Italians Singing During Coronavirus Lockdown
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Italians Singing During Coronavirus Lockdown refers to parodies of a video in which Italians, under quarantine during the Coronavirus sing together out their windows over an empty street. The video inspired some to create parodies that feature the Italians singing popular and humorous songs.
Origin
On March 12th, 2020, Twitter user @valamercurii[1] posted a video in which people from Siena, Italy were singing an Italian popular song outside their windows during the Coronavirus lockdown. The video gained over 5.3 million views on Twitter (shown below). It was also covered by CNN.[2]
People of my hometown #Siena sing a popular song from their houses along an empty street to warm their hearts during the Italian #Covid_19 #lockdown.#coronavirusitalia #COVID19 #coronavirus pic.twitter.com/7EKKMIdXov
— valemercurii (@valemercurii) March 12, 2020
Spread
The video inspired parodies where people dubbed crowds singing other songs over similar footage. For example, Twitter user @gyllenpresley posted an edited video which made a crowd look like it was singing "Lose Yourself" by Eminem (shown below, top), gaining over 5,800 retweets and 22,000 likes. User @explicitxshady made a similar video, using "Not Afraid" by Eminem, gaining over 4,200 retweets and 14,000 likes (shown below, bottom).
a whole neighbourhood in italy rapping eminem’s lose yourself while on lockdown pic.twitter.com/7lkR0MmipG
— tijana🦋 (@gyllenpresley) March 15, 2020
A whole neighborhood in Italy is singing “Not Afraid" by Eminem while they’re on lockdown and self-quarantine pic.twitter.com/BjEymwxddP
— ana (@explicitxshady) March 15, 2020
The quality of the fakes led some celebrities to be fooled into thinking they were genuine. For example, Katy Perry was fooled by a video which made it appear as though a neighborhood was singing her song "Roar," tweeting, "You cannot break the human spirit. We are one in this. ♥️" (shown below, top). Madonna fell for the same prank as well (shown below, bottom). Cheryl, Jessie J, and Shawn Mendes also fell for similar pranks.[3]
You cannot break the human spirit. We are one in this. ♥️🇮🇹 https://t.co/XOa0rTVNwB
— KATY PERRY (@katyperry) March 14, 2020
Let Us All RISE UP. everywhere around the world!! 🌎 🌍 #irise pic.twitter.com/NJv93kWnWs
— Madonna (@Madonna) March 15, 2020
Twitter user and journalist Taylor Lorenz[4] posted about how "celebs are so stupid" in response to the pranks (shown below).
Various Examples
A whole neighborhood in Italy is playing the alien song from Annihilation while they’re on lockdown and self-quarantined ❤️ In times of crisis people can come together and create such beautiful moments pic.twitter.com/lemYvueJlk
— grace spelman (@GraceSpelman) March 16, 2020
An entire building in Italy singing
TEAM by Lorde ❤️❤️❤️ pic.twitter.com/BjNPB6hcYO— todd pole (@ribsreprise) March 15, 2020
In italy those in quarantine are singing rihanna's "bitch better have my money" #COVIDー19 🥺 pic.twitter.com/ERiPdvGyO7
— 🦋 (@diljayz) March 15, 2020
a whole neighborhood in italy is singing along to “epiphany” while its on lockdown, how beautiful, Jin is really THAT powerful 🥺😌 pic.twitter.com/U1C5X2ERxW
— DΛIƧY⁷|LIKE LIMIT (@thisbitchex) March 15, 2020
Search Interest
External References
[1] Twitter – valemercurii
[2] CNN – Under coronavirus lockdown, Italians sing from balconies
[3] Instagram – Wigsandtea
[4] Twitter – TaylorLorenz
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