Glass Animals Perform "Heat Waves" in Abandoned Amusement Park

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Making the most of the creativity afforded to pandemic performances, Glass Animals perform "Heat Waves" off their album Dreamland at the abandoned yet aptly-named Dreamland amusement park on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

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The fact that this song continues to gain momentum and rise on the charts now, nearly 10 months

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[musicnkisses]

This song lowkey slaps, I love it so much. Glad to see they got some success.

Also link this fanfic. How big does a fanfic have to be for the readers of it to stream a song and make a non-negligible dent in the charts?

[peasantings]

It’s a locked fanfic that you can only read if you are a member of AO3, but every time it updated it would break the servers because apparently like 10,000+ people would go read it immediately. I thiiiink it’s the second most popular fanfic of all time on there already and it’s been like months?

[fourkicks]

They have way better songs. How this song catapulted to the top of Australian charts astounds me.

[pornography]

Ok I had to research the fanfic thing further:
"Late last year, ‘Heat Waves’ inspired a piece of fanfiction of the same name about two popular Minecraft YouTubers named Dream and Georgenotfound. Between them, the pair of streamers have over 21 million subscribers, and ‘dnf’ is short for Dreamnotfound - the ship name for the pair.

The ‘Heat Waves’ fanfic went viral among the Minecraft YouTuber community which opened up the song to a whole new audience discovering Glass Animals for the first time.

“I burn you?” “You melt me”, is a phrase from a pivotal moment in the fanfic where the unrequited YouTubers begin to express their true feelings.

Searching #heatwaves on TikTok produces thousands of posts dedicated to the unrequited love of Dreamnotfound, scored by Glass Animals. And it’s the same deal on nearly other social platform."

[snuffyqui45]

Bruh...

[turtleisland]

lmao wtf

[formisscaulker]

what

[turtleisland]

I just woke up and this song was in my head and this is the first post I see lol.

[stewie_e]

I had this song on heavy rotation in the Summer of 2016.