{"id":40508,"date":"2025-01-22T01:26:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T01:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/cynthia-weiners-music-playlist-for-her-novel-a-gorgeous-excitement-largehearted-boy\/"},"modified":"2025-01-22T01:26:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T01:26:26","slug":"cynthia-weiners-music-playlist-for-her-novel-a-gorgeous-excitement-largehearted-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=40508","title":{"rendered":"Cynthia Weiner\u2019s music playlist for her novel A Gorgeous Excitement \u2013 Largehearted Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><em>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/largeheartedboy.com\/lhb-book-notes\/\">Book Notes<\/a> series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><em>Previous contributors include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.largeheartedboy.com\/blog\/archive\/2014\/10\/book_notes_jesm.html\">Jesmyn Ward<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.largeheartedboy.com\/blog\/archive\/2015\/09\/book_notes_laur_27.html\">Lauren Groff<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.largeheartedboy.com\/blog\/archive\/2005\/08\/book_notes_bret.html\">Bret Easton Ellis<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.largeheartedboy.com\/blog\/archive\/2017\/10\/book_notes_cele.html\">Celeste Ng<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.largeheartedboy.com\/blog\/archive\/2015\/03\/book_notes_tc_b.html\">T.C. Boyle<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.largeheartedboy.com\/blog\/archive\/2007\/01\/book_notes_dana.html\">Dana Spiotta<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.largeheartedboy.com\/blog\/archive\/2010\/02\/book_notes_amy_3.html\">Amy Bloom,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.largeheartedboy.com\/blog\/archive\/2011\/04\/book_notes_aime.html\">Aimee Bender<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.largeheartedboy.com\/blog\/archive\/2014\/05\/book_notes_roxa_2.html\">Roxane Gay,<\/a> and many others.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Cynthia Weiner\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0802158803\/ref=nosim\/largeheartedb-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0593798848\/ref=nosim\/largeheartedb-20\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1952386896\/ref=nosim\/largeheartedb-20\">A Gorgeous Excitement<\/a> is a riveting debut, a coming-of-age novel as hypnotically told as it is suspenseful.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Kirkus wrote of the book:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cTerrific debut . . . the book recalls another excellent true crime\u2013inspired novel, Emma Cline\u2019s The Girls. Carefully paced and beautifully written, this edgy coming-of-age novel succeeds on all counts.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>In her own words, here is Cynthia Weiner\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/largeheartedboy.com\/lhb-book-notes\/\">Book Notes<\/a> music playlist for her debut novel<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0802158803\/ref=nosim\/largeheartedb-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> <\/a><\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0593798848\/ref=nosim\/largeheartedb-20\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1952386896\/ref=nosim\/largeheartedb-20\"><em><strong>A Gorgeous Excitement<\/strong><\/em><\/a><strong><em>:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Music in the 1980s was unabashedly over-the-top\u2014synthesizers, hard-driving guitar riffs, propulsive drum fills\u2014both mirroring and perhaps contributing to the manic energy of the time. My novel, <em>A Gorgeous Excitement<\/em>, takes place in the summer of 1986, with many scenes in an Upper East Side bar called Flanagan\u2019s that has a jukebox. Eighties music is not only ever-present in the background, it also sets the tone, defines the characters, and serves as a jumping-off point for dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>As I put together this playlist, it struck me how many of the songs have a restrained and tense lead-in, a feeling of anticipation, then burst into hyperdrive, much like the arc of the book itself and the experiences of the main characters. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So mix yourself a Long Island iced tea, get out your Dippity-Do, and put on these cassettes for a trip back to the \u201980s.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Cynthia Weiner\u2019s music playlist for her novel A Gorgeous Excitement\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/playlist\/4gEl3dVxvr2R8dKX8mnpqG?si=7b229290f15944d1&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong>\u201cSituation\u201d by Yaz<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t identify \u201cSituation\u201d as the Yaz song playing on the jukebox at Flanagan\u2019s in the first chapter, but that\u2019s the song I heard when I was writing the scene. I imagined Alison Moyet\u2019s deep, commanding voice while Nina Jacobs, the main character, watches guys ogle the sexy girls, and the bar\u2019s windows blur with steam. Nina aches to be ogled, and break free from her good-girl upbringing, a longing that gets her in way over her head by the end of the novel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cBurning Down the House\u201d by the Talking Heads<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A pervy doorman does evening shifts at Nina\u2019s apartment building, so to avoid him, she takes a walk down Third Avenue with the Talking Heads playing on her Walkman. I had a pervy doorman <em>and<\/em> I was crazy about the Talking Heads, and it was really fun to include this scenario in my book, along with one of my favorite songs. That suspenseful opening guitar, that bam to your body when the beat kicks in, and then the lyrics: <em>Watch out<\/em>, <em>you might get what you\u2019re after.