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How to survive a TikTok hit song

Kyle Chayka · 27 Aug 2025

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  1. Our reading

    Online audiences now hold real power over how songs are made to sound.

    Their wordsThe band told me about the pressure of creating content in order to promote their music and the ways in which the audience now has power over how songs sound.

  2. Our reading

    Being heard as an artist or citizen today requires engaging with a toxic internet.

    Their wordsIt's very relatable; the internet is so toxic but we kind of have no choice but to interact with it if we want to be heard as musicians / writers / artists / citizens.

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