Citations:songfic

Noun: "(countable, fandom slang) a fanfic that incorporates song lyrics and/or uses them as inspiration for its plot"

 * 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:
 * 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.
 * 2008, Ernest L. Bond & Nancy L. Michelson, "Writing Harry's World: Children Co-authoring Hogwarts", in Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter (ed. Elizabeth E. Heilman), page 320:
 * The term 'songfic' is used to refer to fan fiction written to accompany an existing song, original lyrics that are connected to the Harry Potter world, or even fiction in which a character listening to a particular song becomes part of the narrative.
 * 2008, Mirror Images Popular Culture and Education, page 132:
 * For instance, Nanako sometimes composes what are known as songfics (songfictions) and moviefics (moviefictions), which are stories based on the lyrics of songs and elements of movies respectively (Fanfiction Glossary, 2005).
 * 2017, Janet K. Halfyard, Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, page 130:
 * 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, "Acknowledgements," in Ashley Poston, Geekerella: A Fangirl Fairy Tale, page 320:
 * 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.
 * 2018, Jennifer Lee Rossman, "The Courtship Dance", in The Tangled Web (ed. Lauren Lyn Cidell), page 142:
 * She scrambled to shut off the music and smooth out her dress--a futile act in zero-G, but, like the title of the songfic she'd written in high school about John MacLean teaming up with an aging nun said, Old Habits Die Hard--and opened the door as soon as he knocked.
 * 2019, Breanna Todd & Catherine Ann Armstrong Soule, "Brands, Fans, and Exchanges: Differentiating Between Fandoms, Transactional and Social Brand Communities, and Brand Publics", in Handbook of Research on the Impact of Fandom in Society and Consumerism ed. Chenglu Wang), page 66:
 * Songfics are stories built around the premise of a song, with lyrics used throughout as relevant to the plot.

Noun: "(uncountable, fandom slang) such fan fiction collectively"

 * 2004, Science Fiction Studies, Volume 31, Issue 3, November 2004, page 499:
 * Essays on form might address real person fiction, role-playing games, and songfic.
 * 2007, Toni Johnson-Woods, Blame Canada! South Park and Contemporary Culture, page 52:
 * There is crossover fiction, which blends two differing, separate stories or shows; slash fiction, which romantically links characters of the same gender; femslash or Saffic; oneshots, Mary Sues (new characters added to the story, derided for its obviousness as a plot device), and even songfic (Love And Other Four Letter Words).
 * 2011, Colin Lankshear & Michele Knobel, New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Social Learning, page 110:
 * Most fanfic is written as narrative, although songfic and poetryfic also are popular forms and some fanfictions are carried as manga drawings and comics.
 * 2012, Graeme Burk & Robert Smith, Who Is the Doctor The Unofficial Guide to Doctor Who: The New Series, unnumbered page:
 * Then there's the songfic: writing a whole story just so you can play your favourite songs is, surely, every kid's dream.
 * 2016, V. Innocenti, G. Pescatore, & L. Rosati, "Converging Universes and Media Niches in Serial Narratives: An Approach Through Information Architecture", in Media Convergence Handbook - Vol. 2 (eds. Artur Lugmayr & Cinzia Dal Zotto), page 148:
 * The fan feedback/production comes in different formats: written productions (short stories, screenplays, poems) that coexist with fan art (graphics, posters, photomontages), songfic (fans create songs on the basis of existing songs, and change the lyrics by inserting references to the world of the show they admire)
 * 2017, Valeria Franceschi, Exploring Plurilingualism in Fan Fiction: ELF Users as Creative Writers, page 173:
 * In addition to longer switches, the corpus also included songfic based on songs that are originally not in English.
 * 2017, Janet K. Halfyard, Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, page 129:
 * 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, Kylie Peppler, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Out-of-School Learning, unnumbered page:
 * Other types of fan fiction include, but are not limited to, hurt comfort (a hurt character is comforted by another), songfic (fictions that incorporate the lyrics of a song), and drabble (exactly 100 words in length).
 * 2019, Breanna Todd & Catherine Ann Armstrong Soule, "Brands, Fans, and Exchanges: Differentiating Between Fandoms, Transactional and Social Brand Communities, and Brand Publics", in Handbook of Research on the Impact of Fandom in Society and Consumerism ed. Chenglu Wang), page 66:
 * Fanfiction can be written in a number of genres such as romance/OTP (one true pairing), crossover/AU (alternative universe), songfic, or any of the more conventional genres (drama, historical fiction, mystery, etc.).
 * 2021, Shawn Edrei, The New Fiction Technologies: Interactivity, Agency and Digital Narratology, pages 53-54:
 * 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).