There’s not too much info out there on Masked Wolf. Kitty.'” But he likes the song, too: “It’s just, like, catchy.” He’s right. He knows that, when he hears that opening, something is about to happen: “It’ll be like, ‘Boom. When he hears that intro - that “what you know about rolling down in the deep” - he stops scrolling. He says, “Well, I’m normally on animal TikTok,” which I didn’t know was a subcategory. I asked him to explain how he first heard “Astronaut In The Ocean” and what the attraction is. At some point in the last few weeks, my son decided that “Astronaut In The Ocean” was his favorite song. He rarely registers any kind of visual reaction to what he’s seeing.
He just keeps flicking up and up and up, unless he finds a video of anime characters kicking each other in the balls or something. He barely ever lets the video play to the end. Watching him scroll through is a disquieting experience.
TikTok is built around quick little jolts - tiny bursts of information that might register and might not. It’s still winter, so he can’t get outside to see his friends much, either. I have an eight-year-old son, and it has lately become increasingly hard to get him to stop looking at TikTok. A couple of weeks ago, Elektra announced that it had signed Masked Wolf to a multi-album deal. “Astronaut In The Ocean” hasn’t charted in the US yet, but it seems like it’s just a matter of time. The track seems to be especially popular in Eastern Europe as I type this, it’s #1 in Slovakia and #2 in the Czech Republic. Since those TikTok videos started up, “Astronaut In The Ocean” has charted in the UK, Germany, Canada, and a dozen other countries. 22 #epic #skill #moment #pourtoii #respect #wtf #fyp Those things don’t seem to have anything to do with “Astronaut In The Ocean” itself, but maybe the song is both immediate and dramatic enough that it makes sense when paired with those images. A lot of those videos seem to be dedicated to unbelievable physical feats - gymnastic displays, skateboard tricks, impossible basketball shots. As I’m writing this, there are 470,000 TikTok videos set to “Astronaut In The Ocean.” By the time you read this, there will be more. Then somehow, mysteriously, the TikTokers noticed that intro. Masked Wolf, who comes from Sydney, recorded the song with the Melbourne producer Tyron Hapi, and it sat online, mostly unnoticed, for more than a year. “Astronaut In The Ocean” is a song that the mostly-unknown Australian rapper Masked Wolf first posted on YouTube in the summer of 2019. parkour #fypシ #viral #jump #dogvscat #leopard That, at least, is my best explanation for the “Astronaut In The Ocean” phenomenon. If you were editing a short serotonin-burst video for a social-media network - a video where, say, something dramatic happens 17 seconds in - then a song like that might fit your needs perfectly. The song’s intro lasts exactly 17 seconds, but that’s enough time to build a quick hit of tension-and-release energy. One stern, commanding voice calls out over that emptiness: “What you know about rolling down in the deep?” Then the drums kick in, hard. An urgent drone in the background gets busier, then suddenly blinks out. The spy-movie guitar rings out three twangy, echoing notes.
0 kommentar(er)
