Eddie's Song

About

Eddie's Song is a fan-made track created by singer, YouTuber and TikToker "Sapphire" in July 2022, paying tribute to Eddie Munson, a character portrayed by Joseph Quinn with a brief arc on the Netflix TV series Stranger Things. The song was initially popularized on TikTok and YouTube by fans of the show, but was soon after panned by a wider audience for misrepresenting various characters' motives and personalities, as well as being perceived as too overly emotional for a fan-made tribute created for a character that had only 20 minutes of cumulative screentime as of season four.

Origin

On July 16th, 2022, TikToker^[1] @sapphireofficial posted a video with the caption "eddie, this is for you <3." The video showed her playing the piano and singing "Eddie's Song," a track she made to commemorate the death of Stranger Things character Eddie Munson. The lyrics to the song are, "Eddie baby, I just saw Steve. He's crying his eyes out with Dustin, they're playing D&D. Say oh, oh, oh, they love you so. You're a hero [x2]" The video received over 80,000 plays and over 15,000 likes in just over a month since it was uploaded (seen below).

On July 17th, 2022, she uploaded a longer video,^[2] this time with completed, extended lyrics. This video went viral, gathering over 700,000 plays and over 130,000 views in over a month (seen below).

Spread

The track was used by various Stranger Things fan pages making fancams and tribute videos in July and August 2022. Many of these have since been deleted following the backlash from more cynical fans, but some have been reuploaded by other accounts in order to continue mocking them.

On August 13th, 2022, Sapphire^[3] stitched another user's fan-cam made, saying "These edits to Eddie's Song have me in tears oh my." The video gathered over 140,000 plays and 3,000 likes in 10 days (seen below, left).

On August 22nd, 2022, TikToker @machisporksoda^[4] re-uploaded a deleted video of a fan crying while reacting to Eddie's song. The original video has a text overlay that reads, "New challenge: if you love and miss Eddie, try to listen to this without crying. clearly I failed." The reupload gathered over 2.5 million views and over 400,000 likes in just one day (seen below, right)

On August 22nd, TikToker @dustinhenderson.irl^[5] posted a video of her reacting to the track with the caption, "some people just shouldn't be allowed to write music." The video gathered over 3.8 million views and over 500,000 likes in one day (seen below, left). Also on August 22nd, TikToker^[6] @punpunloverr posted a video reacting to the song with the caption, "… what is THIS 💀." The video gathered over 1.4 million plays and over 200,000 likes in one day (seen below, right).

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