Sea shanties?

Where do these things come from? I was watching Steven Colbert last night for his latest wry take on US politics, when he dropped in references to sea shanties. Whatever, I thought. Then, today the wave, which must have been cresting for days now, broke over me on Facebook. It’s officially a ‘thing’.

These phenomena multiply exponentially from out of nowhere, don’t they? So quick, you can almost see them happening in real time.

I guess communal choral singing is a good thing in these strange times, as @TheCheshireCat would probably attest. What would Afterworders sing a capella together, I wonder?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/15/shantytok-how-a-19th-century-seafaring-epic-inspired-a-covid-generation