I Don't Care About U
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I Don't Care About U is a remix of the Mariah Carey song All I Want for Christmas Is You in which segments of the song are removed, so the lyrics are "I don't care about you." The song spread on TikTok in 2020.
Origin
On November 1st, 1994, Mariah Carey released the song "All I Want for Christmas Is You." The song became a modern Christmas classic, regularly returning to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 charts each holiday season.[1]
On September 29th, 2020, Tiktoker @charleedahmilio posted an edited video of Carey performing the song, removing portions of the song so the track plays "I don't care about you." They added the chyron "No one: / Jeff Bezos:" expressing the opinion that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos does not care about other people. The post received more than 61,000 reactions, 1,700 shares and 1,200 comments (shown below).
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6878153506004536582
Spread
Following the post, people began sharing videos of themselves lipsynching to the song. For example, on November 20th, 2020, TikToker @kirakosarin shared a variation of the video. The post received more than 450,000 reactions and 5,100 comments in less than two months (shown below, left). Days later, TikToker @elijahnelsonn shared a version that received more than 374,000 reactions and 11,000 comments in less than two months (shown below, right).
In less than six months, the sound has been used in more than 71,000 videos.[2]
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6897387240406699269
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6898730585297079557
Various Examples
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6900368463966129413
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6893216202383052038
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6905883683752791301
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6894334265698323718
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