<\/em> That would become a kind of warning for the rest of the novel. Of course Nina, having just had what feels like a magic conversation with Gardner Reed, the coolest guy at Flanagan\u2019s, not only doesn\u2019t heed the warning, but hopes that at least once in her life she\u2019ll have the chance to find out why getting what you want could possibly be something to worry about.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cShould I Stay or Should I Go\u201d by The Clash<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nina\u2019s at the jukebox, picking out songs with Gardner Reed right behind her, looking over her shoulder, his breath on the back of her neck. It\u2019s a sexy moment, and I wanted her to pick a sexy song. She picks this one, with that urgent opening guitar riff and the drums pounding through the speakers while Gardner murmurs in her ear: \u201cIt\u2019s always tease tease tease.\u201d RIP Joe Strummer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cAin\u2019t Nobody\u201d by Rufus &amp; Chaka Khan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some things in the novel are more autobiographical than others. I won\u2019t say which one this is, but at eighteen, anxious Nina is already developing a problem with alcohol and prescription pills, which she sneaks from her parents\u2019 medicine cabinet. One of her rituals on nights they\u2019re out is to mix vodka and Diet Coke in a tall glass and put Chaka Khan on the stereo. <em>Ain\u2019t nobody loves me better, <\/em>she sings to the glass, ironically but still meaning it. I wish I could tell Nina that everything would be okay one day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cLet\u2019s Go Crazy\u201d by Prince<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a lot of craziness in the book\u2014euphoria, mania, cocaine\u2014so I thought this frenetic song fit perfectly. It\u2019s another one of those \u201980s songs that starts slow and suspenseful, Prince\u2019s voice reverberating over a funereal organ, and then suddenly gears up with insistent percussion. I\u2019ve got Nina pining for Gardner at Flanagan\u2019s one night, wondering where he is, when \u201cLet\u2019s Go Crazy\u201d starts up and Gardner suddenly appears, lip-syncing Prince into a beer bottle as a crowd gathers around him, commanding the bar as surely (through Nina\u2019s eyes) as Prince himself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cBad Girls\u201d by Donna Summer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nothing says the eighties like a coke-fueled analysis of a Donna Summer song. In a scene set at the Palladium, the fantastically gorgeous nightclub on 14<sup>th<\/sup> Street (which was demolished\u00a0 in the nineties to build an NYU dorm), Nina and her new friend Stephanie approach a wired-looking guy on the balcony in hopes of sharing his cocaine. \u201cBad Girls\u201d is blaring over the club\u2019s sound system, and in a typical coke-ramble, white crumbs speckling his nostrils, the guy launches into a disquisition about the song\u2019s lyrics: \u201c<em>Toot-toot, beep-beep<\/em>,\u201d he urgently explains, \u201cis the call and response between johns and hookers.\u201d Etc., etc., ad infinitum.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cLike a Virgin\u201d by Madonna<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 1983, I randomly saw Madonna perform \u201cEverybody\u201d at a tiny downtown club; no one knew who she was, but everyone was breathless. By the mid-eighties, I and half the girls in America were copying her floppy hair-bows, rubber bracelets and lace leggings in hopes of embodying, or at least displaying, even an eighth of her confidence and swagger. Of course I had to have Nina wear her own home-scissored lace leggings. On the first night she talks to Gardner, he flatteringly calls her \u201cMadonna.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later in the book, \u201cLike a Virgin\u201d playing over the Flanagan\u2019s jukebox prompts a priggish guy in a pink bow tie to ask his date why Madonna thinks anyone wants to hear her sing about what a slut she is. A bit of foreshadowing of the slut-shaming the press and public would engage in when the strangled girl is found dead in Central Park<strong\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cSurfin\u2019 Safari\u201d by the Beach Boys<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although I love the Beach Boys, I used this song in the book to give a group of preppy investment banker types, replete with tortoiseshell glasses and suspenders, something superficial and breezy to sing along to at Flanagan\u2019s at the top of their lungs, to musically contrast with what Nina imagines as Gardner\u2019s tortured darkness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cFly