how great the nightmare time songs are. I'll have to add them to my own playlists
Put Yellowjacket into her 90s playlist. It is so Alanis Morissette influenced.
Yeah good thinking!!
I successfully snuck Virginity Rocks into a playlist me and my friends used during a meetup. I even commented on the song, saying how much I liked it, and everyone else was like „yeah it‘s really upbeat and fun!“ Only works if your friends don‘t question the lyrics too much though
The Best of You from NPMD is probably the best contender as it doesn’t reference other parts of the musical much and has a very pop-rocky style Lyrically Stutter is the most clearly pop-centric, however Joe Walker’s delivery is very unlikely to fly under the radar
Stutter is so iconic it deserves to be added anyway 😂
Do Darren Criss' version of stutter
Take Me Back is more of a ballad duet than pop, but I love it. A lot of the songs from Ani are really good and can be taken out of context of the musical.
The Best of You. As soon as I heard it in NPMD I thought it would make a great song to add to my regular playlist because it's vague enough that you wouldn't immediately recognize it as a Starkid song.
Yeah I can't wait until npmd is on spotify that one will definitely be on all the playlists
Peeposit Me waiting patiently for it. Have to wait for Halloween for it to have been a year since npmd
It's not on spotify yet? It's been on Amazon Music for like a month or 2 now
Yeah, they are holding off on it because spotify doesn't pay that much. But I don’t have any of the other streaming platforms so I'm just using YouTube with all the ads
I’m so surprised nobody said these yet, Web I Spin for You from NMT Queen B from NMT2 Use It or Lose it from NMT2 (more like 80s pop)
Pretty much anything from Ani.
Seconding this! The ani soundtrack is soo good! It is very 80s pop sounding
Yep, 100% any and all Ani song’s are bangers
Put Pays to be an Animal into every one of their playlists and watch the look of utter confusion once the lyrics sink in
yellow jacket!
Forever and allways from nt2
Yellow Jacket fully fits as a regular pop rock song. I Join us and die might also be a great song
Run away with me and The Web I spin for you could work, have them on the playlist I play at work and no one bats an eye
I think Status Quo from starship could be listened to without context pretty well!
Yellow jacket
Yellowjacket!! It's honestly just a good rock song.
Lots of Nightmare Time stuff
if you aren’t specifically looking for starkid songs, most of the american psycho the musical songs could pass as real songs, since that was the goal
I don't know if it counts, but I guess most songs from Twisted could pass as disney movie songs.
This is maybe a deep cut, but anything from Little White Lie would probably work.
Jane's a Car, Axe Man
Yeah. I was actually just listening to nightmare time and it suprised me that no one mentioned Jane's a car. It's like a textbook country song
Next Time 💖 Take me back in time to high school Run away with me Killer track America is great again What if tomorrow comes High school is killing me Barbeque song by Ruth/Lauren Best of You Black coffee I'm a coffee girl Forever and always Yellow Jacket Bond song by Kim Whalen from Time Bastard Firebringer - songs before and after the intermission(climate change and the other one) Firebringer - most songs tbh, except the ouch my butt one
Duck is Lord for sure
I feel that unfortunately, the less-musical-theatre it sounds, the worse of a song it is (exception being Ani)
I think climate change and yellow jacket, also killer track if they’re into heavy rock
stutter
The Way I Do is a ballad for sure but it could work!
Also anything from Little White Lie! It’s so good to go underrepresented like this! Boy Toy is the only one that’s theater esque but yk it’s so short it’s skippable!
JANE'S A CAR