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Among the latest viral trends, #seashanty has garnered more than 69 million views making it all the new rage in Tiktok. A Scotland-based Tiktoker Nathan Evans has received over a million views on a sea shanty song titled âWellermanâ along with multiple renditions of it.
For the unversed, sea shanty is a particular type of sailor-work song that is sung while tackling heavy waves. Accordion to FreshPlans, âSea shanties are a part of the great genre of work songs. Sailors used the rhythm of the songs to keep together when rowing, hauling up sails, and doing other cooperative work. They also enjoyed music during their downtime. Pirate musicians, according to documents preserved from pirate ships, only had Sunday nights off from playing music.â The songs heavily built on chorus helped to keep the workflow and worked on a call and response format.