The teens take sense of taste. Photo-Illustration: Vulture, Britney Spears/YouTube, Trey Songz/YouTube and Jason Durelo/YouTube

Teens tin make anything cool. Their social-media superiority launched songs like "Toosie Slide," "Old Town Road" and "The Box" to No. 1 on the Billboard charts, and every solar day, pop songs similar Dua Lipa'southward "Don't Start Now" go templates for teens to dance, lip-sync, or human activity to. But the creative geniuses on TikTok are also discovering (and popularizing) indie songs, international songs, and songs no 1 has thought of in years, if ever. TikTok has deep cuts — they just accept cypher to do with vinyl records. Now, you can listen to the entire matter instead of 60 seconds or less. Here are some of the songs that TikTokkers have taken from the underground and turned into global memes.

Britney Spears is a TikTok star in her own right, merely her 2011 vocal "Criminal" pretty much took over the app with the "Mugshot Challenge," where users recorded themselves applying makeup to look roughed upwards and so posed for a mugshot. Information technology pretty speedily flamed out after YouTuber James Charles posted his pics with a fake encarmine nose and black centre on Twitter with no caption. He was immediately called out for glamorizing abuse, and it led to a larger conversation about the trend diminishing the harsh reality of mass incarceration. The power of Britney, however, has kept "Criminal" out of the controversy. In fact, the song hitting a new peak in daily streams, with just over 100,000 listens on April 12. Femme Fatale volition never die!

This very specific Nicki Minaj poetry has become a double-threat on TikTok, with stars posting both trip the light fantastic routines and #relatable lip-syncs to information technology. What do we have to say other than "Bottoms Up" is a bop that should live forever in the hearts and minds of the children?

Post-Cats Jason Derulo is loving his newfound TikTok fame. He's already fitting in with Hype Firm member Addison Rae, as evidenced by their lip-sync to "Ridin' Solo" that has over 3.6 million likes on her page alone. Outside of TikTok royalty, the lyrics "I'm puttin' on my shades to cover upwards my optics / I'k jumpin' in my ride, I'm heading out tonight / I'g solo, I'one thousand ridin' solo, I'grand ridin' solo, I'thou ridin' solo, solo" take become every single person'south anthem. Did we accept "#mood" in 2010? Because information technology'due south all the same a #mood.

Millennial-Gen Z cusps, where you at? The theme song to True Jackson VP, a 2008 Nickelodeon show starring Keke Palmer, has changed meme format a few times on TikTok. Most recently, @natalieeab paired it with "purple flame" camera result, which kinda looks like the furnishings from the testify's intro, to make a joke about her mom dismissing her depression. Now it's a template for ironically venting most people getting mad at things you tin can't change or for any intangible aspect kindly "leaving your torso" on command.

It'due south not hard for Drake to get people dancing. I lost a whole summer to "One Trip the light fantastic." But it was kind of random for a snippet of his 2018 song "Nonstop" to go Elizabeth Warren-on-SNL viral.

YouTuber turned singer-songwriter Queen Naija self-released her song "Medicine" in 2017, and suffice information technology to say, it blew upwards, currently amassing over 100 1000000 views on YouTube. Three years later, the net is withal bumping "Medicine," this time to relatable memes.

There are over 700,000 TikToks with millions of views fix to Ultradiox's song "Walked In." Lizzo's done the trip the light fantastic, James Charles has done the trip the light fantastic, and TikTok star Addison Rae did the trip the light fantastic toe on Entertainment Tonight (that TikTok alone has three.two million likes). Meanwhile, the SoundCloud rapper only has 3,000 followers on Instagram.

This ode to Timothée Chalamet is set to "Romeo and Juliet" by 2018 Tiny Desk Concert winners Hobo Johnson and the LoveMakers. Lead vocalizer Hobo Johnson (Frank Lopes) kicks off the song with a huge scream of relief, and I think we all empathize that feeling. #relatable

Aptly described every bit "trash and burn at the same time" by a YouTube commenter, Yungster Jack'southward "Pressure" is a genre-bending track with a MySpace feel that somehow became the soundtrack for "I'chiliad shy" memes on TikTok.

Here'southward how to make a teen banger. First, bass line (meet Dua Lipa'south "Don't Start Now"). Side by side, relatable, self-deprecating, dearest-struck lyrics. Big "hiding under the covers eating ice cream" energy. For guaranteed virality, add together an indie darling similar Clairo or Gus Dapperton. Congrats, you've probably made the bop "Supalonely" past Benee. The teens will exist dancing in no fourth dimension.

This leaked and unreleased Lana Del Rey vocal from 2013 has been the properties for many a TikTok, from "Become Ready With Me" vlogs to POVs. The electric current trend is to make yourself over into a Disney princess, but only a few weeks agone, users were playing information technology in the background of hot mom checks. Lana would corroborate.

The Teenagers, a self-aware ring from France, blew up in the mid-2000s, thanks to their breakout hit "Homecoming." Now, their cult fan base includes TikTokkers, like dancer Haley Sharpe (the inventor of the "Say And so" by Doja True cat dance — bow in her presence), who lip-sync to information technology. For fun, NME named "Homecoming" the fourth-all-time song of the year in 2007 … when Haley was only four or five.

A remixed '90s club hit, "Walk4Me" is a perfect song for mini lip-synced sketches or for hit the gym. Wherever yous're at in life.

And so, "Pillow Talking" isn't that old (2017), but it's also not a vocal yous really listen to every twenty-four hours. Unless you lot're like me and have also had it stuck in your head since TikTok decided to revive it.

This is the sound for when yous are Hustlers-level scamming. Teens use it to make fun of their parents and their significant others, only information technology also sounds actually good side by side to FloMilli, Kash Doll, and Doja Cat on a playlist.

There are so many versions of this "Oops" sound, changing upwardly the ending to fit whatever scenario. The song has been sung past Doris Day, Louie Armstrong, and Ella Fitzgerald, just the TikTok version is from large band leader Lawrence Welk.

This song got its start on TikTok through users who would lip-sync "No, I know" or "Love, I know" over the bodily lyrics "Não vai não." Canadian producer Freddie Dredd sampled the lyrics from Portuguese vocal "David (Odavi)" by Brazilian singer Célia. It became a whole split trend to dunk on people who were saying "No, I know," then, information technology became a trend to not care. Meanwhile, Charlie D'Amelio, the most pop user on TikTok, merely danced to it.

Just concluding month, Houston rapper Don Toliver topped the Billboard Emerging Artists chart. This calendar week, his 2019 song "No Idea" peaked at No. 43 after just three weeks on the Hot 100. Information technology probably helps that there are millions of dancing, walking, and couples TikToks set to "No Idea" or a remix, some of those with millions of views lonely.

"Prom Queen" is an angsty teen canticle critiquing beauty standards and one of the first indie songs to blow up because of TikTok. Solitary, teens lip-sync to the song, pointing out their mom jeans. But a remixed sound uploaded by @maybemarzey cuts "I Await Proficient" by Texas rapper Chalie Male child (a song from 2009!) in. People of color use the remix to certificate how they've changed since no longer conforming to white standards of beauty; now, it's about hyping yourself upward instead of comparing flaws.

The All-time Songs TikTok Has Rediscovered