TikTok is as famous for the songs within it as it is for any of its content. TikTok has become a huge boost for the music industry.
It is not just the songs released by professional music artists that get huge on TikTok. It is also a place where people can upload their mashups of popular songs, which can blow up and become more popular.
These mashups become even more popular than the songs mashed up within them. This is the case when the songs within the mashup are not as commercially successful or were from years or even decades ago.
That is the case with the new “Oh Who Is She” TikTok song which has earned some momentum and has become part of a trend. Not only is it a mashup, but it is a mashup of some obscure songs with even more obscure references.
Oh Who Is She TikTok Song Lyrics And Meaning
The songs that make up the Oh Who Is She TikTok song mashup have rich and vibrant histories.
The first song, Who Is She, by I Monster is a Trip Hop song, and many Trip Hop songs work exclusively by sampling older recordings, which do not even have to be music for the most part. Who is She is no different as it samples lines from the opening credits of the 1969 British fantasy film, The Vengeance of She?
The film is a cinematic adaptation of a novel by H. Rider Haggard, a Victorian author popular for writing the Allan Quartermain series. Bob Fields sings the lyrics for the movie adaptation, to which I Monster adds synths and the usual Trip Hop musical arrangements that turn it into an even darker tune than it originally was.
The second song, A Perfect Girl, is a straight-up cover from the catalog of the English Rock band, The Cure. It is the 15th song on their seminal seventh album, Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me.
However, Mareux’s version is very different than The Cure. While the original song is happy, sunny, and celebratory with warm guitars and drums, Mareux changes his version by adding a hazy electronic feel to it and sharp synths, not unlike I Monster.
The resulting cover sounds nothing like The Cure’s song but nothing like The Cure in general.
The mashup of these two songs is known as YoTube Astrocapella on TikTok and already has over 40K videos attached to it, most of them following the popular TikTok trend of using this song alongside the Ben Stiller movie Zoolander.
Oh Who Is She On TikTok Song Origin
The Oh Who Is She song on TikTok has become quite popular as a meme and a sound.
It is most prominently used as a sound alongside clips from the 2001 American comedy film Zoolander directed by and starring Ben Stiller. In the movie, Stiller plays a male model and Owen Wilson plays his rival.
The mashup is used with scenes of them seeing each other on a red carpet and then making angry and humorous facial expressions at each other. The video also has a caption that goes with the video and song.
Recently, people have also started making fan edits of the mashup with emotional videos from anime and cartoons.
Who Sings Oh Who Is She On TikTok?
Oh Who Is She on TikTok is a mashup of two songs called Who Is She and The Perfect Girl.
Who Is She is by an English electronic music duo and Trip Hop pioneers Dean Honer and Jarrod Gosling who make up I Monster. The Perfect Girl is by Mareux, a solo electronic project headed by LA-based musician and producer Aryan Ashtiani.
Oh Who Is She is from her second and most popular album, Neveroddoreven, and is the sixth track on the record. The Perfect Girl is a 2019 single by Mareux.
Both of these musical acts are long-lived and have been in the industry for some time, with I Monster’s existence going back all the way to 1997. Mareux, too, has been active since the late 2000s.