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Visit your state election office website to find out whether they offer early voting. One of the first videos I saw was of a girl ringing the bell because she had just finished cancer treatment. How Quarantine Culture Is Blurring Online Dating And Reality TV, Lizzo Shuts Up Fat-Shamers On TikTok: 'Worry About Your Own Goddamn Body', In The Time Of Coronavirus, This Is How We Party. “Sure enough, around that time, it happened. I’m still not 110 percent sure how to work the app exactly, but I do my best! Taylor says she’s “thankful” and “honored” for her “music to be a part of their lives during this crazy time,” and added that she gets messages often about how the song has changed people’s lives.

“It’s not about who is right or wrong, it’s about surrendering to each other,” she said. Email. He then organized a Zoom call with fellow TikTok users and more than 200 showed up to chat. Polling hours on Election Day: Varies by state/locality.

From April to May, “Surrender” was used in 30 to 35,000 new videos on TikTok every day.

It was a light during the darkest time. You might not know who Natalie Taylor is, but, if you’ve been on TikTok, you likely know the haunting melody of her song, “Surrender.”. If she could describe her music, it would be, simply, “emotional.” And that probably explains why the song became so popular as background music for sad or heartwarming life moments. Our site uses cookies. To find out more, please click this link. The song has more than 115 million views on Spotify and 64 million collective views on YouTube. After hearing it in video after video, I kept thinking that it felt familiar ― like I’d heard it somewhere before I saw it on TikTok.

Tap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you. As it turned out, “Surrender” became the latest song to go viral on the video sharing app TikTok. I try to keep it true to who I am,” the American singer-songwriter said. Linder also noted that this video of dogs trying to “wake up” their owner Keith Vanke from early April kept the “momentum” started from Moss’ post going. Yes, very much so. We looked at each other and realized we had both changed so much ― we just weren’t the same people.”, Taylor said that moment, in 2015, was when “Surrender” was written and that it’s “about coming back together, despite the changes, and accepting each other as you are, and working through any and everything.”.

Natalie’s work has also been used in TV shows like “Jane the Virgin” and “Grown-ish.”. Liz Uy to Isabelle Daza after engagement: ‘You’re the best cupid!’, Kim Chiu mentions Julia Barretto while looking through Gerald Anderson’s IG: ‘Ay bawal ba?’, Coleen Garcia in awe of having son and baby sister at the same time, Bianca’s coping tips to keep ‘quarantined minds’ healthy, US weather bureau predicts ‘Rolly’ may intensify into super typhoon before landfall, ‘Rolly’ rapidly turns into typhoon, but Pagasa says peak intensity far from super typhoon levels, Goni enters PAR, now called Severe Tropical Storm Rolly, JC founders Jonathan So, Carlito Macadangdang hailed as Most Outstanding Global Entrepreneurs, Aiai delas Alas reaffirms commitment with Siomai King as Brand Ambassador, ClassIn as an EdTech tool that helps lessen pain points in the K-12 school’s online transition, Slight change in Goni’s predicted track puts Central Luzon, Metro Manila in crosshairs, Villar still richest senator with P3.8B net worth; De Lima poorest. BGN Staff.

I felt just so much gratitude,” he said. When you’ve been toge­ther for a long time and you get old together, you can find yourselves in a place where you’ve changed. So, how the hell did a 5-year-old song become one of the biggest songs on TikTok? Part of HuffPost Entertainment.

But yeah, I am going to keep doing that for sure. “It can often take time for people to come around to the idea that maybe their life will look a little different than what they had imagined. You don't need an excuse to vote early. I cried. Raised in Alabama and now based in Tennessee, Natalie started singing when she was a child and writing songs when she was a teenager. 0. ©2020 Verizon Media. The song has become a catchall for any video demanding an emotional response from the viewer. “But in reality,” she said, “These stories are also changing mine.”, Your vote is your voice!

It was amazing because I got to see different interpretations of the song, for every different reason you could think of. “The song really appeals to people’s emotional sides and that is another reason why I think that the song/my video was successful,” she said.

There are sad and happy ones. 2.

