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Country artist David Morris went viral over the summer season after his tune ‘Carrying Your Love’ turned a a lot liked TikTok pattern. The catchy tune samples a 1990’s hit tune by nation music icon George Straight and the reimagined pop-country observe has been a runaway hit with Gen Z — together with JoJo Siwa. The former Dance Moms star, 19, used the tune in a video to clarify why she has thinning hair on one aspect of her head, and whereas JoJo was simply one in all hundreds of thousands who used the tune on TikTok, she made a huge effect!
“As soon as she posted it I just got an influx of new fans that I could tell were her audience and she represents just positivity, self-worth, self-acceptance, and everything good about people, and I love that and I love what she represents,” the singer-songwriter informed HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY. “So, having her do a video to it, which was completely organic and completely natural, which is crazy because I’m sure she gets paid a lot of money to do stuff like that, it just just reinforced to me that what we’re doing is something that people can relate to. And this trend that started on TikTok is something that can reach even the most famous people. It was pretty surreal, but really cool.”
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JoJo used the ‘Carrying Your Love’ pattern to open up about a private wrestle, however lots of people on the social media platform created TikTok movies that includes their family members over the lyrics “I’m carrying your love with me” and David informed HollywoodLife that basically hit house for him. “The stuff that excited me the most was when I saw people using it for their kids, or to tell a story about their families or you know, even their pets. I thought there were some great stories. I saw videos of mothers and their stretch marks and how they are able to embrace their bodies because they know that their child was born and it’s healthy and if they have to live with that, then that’s the price they’re gonna pay. They’re gonna carry that love with them and that was just so cool to me, because that’s the type of stuff that I would never have thought of. Seeing it in different contexts with different people and how the message can kind of just adapt to different individuals was the coolest part of it.”
The tune additionally made waves on the charts and launched a brand new technology to the 1997 George Straight tune it sampled, which was “super cool” for David, a diehard fan of the nation music legend. “When I released the song originally, I made a comment in one of my posts that I hoped that maybe this song would introduce a new generation to George Strait,” he shared. “And, that sounded kind of lofty at the time, because let’s be honest, the generation that’s on TikTok is too young to really be invested in George Strait, or know who he is. Yes, of course, if you grew up in Texas, or your parents are diehard country music fans, you know who George Strait is. But for the general masses, I think it was really cool for them to say, hey, what song is this sample originally from? And then the really cool thing about that was I received dozens of messages and comments from parents telling me that they love my new song. They grew up listening to George Straight’s original song, and their children were playing my song on TikTok, and so they went and played them the original. So, being able to read those messages and hear that a mother bonded with her daughter over this song and had conversations about it, that was super fulfilling.”
Not solely did David get permission and the rights to make use of the pattern, he additionally obtained kudos from his idol’s workforce after the runaway success of his tune on TikTok generated curiosity within the OG tune. “It was just great because George Strait’s record label reached out to my team and congratulated us and thanked us for doing it,” he defined. “So that was pretty surreal to see because George Strait doesn’t need my help. But it was just great to be able to pay homage to him and do it the right way and see that it actually was working.”