https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w
how will you celebrate 2B views?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 30 November 2018 01:50 (five years ago) link
https://rollingout.com/2018/10/30/watch-as-a-toddler-does-battle-with-alexa-over-baby-shark-song-video/
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 30 November 2018 07:08 (five years ago) link
By watching that video because it’s so ridiculously cute.
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but Baby Shark > Crazy Frog, and I’m glad I’m a parent now and wasn’t then.
― Madchen, Friday, 30 November 2018 07:13 (five years ago) link
i just played baby shark in berghain right now— 🥀⛓ 𝖍𝖊 𝖛𝖆𝖑𝖊𝖓𝖈𝖎𝖆 ⛓🥀 (@HE_VALENCIA) November 10, 2018
― ogmor, Friday, 30 November 2018 10:09 (five years ago) link
i can make my five-month-old daughter roar with delight just by singing the opening 'bayyyyy-beeeee'
there aren't many things that can evoke that reaction just from one word and two notes - this song has some ocean-deep magickal power imo
― dude the new bond girl’s gonna be named ‘firehose o’piss’ (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 30 November 2018 10:41 (five years ago) link
Berghain jumps the (baby) shark.
― Madchen, Friday, 30 November 2018 11:15 (five years ago) link
awesome jam
― nxd, Friday, 30 November 2018 11:50 (five years ago) link
Expecting baby shark to make the top 30 of the tracks poll
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 30 November 2018 12:15 (five years ago) link
Xmas no 1.
― Mark G, Friday, 30 November 2018 12:16 (five years ago) link
i sent that He_Valencia Beghain tweet to a DJ friend and now he's cursing me because he'd been blissfully ignorant of bs until then.
― brokenshire (jed_), Friday, 30 November 2018 12:17 (five years ago) link
EDM version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsHSvZmrBHo
― emil.y, Friday, 30 November 2018 13:10 (five years ago) link
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, November 30, 2018 12:15 PM (fifty-five minutes ago)
I'm not gonna nominate it, but if someone else does I'm definitely voting for it.
― emil.y, Friday, 30 November 2018 13:11 (five years ago) link
It's a deal, I will nominate it but I won't vote for it.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 30 November 2018 14:31 (five years ago) link
I'm more fond of the Bounce Patrol version which my 4-year watches 2x every day. I swear it's like Stockholm Syndrome with these videos.
― frogbs, Friday, 30 November 2018 14:41 (five years ago) link
actually the most maddening/incredible version was this one which the creators have now aggressively scrubbed off YouTube for some unknown reason
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6tv6a8?fbclid=IwAR3aVaSZj9_k9_d7g5u1jb2O03jH_hhjr6ZTmHpkkjUpUviKpu7bKjeyFQ0
― frogbs, Friday, 30 November 2018 14:43 (five years ago) link
xp Nyan Cat placed #24 in 2011. I think it was my number one! #neverforget
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 30 November 2018 14:43 (five years ago) link
I'm fairly certain Nyan Cat was my number one too. But that has a quality above and beyond Baby Shark. I definitely went through periods where I would listen to it for hours on end. I went a bit mad, perhaps, but it will always remain special to me.
― emil.y, Friday, 30 November 2018 14:56 (five years ago) link
Completely agree with your closing statement, and I've listened to it for hours too. It truly is a song that does not (have to) end.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 30 November 2018 15:01 (five years ago) link
frogbs linked version is way creepy
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 30 November 2018 15:02 (five years ago) link
never made the "Nyan Cat" connection but yeah both these songs have this sort of synthesized catchiness to them, as if they were developed in a lab. they're like the Fentanyl to the Percocet of "Wheels on the Bus"
― frogbs, Friday, 30 November 2018 15:04 (five years ago) link
I definitely went through periods where I would listen to it for hours on end. I went a bit mad, perhaps, but it will always remain special to me.
Sounds like it's time for this beauty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkgTxQm9DWM
That thing linked by frogbs is hardcore cursed, the gentle acoustic guitar sound in the background is possibly the wrongest thing ever recorded.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 30 November 2018 15:11 (five years ago) link
Wait did you people watch the video I was talking about? I love it so much and I love this dumb song too.
"AREXA PLAY BABY SHIRK!"
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 30 November 2018 16:11 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzfBedGaIjU
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 30 November 2018 16:12 (five years ago) link
Oh, we have for sure watched that video in our household. So adorable.
