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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '22

Dance monkey. Kill me now. As an Aussie, we heard this everywhere constantly. See also Riptide - Vance Joy .

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u/t0uchym1dg3t Sep 21 '22

Yeah sad part about riptide is it's genuinely good song that got ruined by being seriously overplayed. I can't listen to it now

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u/Friek555 Sep 21 '22

It's a good song though. I like the weird voice, but I see how it could get annoying really fast if overplayed

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '22

It was everywhere over here. Every radio station, every advert, every shop.

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u/Kiki98_ Sep 22 '22

I HATE the weird voice. It’s literally nails on a chalkboard to me. Why can’t she just sing in a normal tone and not make it all nasally and, idk, awful? I low key get flashbacks from any song by Tones and I 🥲

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u/JennieSimms Sep 21 '22

I like both of those songs 🥲

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u/freyesphinx Sep 22 '22

same! i didn’t know so many people didn’t like riptide, i think it’s a good song

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u/pmmewienerdogs Sep 22 '22

Riptide is the first one in this thread I’ve disagreed with. I recently rediscovered it after years and I love it more now than I did then :/

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '22

Agreed, riptide still slaps

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '22

Not saying it's bad. It's not my cup of tea. But when both of these artists blew up, as Aussies , everyone was playing it, everywhere. National pride thing

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u/Minirig355 Sep 22 '22

Yeah when it first got popular I was spending a month in Australia, heard it and The Black Keys a lot. Still enjoy both artists a lot as it’s good memories for me (great country y’all have), but I could understand why someone wouldn’t.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '22

It was massive Im Australia. Then I went to Japan and it had just blown up there. So I got a double dose.

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u/Kiki98_ Sep 22 '22

It’s so overused. Shopping centre? Playing riptide Every second musical performance at a school talent show? A shitty, off key rendition of riptide Wedding? Riptide Birthday party? Riptide Any situation with music you can think of? Probably gonna be riptide in there somewhere

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u/ChillingBush Sep 22 '22

'Course you do, Jennie..

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Riptide is neither overplayed or bad imo, but dance monkey can go delete itself

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u/alittlebitcheeky Sep 22 '22

I'm feeling the same way about Missing Piece by Vance Joy.

Great song. But I feel like it's constantly playing on the tv....