These videos of people singing from their balconies while locked up in their homes have fooled some celebrities. Most of sound in these clips are fake and include songs that were never sung by these neighborhoods. But being funny, they have gone viral.
The meme was born from a video posted by Twitter user valemercurii, which showed an empty street in Siena, Italy. However, when you turn up the volume you can hear that almost all of the neighborhood is singing a popular Italian song. The clip has more than five million views and has already reached more 138,000 “likes”.
People of my hometown #Siena sing a popular song from their houses along an empty street to warm their hearts during the Italian #Covid_19 #lockdown.#coronavirusitalia #COVID19 #coronavirus pic.twitter.com/7EKKMIdXov
The video inspired hundreds of parodies, the most notable being those that show a whole neighborhood singing Eminem songs like Lose Yourself or I’m not Afraid , but, to be honest, it is difficult for an entire street to sing the rapper’s lyrics.
https://twitter.com/gyllenpresley/status/1239063133924122626?s=21
Several celebrities have not noticed that these videos are fake, so singer Katy Perry shared the parody video with her song on Twitter as if it was real.
https://twitter.com/katyperry/status/1238964946316046337?s=21
https://twitter.com/sunshjnepark/status/1238998845125726213?s=20
Other celebrities like Madonna have also fallen for sharing the meme. As well as Shawn Mendes and Jessie J, who were alerted by their fans and deleted the videos.
Let Us All RISE UP. everywhere around the world!! 🌎 🌍 #irise pic.twitter.com/NJv93kWnWs
— Madonna (@Madonna) March 15, 2020
On this one they song “Beautiful” Christina Aguilera.
A whole neighborhood in Italy is singing “Beautiful” by Christina Aguilera while they’re on lockdown and self-quarantined. #COVIDー19 pic.twitter.com/XgJZU8Pfng
— Gorgeous 💎 (@gorgeousxtina) March 15, 2020
But the parodies have reached a new level, as in this video of the neighborhood where they “sing” the theme song from aliens, the movie Annihilation.
A whole neighborhood in Italy is playing the alien song from Annihilation while they’re on lockdown and self-quarantined ❤️ In times of crisis people can come together and create such beautiful moments pic.twitter.com/lemYvueJlk
— grace spelman (@GraceSpelman) March 16, 2020
