Name: Shanties mara.
Age: At least 600 years old.
Coltas: Just about the hippest thing on TikTok right now.
TikTok? The an app where people dance? More or less, yes, while it’s worth noting that TikTok users have recently designed, built and patented a modern pill bottle specifically to improve the quality of life of people with Parkinson’s disease. But yes, also dance. And now marine shanties.
I also don’t know what sea urchins are. It is a type of country song usually played by merchant sailors, fishermen or whales as they engage in work on board a ship. The French verb “chanter”, meaning to sing, is thought to have an element.
But that all feels very old. Why is it great on TikTok? Well, there are two competing theories. The first is that TikTok’s collaborative nature lends itself to things like big singing, so if someone uploads a video of themselves performing a sea sound, it’s only natural that other users will want to go board and harmony.
What other theory? That lock has broken us to such an extent that we are forced to sing sea shanties on the internet for fun. They both keep up.
How did this even start? Nathan Evans, a Scottish singer, seems to be to blame. At the end of December, he posted a video of himself singing a tune called The Scotsman. After that, he set up another one of The Wellerman, a 19th century New Zealand seafood booth waiting for a supply of tea, sugar and rum provided by the Australian whale company, Weller Brothers.
And then? The next day, a user named Luke the Voice added a bass harmony to the video, and then all bets went off, literally.
More harmonies? That puts him at ease. By last week, a string of nice boys in beautiful sweaters had added their voices to the song, and the vegetation began. Now the levels have grown to the point that the Wellerman is now several singers and two different violin tracks and musical levels are more gender balanced.
Where is this going to end? It’s already starting to sound like a Game of Thrones theme tune, so who knows? A sax alone?
I. it must be said, this is all very intact and appealing. Right. Meanwhile, Twitter is still a blazing hell of the Nazis. Do you think we could all be on the wrong social media platform?
Don’t sing: “What do we do with the sailor with the drink?”
Don’t say: “Get him to record a carefully composed old song on an app to illuminate the weight of his life. ”