- I have a three-year-old.
You don't think I hear this enough?
- First it's a funny meme,
and then it's a money-making machine.
♪ (industrial intro) ♪
- ♪ Baby shark, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo ♪
♪ Baby shark, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo ♪
- Are we really doing this?
- Oh my god, no.
- Ah, am I gonna be able
to sit through this whole thing
with these headphones on?
(laughs)
- No!
- ♪ Baby shark ♪
- ♪ Mommy shark, doo, doo... ♪
- I have a three-year-old.
You don't think I hear this enough?
- ♪ ...shark, doo, doo, doo... ♪
- (groans)
- ♪ Daddy shark, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo ♪
- I've heard this song
SO many times!
- They have, like, 2.5 billion views
on their video.
- ♪ Doo, doo, doo, doo, ♪
♪ Grandma shark ♪
- Okay. Something for the kiddies.
- (FBE) So, if somehow
someone watching does not know,
any idea what we just showed you?
- No, I thought it's, like,
one of the children's song.
- This was the Baby Shark video.
It became a viral dance,
and everybody was doing it.
- This song's been out forever.
And then all of a sudden in 2018,
it blew up.
My wife was like, "Yeah,
it's been around forever."
She was like, "Is this a thing now?"
She was surprised.
It's like "Wheels on the Bus"
all of a sudden blowing up.
- (FBE) As you probably guessed,
this song is called "Baby Shark."
Before we talk about why
we're covering this today,
let's look at some of the remixes,
memes, and challenges
that have come out of the song.
- This is the fun part, yeah.
- (girl) Alexa,
play "Baby Shark."
- Oh my god!
So cute!
- I love her.
- (girl) Ahhh!
- Okay, this is actually cute.
♪ (ominous music) ♪
♪ (transitions into upbeat music) ♪
- (man off-screen) Ayy!
- So must be catching on
with all the little kids.
- ♪ Baby shark ♪
- (laughs) Go, girl.
- Aww.
- ♪ Baby shark, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo ♪
- Oh! Don't fall. (laughs)
- ♪ Mommy shark, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo ♪
♪ Mommy shark, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo ♪
♪ Mommy shark ♪
- That's what I used to do as a kid
but probably to more annoying songs.
(chuckles)
- SpongeBob.
- That is true.
- The SpongeBob memes
never get old.
- ♪ Baby shark... ♪
- That's me every time
Baby Shark comes on.
I'm like, "Yeah!"
- Ooh, I have to jump
in the Baby Shark lane.
I might come out
with a Baby Shark remix.
- (chuckles)
"Lil Donald
snapped with this one."
- ♪ Baby shark, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo ♪
♪ Baby shark, doo... ♪
- Oh my god!
You kidding me?
- Now, that's just stupid.
- ♪ Baby shark ♪
- That's cool.
I mean, that's--
Yeah, somebody was gonna
do a rap version.
- Good beat, but please tell me
that's not a real song,
'cause then we're gonna have problems.
♪ ("Baby Shark" on alto sax) ♪
- Go off!
Ooh!
- This is another acceptable version.
Definitely "Baby Shark" was meant
to be played on the saxophone.
- You're so talented!
Why do you have to use
your talent on "Baby Shark"?
- Ah, I love it.
That was so nice.
That didn't even make me mad,
because that's one
of my favorite instruments.
- He's playing the HELL
out of that saxophone.
BUT...
my opinion still stands.
[Bleep] that song.
- "Baby Shark is back, my friends."
- What?!
- Are you kidding?!
At a basketball game?!?!
- Mississippi State against Ole Miss.
- Oh my gosh.
- (audience) ♪ ...shark, doo, doo... ♪
- Oh my gosh.
I love that one.
I do that. Those concerts, like Queen
when they used to do Radio Gaga.
Everybody knew all the moves
to make with it.
- No matter how you dress it--
like, you take a [bleep] in a box,
doesn't matter what kind
of wrapping paper you put on it.
It's still [bleep] in a box.
- ♪ Baby... ♪
♪ (slow electronic beat) ♪
♪ (speed increases) ♪
- Of course, 'cause you gotta floss it.
