Teens can make anything cool. Their social-media superiority launched songs lượt thích “Toosie Slide,” “Old Town Road” và “The Box” khổng lồ No. 1 on the Billboard charts, và every day, pop songs lượt thích Dua Lipa’s “Don’t Start Now” become templates for teens to lớn dance, lip-sync, or act to. But the creative geniuses on TikTok are also discovering (and popularizing) indie songs, international songs, and songs no one has thought of in years, if ever. TikTok has deep cuts — they just have nothing to vị with vinyl records. Now, you can listen to lớn the entire thing instead of 60 seconds or less. Here are some of the songs that TikTokkers have taken from the underground và turned into global memes.
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April 16, 2020
“Criminal” by Britney Spears
Britney Spears is a TikTok star in her own right, but her 2011 tuy vậy “Criminal” pretty much took over the app with the “Mugshot Challenge,” where users recorded themselves applying makeup khổng lồ look roughed up và then posed for a mugshot. It pretty quickly flamed out after YouTuber James Charles posted his pics with a nhái bloody nose và black eye on Twitter with no caption. He was immediately called out for glamorizing abuse, và it led to lớn a larger conversation about the trend diminishing the harsh reality of mass incarceration. The power nguồn of Britney, however, has kept “Criminal” out of the controversy. In fact, the tuy vậy hit a new peak in daily streams, with just over 100,000 listens on April 12. Femme Fatale will never die!
This very specific Nicki Minaj verse has become a double-threat on TikTok, with stars posting both dance routines và #relatable lip-syncs to it. What do we have khổng lồ say other than “Bottoms Up” is a bop that should live forever in the hearts and minds of the children?
Post-Cats Jason Derulo is loving his newfound TikTok fame. He’s already fitting in with Hype House thành viên Addison Rae, as evidenced by their lip-sync lớn “Ridin’ Solo” that has over 3.6 million likes on her page alone. Outside of TikTok royalty, the lyrics “I’m puttin’ on my shades khổng lồ cover up my eyes / I’m jumpin’ in my ride, I’m heading out tonight / I’m solo, I’m ridin’ solo, I’m ridin’ solo, I’m ridin’ solo, solo” have become every single person’s anthem. Did we have “#mood” in 2010? Because it’s still a #mood.
Millennial-Gen Z cusps, where you at? The theme song to True Jackson VP, a 2008 Nickelodeon show starring Keke Palmer, has changed meme format a few times on TikTok. Most recently,
natalieeab paired it with “purple flame” camera effect, which kinda looks lượt thích the effects from the show’s intro, to make a joke about her mom dismissing her depression. Now it’s a template for ironically venting about people getting mad at things you can’t change or for any intangible attribute kindly “leaving your body” on command.
It’s not hard for Drake to lớn get people dancing. I lost a whole summer lớn “One Dance.” But it was kind of random for a snippet of his 2018 tuy nhiên “Nonstop” to go Elizabeth Warren-on-SNL viral.
YouTuber turned singer-songwriter Queen Naija self-released her tuy vậy “Medicine” in 2017, and suffice it to say, it blew up, currently amassing over 100 million views on YouTube. Three years later, the mạng internet is still bumping “Medicine,” this time khổng lồ relatable memes.
There are over 700,000 TikToks with millions of views set to lớn Ultradiox’s tuy vậy “Walked In.” Lizzo’s done the dance, James Charles has done the dance, và TikTok star Addison Rae did the dance on Entertainment Tonight (that TikTok alone has 3.2 million likes). Meanwhile, the SoundCloud rapper only has 3,000 followers on Instagram.
This ode to Timothée Chalamet is set to “Romeo & Juliet” by 2018 Tiny Desk Concert winners Hobo Johnson & the LoveMakers. Lead singer Hobo Johnson (Frank Lopes) kicks off the tuy nhiên with a huge scream of relief, & I think we all understand that feeling. #relatable
Aptly described as “trash and fire at the same time” by a YouTube commenter, Yungster Jack’s “Pressure” is a genre-bending track with a MySpace feel that somehow became the soundtrack for “I’m shy” memes on TikTok.
Here’s how lớn make a teen banger. First, bass line (see Dua Lipa’s “Don’t Start Now”). Next, relatable, self-deprecating, love-struck lyrics. Big “hiding under the covers eating ice cream” energy. For guaranteed virality, địa chỉ an indie darling like Clairo or Gus Dapperton. Congrats, you’ve probably made the bop “Supalonely” by Benee. The teens will be dancing in no time.
This leaked & unreleased Lana Del Rey tuy nhiên from 2013 has been the backdrop for many a TikTok, from “Get Ready With Me” vlogs lớn POVs. The current trend is to lớn make yourself over into a Disney princess, but just a few weeks ago, users were playing it in the background of hot mom checks. Lana would approve.
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The Teenagers, a self-aware band from France, blew up in the mid-2000s, thanks to their breakout hit “Homecoming.” Now, their cult fan hâm mộ base includes TikTokkers, like dancer Haley Sharpe (the inventor of the “Say So” by Doja cat dance — bow in her presence), who lip-sync to lớn it. For fun, NME named “Homecoming” the fourth-best tuy nhiên of the year in 2007 … when Haley was only four or five.
A remixed ’90s club hit, “Walk4Me” is a perfect tuy nhiên for mini lip-synced sketches or for hitting the gym. Wherever you’re at in life.
So, “Pillow Talking” isn’t that old (2017), but it’s also not a song you really listen to every day. Unless you’re like me & have also had it stuck in your head since TikTok decided khổng lồ revive it.
This is the sound for when you are Hustlers-level scamming. Teens use it to make fun of their parents and their significant others, but it also sounds really good next lớn FloMilli, Kash Doll, & Doja cat on a playlist.
There are so many versions of this “Oops” sound, changing up the ending to lớn fit whatever scenario. The tuy nhiên has been sung by Doris Day, Louie Armstrong, and Ella Fitzgerald, but the TikTok version is from big band leader Lawrence Welk.
This tuy nhiên got its start on TikTok through users who would lip-sync “No, I know” or “Love, I know” over the actual lyrics “Não vai não.” Canadian producer Freddie Dredd sampled the lyrics from Portuguese song “David (Odavi)” by Brazilian singer Célia. It became a whole separate trend to lớn dunk on people who were saying “No, I know,” then, it became a trend to not care. Meanwhile, Charlie D’Amelio, the most popular user on TikTok, just danced to lớn it.
Just last month, Houston rapper Don Toliver topped the Billboard Emerging Artists chart. This week, his 2019 tuy vậy “No Idea” peaked at No. 43 after just three weeks on the Hot 100. It probably helps that there are millions of dancing, walking, & couples TikToks set to “No Idea” or a remix, some of those with millions of views alone.
“Prom Queen” is an angsty teen anthem critiquing beauty standards và one of the first indie songs to blow up because of TikTok. Alone, teens lip-sync to lớn the song, pointing out their mom jeans. But a remixed sound uploaded by
maybemarzey cuts “I Look Good” by Texas rapper Chalie Boy (a song from 2009!) in. People of màu sắc use the remix to lớn document how they’ve changed since no longer conforming lớn white standards of beauty; now, it’s about hyping yourself up instead of comparing flaws.
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