Sea shanties have taken over social media, courtesy of a series of viral TikTok videos. "Shanty Tok" isn't a new phenomenon, but a viral video of Scottish singer Nathan Evans singing the song "The ...

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, ...

A couple weeks ago Rick made what might be the Best. Comment. Ever. on Scicurious’ and my conversation about sex in science. I had admitted my guilt about singing some of the more misogynistic ...

Sea shanties are all the rage these days on social media sites like Twitter and, especially, TikTok. And they have long been popular in the San Francisco Bay Area, where shanty sing-alongs have been ...

The sea shanty is having a moment. The old-timey form of maritime music, which experienced its original heyday back in the mid-1800s aboard sailings vessels and fishing boats as well as at shipyards ...

The man who put centuries-old folk songs into the social-media spotlight is now sailing into stardom with a record deal and a new single — based on the sea shanty that ushered in the most ...

What do you do with a drunken sailor? Put him on TikTok and make him a sensation. A recent trend on the video-sharing app has many people discovering and loving sea-shanties—and sounding like they're ...

Last year, the US reported 33 unprovoked shark attacks, accounting for about 58% of the total number of unprovoked shark attacks that occurred worldwide, according to the Yearly World Shark Attack ...

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 ...

TikTok seems to have an unparalleled ability to draw attention to the strange, the obscure, and the forgotten; even sea shanties can come back into style, eventually. In the last few weeks, the ...

While 2021 has already served up plenty of wretched bombshells, the best surprise of the past two weeks might be TikTok’s biggest new trend: sea shanties. As the world hurtles head-first into 2021, ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – JANUARY 25: Peter Kasin poses for a photograph on the three-masted cargo ship the Balclutha, built in 1886, at Hyde Street Pier in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, Jan. 25 ...