In the Heights Identity

In the Heights Identity

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Updated Jun 19, 2019 at 01:45PM EDT by Sophie.

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About

In the Heights Identity refers to a series of TikTok remixes in which users attempted to label their own identity to the song "Carnaval Del Barrio" from the musical In the Heights by Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Origin

On July 23rd, 2005, the musical In the Heights premiered which featured a musical number called "Carnaval Del Barrio" (shown below). The song was uploaded to TikTok in 2019 and in June of 2019 a sound clip of character Carla discussing her parentage spawned remixes in which TikTok users revealed portions of their own identity.



Spread

In June 2019, @sad.jaden uploaded a video describing himself as Asian and black which gained over 369,000 likes that month but has since been taken down. On June 7th, @realliamsilk posted a video describing her parents heritage (shown below, left). The video gained over 340,600 likes and 5,100 shares in 12 days. On June 9th, TikTok user @lifewhb uploaded a video describing himself as white (shown below, right). The video gained over 347,000 likes and 7,900 shares in ten days.


https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6699791378949344517
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6700558905686101253

On June 18th, The musical's creator Lin_Manuel Miranda[1][2] found out about the trend through Twitter (shown below,left). After they were sent a TikTok exampled they responded by saying, "Haa I love it" (shown below, right). The tweet accumulated over 1,100 likes in a day.


Lin-Manuel Miranda @Lin_Manuel Yes a young person told me about this. Someone send the videos to this old man at my Friendster so I can see Eliya is proud of dan @eliya_ger Replying to @Lin_Manuel Did you know that there is a trend on tiktok with people recording them self with carnaval de barrio (in the part where Carla talks about where her family comes from) while telling where their family is from?? 6:17 AM- 18 Jun 2019 Lin-Manuel Miranda @Lin Manuel Haaa I love it Sonya @SonYAsbookshelf Replying to @Lin_Manuel vm.tiktok.com/dosLx5/ Here you go! 6:21 AM-18 Jun 2019

Various Examples


https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6701045053076278534
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6701677001742241029
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6700608462142852358
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6700906524044168453
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6702188518367563013
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6700697312101928198

Search Interest

External References

[1] Twitter – Lin_Manuel

[2] Twitter – Lin_Manuel

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