On Thursday night, the viral song “Planet of the Bass” makes its full-length live debut at Mood Ring, a gay bar in Brooklyn, New York.
No one had ever heard the song in its entirety, but everyone in the room sung along to the chorus and verse since TikTok recently made it famous.
“World premier, complete song!” Kyle Gordon, the satirist who created the song and persona, The audience cheered when the yell, “DJ Crazy Times,” was directed at them.
Gordon and influencer Audrey Trullinger perform the song, which was previously shared as a musical sketch on Gordon’s TikTok page, while lip-syncing around the Oculus Center in New York City while dressed as Y2K clubgoers in the manner of Eurodance music videos. The 1990s club attire in the video teaser and the absurd lyrics, such “Life it never die” and “women are my favorite guy,” have made the song very memetic in addition to being an earworm.
The video gained more than 5 million views in a single week.
Its success coincides with the internet-wide ubiquity of other appealing songs with TikTok roots, such as other summer successes like “One Margarita” by That Chick Angel and “You Wish” by Flyana Boss.
Due to the overwhelming demand for the whole track, the song’s release date was accelerated by a week, and it will now be available for streaming online on August 15. A preview was given to those at the bar.
Gordon conveyed his own awe at the answer.
He told NBC News, “It was amazing to see the response from a packed house of, probably, Eurodance fans who all know the lyrics to a song from a 50-second clip that’s only been out a week.”
The “song of the summer,” as some people have referred to it online, wasn’t anything Gordon says he set out to create. He was aware that his song was entertaining, but he did not anticipate the extent of its success. He believes that timing played a role in success.
*Updated DJ Crazy Times Announcement🚨
— Kyle Gordon (@kylegordon101) August 2, 2023
1) The release date for Planet of the Bass has been moved up to Aug 15
2) I love the Oculus. It is such a cool mall. They have a John Varvatos! Unfortunately however DJ Crazy Times will not be filming their any more. He will only shoot…
“I may have been fortunate that the Barbie movie came out at the right time because — which is like three layers out — it seems like people are talking relating to Barbie, then they’re talking about ‘Barbie Girl’ [by Europop band Aqua], and finally, when they’re thinking about Barbie Girl, they’re also thinking related to Eurodance, generally. So while definitely not what I had in mind, this sort of suits the scene.
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— rebecca jennings (@rebexxxxa) August 3, 2023
The comedian claimed that over the course of a decade, he mastered the “DJ Crazy Times” persona. His undergraduate a cappella group’s 2013 CD featured a song that he originally performed in as “DJ Crazy Times” in a video clip. He makes similarly absurd asides in it as he did in “Planet of the Bass.”
According to Gordon, the song’s creation took around a month. Together with producer Jamie Siegel and writer Brooks Allison, he worked on it.
It’s a track on a broader comedy album that will be released this fall and feature jokes about bossa nova, pop punk, and country music. Several of the songs will be expanded versions of those he wrote and sang for his stand-up performances throughout the years.
He said, “I hope people enjoy the other ones as much as this one.” However, I believe there are numerous songs on the record that I have either tested live or, perhaps, online.
A variety of people attended the event on Thursday, including Gordon fanatics, regulars from the bar, and fans of Europop who simply came to dance.
The convincing portrayal of the conventional Eurodance performer by Gordon has won the admiration of many fans, including Jessie Sanchez.
Sanchez, a fan of Eurodance, claimed to enjoy the “DJ Crazy Times” persona, a popular Tumblr meme for many years.
Sanchez, 28, claimed that Gordon’s movies’ changing of singers demonstrated a “commitment to the bit.”
The music was discovered by Juliette Bellinson and Jordan Popov, two 21-year-olds, on X, a social networking website that replaced Twitter. To hear it live, the pair traveled an hour to the event. According to Bellinson, the music is enticing because it encourages people to simply dance and is mindless.
“I believe that we require less sincere material, simply less serious music. Bellinson stated, “I think it meshes so nicely with our generational mentality.
The entire song, in Popov’s opinion, was good but a little overrated. He said he was disappointed that Trullinger wasn’t present.
“I hoped the girl from the song video would also be there. It was enjoyable, but I feel like they were a pair,” he remarked.
Many online users agreed with Popov’s praise of Trullinger’s performance. When Gordon shared a second version of the song featuring influential Mara Olney, they voiced displeasure.
Regarding Trullinger, some commenters questioned, “WHERE IS BILJANA ELECTRONICA???.”
She does not, however, have “Ms. Biljana Electronica”‘s voice. Chrissi Poland, a vocalist, is who it is. Gordon claimed that the popular theme in 1990s Eurodance music videos, when the singers would be replaced with other models, served as inspiration for his works with Trullinger and Olney.
Aqua was another source of influence for “Planet of the Bass.” To the delight of the audience, Gordon paid homage to the band by concluding his 10-minute act with their song “Roses Are Red.”
Anthony Georgiou, 23, who went to the bar to see hulaHOOP’s resident DJ moistbreezy, claimed that he wasn’t there for him. “When I learned that [Gordon] was scheduled, I admit that I was a little worried since I didn’t want the celebration to be cut short for a practical joke. But he continued to be energetic.