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songfic en · NOUN

Etymology

From song + fic.

Meanings

1. (countable, slang) A fanfic that incorporates song lyrics and/or uses them as inspiration for its plot.
   • 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. 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
   • 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. 2017, "Acknowledgements," in Ashley Poston, Geekerella: A Fangirl Fairy Tale, page 320
   • 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, Janet K. Halfyard, Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, page 130:
2. (slang, uncountable) Such fan fiction collectively.
   • […] 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). 2021, Shawn Edrei, The New Fiction Technologies: Interactivity, Agency and Digital Narratology, pages 53–54:
   • 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. 2017, Janet K. Halfyard, Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, page 129:
   • In addition to longer switches, the corpus also included songfic based on songs that are originally not in English. 2017, Valeria Franceschi, Exploring Plurilingualism in Fan Fiction: ELF Users as Creative Writers, page 173:

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