Goddamn, These Cats Are Cookin'! God, They're Swingin'! Fuck!

About

Goddamn, These Cats Are Cookin'! God, They're Swingin'! Fuck! refers to a viral video on TikTok that was posted in early 2022 of a man mocking what 20-year-old music students sound like when they're talking about jazz. The TikTok sound was used in memes to exaggerate enthusiasm about music that shouldn't be so appreciated. It was also used in non-music-related scenarios to portray ironic and over-dramatic adoration.

Origin

On March 14th, 2022, TikToker^[1] timehat posted a video that had text overlay reading, "Music students in their 20s talking like 50+ year old jazz musicians." The avant-garde jazz song "Thriving on a Riff" by Charlie Parker^[2] is playing in the background while timehat exclaims, "Goddamn, these cats are cookin'! God, they're swingin'! Fuck!" while snapping his fingers repeatedly. Over the course of four months, the video received roughly 1.8 million plays and 229,600 likes (shown below).

Spread

As TikToker timehat's video^[1] gain engagement, other creators on the app used his audio^[3] as the sound for their videos. On March 28th, 2022, TikToker^[4] statenews was the first to use the audio in a video with text overlay reading, "POV: You hit the bars with the music major." Over the course of four months, the video received roughly 555,400 plays and 65,000 likes (shown below).

Going into the months following, use of the sound became more frequent. At first, its usage was reserved for music lover-related content. For instance, on May 19th, 2022, TikToker^[5] verboten.intern posted a self-effacing video about listening to the same King Krule album for the last ten years, earning roughly 206,900 plays and 25,800 likes in two months (shown below, left). Non-music-related iterations emerged later on. For instance, on July 4th, 2022, TikToker^[6] gunfingersv1p used the audio to express satirical adoration for their roomate's "borderline schizophrenic poetry," earning roughly 661,500 plays and 185,400 likes in ten days (shown below, right).

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