Songs that feel like American Horror Story (2011)
A lurid, campy, gothic fever dream where beauty and terror share a bed, and every haunted outsider is trapped in glamorous, theatrical dread.
- Bad Romance by Lady Gaga: Gaga's gothic-glam excess mirrors the show's grotesque glamour, and she starred in Hotel and Roanoke.
- Season of the Witch by Donovan: Psychedelic, ominous witchery that suits the coven's swagger.
- Dream A Little Dream Of Me by Mama Cass: A sweet old standard turned sinister, in the show's freak-show spirit.
- Every Breath You Take by The Police: Obsessive surveillance dressed as a love song, with the same stalker menace as the show.
- Where Is My Mind? by Pixies: Unraveling sanity and dissonant dread, like life inside the asylum.
- Runaway by AURORA: Ethereal, haunted Nordic pop for the show's beautiful, doomed outsiders.
- Disco 2000 by Pulp: Faded glamour and lost-youth nostalgia, close to the Hotel Cortez's decay.
- Heads Will Roll by Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Dancefloor horror with a punk-glam snarl, as if it were scoring Murder House.
- Spooky by Dusty Springfield: Smoky, noir-lit mystery with a cool, supernatural chill.