

I realized while watching the MTV VMAs Sunday night that I simultaneously feel like I know what all popular music sounds like thanks to spending several hours on TikTok a day, but also what none of it really sounds like given how music is manipulated on the app. For example, I had only heard that awful Julia Michaels and JP Saxe song “If the World Was Ending” in its trolly TikTok meme form, in which the answer to “If the world was ending, you’d come over right?” is always: “NO.” And if you’ve spent enough time scrolling through the app in the past few weeks, you were likely bombarded with TikTok’s latest gifts: ridiculous “WAP” mash-up after “WAP” mash-up.
Apparently, “WAP” works well with nearly everything? Well, almost everything. Here’s a rundown of the most notable mash-ups, remixes, and cover offerings. And no, I’m not including the one featuring demon Ben Shapiro, thank you, next!