― all lite up and very romatic (Old Lunch), Friday, 30 November 2018 16:13 (five years ago) link
:D
It is pure joy. Her reaction when it finally starts and her dance and the yellow coat. Dead.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 30 November 2018 16:14 (five years ago) link
yeah that one is great ENBB
― niels, Friday, 30 November 2018 16:29 (five years ago) link
baby shark is getting around 2M hits/day so should be 2B around Sunday. By next week it will be crack the 15 most watched youtube videos ever.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 30 November 2018 16:44 (five years ago) link
I work with foreign kids and I've had to sing baby shark, but more often it's this monstrous variation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DYjfjaZGas
― glumdalclitch, Friday, 30 November 2018 16:52 (five years ago) link
I did not know about this song until that video. Now... I only know that song song song
― rb (soda), Friday, 30 November 2018 16:54 (five years ago) link
One thing I hope that grown up music can learn from the success of baby shark is the importance of having an extra verse to tell you it's the end of the song.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 30 November 2018 16:55 (five years ago) link
my 2 yr old gal likes this one as much as she likes the original
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9yoaqAVH8M
― veronica moser, Friday, 30 November 2018 17:25 (five years ago) link
My four year old avoided this until about a month ago when he picked it up at preschool. He watched it a bunch over a week and kind of forgot about it, though he does randomly start singing two-word phrases to the tune of it.
― joygoat, Friday, 30 November 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
The odd thing, at least in the UK, is how it's been such a slow burn. The single made the top forty in August but only just, then fell out, and it's now back in the top forty again; the song itself came out four years ago.
I don't like it as much as Gangam Style. The melody sounds sad. It's less upbeat than I was expecting for a Korea novelty song about a baby shark. It makes me feel unhappy and I don't like that.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Friday, 30 November 2018 20:01 (five years ago) link
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, November 30, 2018 10:55 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Seriously, I'm always thrown for a loop when a song just stops without the singer giving me a heads up. Even just a quick 'the end' helps so much.
― all lite up and very romatic (Old Lunch), Friday, 30 November 2018 20:11 (five years ago) link
NB this is based on a camp song/game (with the shark hand motions) that has been around for like…at least 20 years probably, I d k if I'm pointing out the obvious or not
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Friday, 30 November 2018 20:12 (five years ago) link
what is this sorcery
― rip van wanko, Friday, 30 November 2018 20:25 (five years ago) link
our kid prefers this version. less bounce. subtler mix.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR2o6k8aPlI
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 30 November 2018 22:37 (five years ago) link
is there a way to get this tune out of your head other than dying?
― StanM, Saturday, 1 December 2018 10:36 (five years ago) link
If only it were that simple.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 1 December 2018 10:37 (five years ago) link
just encountered someone playing this on bagpipes which really wasn't what i wanted to hear
― ufo, Saturday, 1 December 2018 11:55 (five years ago) link
wtf no
― crispy fun in a bun (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 1 December 2018 12:01 (five years ago) link
oh shit that kid in the yellow coat tho
― puppy bash (darraghmac), Saturday, 1 December 2018 12:11 (five years ago) link
YES!! See?! :D
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Saturday, 1 December 2018 12:39 (five years ago) link
i never thought i would hear this song again after i stopped going to summer camp
lol i enjoy the edm and banda arrangements
― dyl, Saturday, 1 December 2018 15:13 (five years ago) link
i'm not sure if i can think of any other examples of songs meant primarily to be enjoyed by young children enjoying this kind of mass-cultural resurgence
― dyl, Saturday, 1 December 2018 15:16 (five years ago) link
nor can I do do do do do do do
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 1 December 2018 15:20 (five years ago) link
La Banda del Mango look so bored there
― mick signals, Saturday, 1 December 2018 16:17 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/HjIDq5C.png
This upcoming week it will start picking off Adele, PSY & other one hit wonders off the top all-time watched YouTube vids.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 1 December 2018 16:31 (five years ago) link
That Alexa video is great... The song itself is not my kind of jam, tho; I have two kids but never encountered it before this thread (thankfully).
― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), Saturday, 1 December 2018 16:54 (five years ago) link
debuted at #32 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week
― bros before HOOS (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 20:46 (five years ago) link
I was conflicted on voting for this song for the EOY ILM poll... on one hand it’s not up to my music standards but on the other hand I’d be very happy to see it represented on the tracks poll as it was probably the song I heard the most this year thanks to my extended family and their babies.
Our dj played a remix of it a few weekends ago as a joke in our club and the crowd went crazy, I have a video of it but I’m too ashamed to ever share it online.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 21:43 (five years ago) link
share itt
― bros before HOOS (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 21:46 (five years ago) link
yes please!
