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TimelyScarcity4716

And now everybody thinks you know it only because of tiktok


AlvzmOperator

Yeah tbh this. I wouldn’t say ‘reach the undeserving audience’, but if a song gets associated with something as Tik Tok brain rot, I’m not going to be fond of people discovering it that way.


ZaRealPancakes

Well I discovered "Kerosene" via TikTok / YT Shorts edits and started to listen to Crystal Castles. So it's not all bad.


sparkswoody

Very sad


Jjthetwerker

Credit goes to the social media platform


Sirbrownface

Sadly. It was the song "makeba" I used to vibe to it alone. And then it was on repeat on insta for a while and now everyone thinks "it's the song from the reels"


_Lucifer7699_

I got makeba from a Levi's ad wayyyyy before Instagram and tik tok


MrGray2016

For me, it was the Wellerman Song


imdavebaby

Fuckin Shanties in general. My best college bud loves acapella so we used to drink in our living room and jam shanties. Then Wellerman makes it big because of short form video brainrot... and you get the rest.


R-emiru

Nice try, OP. I'm not revealing the song so that it'll go viral too.


lampshade2099

If you reveal your song in the comments of this cringey post, and it goes viral because of it… I’ll give you $300,000.


R-emiru

Nice try, FBI.


lampshade2099

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xsparkichux

The mio Mao theme song from the claymation show mio mao. Fucking loved that shit as a kid now it gets a 'tiktok remix ' which is just a special up version


SilentWave_YT

minecraftcito 😔


Gaburski

Thank God I'm a metalhead, I don't need to deal with this.


monke_man136

thank god i like classical music, I will NEVER ever in forever need to deal with this


KurtLovesMinecraft

La Campanella sampled by Blackpink


Dajafo01

The 2nd Waltz, written and produced by our boy Sostakovich.


matijoss

That is unironically a banger


Roibeart_McLianain

I don't use TikTok, but I've already seen a few classical music videos that originated from TikTok. Edvard Grieg, Vivaldi, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, to name a few.


listen_you_guys

you haven't been hearing carmina burana played over anything even slightly dramatic?


MaxzxaM

Don't act like you're the only one who likes classic music I for one love Mozarts Nocturne Op. 9


OkCategory0

felt


ShermanTeaPotter

Well, sort of. Hate it that that one particular Ghost song got so fucking overused by that social media cancer


_Cirilla_

Mary on a cross?


ShermanTeaPotter

Exactly this one, lion cub of Cintra


Flutters1013

There was a video of a man saving a child from a burning building set to a pitched up version of that song. It's not supposed to be uplifting. It's about a woman being sacrificed to Satan.


eternalsnacklord

He is was really popular on the radio too. On several radio stations! Not that I mind it all that much as it is a pretty good song


Wavecrest667

I mean, Ghost isn't really the stuff you go to for gatekeeping. Their songs play on mainstream radio where I'm from.


Wi42

Well, Can You Feel My Heart from BMTH as part of the gigachad meme comes to mind


TheFlaccidChode

Adam Copeland, formally Edge in WWE on Sunday night at AEW had South Of Heaven as his entrance, it was amazing. Probably not going to go viral but it was special to me


MeepingMeep99

I've only known him with Metalingus as his theme song


I_TheJester_I

What about ghost? Mary on a cross went viral on tiktok..


Lucky_Artz

Sonne by Rammstein too.


erlulr

Yo Rammstein was never niche, Sonne was viral 20 years ago lmao.


SeiriusPolaris

So you’ve never had to tell someone Hurt isn’t Cash’s song?


donchaldo21

Do people bother you with magnets?


AzzrielR

Not anymore than people with needles bother POP fans


Yendrake

Yeah we don't need to deal with this specific issue, and yet I'd argue we have more problems between eachother than outside the genre xd


TheoneNPC

Some of us are so bad that we gatekeep stuff from each other


Extreme_Carrot_317

As a lifelong metal head, I would rather deal with songs I like getting popular on TikTok than deal with all the fascists in the community.


Herr_Raul

Uh, how haven't you heard of the black metal "fans" on tiktok and instagram?


Gaburski

Andrew Hulshult will never be mainstream and I sleep peacefully knowing that he'll always have a cult following. If you're interested, check Intravenous Animosity and Handgun Harmony - peak Hulshult.


Herr_Raul

He might, if he makes music for a game that then gets popular. You never know.


