One of the interesting things about doing these polls is seeing how going through each decade starts to feel like a countdown to some great cultural moment. I imagine the 60s polls will feel like a countdown to Beatlemania, the 70s to disco, the 80s to the MTV era, the 90s to grunge, the 00s to the mp3 era, and the 10s to streaming. And the 50s felt like a countdown to Elvis Presley.
So much has already been said about Elvis, from his "King of Rock and Roll" moniker; to his producer' Sam Phillips' infamous quote about making a billion dollars using a white man to make Black music; to the numerous controversies and legends that could only be attached to a figure of this level of cultural impact -- for better or for worse. As many know, one of the Elvis songs featured in this poll, Hound Dog, was a cover of the blues song originally recorded by Big Mama Thornton. For the sake of these polls, the songs will be voted based on the versions that reached the Billboard charts. However, I still found it important to highlight the song's origins. Many may also know that his rendition of Hound Dog lead to an outrage of controversy, because he had the audacity to move his h*ps on The Milton Berle Show.
If you disregard Elvis the Pelvis, however, the top of the 1956 charts may not feel all that different from prior years. We still see a lot of the traditional pop, vocal quartets, and jazz standards we've grown accustomed to. Which makes sense. Not only do changes rarely happen overnight, but the full snapshot of the culture at any given time can rarely be seen in the Billboard charts -- much less the top ten picks from said chart. However, something is definitely different.
In my opinion, the most telling evidence of this change isn't Elvis Presley. It's Kay Starr's Rock and Roll Waltz. For one, it's a novelty song -- a style of music popular in this decade and will only see more popularity as we move into the 60s. But it goes beyond that. The joke of the song is that the narrator of the song sees her parents try to dance the waltz to this new "rock and roll" music, and she's commenting on the absurdity of it. As the song says, "it's old, but it's new". Some less charitable modern listeners may even call it the "how do you do, fellow kids?" of 1956. That's how you know that something is shifting in the culture, and record labels are scrambling to catch up.
In addition to the change in sound, 1956 also brings us an expanded Billboard Chart to pull from. With more young people listening to their own music, charts began to focus more on retail record sales, rather than performances in public venues like previous years. However, we're still a few years away from the Billboard Top 100.
So in your tangled au, how are Dream's relationships with others? I get that Sam and Q are negative but what about Gogy (also how does George know Sam and why does Sam allows him to see Dream?) or Punz (ig Punz is positive but gotta ask)
And does Dream meet more people once he gets out of tower? If so how does he feel about them?
dream meets SO many people when he gets out. so so so many.
first person outside of sam and q that he meets is george, because sam lets george in to give dream a... friend. the next is punz, who flynn rider style climbs up the tower to escape pursuit and gets tied to a chair by some weirdo with long hair who sees him as a way out. punz goes along with it because it seems like the right thing to do and then spends the next So Long regretting ever letting doing the right thing govern his decisions. becomes very interested again when he finds out dreams hair has magic fucking powers and starts trying to be friends.
I think the next people dream would meet would be the hunters, followed by technoblade, whos the kings right hand. general, second in command, etc. technoblade is the only one who recognizes dream, of the ones who knew him as a kid. and tries to befriend him to get him to come back to the castle. trouble is dreams with punz. punz has A History with techno. and so when punz finds out dreams been chatting with techno?? theyre outta there.
dream also meets tommy, whos the royal familys adopted son. they get on pretty well. tommy sneaks out of the palace a lot and so they get to form a bit of a friendship while dream and punz are in the city. once dream realizes who he is theres a small period of time where he worries tommy might have been his replacement. same golden hair, and hes such a sweet kid, no wonder the family picked him over trying to get dream back :(.
Dream SMP however it's the Twisted Boys doing the roleplay.
They were recording it because why not and did not expect the popularity it would get.
Yuu is Wilbur. Especially with the cursed lore. There have been many attempts to get them to stop. They all failed.
Riddle basically has Bad's roleplay role and is quite proud of The Egg Arc.
Ace is Tommy and Epel is Dream. Deuce is Tubbo. Sebeck is Sapnap. And Jack is George because he's not that into the heavy stuff.
