Okay so in the Netherlands we have a music top 2000 list between christmas and new years, in the beginning of december you can vote for 35 songs and then with everyones votes the top 2000 gets made, and like it is a whole thing my family will have the radio in like almost 24/7 and I know a friend actually has alarm clocks for when songs she voted for will be played.
But that is not the thing I wanna talk about specificly, cause Heatwaves from the glass animals entered the list this year at number 1512 and like after voting you can also fill in a little questionlist or like give your reasons why you voted for a song. But the reasoning the radio host gave for the song entering so high is "Ye a lot of people said that summer was their favourite season and they go on sunny holidays" while all of us know the only reason Heatwaves got this high for just entering is because of Heat waves by tbhyourelame the dreamnotfound fanfic.
Like I know the fanfic ended in 2021 so like why didnt it enter the list last year, but I will not believe the reasoning in entered this high because people like summer, no it is because of dnf and everyone who knows knows.
The meetup vlog feels like the perfect end to this era. Dream acting flabbergasted when George tells him that he actually has his visa, George’s anticipation before the FaceTime call, saying goodbye to Wilbur and literally only Wilbur, the stupid flight shenanigans being the last time we will ever see George alone, Sapnap picking him up with a hug and a few goofs, and finally the moment Dream and George see each other.
The fact that they hugged while Heat Waves was playing is what did it for me. I cried a little bit, mainly because it felt like the final scene before the credits of my favorite TV show. Nothing will ever be like what the 2020-2022 DreamSMP Dream Team era was. Nothing will ever match the pining, the jackbox streams, the Twitter banter, the jokes, begging George for a lore stream, late night discord podcasts, the quiz, the cooking streams, the insanity that was everything surrounding Heat Waves, the manhunts, and everything else I’m forgetting to mention. It all happened with the barrier of discord and an ocean between Dream and George. Somehow, even as everyone else gradually started to meet up, that one fact kept this part of their lives in the same section. And now it’s over. It ended with a hug that happened on the beat drop of the very song that defined this time in my life, and I’m sure their lives as well. How fitting.
I’m not going to lie, there’s a part of me that’s a little sad that this season is over. I’ll miss it. But the vods are still there. The art and the fics and the videos are all still there. And at the end of the day, even as I watch the credits roll at the end of this long, emotionally harrowing, breathtaking show, I could not be more excited for season 2. I’m sure that Sapnap, George, and Dream are as well. Probably even more so than I am.
Cheers to a new era, my friends. Can’t wait to see where these goofs take us.
giggle i gotta say I GOTTA SAY extremely ironic of this guy to say 'awesome song choice it's so well known' YOU DONT THINK GEORGE KNOWS THAT?) 5€5 HE WAS HALF THE CULPRIT WHY ITS SO WELL KNOWN the song didn't make the dnf the dnf made the song
glass animals released tour dates for their upcoming album which means i simply have to buy tickets. just because lord huron rearranged my psyche in 2021 does NOT mean i forgot how GA rearranged my psyche in 2020
I feel so bad for Glass animals but at the same time its so funny that both of the most popular songs they ever made are both the ones that traumatised a fanbase.