21 of the most popular TikTok songs and sounds, and where they came from

21 of the most popular TikTok songs and sounds, and where they came from

It’s the fastest fastest-growing social-media platform on the web, and the app has become a ubiquitous element of Gen Z life.

Despite security concerns around TikTok’s Chinese ownership, it seems like everyone is getting in on the fun, including celebrities like Lady Gaga, nurses, and even US soldiers.

As it has grown, TikTok has evolved and has become a marketplace for short bits of audio that users can upload for others to use in their own videos. While mainstream music frequently thrives on the app, other sounds from pop culture and elsewhere have also become earworms.

‘This is for Rachel:’ A woman leaves a vulgar voicemail for a person she thought was her boss.

Although this sound only recently shot to popularity on TikTok, it actually originates from a 2018 clip shared to Twitter. The vulgar clip, in which a woman calls and threatens her boss after taking her off a work schedule, seems to have been originally sent to the wrong recipient by mistake, which led to it getting shared on Twitter in the first place more than a year ago. Read more