{"id":82783,"date":"2021-01-15T20:00:41","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T20:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=82783"},"modified":"2021-01-15T16:58:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T16:58:06","slug":"the-sea-shanty-tiktok-trend-sails-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/the-sea-shanty-tiktok-trend-sails-on\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sea Shanty TikTok trend sails on"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@melpotsi\"><i>Image Credit: Melpo Tsiliaki<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4><span style=\"color:#3366FF\"> What\u2019s up with the recent viral obsession with sea shanties?<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/how-to-get-your-music-on-tiktok-and-earn-money-for-free\/\">TikTok<\/a> is a miraculous, bizarre place. Where else can you see a centuries-old sailing tradition go viral? Depending on your age and leisure pursuits you might have noticed sea shanties have been trending on the platform and over on Twitter for the past week or so. Yep. Sea shanties. As in \u2018What shall we do with the drunken sailor?\u2019 As is the way with <a href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/tiktok-top-10-its-the-meme-for-me-top-trends-hashtags-and-challenges\/\">viral trends, <\/a>once the media have caught up they\u2019ve probably missed the boat, but it was a marvellous thing that for a while the world couldn\u2019t get enough of the songs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Original trendsetter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-55661351\">26-year-old Scottish postman Nathan Evans,<\/a> has been uploading sea shanties since July 2020, and his first video reached 1.1m views. But it was his cover of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@nathanevanss\/video\/6910995345421962498?referer_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nme.com%2F&amp;referer_video_id=6910995345421962498\">\u2018The Wellerman\u2019 <\/a>that really blew up. Given the <a href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/the-power-of-music-collaboration\/\">collaborative<\/a> nature of the platform, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@tahnex\/video\/6916118495080107265?refer=embed\">singers and musicians have joined in <\/a>on renditions of classic shanties and working songs in a lovely show of community and creativity, using the hashtag #ShantyTok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/Peter_Fries\/status\/1347402323950145537\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Sea shanties\u2019 had been searched for online more than ever before, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GoogleTrends\/status\/1349076490734891008\">according to Google Trends.<\/a> A centuries-old tradition, the word Shanty is said to derive from the French verb \u2018chanter\u2019, to sing. Singing to a rhythmic beat helped sailors keep in time with each other as they hauled ropes and raised the anchor. The original story behind \u2018The Wellerman\u2019 has even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/15\/shantytok-how-a-19th-century-seafaring-epic-inspired-a-covid-generation\">been unearthed<\/a> \u2013 the song was probably composed by a teenage sailor or whaler in New Zealand in the 1800s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone\u2019s getting on board, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/news\/tik-tok-demand-accelerates-british-library-sea-shanty-guide-1233456?utm_source=Adestra&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=Morning%20Briefing%20-%20150121\">the British Library<\/a> even bringing forward the publishing date of illustrated book of shanties <em>Sailor Song: The Shanties and Ballads of the High Seas <\/em>by Gerry Smith because of the buzz. The book features more than 40 shanties and 10 ballads. Imagine the possibilities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routenote.com\/services\/artist\/\">RouteNote\u2019s<\/a> home county the popularity of sea shanties is nothing new. Since 2003 Falmouth in Cornwall has hosted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.falmouthseashanty.co.uk\/\">International Sea Shanty Festival<\/a>, with 65,000 people dropping anchor in the town to watch over 70 sea shanty groups in 25 venues. Cancelled in 2020 due to Covid-19 restrictions, fingers are crossed for the event to return this year. Perhaps there\u2019ll be new faces from Shanty TikTok joining the crew next time. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s up with the recent viral obsession with sea shanties?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":82790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8614],"tags":[21216,1017,21214,21211,21212,21210,21209,21215,21207,21213,15512],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Sea Shanty TikTok trend sails on - RouteNote Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/the-sea-shanty-tiktok-trend-sails-on\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Sea Shanty TikTok trend sails on - 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