Me to the Moon\u201d sung by Bobby Short<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bobby Short singing \u201cFly Me to the Moon\u201d in Bemelmans Bar at the Carlyle Hotel is as iconic as it gets for \u201980s NYC elegance. As the reader of <em>A Gorgeous Excitement <\/em>comes to learn along with Nina, although Gardner lives in the wealthy, blue-blooded world of the Upper East Side, it\u2019s all a facade. His mother is a nurse, and their rather shabby apartment, by UES standards, is a rental. The pressure his mother exerts on him to pass himself off as one of the privileged elite is a source of conflict and resentment in Gardner, although he does an admirable job of endearing himself to the powerful and wealthy\u2014until, that is, it\u2019s a matter of him or them. After a particularly callous betrayal by his wealthy best friend and his father, Gardner bluffs his way into the father\u2019s Carlyle Hotel apartment while he\u2019s away and, with Nina in tow, trashes it. Before he gets started, he points out the apartment\u2019s grand piano to Nina and says bitterly, \u201cBobby Short taught me \u2018Fly Me to the Moon\u2019 on that fucking piano.\u201d He\u00a0 proceeds to dig a gash in its side with a marble obelisk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cGirl Can\u2019t Help It\u201d by Journey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nina and her private girls\u2019 school friends are city snobs, so it was fun adding a couple of unapologetically brash Long Island girls to the Flanagan\u2019s mix to get under their skin. These are girls who parade around the bar polling guys on topics like: <em>Playboy<\/em> or <em>Penthouse<\/em>? Spit or swallow? and loudly ask who they \u201chave to blow\u201d to get \u201cGirl Can\u2019t Help It\u201d on the jukebox. At that time, in the mid \u201980s, Steve Perry was the epitome of what city girls considered \u2018bridge and tunnel\u2019 tacky: long feathered hair; tight tight pants; soulfully eyefucking the camera in cringey, slapdash videos. (All of that said, there\u2019s more than one Journey song I still like to blast in the car.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI\u2019ve Loved These Days\u201d by Billy Joel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I played a lot of Billy Joel while writing this book. His music was a major part of my eighties. And yeah, people now say the tunes are hacky and the lyrics yearbook-page banal, but I can\u2019t help it: the songs live deep in my heart. The sense of loss in \u201cI\u2019ve Loved These Days\u201d still brings me to tears. When deciding on a song that the dead girl\u2019s friends would quote at her funeral, there was no competition. It had to be that one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cSex Crime (1984)\u201d by the Eurythmics, \u201cDon\u2019t Leave Me This Way,\u201d by The Communards, \u00a0\u201cHer Last Fling,\u201d by Lloyd Cole and The Commotions, \u201cAccidents Will Happen\u201d by Elvis Costello<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A month or two after Jennifer Levin was killed, while the \u201cPreppy Murder\u201d still dominated the news, a journalist friend of mine noticed some cruelly appropriate song titles on the Dorrians\u2019 jukebox and sent a list of them to <em>Spy Magazine<\/em>, which went on to publish it. In the book, I have patrons playing these songs on Flanagans\u2019 jukebox after the news breaks, while gossiping about the dead girl\u2019s reputation. As happened in real life, the handsome killer was widely viewed as a victim himself, or at most an innocent bystander, who got lured into \u201crough sex\u201d by a promiscuous girl and caused her death by accident.<strong\/><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator aligncenter has-alpha-channel-opacity wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"\/>\n<p class=\"wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/largeheartedboy.substack.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/largeheartedboy.substack.com\/\">For book &amp; music links, themed playlists, a wrap-up of Largehearted Boy feature posts, and more, check out Largehearted Boy\u2019s weekly newsletter.<\/a><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator aligncenter has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p><em>Cynthia Weiner has had a long career writing and teaching fiction. Her short stories have been published in Ploughshares, The Sun, and Epiphany, and her story, \u201cBoyfriends,\u201d was awarded a Pushcart Prize. She is also the assistant director of The Writers Studio in New York City. A Gorgeous Excitement, her first novel, was inspired by her upbringing on New York\u2019s Upper East Side in the 1980s, and particularly by the notorious \u201cPreppy Murder\u201d of 1986. Weiner now lives in New York\u2019s Hudson Valley.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator aligncenter has-alpha-channel-opacity wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"\/>\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/largeheartedboy.com\/support-largehearted-boy\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>If you appreciate the work that goes into Largehearted Boy, please consider supporting the site to keep it strong.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. 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