Apocalypse of the Un-People

I won’t be doing this regularly, but . . . I had so much fun creating a story out of a playlist that I did it a third time (the first time being the playlist for Bargaining Power and the second time being Descent Into Monster from my November 30 post). 

This one is also k-pop.  I call it Apocalypse of the Un-People.

Part 1

Scientists invent a new machine called the Eye (“The Eye”) meant to watch over people, but something goes terribly wrong (“Error”) and it instead begins to control them.  A woman rises above all others and seizes the device (“Room Shaker”).  She is determined, no matter what the cost ("Blood Sweat & Tears") to create a paradise of happy, obedient people ("UN Village").

As she seizes more and more control, a rebellion begins to defeat her (“Power”).  Men proclaim that she is an evil overlord (“Bad”) and rush to take her down.  But whenever they encounter her, she seduces them with her great charm and beauty (“Hip”) and they succumb (“Be Mine”), whereupon she turns the Eye on them and they become happy, mindless slaves (“Why So Serious?”)

The world has begun to fall apart, now that so many who were against her are now for her.  Everything is upside down and twisted (“Trouble”).  Finally, one man rises up, determined to face her and save everyone from the Eye (“Hero”).  He goes and, instead of her charming him, he charms her (“Love words”).  She is immediately smitten with him (“Electric Shock”). 

For a little while, everything seems great (“Paradise”), but that’s just an illusion; it won’t last (“Fantasy”)

Part 2

The evil overlady soon begins flirting and suborning more men (“The Boys”), making the hero horribly jealous (“Jealousy”).  But the more hurt he becomes (“Damage”), the more she exults in playing both sides (“Bad Girl Good Girl”). 

The hero finally accuses her of being two-faced (“Jekyll”), then immediately apologizes in the face of her anger (“Sorry, Sorry”) and begs for her to forgive him (“Back”).  But she replies that clearly, he doesn’t love her like he swore he did (“You Don’t Love Me”) and turns The Eye on him (“Voodoo Doll”).

Trapped inside his own mind as he’s forced to obey her commands, the hero contemplates that it might be better to die (“Might Just Die”) and makes peace with himself—true peace, not the false peace the Eye mimics (“Beautiful Goodbye”).  He dies soon after in one of her schemes (“Kill Bill”).

There is now no one left to stop her from taking over (“History”) to create her paradise of faux-peace (“Oasis”).  Indeed, she has come to believe that it’s always been her destiny to rule over the world (“Destiny”).  Forever (“Eternity”).

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One of the things I really enjoy about both Descent Into Monster and Apocalypse of the Un-People is that they’re very different from the stories I normally write.  It’s like being given 31 or 32 writing prompts all at once and having to incorporate them and turn them into something not just coherent but, if possible, actually good.  And, of course, it helps that these are all songs I chose because I like listening to them. . . .