Japan, Tokyo.
Zhouzhou’s Office, idol base.
"Hey, Taozi! Co check this out!"
Taoguo, who had just finished practice, had barely opened her apartnt door when she was called over by her teammate Coconut Milk.
As she entered the back room, she found out.
Coconut Milk and her other two teammates, Cai Yan and Reni, were huddled together in a room scrolling through Douyin.
These rascals!
They had just finished rehearsal, had a concert scheduled for the weekend, and instead of resting properly, they were gathered around watching Douyin!
As the leader of the idol girl group "KING," Taoguo really felt like giving these mbers a good talking-to!
"Don’t rush, Taozi, take a look at this!"
Coconut Milk, brimming with excitent, held her phone up to Taoguo’s face.
In the video, a male high school student and a female high school student, one playing the piano, the other... seed to be playing the cello?
"The Kangkang tune?"
Taoguo squinted her eyes and read the na of the tune from the description.
Taoguo didn’t get it. What’s so great about this?
She always tells them to study more footage of their predecessors’ live stage performances and they don’t listen. Now, they’re gathered here watching soone play classical music?
"Listen to this, listen!"
Coconut Milk stuck out her tongue and pressed play.
With the light sound of the piano and the lively cello playing coming through,
a rather relaxed tune started dancing through the movent.
Taoguo’s eyes imdiately lit up.
"Hahaha, isn’t it fun?" Coconut Milk smiled beamingly.
"Interesting! Wow, this tune is really sothing!"
Taoguo couldn’t help but praise.
As a mber of the girl group, Taoguo would also occasionally handle so composing and choreography.
This kind of interesting lody struck a chord with her right away.
These two called "Moonlight and Cat," must be a really interesting couple in real life!
Cai Yan, standing by her side, had already closed her eyes and her body started moving unconsciously.
This is an idol’s subconscious reaction: upon hearing a tune they find quite fun, their body can’t help but break into an impromptu dance.
Many popular choreographies often start like this.
"We were just discussing how fun it would be to choreograph to this tune!" Reni said with a smile.
"That’s a good idea."
Taoguo thought for a mont, "Hey, how about we use this BGM to make a Douyin video?"
"Yeah! When I called you over, that’s what I wanted to talk about!" Coconut Milk clapped her hands in agreent.
For KING, this wasn’t the first ti doing sothing like this.
Thanks to the girl group’s high popularity, their official Douyin account has over four million fans. Whenever there’s a trending short video BGM, they’d ride the wave and make one too.
As long as the video doesn’t involve making a profit, there won’t be any copyright issues.
Just do it!
The four idols, who hadn’t even bathed after just finishing training, hurried back to the dance studio.
They set up a phone on the stand.
Following the lody of the Kangkang tune, the four began to improvise a choreography.
One mont the girls lifted a foot and hopped around like a one-legged creature, then made cute, silly faces at the cara.
Soon, a dance that was not overly complicated yet extraordinarily joyful was complete!
...
...
The afternoon following the day "Moonlight and Cat’s" "Kangkang tune" went viral on Douyin,
Many influencers and journalists suddenly discovered—
A new trend has erged on Douyin!
Many internet celebrities have started using the "Kangkang Dance Song" as their BGM, dancing to a very enchanting dance!
And the source of it all turned out to be a Douyin post by the super popular Japanese girl group KING!
In this Douyin post, four idol girls shake their bodies to a lively tune, dancing a very enchanting dance.
As the music picks up speed, the girls’ movents also quicken.
Eventually, unable to keep up with the rhythm, the idols burst into laughter, their arms and legs flailing about.
Coconut Milk covers her face in feigned modesty while hastily turning off the phone recording...
At this mont, it has beco art!
[Ahhh, so cute, so cute!!]
[HAHAHA, Coconut Milk is too adorable!]
[I ca across this song yesterday too, didn’t expect you all to co up with a dance so quickly!]
[KING has really made it, hitching a ride on the popularity of Moonlight and Cat.]
[I have a feeling that tomorrow, Douyin will be taken over by this song!]
[Witnessing history! A huge crowd is going to start covering the dance haha!]
[...]
In just three hours, the girl group KING’s video garnered 1.3 million likes!
Consequently, the original video by "Moonlight and Cat" also surpassed 1 million likes.
Soon after, many internet celebrities began to imitate it.
By evening,
the topic of the "Kangkang Dance Challenge" had shot up to the third spot on Douyin’s hot list!
The reason for its explosive popularity is also due to the dance itself being so much fun.
This dance really challenges people’s social anxiety, requiring them to "let go" and keep mimicking a limp and making silly faces at the cara.
If one can follow the rhythm and add in words, like "lala, lalalala~", the effect is even better.
As the music of the "Kangkang Dance Song" speeds up, the dance also gets faster, until the dancer can’t help but break into laughter, and that’s when the video ends.
The cuter and sweeter-looking the internet celebrity, the more magical the effect of the video.
Thus, dance vloggers, music vloggers, beauty influencers, and even fringe celebrities... all gave it a try.
And unexpectedly, it sparked another major battle.
[Damn! This is the kind of dance we should be doing! Sick of that borderline stuff, I couldn’t stand it anymore! Finally, there’s a normal and good-looking dance!]
[Right? Do we always have to skirt the line to get attention? Isn’t a wholeso and cute dance like the "Kangkang Dance Song" appealing?!]
[Douyin is finally normal for once. Before, it was always borderline dances with so tasteless music like "hey hey hey you are my baby~" that disgusted to death!]
[Wuuwuu, I’ve got to thank Moonlight and Cat, without them, where could we find so many cute girls...]
Nurous Douyin users have long been fed up with the flood of brainless low-quality earworms on the platform!
However, the annoying thing about Douyin is, you can only mark videos as ’Not Interested,’ you can’t do the sa for BGMs.
So, many are forced to listen to them while browsing through videos!
It’s like forcefully being fed crap!
Every ti self-dia introduces so trendy hit song, praising its high popularity on Douyin,
the netizens are numbed.
Is your song well-known because it’s good to listen to?
It’s just stupid Douyin pushing it non-stop!
So, seeing a really nice song for once, with a cute dance that isn’t borderline, naturally makes netizens incredibly happy.
With the explosive popularity of the "Kangkang Dance Song," the followers of "Moonlight and Cat" have skyrocketed to 320,000.
Many fans comnted in the comnt section, eager to see Mr. Moonlight and Miss Cat also make such a video, feeling that the original creators’ dance would have a special vibe!
...
Lin Tian put down his phone and glanced at Gan Yanyu sitting on the sofa.
"Don’t look at ."
Gan Yanyu pouted, shaking her index finger in front of Lin Tian’s face,
"I, absolutely can’t dance!"
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