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Musicians Riding a Roller Coaster

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About

Musicians Riding a Roller Coaster refers to a series of edits of POV roller coaster ride videos accompanied by various songs. The edits are timed in a way to match non-lexical vocables in the songs with the train starting to speed down the track, as if the vocalist was excited or terrified by the ride.

Origin

On April 21st, 2014, YouTube channel Theme Park Review posted a POV video of a ride on a Wooden Roller Coaster located in Kings Island amusement park in Ohio.^[1] The video gained over 9 million views in five years.

On August 16th, 2016, YouTube user Brostess Snack Cakes uploaded a video titled "ian curtis rides a rollercoaster" in which a song "I Remember Nothing" by Joy Division was edited over a fragment of the POV video.^[2]^[3] The video gained over 550,000 views before it was removed due to a copyright claim in April 2017 (reupload shown below).^[4]

Spread

On April 15th, 2018, Twitter user @ItsBig Purp uploaded a similar edit in which the song "Burn" by Ellie Goulding was added to the video.^[5] The edit gained over 2.3 million views on Twitter in one year, with a YouTube reupload gaining additional 250,000 views.

ellie goulding rides a rollercoaster pic.twitter.com/lxxSG8qH51
— Name ❁ (@ItsBigPurp) April 16, 2018

In the following days, multiple edits of the video were posted on YouTube, including Pink Floyd^[6] and It Is Wednesday, My Dudes ^[7] versions (shown below).

In the following months, multiple edits of the wooden roller coaster video, as well as POV videos of other roller coaster rides, were posted on YouTube, with notable examples collected in /r/youtubehaiku subreddit. One popular example, featuring song "We Are the Champions" by Queen, posted by YouTube user William Maranci on January 1st, 2019, gained over 1 million views in four months (shown below, left).^[8] On April 26th, YouTube user Nikki Emery uploaded an edit featuring song "1979" by The Smashing Pumpkins.^[9] The video gained over 370,000 views in one week (shown below, left), with a Facebook reupload by user Samon without the L gaining an additional 2.7 million views on the platform and promting a surge in the popularity of the edits.^[10]