- Must be very popular.
Everybody's doing it.
- They do the floss,
Baby Shark remix.
If they dab at the end of this,
I'm flipping this desk.
- Okay. What is going on?
Why is it that crazy
hip-hop weirdness?
- Oh, no.
- ♪ Doo, doo, doo, doo... ♪
- (laughs)
- ♪ Baby shark, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo ♪
♪ Baby shark ♪
- Oh my gosh.
The poor elderly.
The poor senior citizens.
- ♪ Mommy shark, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo ♪
♪ Mommy shark ♪
- Anything to get 'em moving,
that's great, to keep us oldies moving.
- I can't sit here and, you know,
[bleep] talk "Baby Shark" all I want,
but, you know, under the camera,
I'm tappin' my foot.
- Oh, no! Spider-Man!
- That's just weird.
- Spider-Man's a good dancer.
(chuckles)
- There's something about
seeing people in costume
that is just funny.
I like that.
- Oh, it doesn't end!
And so many people
are doing different things
with this.
- Oh my goodness.
- Oh, this is big time.
- ♪ Baby shark, doo... ♪
- What is going on?
- ♪ Baby shark, doo, doo...
Pinkfong!
It's Pinkfong!
- They're all in Left Shark suits.
That's so funny.
- ♪ Mommy shark, doo, doo... ♪
- Dude, this is a whole phenomenon.
Daaaaaaamn!
- First it's a funny meme,
and then it's a money-making machine.
- ♪ Doo, doo, doo, ♪
- Good... lord.
- They have better turnout
than Elton John.
- (chuckles) Oh, wait.
Was that on the X-Factor?
Oh my god!
Are you kidding me?
- Kids are kids,
and they're gonna--
you know, it's a fun thing.
But not for a national show
that everyone watches.
It's just weird to me.
- ♪ Baby shark, doo, doo,
doo, doo, doo, doo ♪
- Oh, James Corden.
He makes everything better.
- I saw this come up on YouTube,
and I purposefully didn't click.
- (James) And we wanna know what...
- Is this on the Billboard Chart
or something?
- (James) Please welcome Sophie Tanner.
- Wow.
- (crowd cheers)
- Mommy shark.
- And they're clapping, too.
And they're full-grown adults.
They're probably drunk.
- (James and Sophie) ♪ Mommy shark,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo ♪
- (sings along) ♪ Mommy shark,
doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo ♪
♪ Mommy shark ♪
- (Sophie) Where's our daddy shark?
- This is not happening.
- (James) Ladies and gentlemen,
please welcome Josh Groban!
- This one's fine,
because it's making fun of it.
- Ah, I love Josh Groban. Ah!
Yeah, be my daddy, Josh Groban.
- ♪ Daddy shark ♪
- Even if you bring a talented artist
to sing it, it still bothers me
that it's this song.
- I'm all for having fun
with this stuff,
but it's the worst song.
- (ensemble) ♪ Baby shark,
doo, doo... ♪
- This is out of control.
- (ensemble) ♪ Baby shark ♪
♪ Baby shark ♪
- You know, James Corden
can actually sing.
He can really sing.
I'll buy that album.
- [Bleep] hate you guys.
- I love it, though,
when they do all that extra stuff,
the mash-ups, like you said,
and the memes, and stuff,
'cause you see real people
and their creativity.
And it's always enjoyable.
Even if you don't really like it,
you gotta give 'em credit
for getting out there and doing it.
- (FBE) So, as you have seen,
this song has completely
taken over the internet.
- And the universe.
- (FBE) The song has been YouTube
for two years and really blew up
at the end of last year.
But on the week of January 12th, 2019,
the song debuted at number 32
on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.
- Oh, dear god.
Civilization's gone to the dogs.
- I didn't know the song's already
been out for two years.
I heard it maybe for the first time
early last year.
- (FBE) So, we couldn't avoid
covering it any longer.
So, are you surprised that the song
has reached the charts at all?
- Well...
yeah! I guess. I mean,
I know it's been really popular,
but the thing that surprises me
is that it's been around for so long
and all of a sudden,
now it just got picked up.
Why now?
