New Hampshire Public Radio

A decade-old wordless song shows how music and social media are shaping each other

CHANG: It's the background music for millions of videos, played billions of times. But few people know the name of the song or the person who composed it. On the year of its 10th anniversary, Deena ...
NPR

How a catchy tune became the soundtrack to TikTok's silliest videos

Turn to TikTok for some amusement, and you'll find short videos of a fluffy cat cuddling a fluffy dog, a toddler clutching a bag of Doritos as though it were a teddy bear, or a penguin creating ...
NPR

A decade-old wordless song shows how music and social media are shaping each other

Ten years ago, Kevin MacLeod released "Monkeys Spinning Monkeys" — now in tens of millions of TikToks, Instagram reels and YouTube videos. Its path shows how music and social media shape one another.
OPB

How a catchy tune became the soundtrack to TikTok’s silliest videos

You’ll have to turn up the volume to hear what all these posts have in common: a song created ten years ago called “Monkeys Spinning Monkeys” by Kevin MacLeod. Although few people know the name of the ...