From Wellerman to Drunken Sailor, sea shanties are attracting the attention of landlubber TikTokers. "It went wild. I don't really know what happened," says the guy at the center of it all. Erin ...

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 ...

During the cold winter of 2021, we had the humble sea shanty to keep us warm. TikTok saw a surge of creators recording renditions of sea shanties, making the tradition that dates back to the 1800s ...

If someone had asked us to predict 2021's hottest trends, singing sea shanties probably definitely would not have been on our list. Yet here we are, wondering what to do with a drunken sailor early in ...

It seems like there's always a new TikTok sensation that has the Internet buzzing, but not many of them can be traced back hundreds of years. The sea shanty trend is an exception, since the same ...

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 ...

A weekly deep dive into the current trends, slang, and viral videos of youth culture in terms that even the squarest can understand. This week’s potpourri of nonsense-you-might-not-know-about takes us ...

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 ...

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 ...