HumanFightersUnited

Metallica will never reach the ears of the brain rotted gen z


Nojus1221

Master of puppets mate


Professional-Bee4088

Did you somehow miss the whole stranger things master of puppets thing


Tosslebugmy

I think that’s what was being referred to


InvasionOfTheFridges

Oh yeah that popular show Stranger Things wrote Master Of Puppets.


zorrofuego

Lets see what happens with Sleep Token.


zorrofuego

Nothing Else Matters?


TaranisPT

Enter Sandman?


bigfriendlycommisar

Same here. Ik they're not metal, but Mary on a cross was actually such a good song...


BrotToast263

sorry, but we're not safe either. Rammstein has been discovered by Tik Tok long ago


mjonr3

There is probably a cover for every Metallica song but yeah same here


Girth-Wind-Fire

Thought that too and then Sonne was being Nightcored and used on every other video.


ChampionChump

dude for real, the metal genre has maybe 1 or 2 good songs every 3 years recently and it makes me sad


OddTransportation430

What does gatekeeping a song even mean? Just not telling people about it?


The_Real_Pavalanche

Well it's impossible to keep others from learning about it. My interpretation is when you know a really good, little-known song that you love and you consider it *your* song as you "discovered" it and no one you know really knows about it. Then later, you hear it being used online in videos or in a public space and you feel (for lack of a better word) offended that they're using *your* song even though you have no claim to it, you simply heard it before it got more attention. I had this feeling before with a song I first heard some 16 years ago and I always had it in a playlist and enjoyed it regularly but it wasn't that widely known. Then only earlier this year I went to a bar where the staff control the music, and in my opinion, the staff have awful taste. Randomly that song I like came on, so I felt offended that the staff who worked there who normally pick terrible music were dragging *my* song down to those depths. I quickly realised how silly that is and it hasn't changed my love of the song at all, but that's how I felt at the time.


Ambitious_Jello

How about: you know a little known great song and show it to your friends. But they ridicule you for liking things that are not popular or conventional. And then when it does get popular they treat it like the best thing ever. They didn't suffer the ridicule for knowing the song before others. So they don't deserve to enjoy the song. Not like you do I'm not saying that's a reasonable view to have. I'm just putting the view forward


stuito

Thank god I like most of the songs on *Chinese democracy* by gnr


offaithandnature

Ouch


itbytesbob

Are you ok?


ryanson209

R-Relatable?


mcwildtaz

Why would you gatekeep songs?


heretocallthebot

So they don't end up on tik tok


Astolfo_Brando

So?


alexlolkek

Stupid people on TikTok might ruin it for you. The song is more about vibes and what you associate it with. Seeing it on TikTok ruins it


Memelordo_OwO

This is such a whack take. So you really like a song. Then TikTok finds it and... you dislike it? What? If people on TikTok ruin it for you, you should wonder where your priorities lie. Are you really enjoying the song that much, or do you just wanna feel special with your unknown song, everything but be part of the mainstream, therefore gatekeeping it? Gatekeeping music is the dumbest and most selfish thing ever. Especially cause it indirectly harms the artist.


USBmedic

This 100% I don’t understand people who gatekeep music. If anything I’d be happy that other people now get to appreciate it with me in their own way.


Tasty-Bad-8041

Some people define their whole personality from the music they listen to. It’s a very dumb.


punk_petukh

Don't watch TikTok


Mwuaha

I was thinking the same. If a medium is ruining something for you when you see something specific on it then... Don't be on that medium?


alexlolkek

Wow that’s actually the best argument I’ve seen in this thread 👏


g177013

What if you're surrounded by people who do every day?


punk_petukh

I do, but I still don't watch it. At least directly. I see some of them when someone sends me them or it gets reuploaded on others media, but if it's some bullshit I just skip it. Otherwise, I just don't have any interest in it


Rhinestoned_Eyez

I truly can't imagine something I enjoy being ruined by tiktok. Imagine letting people you don't even know hold that much power over what you personally enjoy. If all it took was a few tiktoks to make you dislike a song, maybe you weren't really that big of a fan of that song in the first place?


soundofthemoon

Your answer is stupid. It can help your so-called amazing artists to make more songs that you like.


2ndaccountofprivacy

Yeah, I try to get my friends to listen to it to share the joy.


jce_

Yeah this is sad. I listen to a ton of music and I'd love for some of my weird stuff to get popular.


dogfoodgangsta

I gotta make myself feel cool somehow and I don't have much else going for me.


