The song has been used on hundreds of thousands of TikTok videos, often accompanied by cute choreography that sometimes (not always) features a mimed guitar strum. “Yellow Hearts” is pastel and saccharine, plasticky bedroom pop programmed with industry-grade lovesickness that indulgently alchemizes everything about the form into The One. “F*** the fame, all I want is them bands / if she keep on muggin’, Imma steal her man,” she lets us know without pause — and I believe her. Ant Saunders has three songs: "Miles Per Hour," which opens with a GPS voice that sounds like a drunk phone call; "Dial Tone," which opens with an actual phone call; and "Yellow Hearts" (♬ YouTube), which doesn't have any phone calls and is one of the biggest songs on TikTok. If you've never used the app, perhaps TikTok is easier to conceptualize in relation to other similar apps: as the second cousin of Snapchat, or the godchild of Vine. Twitter's resident goofball/dancer/comedian Casey Frey used it in a non-TikTok sketch. There is nothing left to do but accept a song like “Yellow Hearts” for what it is: a song that you’ll be humming endlessly until the next viral hit pops off. If a song catches on after being used to soundtrack comedy sketches or dance routines, the spread across the app is increased tenfold, rendering it inescapable in even the most disparate corners of the internet. This electronic song from Canadian DJ duo DVBBS featuring R&B singer BRIDGE is extremely sleek. "Yellow Hearts" is the soundtrack to someone cleaning their checkered Vans; just let TikTok user @crusty.vans show you. Satisfying for both house heads and pop fans. Discover new music and local voices. I showed her Tame Impala; she showed me one of my favorite rap songs of the year. — Mano Sundaresan, In the instance of “GOMF” the internet brought a song to TikTok — not the other way around. That's it, that's the song. -- Zoë Jones. Take, for example, the story of “Old Town Road”: its record-breaking streak at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 started from a series of TikTok memes. memes below. TikTok users are posting videos of themselves chopping wood, then dancing, then insulting themselves, then having another of version of themselves join them in a dance party. You will, inevitably, hear “Roxanne” at a party, and maybe make your friends film a 15-second video. Opening in the way every good TikTok song does, with a moment — in this case, a 15-second barrage of nuclear ad libs designed for insufferable lip-sync videos — it's cold and menacing ("I know you think about me in the shower / PornHub in your browser" is as ruthless as anything on this app) and approaches the ethos of a lot of that SoundCloud stuff. TikTok does that work for you. Just stay away from the TikToks, which do their absolute best to ruin the fun, one aspiring influencer at a time.-- Mano Sundaresan, All for the 'Gram; b****** love the 'Gram. (Guitar strum optional.) After a lot of uncertainty surrounding the future of the app, it seems that the United States government will not ban TikTok—for now.. Flo Milli, a 19-year-old from Mobile, Ala, proves herself an adept rapper in her first viral single, using pop culture references and her girly lilt to flex on us. “Yellow Hearts” is the soundtrack to someone cleaning their checkered Vans; just let TikTok user @crusty.vans show you. meme with a video of him dancing to DVVBS' 'GOMF'. They expertly combine trendiness and musical finesse, effectively creating music that deserves a full listen. Born in Isale Eko, Lagos Island, Tems spent her childhood living with her brother before leaving home to pursue her dreams. Part of the critic's role is to identify a song's reason for being. Even Coldplay, who became one of the biggest music acts in the world pre-social media, has made a TikTok account. Part of the critic’s role is to identify a song’s reason for being. After receiving two degrees and entering a marketing job, Tems gave up her 9 to 5 routine to embark on a music career. Algorithmic perfection is never soulful but it sure is catchy. But as the year ends, and the app boasts 500 million monthly users, plus superstar guest appearances and artists who can credit the start of their careers singlehandedly to the platform, it is clear that TikTok in a class of its own. That’s it, that’s the song. The sparse 808s, built around pulsing synths, crescendos into a chorus appropriate for a dark, club dance floor. So, this is a thing that's happening. What gave the jam fame was TikTok’s poking fun at its country sound.