Meaning of songfic | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A fanfic that incorporates song lyrics and/or uses them as inspiration for its plot.
   countable, slang
2. Such fan fiction collectively.
   slang, uncountable

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“In addition to longer switches, the corpus also included songfic based on songs that are originally not in English.”

“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.”

“[…] 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).”

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