With us having four young grandchildren we certainly are familiar with Baby Shark and we can both unfortunately sing along. Our experience with the Baby Shark song goes way beyond watching the video which in itself was significant... again, the kids would keep saying. They also had toys that would suddenly and without warning start playing the Baby Shark song. During our many visits at Katie's we had lots of time hearing that song... over and over again.
Becky had bought the kids a few of those toys before we understood the extent of the Baby Shark phenomenon. Katie was a little mad at us. One of the toys was a puzzle that constantly sang the song. The kids loved it and took it with them on vacation to Long Lake where we heard it over and over again in the cabin.
So the news story was interesting but not surprising because the video and the song has been a world wide success with lots of spin offs. I wonder what the count would be if they included all the different versions of Baby Shark.
Apparently the song originated as a camp fire singalong for children where the kids used their hands to imitate the jaws of sharks. The song was said to be a response to the movie Jaws and has been around for fifty years. The song described various sharks in a family.
The current popular video was created by a South Korean company although there have been many other earlier versions on records and videos going back many years. There have also been many copyright infringement lawsuits involving Baby Shark.
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