It was only a matter of time. Like countless internet users before her, Lady Gaga lends herself to the series’ TikTok challenge game. Wednesday. The American superstar published this Friday a video on the platform in which she takes the choreography that the main character of the program dances, in an accelerated version of her own song. bloody mary.
If the interpreter of Judas participates in this new trend, it is because she was attached to it despite herself. Since the launch on November 23, Wednesday On Netflix, a series focused on the eldest daughter of the Addams family, fans recreate on TikTok a dance in which the character indulges in one of the episodes. But instead of repeating the music used in the show, they play the movements in bloody marya track from Lady Gaga’s album Born this way released in 2011.
What is this relatively unknown piece worth to be a success, eleven years after its release, on streaming platforms.
one song for another
Nothing explains why TikTok users chose this music to accompany their video, while this dance is performed by Miércoles (played by actress Jenna Ortega) in the title. Goo Goo Muck of the American group The Cramps in the series. However, the facts are there: it is, of course, in this revised version of bloody mary Internet users dress up as Wednesday Addams to imitate him.
Thanks to its sudden ubiquity on TikTok, a service particularly popular among young people, the echo of bloody mary has gone far beyond the borders of the social network. On Shazam, an app that detects the title and artist of a song just by listening to it, the song is currently the most searched for in the world, as well as in France, Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Hungary, Israel, Mexico. and Norway.
It is also ranked 25th in the Deezer ranking of the most listened to songs in the world, and 29th in the same ranking on Spotify. So much so that this piece, which Lady Gaga has never exploited as a single, would be becoming one. The title is now listed as the sixth single from Born this way on Wikipedia and, depending on the site pure graphics, bloody mary It has just been sent to French radio stations.
The netflix effect
I have to say that Wednesday had every chance of setting a trend: this series created by Alfred Cough and Miles Millar (and partly directed by Tim Burton) achieved the best start in Netflix history for an English-language series with 341.2 million hours watched in all the world in its first week of broadcast, breaking the record held by season 4 of Strange things.
This isn’t the first time Netflix has revived a song that’s years, if not decades, old. Title climbing that hill by Kate Bush, released in 1985, was a phenomenal success last summer after being used in the final season of Strange things. In particular, it rose to first place in the British ranking, 37 years after its creation. The same series offered a new lease of life to Puppeteer by Metallica, nearly four decades after its release.
Source: BFM TV
