#Under Pressure by Queen and David Bowie

[fracturedsunsets]

currently imagining remus and sirius jamming out to under pressure, and once it leads up to bowies part, they’re belting out the lyrics while looking into each other’s eyes, so pumped until they both stand up and jump around each other like possessed monkeys. but once the song slows down, they’re breathing heavily and still staring into each others eyes. the air around them thickens, and they realize they were holding hands the whole time…

they’re frozen in time. the lyrics ringing in sirius' head,

this is our last dance

he thinks “fuck it,” pulls remus' shirt and kisses him HARD.

[lucyxlz]

as a fandom, i think we’ve all agreed that remus’ favourite artist was david bowie and sirius’ favourite band was queen.

david bowie and queen made a song together called “under pressure” and was released in november 2nd, 1981.

two days after sirius and remus’ best friends passed away.

they couldn’t even enjoy it together because sirius was already sent off to azkaban.

i’ve never known a day of peace in my life.

[folklur13]

after sirius escaped from azkaban

remus: "bowie and queen released song together a few days after you got arrested btw."

sirius: "THEY DID WH-"*accidentally turns into a dog out of sheer shock and starts running around in circles breaking the whole house.*

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Queen - Under Pressure

[henry-fox-biggest-stan]

I have a very very clear vision of the st5 ending. Not particularly what I think is gonna happen, just what I think would be cool.

Prom, we all know this, except they don't go. They ditch prom, but still dance. Just at one of their houses (my guess is either the byers cause Joyce is great or mike's basement. Probably mike's basement cause safe space and all that). All the party is ditching together.

Under Pressure by Bowie is playing. The Can't we give ourselves one more chance? / Why can't we give love that one more chance? / Why can't we give love, give love, give love, give love / Give love, give love, give love, give love? / 'Cause love's such an old-fashioned word / And love dares you to care for / The people on the edge of the night / And love dares you to change our way of / Caring about ourselves part.

They're not dressed up, they're wearing comfortable clothing that you look at it and just think "this is so them". Everyone is dancing with everyone. Not just byler (and lumax is max wakes up) but also will and Dustin. Mike and Lucas. Max and el. Mike and el. Max and dustin. Will and el. Dustin and Lucas. Max and will. Lucas and will. El and Lucas. Max and mike. Dustin and el. Max and dustin. Etc. They're changing partners and having a wonderful upbeat time.

Camera goes changing from shot to shot. We see jancy (maybe college, maybe another place), we see robin (perhaps rockie). We see jopper. Maybe they're dancing in the kitchen, maybe there cooking together, maybe they're sharing a smoke. Steve either with robin (if she's not with Vickie) or somewhere idk. Karen, maybe preparing dinner humming with holly on the table. Etc etc. Maybe Suzie is also there, or the camera pans to her on her house, also having a good time on her own.

I know you all want byler prom but aside from the fact that it's the 80s (so if they wanted to dance together they'd still skip) I just don't really want that. If we get it I'll be super happy but I don't think it's the best decision.

The show is after all about love, but not necessarily romantic. We saw it in S3, prioritizing romantic relationships over friendship is shitty. It's about the love the byers have of will that saved him, the love of his friends that saved him. It's about mike jumping off a cliff for Dustin and Lucas desperately trying to save max despite the fact that she broke up with him. It's about robin laughing after coming out to Steve, about Nancy crying over barb, about the mall scene with el and max, about dnd nights. Idk. I just think ending the show with only romantic moments when we have seen in s3 that friendship should not be casted aside feels kinda cheap. Obviously byler would still dance but it would be a contrast with snowball (heteronormative, dressing up in clothes they either don't like (mike) or doing their hair in ways thats just not them (dustin), everyone in pairs).

This is our last dance / This is our last dance / This is ourselves

Dark screen.

Under pressure

Credits roll in.

[tomwambsgays]

pressure on people, people on streets

[squirrelxoxo]

Ok but imagine if Under Pressure was released on the day Remus and Sirius had their first kiss.

[procrastiel]

‘Cause love's such an old-fashioned word

And love dares you to care for

The people on the edge of the night

And love dares you to change our way of

Caring about ourselves

This is our last dance

This is our last dance

This is ourselves

under pressure.

[blinkandyoumissit]

04 NOV 2021 | ABC Queen Family Singalong • Fall Out Boy - "Under Pressure"

[ note: the audio in the original video only comes through the left channel - i uploaded a copy with fixed audio that comes through both sides here! ]

[the80s]

Can you?

[you-me-we-04]

I'm having a vision, the vision is a fight scene in Umbrella Academy Season 4 maybe in a ratty dive bar or an abandon mall with Five, Klaus and maybe Luther?/Elliott? set to Under Pressure but not the 1981 version but rather the 2004 cover by MCR and The Used bonus points if this is also the scene that has the fated Gerard Way cameo

[lyricalmusingstuff]

That's the TERROR of knowing what this WORLD is about.

[moonythepotato]

James and Lily died two days before ‘Under Pressure‘ was released in the UK. So they either managed to find a way to get an early copy from the US or they never got to listen to this masterpiece and I know they would have loved it.

[orchideous-nox]

this is our last dance - a lie low at lupin's microfic

Gonna apologise now, I guess? Got a bit angsty.

I listened to this song a few too many times after watching an X-Men edit (it was Cherik in case you were curious) and then just started writing.

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Queen + David Bowie – Under Pressure

[not-the-coffee-machine4]

I want to find whoever’s idea it was to put Rock Montreal on Disney+ looking like it was filmed yesterday with my own two eyeballs and kiss them on the mouth