- I can't believe something like that
would sneak into the top billboards.
But then, at the same time,
you know, it also makes sense.
People are playing the hell
out of the song
and memes.
- I wasn't even thinking about it
until I started seeing
all these celebrities
putting their version up.
I don't think you'd have
that kind of production
unless you are some sort of level
in the Billboard chart.
- It's taken over, kind of
like "The Macarena" or something.
I guess, you know,
they that's how they get introduced
into the kids' songs pantheon.
- I've seen on Instagram,
there's pictures of people
at clubs and they're jamming out
to this song and stuff.
Adults love this song, too.
Elders, if you saw that video
of the seniors doing that dance, too.
Everybody loves it.
- (FBE) The origins and creator
of Baby Shark are still up for debate,
but the song seems to have started
several years ago as a nursery rhyme
and a campfire song.
- That's what I thought
at the beginning, yeah.
- (FBE) The viral version of the song,
which took the nursery rhyme
and added catchy beats to it
came in June of 2016
by Southern Korean
educational brand Pinkfong.
- Pinkfong!
I love them.
- (FBE) A year later,
on August 2017,
the #BabySharkChallenge began
to trend among internet users,
which depicted users
dancing along to the song.
The silly video and challenge
eventually became the basis
for the track's meme status,
further popularizing the song
with online users.
The song simply continued
to gain popularity
with Pinkfong's version
currently sitting
at over two billion views.
- Good god.
- (FBE) Now knowing
how it's come to this
big mainstream attention with adults,
how popular would you say the song is
with specifically children?
- Oh my god.
I couldn't imagine
walking into a kindergarten
and playing this song.
I guarantee every kid
in the class knows the lyrics.
- It's very popular with kids,
because I hear all the time
with different ages.
I see babies singing it.
I see kids that are 11 singing it.
- You know that SpongeBob meme,
where it's like,
"That's how kids are
when they hear Baby Shark"?
That's not a joke!
I'm serious.
That's literally what happens.
It is torture.
- I mean, it's very popular.
My three-year-old loves it.
But he didn't--
he doesn't watch the internet,
so he found it through whatever--
preschool or whatever,
and they sing it at preschool.
- At our school, we have this rule.
We're not allowed to bring
our phones out until the bell rings.
So, right when the bell rings,
everybody brings their phones out
and just jams to "Baby Shark"
by the parking lot.
They bring speakers.
They bring everything,
and just wait for their parents there,
and listen to "Baby Shark."
- (FBE) So, when you generally think
about kids' songs,
what comes to mind?
- I mean, I think of the ABCs
or "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star."
- (FBE) Everyone seems
to know those songs.
But right now in 2019,
a huge amount of children
from around the globe
know and love "Baby Shark."
Did you ever think about
how the internet may impact
the ideas of what songs
could possibly be playing still
in a century from now?
- The internet is everything.
The internet is the future.
That's what everyone keeps telling me.
Now we have technology
and things can be up
and running faster.
But then they--
you know, five minutes,
there can be a million views.
Whereas before, it took
a long time to get around.
- YouTube is the biggest platform,
I believe, for entertainment right now.
It makes sense that the music,
what is coming out,
is gonna be from there.
It's just...
it's scary.
- Oh my gosh. Just imagine a baby
just singing some rap song
from now, being all like,
"Oh, whoa, whoa."
(imitates record scratching)
Just... that's crazy
to think about.
- This is just kind of
how life works as you're growing up.
You learn these songs.
You sing them,
'cause they're easy
to remember things.
And then that's kind of it.
Those are the songs.
And now, it's like,
"Oh, wow.
'Baby Shark' is supposed
to be the next ABCs?"
- (FBE) Finally...
- I'm so excited for this question.
What is it?
- (FBE) With trends like these,
we often recreate the ending.
But it's so overplayed now
that it's difficult to bring ourselves
to do it with this one.
- YES! Exactly!
- (FBE) So, do you even
wanna recreate it?
- NO!
I wanna kill it so hard right now.
- Absolutely not.
Thank you for asking, though.
- Thanks for watching
this episode of Generations React.
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- Lauren, producer here at FBE.
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