It’s been a wild week on the internet with the release of
Of course, that wasn’t the only thing trending on TikTok, not with Adele’s 2015 song “Water Under the Bridge” going viral upon the singer’s latest album drop. Surprisingly, it was also a big week for reality TV stars with both Wendy Ostefo and Kylie Jenner having a moment on the app.
Adele not making music for TikTok is water under the bridge
Three weeks ago Adele’s anticipated album 30 came out. In
But it turns out Adele had a TikTok song in her arsenal. “Water Under the Bridge,” a track off her 2015 album 25, went viral on the app this week.
Last week,
What appears to be the first “Water Under the Bridge” video on TikTok
Another example of the trend is
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The trend is a perfect combination of a beloved Adele classic and Megan Thee Stallion’s high-energy moves, so needless to say, it took the app by storm.
The dance is so fun that for the first time ever, I am considering learning a TikTok dance.
Are you a Nicki fan?
Another popular trend this week pulls the audio of an interview between Michael Rapport and Wendy Ostefo of Real Housewives of Potomac fame on The Wendy Williams Show. During the interview, Rapport asked Ostefo a simple question: “Are you a Nicki [Minaj] fan?” To which Ostefo replied, “What? Am I a Nicki fan? Pull up in the Sri Lanka.”
In an attempt to prove that she’s a Nicki fan, Ostefo gets the lyrics to the rapper’s iconic “Monster” verse wrong. The actual bars are, “Pull up in the monster / automobile gangsta with a bad bitch from Sri Lanka.”
The audio has produced over 320,000 TikToks and counting. You might expect that TikTokkers are using this audio to make jokes about being a poser, and some are, but most creators are using the snippet to show that they are, in fact, something — so there is a confusing discrepancy between the audio and the trend.
Stormi, you look like Mommy, baby
Ostefo isn’t the only reality TV star to have a viral TikTok sound this week. An audio of Kylie Jenner saying “Stormi, you look just like Mommy, baby,” has taken over my FYP.
The sound has over 88,000 videos made to it and
The trend has since evolved into users sharing what things their future children will do that’s just like them. It’s a classic TikTok trend where users roast themselves and, as always, the more relatable the roasts are, the funnier the content. One example is
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Spotify Wrapped
The first week of December is coming to a close, and ’tis the season to analyze our annual Spotify Wrapped results. On Dec. 1, Wrapped conquered social media, and people were quick to take to Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok to react to their top songs and artists.
Before this year’s Spotify Wrapped dropped, users on TikTok were expressing their anticipation with audio edits of Ariana Grande’s “Can You Stay Up All Night.” When the song cuts out, users then show the song or artist that ruined their Wrapped. For example,
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Two additional audios used in response to Wrapped were English TV personality Gemma Collins saying “I am not ashamed to admit it, it’s hell in there. It’s horror. You have to be a certain type of person to survive” and
And if you see Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version)” at the top of my Wrapped next year, no you didn’t ♥️.