You chose who everyone else is essentially playing as. Just wanted to share this.
*Laughs in 10 steps ahead of you*
I actually have like a few pages in a notebook about this. The cast list goes as follows:
Dream: Lilia (Mainly because Diasomnia is a strong af group and they do fit the “intimidating enemies” vibe.)
George: Malleus (Mainly because of King George in that one arc, plus with the lore of Dream and George being very close during that time. Though Jade takes George’s role during the Manberg/Pogtopia arc)
Sapnap: Silver (I find it funny that Silver, who is calm and also really low energy, is Sapnap, who has very high energy.)
Tommy: Ace (Come on, it’s obvious. Those two would be friends if Tommy traveled to Twisted Wonderland)
Tubbo: Deuce (Also very obvious. Tommy and Tubbo are a duo as much as Ace and Deuce.)
Wilbur: Epel (MMMMMM, Epel going batshit insane is a)
Fundy: Jack (...furry-) (No actually I think it’d be really cool for Jack, who has a strong moral compass betray his own morals just to keep up a spy act.)
Eret: Sebek (HAHAHHAHAHAHA, IT FITS BECAUSE SEBEK WOULD TOTALLY BETRAY THEM FOR LILIA AND MALLEUS)
Niki: Trey (Baker :) Also it’s fitting that Trey would be the one to kill Ace)
Techno: Leona (C’mon, his attitude matches DSMP! Techno, and he totally would be an anarchist.)
BBH: Kalim (Egg Arc :)))) Kalim would totally let himself be possessed for the sake of Jamil)
Skeppy: Jamil (Egg Arc :) Also best friends with Kalim obvs)
Sam: Vil (I...have no exact reason for this. I just think it fits for some reason. Maybe because Warden Vil sounds really cool???)
Antfrost: Rook (Cats have night vision, Rook canonically has good vision. Also, that one bit where Tommy, Techno, and Tubbo made Ant into an S-L-A-V-E? Hilarious if the cast did that)
Schlatt: Azul (Slimy business man? He would totally kick out Epel and Ace lmao)
Quackity: Floyd (I MADE THIS BEFORE QUACKITY’S PRISON STREAMS AND OOOHHH MY GOOOODD, I’M SHAKING FLOYD WOULD DO THAT IF HE WASN’T RESTRAINED)
Punz: Ruggie (Both do stuff for a price, literally makes the most sense)
Jack Manifold: Riddle (Riddleland :0 and also he totally would help Deuce make nukes with his big brain and use them to attempt to murder Ace with them)
Philza: Crowley (I feel like this one is obvious???)
Ranboo: Othro ( :))) Othro angst where he remembers nothing. Deuce adopts Othro for the tax benefits.)
Puffy: Yuu (THERAPIST ANYONE????)
Karl: Cater (Cater documents his life a lot, like Karl documenting his own adventures.
Foolish: Idia (Idia is from the dorm based on a Greek God. Foolish is a God. Enough said. Also getting sacrificed for an Egg cult is tragic and hilarious)
Anyways, even if this is my general idea, your idea sounds amazing! I’ve written a lot of other DreamSMP inspired ideas on my blog, involving Yuu, Rook, and Jamil being Tubbo, Techno, and Eret on their way to beat up Crowley (Sam) for taking Grim (Micheal). There was also another time where I wrote Tubbo’s Checkmate scene with our classic quartet.
I like your castings, though! I totally agree that Yuu would be the one to make up cursed lore (”I gave birth to Grim, he’s my son, and his other parent is a tree!”) I also like Riddle being BBH, which means Trey would probably be Skeppy, and WHOOO BOY THE ANGST. Thinking about Sebek as Sapnap does make sense, and I could totally see him and Ace fighting early in the SMP. Though, idk about Jack being Gogy, since George basically sleeps a lot, which I don’t see Jack doing at all.