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 21:50 (five years ago) link
my 4yo started doing the "Alexa play Baby Shark" thing last week. we don't have Alexa but we do have a Bluetooth speaker that must look like the one that's Alexa-enabled at his day care. so this version of Alexa makes him clean up his toys and finish his dinner before it can play any music >:)
― frogbs, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 21:53 (five years ago) link
i wonder if local lyrical variation to this song as sung at summer camps and such will decrease now that there's an 'official' hit recording. r.i.p. to lines like 'shark attack' etc
― dyl, Saturday, 19 January 2019 06:59 (five years ago) link
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/31/uk/uk-fish-and-chips-endangered-sharks-scli-gbr-intl/index.html
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 31 January 2019 18:42 (five years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/BtV2n9DhYdL/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=1wur4swb3orwn
― form that slug-like grex (outdoor_miner), Friday, 1 February 2019 15:39 (five years ago) link
Now #5 on alltime Youtube views, will overtake "Gangnam Style" for #4 in the next month.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 04:55 (four years ago) link
Sorry, will overtake Bieber & Psy for #3 in the next month!
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 04:56 (four years ago) link
i can make my five-month-old daughter roar with delight just by singing the opening 'bayyyyy-beeeee'there aren't many things that can evoke that reaction just from one word and two notes - this song has some ocean-deep magickal power imo― dude the new bond girl’s gonna be named ‘firehose o’piss’ (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 30 November 2018 10:41 (seven months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― dude the new bond girl’s gonna be named ‘firehose o’piss’ (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 30 November 2018 10:41 (seven months ago) bookmarkflaglink
she's now 13 months old and still obsessed with baby shark - no matter the scale of emotional meltdown she might be having, just the little 'pinkfong' ident sound at the start of the video will quiet her immediately - it's fucking witchcraft tbh
it's also my most-played spotify song by a considerable distance
― Welshy's Lean Bulk - ****loads of pics (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 10:09 (four years ago) link
when I dropped my daughter off at day care the teacher pulled out a tablet and put this on and immediately all the kids stopped what they were doing, rushed to her and started jumping up and down. and yeah it was that little "pinkfong" tag that they immediately recognized. its nuts. but also quite useful
― frogbs, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 13:28 (four years ago) link
my car is named "baby shark"
― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Thursday, 25 July 2019 07:09 (four years ago) link
When you get older and have grandchildren and they ask you about the 2019 #WorldSeries....Show them this video. pic.twitter.com/CBT1WiMWFe— Cut4 (@Cut4) October 26, 2019
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 27 October 2019 02:49 (four years ago) link
Less offensive than the tomahawk chop.
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Sunday, 27 October 2019 03:02 (four years ago) link
shrimp ouzozozozozozo
https://i.imgur.com/LGvDVqb.png
― mick signals, Saturday, 16 November 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link
excellent revive
― imago, Saturday, 16 November 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
I heard Slay Duggee's heavy metal version long before I ever heard the original. Pretty sure I prefer the cover.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiCILFgpPRY
― Valentijn, Saturday, 16 November 2019 18:58 (four years ago) link
Backyard Band has a dc go-go version
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 16 November 2019 19:19 (four years ago) link
I've never watched this video as I assume it's some kind of Halloween III trigger but I listened to a podcast history about it and now I am informed.
The "Kleiner Hai” version that was a small hit in Germany in 2008 is quite deranged in its way.
― Noel Scott Emits (Noel Emits), Saturday, 16 November 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link
how will you celebrate 2B views?― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, November 29, 2018 5:50 PM (eleven months ago)
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, November 29, 2018 5:50 PM (eleven months ago)
hit 4B last week.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 22:42 (four years ago) link
My daughter sang it at her birthday party last month in lieu of the traditional Happy Birthday.
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 28 November 2019 00:08 (four years ago) link
I have decided that everything on Little Baby Bum is faaaaaaar worse.
― Madchen, Thursday, 28 November 2019 09:42 (four years ago) link
I dunno, at least you don't have to hear the same song over and over again (unless a specific one is requested in which case trying to scrub through three different 20 min episodes to find 'the monster one' is definitely worse).
― The Pingularity (ledge), Thursday, 28 November 2019 10:02 (four years ago) link
The voice though, argh! And it puts our son in a really bad mood even though he says he loves it. It’s easy for him to access by himself too (thanks Netflix) so I end up hiding the remote.
