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I’m not that TikTok-Ultra, but for a while there has been a trend that makes me very happy. The “Anxiety” trend. Everyone has already participated, even German politicians, your father, and coocerh now even this both. The great thing about this trend is that he has so many (dear) layers.
So there is this older bedroom recording of Doechii, which while we have set yeast dough or put on the Internet, used the Corona Lockdown to create this song:
Banger, perfect, catchy tune! The story could already end here. But that the song only really became a hit – although Sleepy Hollow sampled him two years ago …
… as so often in recent years, with an associated trend, in this case a dance.
And then the next creative mouse comes into play. A user put “Anxiety” under the iconic scene from the “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”, in which Ashley (Tatyana Ali) by Will (Smith) caught and imitated in the headphone dance becomes. The user probably didn’t mean that Deep, but for many it was very suitable for the one-spirit-decommissioned-and-warming-me-anxiety feeling, so that the thing went through the ceiling in this station wagon. (Millennials and gene Xler with gene Zern are now arguing about whether this is really the song that ran in the series, well, small fact check: The series has not been around for 20 years, so …)
This part of the beautiful story is rounded off that now all the protagonists are together for a video have. All protagonists? NO. Because now of course we have to talk about him, the painted elephant in the room. Gotye.
You remember it was the magical years 2011/2012, or as I call them: The serotonin year-we heard, whether we wanted or not, Calvin Harris, Katy Perry, Lana del Rey, Call Me Maybe, Gangnam Style, wore window glasses and painted mustache on our fingers, put retro filters over photos and showed our meals on Insta, Lobered about this one ingenious series on this new streaming platform, said Memes that we had found on 9gag on Facebook, it was always a flash mob around the corner and this song everywhere.
Listen and look closely again and then tell me that Gotye (Feured by Kimbra) did not deliver the song here, which initiated and defined the 10s like no other. And not that much because of his sound, but because of all around it.
On the one hand there is this DIY thing. Gotye picked up the song with his parents at home (bedroom like like Doechii) and thus became a model for many who came after him. Sure, nothing is completely new at home, but thanks to ever more affordable software, it was much easier to make music in the 10s-and thanks to ever increasing social media platforms, it was quickly brought to people. Gotye’s song became an absolute hype and spread, among other things, on Twitter. Back then, like Katy Perry, getting such a shoutout was amazing.
The success of the song had to do with his music video. At the beginning of the 10s, people, remember … We were in the middle of the transition from music television to streaming and social media-it was constantly tried to create new campaigns, there was always all this indie aesthetics and above all there was irony. Everything was hipster, everything was not meant, everything was cool and not really with feeling or something, pathos was embarrassing. And then this screaming heartache song ends up such a mega success? Yes, that’s why! Back then, the young people could only avoid the “Feelez” by mocking the song. There was one parody after the other, Ytitty and all this stuff, then hundreds of cover-finally the walk-off-the-ear version, which in turn was parodyed countless times, sketches, jokes, malice.
Over time, the song was really more and more openly valued and rewarded. This (and many other) wonderful homage was created a few years later. If you know more great versions, samples and videos, please write them in the comments.
So this song has more than a trip. And Gotye’s version itself is also on the shoulders of other giant, after all, she was a real sampling orgy herself.
And now Doechii and Tikok’s “Anxiety”, because with all the parody, what people actually love about the song is how Plain is told pain, very unironically, very soulful, not cringe at all. It’s just a beautiful song that an infinite number of people feel. (From today’s perspective, the video (later “Blurred Lines” – completely different story) actually works totally harmless and sweet.)
You can see more in this example than in many others: music – and especially pop, is something collective. “Anxiety” reconciles (almost) all generations. Now only the Gotye dance is missing and it is perfect. Or he does the Harlem Shake together with Doechii and Sting. Then the internet explodes.
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