About

Interrupted By A Band Of Talented Mice refers to an Instagram Reels and TikTok meme trend that shows a band of AI-generated anthropomorphic mice singing a catchy song. The real song is called "Dream Police Vol II" by Danny Dwyer. The lyrics to the song were, "Take a look and I give it right back / Oh that's fine I can give him right back." Jokes about the mice being a global sensation began making the rounds in early January 2025 as the format spread online. The band's frontman Marvin Cheese also received his own slew of memes and lore. Following its virality, musician Danny Dwyer took credit for the song, with some internet users tracing it back to a January 2022 post on his TikTok page.

Origin

On January 13th, 2022, TikToker^[1] @_dannydwyer posted a video featuring the song used in a number of "band of talented mice" memes in 2025.

The song was subsequently used on Instagram Reels on December 31st, 2024, by the Instagram^[2] page @clipmodego, who posted an AI-generated video about a band of mice interrupting the Raise Your Ya Ya Ya meme. The post gathered over 470,000 plays and 39,000 likes in a week.

An unconfirmed transcript of the song is shown below:

Take a look and give it right back
Oh that's fine, that you did him like that
I know that you're gonna give him right back
It's not right but I didn't like that
Mouse and cat's only meow meow
Just got clean like I'm using my nails
I could use me a little more help
Big dreams you know me

Spread

The Instagram^[3] page @clipmodego posted several videos about singers being interrupted by a "band of talented mice," as seen in a January 2nd, 2025, post featuring Billie Eilish, which gathered over 1 million views and 36,000 likes in four days.

Danny Dwyer commented, "yo what the hell this is my song," in reply to the aforementioned video, promising to release the full version of the song on his own Instagram^[4] page on January 6th, 2025.

On January 3rd, 2025, Instagram^[5] user @itsfromdave posted about his efforts to recreate the song, gathering over 48,000 plays and 3,000 likes in four days.

The meme spread to TikTok^[6] soon after, as seen in a January 6th, 2025, post by user @verytalentedmice that gathered over 320,000 plays and 70,000 likes in a day.

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