I remember when we were all plannin on bringing back the roaring 20s for this century cause god damn what that a fun decade; and I've kept it up, for me I've brought it back as much as my crippling and decaying mental health can allow. 8)
@@sarahgonzales5598 kind of, since vivzie said in a stream that she always intended alastor to speak and sing with a transatlantic accent (a made up mix of british and american affect commonly learned by real-life old time american stage, screen, and radio performers intended to sound “more classy” than a typical american accent) and even based his voice off of that of the fictional depression-era radio broadcaster bert healy from the broadway musical annie!
Though technically, Alastor is a jazz baby. The swing era is generally considered to have begun in 1933, the year of Al's demise. His microphone speech effects not only mirror the radio broadcasts of his time, but evoke the insanely popular crooner Rudy Vallee (who used a megaphone onstage to amplify his voice). If Viv lets Alastor do an intimate, era-appropriate song of that nature, we'll probably all die.
@@strawberryhellcat4738 technically yes, but I think the logic is that a radio broadcaster and generally socially aware person in the early 1930s such as alastor would have already conceptualized the term “swing” in its earliest usage (the term has been recorded in use to describe the jazz subgenre as early as 1930 and saw its first mainstream usage around 1932, the year before alastor’s death, in duke ellington’s jazz standard featuring the vocals of ivie anderson entitled “it don’t mean a thing (if it ain’t got that swing”), implying that the jazz era was already in full “swing” at least a year or two prior to alastor’s death (let me live for making that pun PLEASE 💀) but personally, if we’re trying to be more period accurate for him, I’m OBSESSED with al’s showtunes era 😂 he sang and tap danced on stage at least once and you can’t convince me otherwise!! also if you like the crooner style, black gryph0n (the singing voice of alastor from the pilot) sang a cover of the song “I don’t want to set the world on fire” as popularized by the ink spots. it dropped a bit after alastor’s time (written 1938 and released 1941) but I still find it very much worth recommending if you haven’t heard it already!