― Madchen, Thursday, 28 November 2019 11:35 (four years ago) link
I'm sure there is some department in the Pentagon demanding money as the Koreans have passed the US in pop music weaponization.
― earlnash, Thursday, 28 November 2019 13:11 (four years ago) link
Quietly passed 5B views recently, #2 most watched video ever.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 13 April 2020 01:33 (four years ago) link
What’s #1? “Charlie Bit My Finger (Again!)”?
― morrisp, Monday, 13 April 2020 01:50 (four years ago) link
Despacito (6.71 billion views)
and this bullshit has gotten 3.01 billion views in just over 2 years:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nAu9D-8srA
― anatomy of a buttless wonder (unregistered), Monday, 13 April 2020 02:02 (four years ago) link
i am not sure what i'm looking at there with the old mcdonald video, very confusing.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 13 April 2020 02:46 (four years ago) link
that stuff is weirdly hypnotic for 3-4 year olds. there are a lot of similar videos, just different colored animals popping out of eggs, it's the same thing over and over again but kids love it
― frogbs, Monday, 13 April 2020 14:09 (four years ago) link
actual firm belief: it is mind-rotting and evil
― ban laggy jazzer (imago), Monday, 13 April 2020 15:02 (four years ago) link
oh idk
yea I've tried to steer them away from that stuff though admittedly I do sometimes get fascinated by how intentionally bizarre they seem to be. they've got sort of a dreamlike quality to them. no plot, no internal logic, its just stuff happening
― frogbs, Monday, 13 April 2020 15:09 (four years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/openai_audio/pop-in-the-style-of-the-beatles-openai-jukebox
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 8 May 2020 17:15 (four years ago) link
geez at first i thought it was another one of robo-paul's rubbish throwaway granny tunes, but turns out it's one of robo-johns annoying faux-avant-garde "i just learned who stockhausen is yesterday" pieces
― budo jeru, Friday, 8 May 2020 17:32 (four years ago) link
a bit more complicated than thathttps://openai.com/blog/jukebox/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 8 May 2020 18:13 (four years ago) link
Baby Shark is up to 5.3B views, now the #2 most-viewed youtube of all-time.
Despacito is still #1 with 6.8B but Baby Shark is averaging 300M views per month while Despacito is only tracking at 100M views/month... perhaps by January 2021 Baby Shark could move into 1st.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 8 May 2020 18:26 (four years ago) link
if you added in all the different versions of Baby Shark and the hundreds of kids songs on YouTube that use the Baby Shark melody you'd probably have more than the rest of YouTube combined
― frogbs, Friday, 8 May 2020 19:12 (four years ago) link
What's the deal with Despacito? Doesn't seem like a particularly noteworthy song or video to me.
― 🔫 (peace, man), Friday, 8 May 2020 19:35 (four years ago) link
its popular in every country
― frogbs, Friday, 8 May 2020 19:43 (four years ago) link
I mean, obviously if it has X Billion views. It just seems like a generic song to have on in the background or something.
― 🔫 (peace, man), Friday, 8 May 2020 19:49 (four years ago) link
was terribly terribly ie about to hurl hungover on a hot busy coach ride a couple of years ago and the cheerful community of young italians at the back of the coach kept on singing Despacito over and over again. every time i hear it it takes me very vividly back to that moment.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 21 May 2020 11:17 (four years ago) link
ie a generic song in the background or something to prevent hurling
― davey, Thursday, 21 May 2020 11:24 (four years ago) link
or *cause*
― davey, Thursday, 21 May 2020 11:26 (four years ago) link
what's the name of the effect in despacito where the song slows down for a moment when the hook comes back in? i was reading about it an completely forgot what it's called. it was supposed to be the secret ingredient to its catchiness
― davey, Thursday, 21 May 2020 11:28 (four years ago) link
I have just seen a Wash Your Hands version of Baby Shark aired between kids’ TV episodes.
― Madchen, Thursday, 21 May 2020 12:13 (four years ago) link
xp Are you talking about this effect?
― Inadequate grass (morrisp), Thursday, 21 May 2020 14:19 (four years ago) link
The votes are in: https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/baby-shark-most-viewed-youtube-video-all-time-1234821891/
― Tim Simms (morrisp), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 06:18 (three years ago) link
perhaps by January 2021 Baby Shark could move into 1st.― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, May 8, 2020 11:26 AM (five months ago)
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, May 8, 2020 11:26 AM (five months ago)
Wrong again Jersey Al!
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 06:37 (three years ago) link