Decoder Ring: Baby Shark

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Arts, Tv & Film, Music

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Baby Shark is an megaviral YouTube video, an unstoppable earworm, a top 40 hit, a Eurodance smash, a decades old campfire song, and the center of an international copyright dispute. This month on Decoder Ring we explore the strange history and conflicted future of the song, what makes it so catchy, and how it came to be. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody it's Tim Heidecker you know me Tim and Eric Bridesmaids and
0:03.4	Fantastic Four. I'd like to personally invite you to listen to office hours live
0:07.8	with me and my co-host DJ Doug Pound and Vic Berger.
0:12.3	Howdy.
0:13.0	Every week we bring you laughs, fun, games and lots of other surprises.
0:16.4	It's live, we take your Zoom calls.
0:18.0	We love having fun.
0:19.0	Excuse me?
0:20.0	Vicks said something.
0:21.0	Music, music.
0:22.0	Music. I like having fun. like to laugh I like to meet people who can make me laugh
0:29.0	Please subscribe no Subscribe, no. No.
0:33.0	This podcast contains explicit language.
0:40.0	About a year ago, Jonathan Wright Wright a DJ and a children's musician who goes by the
0:46.1	stage name Johnny only started getting strange comments on his YouTube page.
0:50.8	I don't read my YouTube comments very much but I did start seeing comments.
0:55.8	Hey, hey, there's a song out there exactly like yours, you know.
0:59.0	These comments referred to a song Johnny often performed for toddlers and that he had posted on YouTube in 2011.
1:06.1	It came with a video that he'd recorded with his kids and his sister's kids at her pool.
1:10.5	Baby Shark Dude Dude Dude Dude. pool. This song was perfect for three-year-olds.
1:23.0	It has simple lyrics and off repeated chorus
1:25.4	and hand motions that correspond to each verse of the song,
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