"I Remember When I Lost My Mind" Riff Challenge

About

"I Remember When I Lost My Mind" Riff Challenge is a TikTok challenge where participants sing along to the opening lines of "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley, attempting to hit a high note on the word "mind." The challenge was inspired by a video posted in November 2022 where a woman hits the high note and is shocked that she could, resulting in both serious attempts to do the same and ironic videos in which users recreate the video with purposefully bad singing and a failed attempt at hitting the high note.

Origin

On November 2nd, 2022, TikToker^[1] @nataliejanesings posted a video where she and another woman sing along to "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley in a parking garage. In the video, Natalie hits a high note on the lyrics, "lost my mind," followed by her expressing shock (shown below). The video gained over 114 million views in two weeks.

Spread

As the video went viral, TikTokers began posting their own versions of the video, calling it a "riff challenge." For example, on November 3rd, 2022, TikTokers^[2][3] @charleysux and @samii.rosee posted videos attempting to hit the high note, garnering over 10 million and 40 million views respectively in roughly two weeks (shown below, left and right).

The majority of the videos are ironic comedy videos recreating the original with purposely off-key singing and timing. On November 8th, 2022, TikToker^[4] @guinny.galvin posted a video like this, garnering over 6.2 million views in a week (shown below, left). On November 9th, TikToker^[5] @finmorse12 posted a video doing the challenge with his grandmother, garnering over 18.8 million views in five days (shown below, right). The original video's original sound^[6] gained over 30,000 users in just under two weeks.

On November 10th, TikToker^[7] @moontellthat posted a video doing the trend ironically with multiple people, garnering over 3.5 million views in four days (shown below).

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