#like when people were doing inverted versions of songs on tiktok

[themotherfuckingfox]

Does the song Love Me Like You Do have like… an inverted bit of Bella’s lullaby at around the :36 mark or am I losing it? It shows up again later in the song around 2:52. Am I crazy? Is this something people discovered 12 years ago and I missed it?

[do-what-the-knight-tells-you]

I wonder too if part of it is the way that audio functions on TikTok? Because I think the audio clips that many people set their videos to are the things that are actually more or less going viral and getting popular.

I do think there are particular TikToks that make a splash the way that old vine videos did... But way more a particular audio clip and or perhaps a style of video that goes along with it are the things that catch on and stick.

So sometimes this means particular piece of a song ("Don't want to live as an untold story" over epic shots, or The smash mouth "some.... BODY once told me ..." Edit where there's a long pause in the middle, usually for someone too make a mistake, and then the "BODY" doesn't hint till the person crashes or falls over or something breaks or whatever the beat drop is, or the way that the wellerman song or Old Town Road took off...), or sometimes it's original audio... "Look here comes a consequence, consequence, consequence, consequences of my actions chasing me right now..." Is one that comes to mind. And I remember the original video, but I also many times have seen other things using that audio clip.

And I could sit here and list audio clip after audio clip that I now know just like I know vine videos? ("EMOTIONAL damage, eMOTIONAL damage", the reading rainbow visual that's making the rounds right now, the "I fucked Cthulhu good" uke song, "No darling it's not a pomegranate, what do you think it is, give it another go.", That really rad how to train your dragon theme song remix, "whatever this fuckin thing is" "I'mma be a bumpin blueberry. Ba ah puh bap pub ha", "Here comes the boy" and the like five variants of that, "HOW DID THIS. BECOME THIS.", "Did I really just forget that melody?" "Duh duh duh, da-duh.." "🎶when I popped off then...", That one piece of like Celtic fiddle music- probably like a drop kick Murphy's song- where everyone flips their shoe at the beat drop and then is dressed Usually in a really cool way, "oh no, oh no, oh no no no no no")

There's something sort of I don't know. Inherently transformative maybe in the platform? Because it has tools like using other videos' audio or dueting or stitching other videos built in, it's sort of invites remixing things. I think in a way that like vine never did.

An individual joke or piece of a video from Vine would be preserved a lot more in its entirety and as it was originally dropped, Definitely at least partially due to the brevity, but also because it wasn't immediately easily taken apart so that people could riff on other elements of it. whereas I think things feel like they hit the same to people on TikTok, but they rarely stay the same as they were when they dropped? If that makes sense. That one piece of video doesn't necessarily make the rounds forever, but most folks saw it or saw an early riff on it and the idea paired with the audio, that hits. And so they either duet that, or they make their own version of it if the original audio has been made available.

(another example, I don't think I ever saw the original video that did the audio sample "che la Luna, Louis prima" with the pinched hand shake, But I have seen about a million versions either playing it straight, and pairing the audio and that hand gesture with things that are good, or perhaps inverting it and pairing it with things that suck, etc)

like, i’m pretty sure tiktok has existed for longer than vine did at this point but i’m yet to actually see an “iconic” tiktok. like people always caption like “this tiktok is ICONIC” but i’ve never seen one stay in the public consciousness for any longer than the 2 minutes it appears on my timeline. i never see people quote tiktoks or like, act them out with their friends or anything, not a single tiktok i’ve seen has had any actual staying power

meanwhile i can just say like “ROAD work ahead?” and i would bet a good chunk of you have just read that in the guy’s voice. i still see people tag things like “i wish i was jared, 19″. one night at the bar where i work we started an impromptu dance party purely by saying “hi, i’m renata bliss, and i’ll be your freestyle dance teacher”

i guess brevity really is the soul of wit