TikTok has been taken over by everyone singing sea shanties

It’s the best trend of 2021.

Need a break from all the horrible things going on in the world right now? How about watching a bunch of videos of people … singing sea shanties?

That’s right, the latest trend on TikTok — which has brought us such delights as the Fleetwood Mac Dreams skateboarder, the Wipe it Down challenge and Trevor Lawrence doppelgangers — is people singing along to sea shanty songs from way back when.

Why is this is such a trend? I have no idea, but as a former college a cappella singer, my guess is people can’t resist beautiful harmonies and coming together to make music (especially, I’d add, right now).

This appears to be the original TikTok that started it all, a song called Wellerman:

And people have been building harmonies and such on top of it, and #ShantyTok became a thing:

And yes, there are remixes too:

It’s also going in exactly the direction you hoped it would, like this amazing TikTok:

Thanks, ShantyTok.

[vertical-gallery id=979554]