Zara Larsson Comments on 'I Just Wanna Be Part of Your Symphony' TikTok Trend, Reveals How She Thinks It Started
One TikTok trend that might have popped up on your For You Page over the last few weeks is the “I Just Wanna Be Part of Your Symphony” trend.
If you haven’t seen the videos, usually there’s an image of a colorful dolphin world – akin to Lisa Frank – with Zara Larsson‘s 2017 song with Clean Bandit, “Symphony,” playing over top. The videos will feature a caption – sometimes depressing or morbid – to contrast the mood of the image and song.
Captions that we’ve seen include “I’m under your bed,” “I have social anxiety,” “I just pooped,” and many more.
Zara is now responding to the memes.
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She told Rolling Stone, “I was like, ‘Why is this getting so much attention?’ And then boom, the whole internet started thinking it was funny.”
She continued, “If my manager came up to me, like, ‘Hey, I have an idea for how we would make this song go off’ and then they would explain this trend to me, I would have been like, ‘Are you f-king dumb?’ This is just something that started organically and grew.”
Zara herself got in on the trend last month, posting the usual dolphin photo with her own caption: “What the f-ck is happening.”
Zara also has an idea of how the trend might have started. There used to be a diary that was sold that would play the song. Fans would often comment about writing dark or upsetting thoughts in the diary, which is similar to the trend.
“People made jokes about writing very dark stuff in their diaries. They’ll put in the code to write about their horrible day and then the song starts playing. The TikTok trend became the shorter version of that: saying something dark on this Lisa Frank dolphin background in the similar way you would in the diary,” she shared.
She then added about the trend in general, “I’m walking the tightrope of having fun with it, incorporating it as a ‘wink, wink’ to everyone who knows what this is about, but also not overusing it and being corny, because I do feel like the song is incredible. It’s like an inside joke with whoever is getting it, but I didn’t want it to feel like it took over the song.”
She continued, “There’s nothing cringy about riding the wave of even a minor success that you’re having. If you continue to promote yourself and put yourself out there again and again, it might pop up a second time on their For You Page or a third and then they might be like, ‘You know what? Let me go and listen to this.’”
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