Tiktok sleeper indie hits

[ska invita]

now i come to think of it, why arent these triggering copyright filters etc. just a matter of time i expect

 

[killer b]

now i come to think of it, why arent these triggering copyright filters etc. just a matter of time i expect

I'd imagine the record companies see it as free advertising. If a song blows up on tictok, there's a huge knock-on to streams on spotify etc - it'd be stupid to do takedowns.

 

[killer b]

the kid just played me this, which has apparently been blowing up the last few weeks

 

[ska invita]

the kid just played me this, which has apparently been blowing up the last few weeks

love the late 80s sk8 video aesthetic - those sk8 videos always had great quirky indie soundtracks - im kind of glad people are trying reproduce it, it was a good time.

 

[The39thStep]

the kid just played me this, which has apparently been blowing up the last few weeks

I saved this on youtube over a year ago , its now got 11m views

 

[ska invita]

Not indie, but Somali pop!

Heres some tiktoks


better still get to the real deal
love this footage

 

[killer b]

I saved this on youtube over a year ago , its now got 11m views

Hes playing Manchester soon I saw the other day.

 

[killer b]

this one is huge atm

 

[killer b]

also this:

 

[rutabowa]

Nice to see this track by (fairly) obscure 00s garage punk duo King Khan and BBQ Show blow up on tiktok. Good song too

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Nice to see this track by (fairly) obscure 00s garage punk duo King Khan and BBQ Show blow up on tiktok. Good song too

I was going to mention that one. Would have preferred Animal Party.

 

[killer b]

relatedly, I read this interesting piece about obscure indie songs becoming huge hits via the spotify autoplay algorithms the other day - something that must be in play in how these things end up going viral on tiktok (it mentions that the Pavement B-side in question has trended there too, and it likely wouldn't have done if the algorithm hadn't been pushing it)

Why Is An Obscure B-Side Pavement's Top Song On Spotify? It's Complicated.

A couple years ago, Stephen Malkmus walked into a shop and didn’t recognize himself. He was with one of his daughters, stopping at a gluten-free bakery (“Very Portland,” Malkmus jokes) when the Pavement song “Harness Your Hopes” came on — a song he had written and recorded more than two decades...

www.stereogum.com

 

[hitmouse]

Not something that's new to me the way that Life Without Buildings was, but apparently No Children was big on tiktok in late 2021:

Behind the Mountain Goats’ ‘No Children,’ the Bitter, Fun, Feel-Bad TikTok Hit of the Fall

Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle is happily shocked that 'No Children,' a two-decade-old song about a bitter divorce, is a viral smash.

variety.com

Anyway, I hope we both die, etc.

 

[killer b]

Not something that's new to me the way that Life Without Buildings was, but apparently No Children was big on tiktok in late 2021:

Behind the Mountain Goats’ ‘No Children,’ the Bitter, Fun, Feel-Bad TikTok Hit of the Fall

Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle is happily shocked that 'No Children,' a two-decade-old song about a bitter divorce, is a viral smash.

variety.com

Anyway, I hope we both die, etc.

didn't know this song, but it's a banger ta!

 

[chainsawjob]

No need for that - I'm glad to be schooled by teens tbh. There's so much music we're always bound to miss most of it.

I don't even use TikTok so this phenomenon has passed me by. But I pick up on music my teens like, not sure whether it's from TikTok or not, actually I don't think it's things having a resurgance, it's recent stuff, Olivia Rodrigo, Mitski, Girl in Red.

 

[chainsawjob]

Was Running up that Hill getting it's popularity from TikTok plays, following being used on Stranger Things? Or just more generally?

 

[killer b]

I think blowing up on tiktok will be part of any big hit these days tbh - not always in good ways, I was reading about some young pop stars who's record labels won't let them release new music until it has a certain amount of tiktok engagement

 

[killer b]

here: Record Labels Dig Their Own Grave. And the Shovel is Called TikTok.

 

[teuchter]

These minor bands from the 90s/00s - if something gets really popular now do they get a load of royalties and suddenly turn into millionaires at the age of 45, 20 years after giving up making a living from music and getting dull office jobs instead?

 

[killer b]

they get some royalties, but even millions of streams doesn't add up to that much, and it doesn't seem to me like many of them have managed to bounce it into anything very sustained beyond their viral moment. Maybe next time they do a tour they'll play to 300 rooms instead of 200, and the record label will repress whatever album the tiktok hit was on, but otherwise I don't think it generally makes a huge difference.

 

[yield]

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[nogojones]

Does anyone have a clue what the original song is here? From the script I'm guessing it Thai

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[killer b]

it's called Obey, by Joey4k apparently

 

[killer b]

 

[nogojones]

Just need to find the vocal version now

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I don't even use TikTok so this phenomenon has passed me by. But I pick up on music my teens like, not sure whether it's from TikTok or not, actually I don't think it's things having a resurgance, it's recent stuff, Olivia Rodrigo, Mitski, Girl in Red.

Girl in Red and Mitski were brought to my attention.
My daughter seemed a mildly disappointed I thought that some of Mitski's stuff was OK.
Girl in Red came up on my shuffle list today. I thought the Dead Girl in the Pool lyric ' I looked out the window and someones caught my eye. . . there is a dead girl in the pool' . . . until it is later revealed SPOILERS that she is the dead girl in the pool and ruins a slightly twisted Weekend at Bernies style romance.

 

[hitmouse]

I'd completely missed finding out about the Belarusian post-punk goth lot who had a massive hit thanks to tiktok until now:

How Belarusian Post-Punks Molchat Doma Became a TikTok Meme

Molchat Doma’s “Судно (Sudno)” makes teens yearn for “Soviet vibes” and taps into the spirit of hauntology

pitchfork.com

 

[killer b]

Apparently the tweens are all bang into A Silver Mt. Zion this week.

 

[ska invita]

 

[nogojones]

Some Afghan drill