Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nathan Evans found TikTok fame by singing sea shanties (PA) Former postman, Nathan Evans, started singing sea shanties on TikTok ...

People on the internet are obsessed with "sea shanty TikTok" after a song called "The Wellerman" went viral. A sea shanty expert says the song isn't really a sea shanty because it's not in a call and ...

I'm over the age of 30, so I feel my bones crumbling to dust every time I try to make sense of the latest TikTok trends. But the latest meme on the Tok (that's what the kids call it, right?) is tailor ...

SEATTLE — It started with a Scottish postman recording a sea shanty on TikTok called The Wellerman. As TikTok-ers started recording their own versions, the song took off. Kermit the Frog joined a ...

There is a large and loyal following of sea shanty enthusiasts in the depths of TikTok. One of the top trendsetters in so-called "ShantyTok" is a deep-voiced Delaware County teenager. MORE CULTURE New ...

It's folly to examine why some things go viral on the internet, and by doing so one risks discounting the beauty of the simplest answer: They just do. Nothing makes sense. Roll with it. Or at least, ...

Sea shanties are mainstream now. Just a few weeks after TikTok creator Nathan Evans helped kickstart the impeccably random sea shanty trend with his viral rendition of New Zealand standard “Wellerman” ...

In addition to its usual dance trends and viral songs, TikTok has now resurrected the centuries-old tradition of sea shanties. The Encyclopedia Brittanica defines a sea shanty as a “sailors’ work song ...

Former postman, Nathan Evans, started singing sea shanties on TikTok in July 2020, but it wasn’t until December that he went viral with ‘The Wellerman’. Evans, from Airdrie, Scotland, has now amassed ...