in middle school backstreet boys and nsync were my special interest so when someone had this playlist suggestion, i actually took the time to pull up old tracklistings and listen to snips of songs to go my memory and find the campiest and most over-the-top boy band songs
playlist of songs steven smith would sing on american dad:
+ heat it up - 98 degrees
+ have some fun (with the funk) - aaron carter
+ i need love, the riddle, you got it, giddy up - nsync
+ digital getdown, just got paid - nsync
+ celebrity, the game is over, tell me tell me baby, see right through you, just don't tell me that- nsync (separated by era)
+ it's gotta be you, get down (you're the one for me), that's the way i like it, if you want it to be good girl (get yourself a bad boy), hey mr dj (keep playing this song) - backstreet boys
+ backdoor lover - dujour (yes that dujour)
+ calculus - 2Gether
+ when the lights go out - 5ive
+ can i get your number - no authority
tell me you can't picture this animated by seth mcfarlane
btw the cultural appropriation in these songs is OFF THE CHARTS, just as a heads up. the backstreet boys literally worked with michael jackson's choreographer, fatima robinson
Just Dance OCs that aren't fankids?? Say it ain't so!
Meet Wendy and Uriah: she's a frozen treat business heiress from Winterhaven, he's a pyromaniac resistance fighter from Wasterra, and together, they live an unlikely romance, having found in each other exactly what they needed.
So this requires a little bit of 'splaining... As of recently, I've been keeping up with Courtney Presto's album cover swatching series on TikTok (and following my personal request, she told me she had videos for Take That and Five in the works—put a pin on that!).
One of the videos from that series, where she speculates about the color story of Taylor Swift's next album, stood out to me. You guys should probably know how I feel on Taylor Swift by now (if you don't, let's just say I wish she'd stop squatting her nonexistent ass all over the charts and go away already), so when I saw the palette she came up with, my mind went "Let's come up with something for these colors before Taylor can get to them". The pink and blue together made me think of this new fragrance from O Boticário, Egeo Dolce Illusion, which I tried recently and fell in love with right off the bat; I can't wait to go back there and actually buy it. Apparently the fragrance is meant to smell like strawberry sorbet and marshmallow, and from there, came the idea of creating Wendy. I do have a history of liking coaches who are cutesy girls with dessert motifs; in fact, Wendy is besties with Chiffon! Before anyone asks, her establishing song is Sweet Talk by Samantha Jade; it was the first song that came to me for the concept and it just felt right.
As Uriah... Remember when I mentioned requesting Courtney to do a video color swatching Five's albums? You see, I'm not the most patient person, so I decided to try my hand at it so I could have an idea of what to expect from her. As it turns out, when it comes to the three most predominant colors of each album cover, it's actually warm hues feature the most (even when you don't take Time into account). And all the predominant warm hues made a pretty cohesive palette when put together, one which worked quite well with the idea for an If Ya Gettin' Down coach that I had been workshopping. Y'know, with all the Kalishplosions pyro in the music video and during its performances in Five's reunion tour... He's the fire to Wendy's ice, she's the sugar to his spice, it works. Obviously his design is mainly inspired by Abz's iconic look from the music video, but I threw in some elements inspired by the other members of Five too (e.g. the eyebrow ring like the one J had back in the day).
And yes, I know it's a bit counter-intuitive to post OCs inspired by color palettes before actually coloring them in, but I've become obsessed with these two since creating them and I couldn't hold back the gushing for too long. They turned out so precious!!
