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
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
― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), Saturday, 1 December 2018 17:49 (five years ago) link
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
― na (NA), Monday, 3 December 2018 15:11 (five years ago) link
this song has been ducksussed somewhere
― rip van wanko, Monday, 3 December 2018 15:14 (five years ago) link
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)
― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), Monday, 3 December 2018 15:43 (five years ago) link
(I don’t think my son cared about the Duck Song at all, but I thought it was clever.)
― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), Monday, 3 December 2018 15:44 (five years ago) link
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
― dyl, Monday, 3 December 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
it's no Ohrwurm like Baby Shark.
― StanM, Monday, 3 December 2018 18:40 (five years ago) link
next year's John Lewis Christmas ad will be a twee female singer-songwriter's earnest acoustic version
― kinder, Monday, 3 December 2018 21:53 (five years ago) link
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
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 3 December 2018 22:26 (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
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
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
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 (three years ago) link
its popular in every country
― frogbs, Friday, 8 May 2020 19:43 (three 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 (three 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 (three years ago) link
ie a generic song in the background or something to prevent hurling
― davey, Thursday, 21 May 2020 11:24 (three years ago) link
or *cause*
― davey, Thursday, 21 May 2020 11:26 (three 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 (three 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 (three years ago) link
xp Are you talking about this effect?
― Inadequate grass (morrisp), Thursday, 21 May 2020 14:19 (three 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