Theroux on a Feb. 18 episode of Hen Store Date.
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For those who’re on TikTok, there is a sturdy chance that Louis Theroux’s voice has been lodged in your head currently. His catchy “jiggle jiggle” rap — yep, you realize the one I am speaking about — has been accompanying viral movies everywhere in the platform. The place I as soon as solely sometimes considered phrases like “jiggle” and “dribble,” it is all my thoughts lets me hear now.
In case your ears by some means missed out on the graceful, impeccable tune that’s the jiggle jiggle rap, this is what you must know. Theroux, a British-American documentarian, wrote the rap in an episode of his BBC 2 documentary collection, Louis Theroux’s Bizarre Weekends. The episode aired method again in 2000. On Feb. 18, Theroux was requested if he remembered the rap throughout an look on the YouTube collection, Hen Store Date, and he switched into star rapper-mode as soon as once more.
That is the model of the jiggle jiggle track you have been listening to on TikTok. It is also not a capella, due to Manchester-based producers Duke and Jones. They posted their music-accompanied video on March 16, and it is since collected greater than 20 million views.
Feedback underneath the video go just a little one thing like this: “I can’t bodily cease listening to this,” “Na, this goes exhausting,” and easily, “Phenomenal.”
@dukeandjones My cash don’t jiggle jiggle, it folds ?? #louistheroux#ameliadimoldenberg#chickenshopdate#autotune#remix#fyp♬ My cash dont jiggle jiggle – Duke & Jones
Extra movies utilizing the sound have additionally poured in. Seems you possibly can apply the jiggle jiggle rap to absolutely anything. Here is a canine… dogging?
@brisbane_the_rescue I hope these ear jiggles brighten your day #dogears#seritoninboost#fordogs#mymoneydontjiggle#TurboTaxAndRelax♬ My cash dont jiggle jiggle – Duke & Jones
Growth. 1,000,000 likes. This observe is gold.
As for the inspiration for the lyrics? “Jiggle,” “wiggle” and “dribble” apparently got here to Theroux within the bathe, in response to Bizarre Weekends.
On the present, one of many rappers who helped Theroux write the observe elaborated concerning the rap’s iconic opening line, “My cash do not jiggle, jiggle, it folds.”
“You do not have quarters and dimes and nickels, you’ve gotten {dollars}, a whole bunch and no matter you’ve gotten,” he mentioned. “And no matter you’ve gotten, it folds.”
For those who want extra of Theroux’s raps in your life, now we have you coated. The BBC launched footage that features a second verse to the jiggle jiggle rap. Here is the clip, which is from Louis Theroux: Life on the Edge, a more moderen collection from Theroux that revisits his previous work.
Extra dribble dribble incoming.
@jessqualter
my cash don’t jiggle jiggle.
♬ My cash dont jiggle jiggle – Duke & Jones
Even ferrets and bumblebees are grooving.
@pogsyy No it doesn’t harm the canine chill #ferret#takeaNAIRbreak#CatOnALeash#fyp♬ My cash dont jiggle jiggle – Duke & Jones
Some very coordinated dancing.
@cost_n_mayor Reply to @mayyourestinswag ♬ My cash dont jiggle jiggle – Duke & Jones
And a few extra… informal dancing.
@zestyzoseph
whitney preferred the fiat track
♬ My cash dont jiggle jiggle – Duke & Jones
Lastly, a TikTok that sums up how we’re all feeling.
@annaredhair__ i hold attempting to submit content material however there’s nothing happening in my head however this sound #wigglewiggle#youknow#nyc♬ My cash dont jiggle jiggle – Duke & Jones
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