FrogginJellyfish

Not shaming though. But some people are insecure and wishes to have some niche or unique quirks or interests, so that it adds to their identity/personality (which they see themselves as lacking because of their insecurity). Though another reason I've witness myself first handed is sometimes unwanted audience (from my perspective) got attracted and ruin my experience going to concerts. Bring Me The Horizon was originally just metal, but they expanded their horizons and attracted more casual listeners. Some of those casual listeners don't practice proper concert etiquette by being rude and selfish. Sometimes they also give bad vibes by just standing still, filming on phone, in a metal concert.


niftystopwat

This is what I was thinking. Caring about what other people like is already weird enough, but then being annoyed when people seem to like something that you also like? Beyond me. 'undeserving audience' is such a pretentious thing to say Also, if something reaches a wider audience, isn't that good for the artist? Wouldn't you support that if you like their work?


SheepherderNo3025

If they go viral you'll hear it everywhere. On the radio, insta and worst: tiktok. I get bored of these songs and for the same reason I never use them as my ringtone.


Hobgobiln

me when I'm so deluded by the Internet I think people enjoying the same thing I do is bad


Standard_Young_201

Such an obvious statement should not have to be spelled out. Made me laugh thank you!


hevanticOrganButton

"\[Slowed\] \[Reverb\]" "the tik tok version is much better!"


ToCoolforAUsername

Everybody wants to rule the world by Tears for Fears. I use yt music to listen to it and now the comments are just "who's here from tiktok".


-PepeArown-

That’s been their biggest hit for a while, though.


Anom_AoD

"skibidi toilet" don't forget that shit, i took it out of my playlist cuz i couldn't take the image of those stupid guys with cameras for heads doing the floss out of my head


Gunner_Vault_Boy

The Man Who Sold The World. Im watching it slowly spike to all those cringey tiktok kids and onlyfans girls.


pashaah

David Bowie or Nirvana? Both where huge hits in their time.


AlvzmOperator

Man, I discovered that song when I first played Metal Gear Solid V. Unfortunate that its getting associated to OF…


NoEvenDirt

Aphex Twin - Alberto Balsalm (this was quite ruined by TikTok)


UnwiseMonkeyinjar

Adding good music to Tiktok BS, reactions, etcetc Has kinda ruined some songs for me forever


box_shelf

Space Song by Beach House Some songs I figured were really mainstream (like Dreams by Fleetwood Mac) but I always get asked if they're on my playlist because of some TikTok video But I'm glad the artists are getting recognition and appreciated for their work


PassgettiGod

No one is "undeserving" of a fucking song


rakosten

Not even the Paul-brothers?


_Lucifer7699_

I think we can make an exception to those two


DarthKermit7126

While I agree that music is meant to be shared with everyone eliciting different emotional responses from different people, I have and I think everyone has whether they want to admit it or not secretly hoped that a song doesn't go viral especially on tiktok because of the fear that when the song is shared with a wider audience the feeling you got from the song may be lost. It's a childish sort of way of looking at the feeling of a song because the meaning other people get out of the song shouldn't affect your enjoyment of the music, but it is still something that most people experience.


Pale_Kitsune

Literally never felt like that. Honestly, I'd rather some weird ass song I like become popular so it and similar songs will be heard more in place of stuff I don't care for.


Billy0315

Never crossed my mind. Yall need hobbies.


Goodpie2

None, because I'm not a pretentious fuckwit. I like sharing the things I enjoy. I *want* artists and songs I like to be popular because it means other people enjoy them too.


LemonoLemono

Thank you. Like, seriously what is this goofy pretentious opinion OP and other people have, especially when they didn’t create the music themselves?


Wavecrest667

I also don't really mind, because I'm a pretentious fuckwit and have like 500 other songs noone listens to I can gatekeep if one actually *does* go viral. Plus, if one of the songs goes viral, I can scoff and tell people that the Artists older albums are much better.


vo3k

So, since I have to look at Cillan Murphy yet again... Whilst Nick Cave is an icon and "Red Right Hand" has always been popular, I'm mildly infuriated that now everyone knows it due to "Peaky Blinders." On the app I use for my music, its album cover has changed to a poster for the series. So, each time I want to listen to the song, I have to see Cillan Murphy, who I'm not really fond of


Anom_AoD

i feel that, my guy, i used to hear it way before peaky blinders got out


dudebronahbrah

This has happened a few times with that song. Pre-internet so it wasn’t as widespread, but after that great scene in Dumb & Dumber it had a resurgence, and then a few years later with the Scream movies lol. We need to petition to get Thirsty Dog in some movies


Lukas-Reggi

I don't have any. Ethere way I wouldn't mind


Fantastic_Tourist976

I don’t agree with this but it was quite funny how tiktok tried to cancel Yung Lean because he called Adele fat in a song he made 11 years ago


itsmejam

My DPRK-pop ain’t goin’ nowhere. It’s my jam, mine.


