songfic
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]songfic (plural songfics)
- (countable, fandom slang) A fanfic that incorporates song lyrics and/or uses them as inspiration for its plot.
- 2006, Rebecca Ward Black, "Access and Affiliation: Adolescent English Language Learners Learning to be Writers in an Online Fanfiction Space", dissertation submitted to the University of Wisconsin at Madison, page 77:
- For example, in Lines 3 and 4, she asks readers to be gentle with their comments, as this is her first attempt at writing a Beyblade songfic.
- 2017, Janet K. Halfyard, Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer[1], page 130:
- The denigration of songfics relies on both their tendency toward melodrama and their central utilization of two source texts resulting in production of less "original" content.
- 2017, "Acknowledgements," in Ashley Poston, Geekerella: A Fangirl Fairy Tale, page 320:
- That was my community, where I grew up—in the midst of flaming reviews and shipping wars and OTPs and AU!fics and headcanons and songfics and half-baked homages to My Immortal.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:songfic.
- 2006, Rebecca Ward Black, "Access and Affiliation: Adolescent English Language Learners Learning to be Writers in an Online Fanfiction Space", dissertation submitted to the University of Wisconsin at Madison, page 77:
- (uncountable, fandom slang) Such fan fiction collectively.
- 2017, Valeria Franceschi, Exploring Plurilingualism in Fan Fiction: ELF Users as Creative Writers[2], page 173:
- In addition to longer switches, the corpus also included songfic based on songs that are originally not in English.
- 2017, Janet K. Halfyard, Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer[3], page 129:
- Although the songfic genre was by no means invented by Buffy fandom it is more common there because of the importance of popular songs to Buffy.
- 2021, Shawn Edrei, The New Fiction Technologies: Interactivity, Agency and Digital Narratology[4], pages 53–54:
- […] Jenkins describes members of specific fan communities mailing each other VHS tapes containing amateur recreations of canonical scenes, or edited footage with a new soundtrack laid over it (the filmic counterpart to songfic).
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:songfic.