"With You Among the Stars" was a ballad by the band Plexo-33 that featured a glissando in its first notes, recognizable to those who had heard it before. The song was considered an "oldie"[1] by 5 BBY,[2] having been released long before then. A human resident of the planet Lothal, Merei Spanjaf, hated the song. When she awoke one morning and heard her datapad alarm playing "With You Among the Stars," Spanjaf was so irritated that she immediately launched herself out of bed to silence the "treacly ballad" as she recognized the glissando. She then switched the music to a heavy-isotope remix.[1]
Behind the scenes
- "Merei's alarm is a song she hates—a treacly ballad called 'With You Among the Stars.' I thought that was a revealing and funny character moment for her."
- ―Jason Fry
"With You Among the Stars" first appeared via a datapad in the 2015 junior novel Servants of the Empire: Rebel in the Ranks, written by Jason Fry.[1] Fry considered the moment where Spanjaf silences "With You Among the Stars" to be a funny and revealing character moment.[3]
Appearances
- Servants of the Empire: Rebel in the Ranks (First appearance) (via datapad)
Sources
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Servants of the Empire: Rebel in the Ranks
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Star Wars: Timelines dates the events of Servants of the Empire: Rebel in the Ranks to 5 BBY. The novel also establishes that the ballad had been written long before its events.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1
Jason Fry's Dorkery — Notes: Rebel in the Ranks, Pt. 1 on Tumblr (backup link)
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