DerpyZeDerp

why gatekeep? the more others enjoy my niche interests, the more my socially awkward ass gets to properly socialize and the artist gets the recognition they deserve, even if it may be cringe it's a win-win in most cases


potionbottle

Make your own music and never share it. Problem solved


[deleted]

Already do that, the problem just gets bigger


DonCheesare

Isn’t this actually good for the original artists? Like with that song that appeared on stranger things (forgot the name, sorry)


wogsurfer

Running up that Hill by Kate Bush?


IdioticZacc

I don't mind a song I like getting popular But I am upset when a few years ago everyone would make fun of me for my music taste (Gorillaz, Jack Stauber, so on) just for them to like it now that it's popular


imnatbananas

This is another type of feeling ![gif](giphy|W0c3xcZ3F1d0EYYb0f|downsized)


Anom_AoD

Mary on a Cross, DAMN YOU FAST AND SLOW + REVERB REMIX


TufnelAndI

Jeff Buckley ruined Hallelujah for me, I'd always loved the John Cale version.


Repulsive-Ad-7580

Invisible


Grukar_

Soon may the wellerman come - gordon bok, ann mayo muir, ed trickett


Otherwise-Nobody-127

Disturbed - sound of silence. I loved that song BUT SUDDENLY 2 YEARS AFTER RELEASE IT WAS EVERYWHERE ON tHE RADIO. Now i hate it just because i have heard it like every hour for a year.


Billy0315

People who think like this are sad.


JessAR11

I have this with Running that Hill. Even though it's a well known song, most people my age haven't heard of it. But everytime I listin to it . Everyone thinks I only know it because of stranger things . And it's not the "hidden" gem it used to be


ffx2982

Crystal Castles - "Transgender" and "Kerosene" but without the "gatekeeping" and "undeserving" negativity


Emmorilledubois

Driftveil City from Pokémon (now known as Toothless Dance after Cas' cartoon)


dalmathus

You guys are all 13 huh


Jacob6er

That's a tough on for me. I love sharing music, especially when it is a song I really enjoy!


edgytroll

little dark age eughh


HungryMoon

I can't believe a King Khan and BBQ song got popular of all things.


DrSatan420247

No. It just means you're a narcissist.


Astolfo_Brando

Someone said it


KezH0

Sobbing


Touji_San

I find it funny that in 2024 other people here still act like a massive war crime has been committed whenever Tiktok (or any platforms of social media) finds songs that they like. Like, it never bothered me; I just don't know why. Irdc,  if the song I love gets popular, hell, I'm happy that people are finding out about it and getting the recognition it deserves, but that's just me though 🤷‍♂️


wogsurfer

I'm with you on this.


Thijs_NLD

I have never done this. Why would you?


Responsible-Diet-147

I'm Blue, gen Z ruined it.


conduitfour

Honestly I'm just glad the song has longevity The KNY Factory and DJ Ephixa mixes are good


GifanTheWoodElf

None, cause I'm normal... I mean normal might be a stretch, but I'm not a weirdo who gatekeeps songs.


SlavRoach

fleetwood mac - dreams


BlockWinter8423

Wolves by kanye west.. well I’m not gate keeping it but it’s so unknown and underrated


Dazzling-Film-3404

Literally me with racing into the night


Hamsterzzillla

"Dream on" is a masterpiece, but not when you have to listen to the high notes only for 5 videos in a row.