Anyways, that’s just my cup of tea. I really like this idea tho! :0
so originally i was thinking that this piece could somehow be in place of the usual turtleneck that people give manhunt george?? but then the lovely @cayjno pointed out that wait no actually,, king!george would rock this entirely better
so imagine this is apart of king george’s outfit??? how cute? a royal necklace of sorts?? and then imagine dream helping him put it on and george complaining that it’s “itchy and annoying” (it just tickles) 🥺
but then also embaaa,, i was thinking that it could actually work quite well for your au 👀 imagine demon!dream gifts this to george as a present,, and then during tickles gets to play around with the feathers with his fingers? like running his hand through them and bending them to trace over gogy’s neck. like just to get lil giggles out of him 🥺 or to build anticipation hehe. feckin cute
Do you guys have any current favourite songs !?? - Silly George anon :]
HI GOGY!!! You caught my attention because I could talk about music for hours (if you guys wanna answer too, phil and wil, edit this or reblog it maybe. let's all chat)
it's worth saying that i LOVE musicals so any fuckin musical ever will make me go feral, especially BMC, but outside of broadway i guess i fall into an indie rock sort of thing that extends into other subgenres. (currently listening to metamodernity by vansire if that is any reference)
i think music is important to wil, too, cos he did it in source with techno. and also i made him a spotify playlist, and he made one for when we play games together, and we music vc a lot. (or used to until he GOT BUSY!!! COME BACK BITCH)
if there's ever a music bot in discord you can look away for 5 secs and trust me to flood the queue
i've got an entire playlist that i just filled with songs i loop everyday. everytime i start looping a new song, i toss it in. so i'll just list that, it's my bestest reference!
THE BASED INNIT PLAYLIST:
The Bidding - Tally Hall
Teenagers - MCR
Now Or Never! Remix - panpan
Notion - The Rare Occasions
Back to the Old House - The Smiths
Honeypie - JAWNY
I Love You Like An Alcoholic - The Taxpayers
Scrawny - Wallows
Touch-Tone Telephone - Lemon Demon
Romantic Homicide - d4vd
The Mind Electric- Miracle Musical
Mary On A Cross - Ghost
priorities - yot club
Harness Your Hopes - B-side - Pavement
Thermodynamic Lawyer, Esq - Will Wood & the tapeworms
Choke - IDKHOW
Looking Out For You - Joy Again
No Time To Explain - Good Kid
Dance, Baby! - boy pablo
Blow My Brains Out - Tikkle Me
Tangled Up - Caro Emerald
Soldier, Poet, King - The Oh Hellos
Oh No! - MARINA
Stress Relief - late night drive home
This Side Of Paradise - Coyote Theory
Sparrow - The Rare Occasions
Bug Eyes - The Rare Occasions
Seasick - The Rare Occasions
cold weather - glass beach
Aglow - The Rare Occasions
Loans - The Rare Occasions
for some reason it isn't in my loops playlist, but khai dreams fucks too! i put really basic songs but what can i say. it's godly
what kinda music do you like? i like learning more songs n shit :D (everyone ask me more about music. it's so special)
I’m honestly really glad that Jack is being bought into this conversation because I’ve not been able to watch any of his content or even view him the same after that whole incident and it genuinely still confuses me how so many people across various social media platforms viewed his explanation as such a great and well thought out think piece of misogyny and cancel culture and go Jack you really put them in their place king 👑 like fuck all the way off, how dare he sit there and say that the women and girls who found his comment misogynistic were themselves misogynistic and he wasn’t actually mocking girls for their interests like the majority of people! Oh wow thank you so much Jack, you’re so right the people who’ve experienced misogyny most of their lives don’t know what it actually is but you do ugh thank you so much for explaining it to us! Stupid bald bitch 😒 That whole situation also pointed out how fake so many ccs can be because Jack is all to happy to milk every last bit of views and engagement he can from George and his whole “I love gogy” routine but the moment he’s in a room with his peers of gross misogynistic gamer men who shit on girls any chance they they can he was reeeeeal quick to change his tune.
crazy stuff he said guys all im saying is that george's fanbase is so intense and insane slash a little neg because it's full of overexcited and sensitive 15yo girls who don't know how to control their emotions. like. ok. sadly i can control my emotions bc if i didn't i would've used ur head as a soccer ball