A dance version of "Baby Shark" was popularized in the 2007 YouTube video "Kleiner Hai" (German for Little Shark) published by Alexandra Mller, also known by her stage name Alemuel.[6] This version is set to the theme of Jaws and tells the story of a baby shark who grows up and eats a swimmer.[7] The video quickly gained popularity[8] and led to EMI offering Alemuel a record deal.[citation needed] The single peaked at 25th in the German charts[9] and at 21st in the Austrian charts.[10] The German version of the song remains popular among German youth groups, and multiple variations, also in different dialects of German,[11] have been published.
The song starts with bars from Antonn Dvok's Symphony No. 9, which sounds similar to music from the film Jaws. "Baby Shark" features a family of sharks which hunt a school of fish which escape to safety.[18] It became a viral video in Indonesia in 2017, and throughout the year it spread to many other Asian countries, particularly those in Southeast Asia. The related mobile app was among the top 10 most downloaded in the family apps category in South Korea, Bangladesh, Singapore, Hong Kong and Indonesia in 2017.[citation needed]
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While the English version simply lists the members of the shark family, the Korean version says Mommy Shark is "pretty", Daddy Shark is "strong", Grandma Shark is "kind", and Grandpa Shark is "cool". In January 2018, the South Korean newspaper Kyunghyang Shinmun published a front-page editorial condemning these lyrics as sexist.[7][26]
Professional baseball player Gerardo Parra of the Washington Nationals, having discovered the song through his young daughter, adopted it as his walk-up music to energize the flagging team on June 19, 2019.[45] The theme became popular among both teammates and fans, who used the shark clap whenever the Nationals got a hit, and eventually, at every Parra at-bat; fans also began wearing shark costumes to the stadium.[46] A stuffed baby shark was seen attached to the dugout railing during the 2019 National League Championship Series, which the Nationals won over the St. Louis Cardinals.[47] The craze culminated with the Nationals defeating the Houston Astros in seven games to win the 2019 World Series; the connection was such that the Marine Band performed the song during the team's celebratory visit to the White House.[48]
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Willa: Baby Shark is a good, simple vocabulary lesson, but the video has been so successful because it also works as pure entertainment. In the video, which was posted in June of 2016, a boy and a girl trade versus and do very specific hand motions, the Baby Shark dance, in front of simple, colorful, aquatic animation. For the verse about Baby Shark, for example, the boy does a little finger pinch that's supposed to be the baby shark's jaws going up and down. The girl uses her whole hands for mama shark. Daddy shark gets both arms. For the let's go hunting verse, they do a particularly cute gesture, pressing their hands together above their heads like they are shark fins and swaying back and forth.
Charlie: And then they start adding in hi-hats the second time around [Music clip: Baby Shark with hi-hats]. Then, the next time when you get daddy shark, you get this deep baritone voice [Music clip: Baby Shark with baritone voice]. So the baritone voice was kind of surprising. You get grandma voice, and grandma voice is surprising within the context of what you've heard before [Music clip: Baby Shark with grandma voice]. Then they add keys, and then they add more voices. There's like a chorus of kids that comes in and then, at that point, you've now heard like six or seven of the Baby Shark refrain and they modulate into another key. They take the whole thing higher, which is a very common trope of like '80s and '90s ballads.
Willa: In 2006, Alexandra Mueller was working at a camp for kids teaching journalism. There was a song they sang at the camp called the Kleiner Hai [Music clip]. Kleiner Hai means little shark in German. As you can hear, the song has a different tune than Baby Shark, but it's recognizably related. The verses mean more or less the same thing and it comes with all of the same hand motions.
Willa: Some of the campers recorded Alexandra singing Kleiner Hai and in January of 2007, she uploaded the video to her YouTube channel under the name Alemuel, an abbreviation of her first and last name. In the video, which is pretty grainy, Alexandra is sitting in a retro, pea-green armchair wearing a teal sweater and a bright red headband. Her emotions are exaggerated and very distinct. She gradually gets more and more into it until she gets to the daddy shark, and she starts using her whole body. It's weird but extremely watchable. And people watched it.
Alexandra: People often ask me if I'm embarrassed that this happened to me. But no, it was great and I'm really happy that I just jumped into the cold water and swam without being eaten by a shark. It helped me a lot, I think. I gained a lot of self-esteem because if you're booed from stage, then you're much cooler afterwards, I'd say.