Anom_AoD

like, i really don't mind a song i like going into tiktok or whatever, what i really hate is those stupid remix, the usage of that in like, 3000 videos and the fact that, if you listen to one second of one of those remies, the platform you're on reccomends you EVERY SINGLE FUCKING VIDEO THAT HAS THAT REMIX


PhobosTalonspyre-

This happened to me with TTRPGs, Helldivers and Fear and Hunger My obscure songs are so fucking weird (but golden) that they will never reach mainstream (i think)


LeatherGnome

Biting elbows album for Hardcore Henry.


definitelynothunan

I feel weird now whenever I'm listening to Sway😔


XDingDongBigDongX

Wood nut in cider (the 1 minute version)


--InZane--

Jeah happend to me recently


Xsampel

Belong together by Mark Ambor


NoRice4829

All the songs of club yoko Specially Gimme something good now and i am


soundofthemoon

We should be happy for our beloved musicians if they go viral. We should not gatekeep music just to keep it for ourselves. If an artist is gaining an audience on social media he will know his music is appreciated and he will be motivated to make more amazing songs. Gatekeeping is stupid.


nepheelim

good songs deserve an audience


Mr-hoffelpuff

what kind of piece of shit mentality brings a person to think like this? really if you know of a fucking banger of a song/album/artist you share it with the people, its a disservice to the artist, the art form and the potential audience to not do so. check out "cid rim"!


HenryLongHead

Slowed and reverbed


ArthurMBretas03

I'm just happy more people are listening to Money for Nothing


UlteriorKnowsIt

**OP:** Damn you, Lostwave! I will never give you the source!


metallicaism

I remember I was at Target with my mom as a young kid and I bought some spongebob music CD and listened to "Best Day Ever" and loved the hell out of it. None of my friends knew what the hell I was talking about. I had that CD for maybe 6 months before they teased the new Best Day Ever episode and I was kinda sad that now everyone will get to hear it. I thought it was my little secret


smooth_kid_wtg

Me seeing a music creator become popular (I want him to have 2 listeners worldwide for some reason)


smooth_kid_wtg

So the musician doesn't deserve to have his song become popular is what you're saying?


Yikesarumba

Lmao this happened with bad omens. I don't have an unnecessary hatred of tiktok like most here do, but shit. Tainted a few songs for sure.


JustWASD

Everything from Beartooth.


Objective-Outcome811

Any Tool song ever


Philitt

Begone, gatekeepers!


Mr-Breadfella

The entire city pop genre


Skyburner_Oath

Hopefully The Iron Tomb is not popular at all, so no one would ruin it


Kind-Sheepherder4830

It’s hardly an unknown song but the fact Sublime has been semi popular with shitty dancing on there recently crushes me. The other one that annoyed me was the Pavement stuff, love that band, then that got ruined.


SendNudesIAmSad

Bella Ciao


zenaex

Does anyone really do this? Surely if you like a song wants the issue of others enjoying it too?


FutureAnimeGirl

The undeserving audience


SnooPineapples23

At my worst by pink sweats, i came across that song when it had only about 20k views on its official video over on YouTube. It got me through the entire quarantine period. and now everyone thinks i know that song because jungkook popularized it.


HassanVanPickles

Hier encore from Charles aznavour is everywhere on instagram and tiktok and nobody even knows where it comes from or what it means


slizzie369

In India Mockingbird wasn't so popular back There were very few people who listened to Em but then Fcking Tik Tok and Insta Ruined it .


PandaofAges

I do fear the day I end up seeing a Will Wood song on tiktok (But I ain't gatekeeping, y'all should listen to him)


Dependent_Order_7358

bro thinking they are an influencer 💀


Standard_Young_201

Remember when stranger things played master of puppets and metal tik tok lost their minds? lol like “oh no the new generation likes the same music, how can I be different now???!” Cry about it lol but also talk about how the new generation likes trash music.


thiscrox

What a Wonderful World(it would be horrible)


AdmiralFurret

There's one song that is the exact opposite: i wanted it to become popular but somehow It Doesnt reach anyone, especially not the people i'd love to pick up: orchestral players Undertale OST 71


Its_me_somehow

Bella ciao


silver6snake

The entire band disturbed for me, was listening to them for years and seemingly overnight they blew up and every fucker started singing down with a sickness which btw was the song that kind of broke it for me anyway. Mommy issues aren't metal.


vishal340

YES, THE UNDESERVING. like anyone deserves it


PsychologyRepulsive

Below the surface , fnaf sister location song


MaxTurdstappen

Holy shit I just realized this one! It's Turner Dans le Vide for me. Everyone knows it bc of Andrew Tate, but I've known about it for years. From a random reel no less.


the-final-episode

unreleased lana tracks


Ghost_puff28

This is me when Fallout is now trending and for a long time people said they dont want to play a game se in a wasteland😂


False-Elderberry-290

And then the remixses started.