Aw he thought I had one arm @fashionnova #TheSongOfUs #PlayByPlay #foryou #viral #MySkinandME #ad, Moss told HuffPost she used the song in her video because she felt it expressed that “need to surrender the feelings of worry about what other people think, and just let go so you can grow as an individual.”. Can you tell us the story behind “Surrender? “We were like ... well, isn’t that encouraging!” she said. The song’s success eventually paved the way for a record deal with Sony Music’s Columbia Records, which hooked her up with Danish DJ-producer Martin Jensen for “Surrender’s” remix version. Paige Robison, who posted a heartfelt video of her husband repeatedly crying about how much he loves his daughter with the song, added that the “slow beat” and “deep lyrics” render it “close to impossible not to shed a tear” while listening to. “I’m still not exactly sure how it got to be as big as it is. But, obviously, it’s such a weird time … a dark time for everybody… But as far as creativity goes, I have managed to continue writing through everything. TikTok could not identify the first video to have used the song, but the platform identified two videos that helped it become so popular on the app. Share 3. Martin’s “Surrender” video racked up more than 600,000 views and pushed his follower count from 3,000 to more than 22,000 in mere days. Natalie Taylor, artist behind the song, was perplexed. Share.

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It was a whole different ball game compared to what I was used to. She grew up listening to Americana, country music and R&B and cited such artists as Dixie Chicks, Mariah Carey, Boyz II Men and Destiny’s Child as some of her biggest influences. Tweet. “We noticed that my Spotify audience was gro­wing and were like, ‘Where is this coming from?’ We had no idea.

“My music is emotional, honest. I have watched a lot of those videos and was really inspired. They helped us through, so I don’t think there’s anything to be bummed about. Martin told HuffPost that after being stood up on his first date (via Zoom) after losing his partner, Clayton, last year, he decided to share his story on TikTok because he was certain that “someone else out in the world feels the way I do.”. “It just really fit, but it also fit with the fact that I know that there’s gotta be somebody out there for me. #fatherdaughter #love #baby #father #fyp #foryoupage #dad, Then there’s Bryan Martin, who cited a video he made with the song as the catalyst for creating a community he’s cherished during the pandemic.

— has been widely used on the platform for months. It saw a meteoric rise around the start of the coronavirus pandemic, and as of Friday morning there were more than 1.7 million videos using the audio.

Pin. Streaming numbers across digital platforms spiked. What do you make of this success on TikTok? For the Nov 3 election: States are making it easier for citizens to vote absentee by mail this year due to the coronavirus. He’s my greatest joy. Today is National Voter Registration Day! INQ. Share. Visit the state elections site. If a song does well again on TikTok, then that would be good. ”My husband and I wrote it. TikTok’s director of communications Leah Linder said the video seen below, which is actually influencer Savanah Moss’ ad for Fashion Nova posted at the end of March, “helped push the trend” forward. In searching for the right song to pair with his story, Martin came across “Surrender” and said it jumped out to him because the lyrics made him think of Clayton. I did some digging and found that the song had previously appeared in a romantic scene in “Jane the Virgin.” The CW show, which went off the air in 2019, hadn’t featured the song recently; “Surrender” appeared in an episode from the show’s second season all the way back in 2015.

We don’t deserve dogs #fyp #foryou #petlover #dogsoftiktok #viral #socute #foryoupage #heartwarming, Vanke fully admitted he chose the song for the emotional response it elicited, citing the “lyrics and the pure sadness behind it.”, “After I put this song to the video I watched it back and I’m not going to lie I actually kind of [teared] up watching it just because of the reaction of my dog and the sadness behind the song,” he told HuffPost. Learn how your comment data is processed. Well, turns out the song’s writer doesn’t know either. Visit your state election office website to find out if you can vote by mail. Steffann Kerpan, seen in the video above about having a child with Down syndrome, echoed Taylor’s sentiments on the versatility of the song. How has the COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine affected you? But it’s great; it’s another way to get your music out there. It’s a once in a lifetime thing. The song is about coming back together, surrendering to each other. While videos like Moss’ and Vanke’s are clear (and partially fictionalized) attempts to tug at viewer’s heartstrings, the lyrics of the song aren’t based on fiction at all. Were you surprised by the song’s success?

Surrender is a popular song by Sister Funk | Create your own TikTok videos with the Surrender song and explore 0 videos made by new and popular creators. I’m just giving it up to the universe to bring me along the path and help me find my happiness,” he said. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam.

Five years after its release, the ballad “Surrender” experienced an unexpected resurgence in the past couple of months. But I’m sticking to honest music. How Natalie Taylor's 'Surrender' Became One Of TikTok's Most Popular Songs.

What are your thoughts about people using the song for their videos? The song — which is most recognizable by its emotional refrain “Whenever you’re ready, whenever you’re ready / Can we, can we surrender? You need to have a presence on social media these days. Seeing the impact social media has had on your music, will you be more proactive using these platforms? Is there any disappointment that the success came at this time? It wasn’t a hard song to write, but we knew it was special. YouTube even featured Taylor as an “artist on the rise” in mid-May, coinciding with the Alabama native’s release of the song’s remix with Martin Jensen. So that’s why,” she told the Inquirer in a recent video interview.

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