Ho, why is you here? made it on several “best of” year-end lists, and Flo Milli has proved to be a true gem on a platform overwhelmed by musical mediocrity. A TikTok influencer I follow was so geeked for new music from her that he literally named his account (She noticed.) His lobbying campaign succeeded in July, when after much anticipation, she released her mixtape, the amazingly petty Ho,why is you here? (“Big top, small legs, bitch built like a wine glass (haha),” she disses a rival on “Like That Bitch.”) Fans include the woodland giant and lesbian icon Hozier, who was caught streaming “Like That Bitch” in August after a screenshot of his Spotify activity circulated on Twitter. Since then, Flo Milli has been on TikTok’s regular rotation, alongside other female rappers like Megan Thee Stallion, City Girls, and Doja Cat. Months later she followed up with “In the Party,” leading with a boast so vivid-“Dicks up when I step in the party”-that I know it better than my Social Security number. The 20-year-old Alabama rapper first came to prominence with her 2019 single “Beef FloMix,” in which she flicks off haters like Cher Horowitz sighing “as if!” It first became a TikTok sensation, and then, entertainingly, the default music of fancams. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.įlo Milli is always cheeky, unbothered, and better than your sorry ass. This ordeal plays on the worst dynamics of TikTok: celebrities riding the coattails of already-viral songs, and hypersexual dancing triumphing over anything. 1 on the Billboard charts in October, after K-pop sensations BTS hopped on the remix (sure, why not?). As these things go, it was quickly co-opted by Straight TikTok for borderline pornographic dance moves Derulo then sanitized “Laxed - Siren Beat” into an utterly jejune love song, slapped on an uncomfortable title, and released it in June. In April, the original “ Laxed - Siren Beat” became the foundation for a trend in which people flaunt their native culture, often switching into traditional dress. 1 song of 2020, “Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat),” whose beat he initially took without clearance from the New Zealand high schooler Jawsh 685. He’s famous, I guess, for cajoling kids a decade or so younger than him to bust moves at his mansion, or mashing every dessert known to man into monster concoctions known as # millimeals. It’s not a comprehensive list, since everyone’s For You page varies, but it nonetheless reveals some of what kept people occupied in 2020.ĭue to some back-room deal with the devil, Derulo managed to become TikTok’s No. Who could have anticipated the Caretaker challenge, where teenagers listen to a six-and-a-half-hour experimental album simulating dementia?Īs I revisited the year on TikTok, I wanted to take inventory of a few delights and annoyances, along with some broad themes I haven’t covered yet. Thanks to the strength and multiplicity of TikTok’s various subcultures-or the effectiveness of its algorithm at dangling just the right amount of spontaneity-the app still throws curveballs. In a mystery I haven’t cracked, not one but two songs by the smallish Orlando indie-pop band SALES have been at the center of viral trends, despite both seeming too subdued for meme-ification. releases (Miki Matsubara’s Japanese city pop gem “ Stay With Me”). This includes songs dug up from past decades (Plustwo’s 1983 Italo disco classic “ Melody”) and non-U.S. Still, after over a year of thumbing through the app-flipping the dial, catching stray snippets of melody-I’m still periodically surprised by the music it whirls into the spotlight. TikTok can feel repetitive: many creators’ thirst for influence incentivizes them to dance to what’s already popular (ex: yet another Nicki Minaj feature) and chart-toppers like Travis Scott pay big influencers to guarantee another week’s stay in the Top 10.
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