baby shark

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

xp Nyan Cat placed #24 in 2011. I think it was my number one! #neverforget

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.

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.

frogbs linked version is way creepy

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"

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.

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!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzfBedGaIjU

Oh, we have for sure watched that video in our household. So adorable.

:D

It is pure joy. Her reaction when it finally starts and her dance and the yellow coat. Dead.

yeah that one is great ENBB

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.

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

I did not know about this song until that video. Now... I only know that song song song

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.

my 2 yr old gal likes this one as much as she likes the original

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9yoaqAVH8M

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.

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.

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, 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.

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

what is this sorcery

our kid prefers this version. less bounce. subtler mix.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR2o6k8aPlI

is there a way to get this tune out of your head other than dying?

If only it were that simple.

just encountered someone playing this on bagpipes which really wasn't what i wanted to hear

wtf no

oh shit that kid in the yellow coat tho

YES!! See?! :D

i never thought i would hear this song again after i stopped going to summer camp

lol i enjoy the edm and banda arrangements

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

nor can I do do do do do do do

La Banda del Mango look so bored there

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.

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).

I just asked my wife, “Have you seen the video of a girl asking Alexa to play this Baby Shark song?” — and suddenly the swag-bag Echo Dot on the counter in front of me (we got it for free) lights up and says, “Now playing ‘Baby Shark,’ on Amazon Music...”

BURN ON ME

this is the new "baby shark" btw (my daughter played it for us yesterday and i was up at 4 a.m. with it repeating over and over in my head) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtN1YnoL46Q

this song has been ducksussed somewhere

Haha — I found that Duck Song around 5 years ago, trolling YT for kids stuff when my son was a tot. Spent a hot day playing it over & over. (There’s a “sequel” song/video that’s pretty good, IIRC)

(I don’t think my son cared about the Duck Song at all, but I thought it was clever.)

yeah i remember first seeing the duck song back when the video was out in 09. i don't think it's seeing any kind of special resurgence...? although it has been pretty consistently viewed on youtube for the past many years

also a cute song

it's no Ohrwurm like Baby Shark.

next year's John Lewis Christmas ad will be a twee female singer-songwriter's earnest acoustic version

My son has been into the duck song for a couple of years, he didn't get the main joke until earlier this year, so mystified as to why he always wanted to watch it

debuted at #32 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week

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.

share itt

yes please!

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 >:)

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

shrimp ouzozozozozozo

https://i.imgur.com/LGvDVqb.png

excellent revive

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

Backyard Band has a dc go-go version

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.

how will you celebrate 2B views?

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, November 29, 2018 5:50 PM (eleven months ago)

hit 4B last week.

My daughter sang it at her birthday party last month in lieu of the traditional Happy Birthday.

I have decided that everything on Little Baby Bum is faaaaaaar worse.

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 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.

I'm sure there is some department in the Pentagon demanding money as the Koreans have passed the US in pop music weaponization.

Quietly passed 5B views recently, #2 most watched video ever.

What’s #1? “Charlie Bit My Finger (Again!)”?

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

i am not sure what i'm looking at there with the old mcdonald video, very confusing.

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

actual firm belief: it is mind-rotting and evil

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

https://soundcloud.com/openai_audio/pop-in-the-style-of-the-beatles-openai-jukebox

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

a bit more complicated than that
https://openai.com/blog/jukebox/

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.

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

What's the deal with Despacito? Doesn't seem like a particularly noteworthy song or video to me.

its popular in every country

I mean, obviously if it has X Billion views. It just seems like a generic song to have on in the background or something.

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.

ie a generic song in the background or something to prevent hurling

or *cause*

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

I have just seen a Wash Your Hands version of Baby Shark aired between kids’ TV episodes.

xp Are you talking about this effect?

The votes are in: https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/baby-shark-most-viewed-youtube-video-all-time-1234821891/

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)

Wrong again Jersey Al!