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How David Wise’s 90s masterpiece became the internet’s latest obsession
In the age of the internet, sometimes it can feel like we’re trapped forever listening to the same melodies. Each time I think that I’ve heard “Makeba,” “Oh No,” or the first ten seconds of “Blake Belladonna VS Yuri” (at least that’s what Shazam tells me the song is) for the last time, it comes back again with a vengeance.
When the internet decides on songs, it can be difficult to escape their reach. They make their way into reels and TikToks and even ads. Sometimes, the internet’s peculiar taste for music is enough to revive songs from the dead entirely.
It happened with Hanz Zimmer’s “Cornfield Chase” from the movie Interstellar; it happened with Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” after the release of Stranger Things’ latest season, and it happened with Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” when a man decided to film himself longboarding to work with a bottle of cranberry juice in hand on one fateful morning. There’s little rhyme or reason to the songs we resurrect.
The trends in music seem to revolve less around pop stars and state-run radio, and more around the whims of our most popular content creators and viral streaming phenomenons. And once they…
