Mom, It Was Never A Phase, It's A Lifestyle
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Mom, It Was Never A Phase, It's A Lifestyle refers to a video on TikTok by @yungricepatty in which he yells the titular line and then sings along to All Time Low's "Dear Maria Count Me In."[7] This inspired a lip-dub trend on the platform.
Origin
On December 14th, 2020, @yungricepatty uploaded a video to TikTok[1] (shown below) where he's sitting in his car listening to the 2007 pop-punk song "Dear Maria Count Me In" by All Time Low, a highly-regarded song among fans of the genre. He yells over the song, "Mom, It Was Never A Phase, It's A Lifestyle" and then proceeds to sing along with the song. The video gained over 8.2 million views in a month.
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6906285501372828933
Spread
On December 16th, 2020, All Time Low's official Twitter page re-posted the video, garnering over 15,000 likes and 4,100 retweets. As the video went viral, users began lip-dubbing to it. On December 29th, @trashxm0uth uploaded a lip-dub to the sound,[5] garnering over 4.3 million views in 3 weeks (shown below, left). On January 7th, 2021, @spencergoulding uploaded a lip-dub to TikTok,[6] garnering over 1.4 million views in 2 weeks (shown below, right).
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6911822105231232261
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6915203052622384389
On January 13th, 2021, the lead singer of All Time Low, Alex Gaskarth, tweeted,[4] "I always knew Dear Maria would be a massive TikTok song when we wrote it in 2006" garnering over 108,000 likes and 10,800 retweets in 8 days (shown below).
On January 14th, Alternative Press[2] published an article on the trend. On January 19th, Distractify[3] published an article detailing the trend.
Various Examples
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6916998240567151878
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6918195799339830534
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6916980916871007494
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6917014501975969030
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6912220925618408710
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6914864399668890886
Search Interest
External References
[1] TikTok – in search of punk pop tiktok
[2] Alternative Press – HERE’S WHAT ALEX GASKARTH THINKS OF THAT VIRAL ALL TIME LOW TIKTOK TREND
[3] Distractify – #Throwback! Mid-2000s Song by Pop-Punk Band All Time Low Is Going Viral on TikTok
[4] Twitter – I always knew Dear Maria would be a massive TikTok song when we wrote it in 2006.
[5] TikTok – My jeans are tighter and my hair is even longer now
[6] TikTok – mom it was never a phase
[7] YouTube – All Time Low – Dear Maria, Count Me In
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