Willa: Okay. So how is it possible that an American children's musician, a South Korean entertainment company, and a German camp counselor all recorded different but successful versions of a song about a baby shark? To answer that, we have to go back even further in time.
Willa Paskin: We kept looking for a record or memory of Baby Shark before the mid to late 1970s, but we couldn't find one. Then, it occurred to us that there was something happening around this time that was extremely relevant. To be clear, we are now entering the realm of speculation, but honestly, what's the first thing you think of when you think of a shark attack?
Willa: Steven Spielberg's Jaws was released in the summer of 1975, and it was a huge deal. Huge deal almost undersells it. Besides almost single-handedly creating the blockbuster as we know it today, the movie spread through all parts of American culture. The film industry began producing cheap copycats with titles like Piranha and Orca. There was a video game about sharks, and Saturday morning shark cartoons, and a recurring Saturday Night Live sketch about a shark, and there were tons of novelty records, songs that took John Williams famous theme music and riffed on it.
Willa: That's an instrumental disco version of the theme by Lalo Schifrin called Jaws that samples William's score. In this next one, Do the Jaws by the End, the song starts with some shark hysteria and there's a beat derived from the Jaws theme [Music clip]. This next one is my favorite. It's called Jaws is Working for the CIA, a novelty funk record by The Investigators, and it starts with a reference to a family of Jaws [Music clip].
Willa: In fact, there's a version of Baby Shark song by various Girl Scout troops to this day. It's more of a chant than a song that ties Baby Shark and Jaws together very nicely because it's a version of Baby Shark about a specific shark family, a family of Jaws [Music clip: Girl Scout Jaw song]. So Jaws, that is our provisional answer to where Baby Shark comes from. The fact that it's made it to us over four decades later means that the song and the Jaws' theme music that may have inspired it has always been viral. This is what analog virality looks like, something so catchy that it's passed from person to person, kid to kid, counselor to counselor, musician to musician until it makes its way around the world, slightly different each time but still fundamentally itself, so crisscrossed and cross-pollinated, it's hard to untangle where exactly it started at all.
Willa: He had first heard the song in the late 1990s while performing at summer camps. He had made some changes to it, like removing the verses about grandma and grandpa shark, but it's not like he had written the thing. So when he heard Pinkfong's version of the song, he thought that was that.
Jonathan: The key is exactly the same. You know, the driving beat is the same. The tempo increase partway through is the same. The way that they add the harmonies like when daddy shark comes onto the scene. In my recording, I used my voice as a lower voice to emulate daddy shark and they suddenly have a male voice coming in for daddy shark. So it was very similar approaches.
Jonathan: The Pinkfong version is so popular that even my fans prefer theirs over mine now, which is very depressing. You know, it's really kind of disheartening. I mean, they're very kind about it. My fans tell me my version was better. They're very kind about it. But, honestly, I know when they go home, the Pinkfong version is everywhere. I'm watching my audiences as I'm performing my version. Of course, my version does not have grandma shark and grandpa shark, and my audience, as I go into the next line, and they're starting to make the hand motion for grandma shark and it hurts. It hurts. It hurts a lot. It is really discouraging. It's really derailed me in many ways.
If you're a parent with a child under, say, five or six, you know this song. It's the same song that plays in your head on an endless rotation and wakes you up from an already light sleep. Over an upbeat, K Pop-style beat, we meet a family of sharks, beginning with, of course, "Baby shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo." So simple and catchy in its premise, once it gets into your head, it never leaves.
Even if you're not a parent, there's still a good chance you are one of the more than two billion people on the planet who have seen the video, or among the countless millions who have watched someone do the #Babysharkchallenge. In just a few short years, Baby Shark has become one of the 30 most watched YouTube videos in the platform's history.
"There was none of this, I'm happy pastoral scene that we see now," he says. "If the shark attacked and got their arm, lost an arm, doo doo doo, and they hold their arm behind their back. Lost a leg, now they're hopping around on one leg. Lost a head, blood streaming, screaming for help, or then, you know, a heart attack or maybe they're trying to revive him with CPR or something like that. Different hand motions each time and you just keep going as far as the imagination can take you." 2351a5e196
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