TikTok is all the rage nowadays; it’s become easily one of the most popular social media platforms on the planet with its short-form content videos of all types of content. One of the best ways to get someone’s attention instantly comes in the form of catchy music with a silly video to keep their eyes glued for that minute you have. It’s become a trend among TikTok creators to find an already existing piece of music and edit it specifically for a TikTok video. Edits are usually, but aren’t limited to, clipping a popular part of a song, speeding up a song in turn making it sound higher pitched, or the opposite with slowing down a song making it sound lower pitched.
Some people find these particular versions of songs catchy and go on YouTube to listen to that certain music, which some creators have labeled as “TikTok Version” or “only the best part” for clicks.
These “TikTok version” songs have been around since 2001 under the more niche title “Nightcore” songs, which are a style of music that comes from pitch-shifting source material to sound higher pitched and faster, like electronic dance music. Its slower-paced counterpart, “Daycore,” comes from pitch-shifting the source material to sound lower-pitched and slower, like vaporwave music; both Nightcore and Daycore edits of source material also go by “sped-up version” and “slowed + reverb” Nightcore and Daycore songs, especially in the 2000s and early 2010s. YouTube typically had anime characters as the thumbnail, which became synonymous with the Nightcore and Daycore names, which in turn caused some people to dislike the genre names.
Since these genre titles even today are considered niche, most people put alternative titles that directly explain what’s been changed about the source material in the song title. This in turn created “TikTok version” songs since people would come onto YouTube after hearing a song on TikTok, making it easy for them to find.
