PhillyVoice reached out to Zonday after Culture editor Jenny DeHuff , staff writer Brian Hickey and a few friends of this reporter got a follow in the last month, leaving each wondering the same question — Why? I just got followed by Tay Zonday aka chocolate rain guy, this might be the happiest moment of my life. Tay Zonday just followed me y'all I'm bumping chocolate rain times today in his honor. It's impersonal at the end of it all and it gives hard working content creators a bad name.
Some of us work very hard to build our community. Zonday is hardly the first celebrity using a website like Fanbase. New York Magazine reported on the subject in May, noting Trump had gained more than five million followers over the course of one weekend. Glitches caused about , users to follow the POTUS account in January, too, even if they hadn't necessarily wanted to.
And there also are other high-profile Twitter users who follow thousands of users from their accounts. Yoko Ono follows , Twitter users while former President Barack Obama follows ,, but based on a quick Twitter search, neither of those elicited the same responses as Zonday's follows. I hate tay zonday. For those who don't know, here is his most favourite song "Chocolate Rain". Jul 7 AM 0 0. I think most people just make fun of him bro. I on the other hand think that he actually has talent, i dont dig the style but he has a good voice and could be good with some rappers.
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Do you know? How did suddenly achieving that level of fame feel? When you're "hot," the whole world tries to get in on your coattails and get a piece of that. Three of the four major music labels asked me to sign with them. Just dealing with all of that, with all of the people contacting me, was daunting.
I didn't have anyone's example to emulate. I couldn't look at Rebecca Black and be like, Ok what did she do? What did Antoine Dodson do when this happened to him? There were really no breadcrumbs to follow because it was pretty much the first time anyone had gone from that level of obscurity to that level of attention through the means of online content.
And for YouTube, it was a historic threshold moment, because at the time YouTube wasn't as dominant. It was actually MySpace that was the dominant social network. What does "Chocolate Rain" actually mean? I always say, the question is more important than the answer. I sing about what I can't talk about. I sing because there are things I cannot speak. I think it takes away from what I sing and the musicality and the moment of the music to be verbally polemic, and to give verbal footnotes, as in "This should mean this, and this.
We live in a society with an epidemic of declaratives and a poverty of interrogatives, and I think that part of the lasting appeal of "Chocolate Rain" is that question perhaps being allowed to be an interrogative. What is the meaning of "Chocolate Rain? How much money have you made from Chocolate Rain? That's what you journalists always like: those threshold questions. You ask those questions because the public is extremely voyeuristic and you're trying to make headlines in that regard. I'd say I've certainly kept my head above water, but I probably wasn't as smart as I could have been from a business standpoint.
I was pretty dedicated to giving it away for free. I didn't even list it on iTunes until , which was a mistake. Honestly, if people want to give you money you should at least give them the opportunity.
I was new to public life. What it's like being recognized all the time? I get recognized a lot.
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