Not just a song that can be found in the archives, but one that almost everyone can hum, even today.
‘You are my Sunshine’
I want to click, but I don’t want to click
XcQ, link stays blue
Well, green.
So, 500 years from now people will still be doing this?
I can see it
“I like to f*ck” by Tila Tequila.
Essentially the same lyrics, even.
It’s it a hummer?
Here Comes the Sun. Simple melody, timeless lyrics, and it’s the most-streamed Beatles song out of an already strong and memorable catalog.
Fittingly similar to the theme of “Sumer Is Icumen In,” a British round from the late 1200s.
I hate that song, it makes me sad as fuck every time I hear it, and if I never heard that song again in my life it’d be a better one.
Why does it make you sad?
Something about it just ruins my mood. I think it’s linked to how my parents put that song over old home videos and as a kid I would watch them and just ball uncontrollably at the loss of such simpler times (when you’re a baby and don’t have to worry about shit, you’re just cared for and loved).
7 nation army by the white stripes. It gets played after a goal is scored in football stadiums across the world.
We will rock you by Queen another contender for similar reasons.
Sweet Caroline is getting that way for Football. Especially now that the English nicked it from us
Don’t forget Freed from Desire
Not even after goals. It’s like the wave, you can start it up at most sporting events with the help of four other people.
Yeah, choosing something that will end up in the background of a lot of archives and memories is probably as good a strategy as any.
I have a feeling that this will be one that everyone knows, but doesn’t know the title of, like Power House by Raymond Scott.
Link.
It’s…
PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME.
PEANUT BUTTER JELLY
PEANUT BUTTER JELLY
PEANUT BUTTER JELLY WITH A BASEBALL BAT
Chumbawumba Tubthumping.
Nah it got knocked down.
I hate to break this to you, but its Chumbawamba, with an A not a second U. And it always has been.
My life has been a lie
One thing people might not realise, is that memorable old music can come and go. Until someone recorded a successful rendition in the 60’s, Cannon in D had been forgotten for centuries. Now it’s almost synonymous with wedding music, and seems completely timeless.
It’s possible everyone will be crazy about 1919’s El sombrero de tres picos in 2450, and (with this all being indistinct distant history) will picture us in 2024 playing it on boombox at a 2050’s-style holo-orgy.
B.P.E. by Girls5Eva I had this song in my head all day yesterday. https://open.spotify.com/track/7jYbX7gU0Pe2b0nZR7OSH5?si=P9aE_s8ER3unRraCRrV0dA Surely it will be known by all in the future… hehe.
Tell me more about these 2050’s Holo-Orgies
Busy. I’ll get back to you about it in 30 years or so. /s
Will they be included with a Canadian residency or will it only be for CanadaPlus?
Hmm. Well, I haven’t gotten any invites to orgies. The only possible, logical reason is that it’s a plus-premium thing.
On a serious note, if anyone’s an American who’s serious about moving to Canada and not just memeing, I’d get moving on it now. We have a massive housing shortage, and things would sticky politically if there was a big wave of people pushing prices up even more.
I think having a dance associated with the song is integral to the staying power of a song. The Twist, Hokey Pokey, Electric Slide, all great contenders.
But time will prove that the champion is The Macarena, by Los Del Rio.
Nutbush City Limits might have a chance then, we’ll see whether Australian public schools are still teaching the dance in a couple of hundred years…
I guess, but I couldn’t hum the Cakewalk for you.
I can, as well as my gran, so there’s that. Try and keep up.
Creep by Radiohead, imagine how annoyed that would make Thom Yorke.
Probably helps to be featured or mentioned in other notable media, as greensleaves is mentioned in Shakespeare, and creep is part of the fight club soundtrack, so it has that going for it I guess 😅
In the U.S., “Neck” by Cameo has become a college marching band standard. I wonder if that will help. Not that it would come from U.S. college sports but maybe a song like “Sweet Caroline” or “Seven Nation Army” that’s played at professional sporting events in multiple countries.
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I don’t know what it is but I hear it at sports stadiums. Duh duh duh duh- duh duh duh-duh It repeats
I know it’s not the song that you’re saying but I read that in Suzanne Vega - Tom’s diner tone
There’s a surprisingly good cover of it by Britney Spears.
“Seven Nation Army” by The White Stripes.
One of my favorite little details of Blood and Wine, Witcher 3, is random people humming or singing small refrains of modern pop songs like the Beatles, implying these tunes are exactly what you’re asking about.
Something from Michael Jackson maybe. I heard you can go somewhere where there is no civilization and they’ll still know him.
All Star by Smash Mouth, obviously.
