{"id":60843,"date":"2025-01-28T19:14:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/tiktoks-thats-not-my-name-trend-the-ting-tings-respond-as-iconic-song-goes-viral-again-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T19:14:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:14:43","slug":"tiktoks-thats-not-my-name-trend-the-ting-tings-respond-as-iconic-song-goes-viral-again-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/tiktoks-thats-not-my-name-trend-the-ting-tings-respond-as-iconic-song-goes-viral-again-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok\u2019s \u2018That\u2019s Not My Name\u2019 trend: The Ting Tings respond as iconic song goes viral again &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok\u2019s \u2018That\u2019s Not My Name\u2019 trend: The Ting Tings respond as iconic song goes viral again YouTube: The Ting TingsThe Ting Tings, the artists behind viral hit \u2018That\u2019s Not My Name,\u2019 have responded to the song going viral on TikTok nearly 15 years after its original release. TikTok is well known for its abundance of viral trends, and many of them have been inspired by particular songs. Sometimes these are brand new songs that have just made their way onto the charts, and other times it\u2019s a throwback hit that gets a new lease of life on the viral app. At the start of 2022, English pop duo The Ting Ting\u2019s song \u2018That\u2019s Not My Name\u2019 which was originally released in 2008 sparked a new viral trend, where people revealed some of the nicknames they\u2019ve been called over the years. This even led to multiple huge celebrities making videos of their own, including Will Smith, Reese Witherspoon, Drew Barrymore, and more. Click here if TikTok doesn\u2019t load Now, speaking to the BBC, Katie White and Jules De Martino have revealed their thoughts on the song going viral on TikTok. They explained that they weren\u2019t aware when the trend initially started going viral, although they had noticed a bit more activity on their social media channels. \u201cAfter a week or two, a friend said, \u2018You know how many people are doing it? You should really have a look\u2019,\u201d White said. \u201cAnd, yeah, we looked at it and it\u2019s just been amazing seeing it growing.\u201d De Martino added: \u201cOur phones just lit up and everything started going crazy again. We looked into it and we loved it.\u201d They also expressed hope that some newfound fans from TikTok will give their upcoming album a listen, now that \u2018That\u2019s Not My Name\u2019 has become such a huge hit on the app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok\u2019s \u2018That\u2019s Not My Name\u2019 trend: The Ting Tings respond as iconic song goes viral again YouTube: The Ting TingsThe Ting Tings, the artists behind viral hit \u2018That\u2019s Not My Name,\u2019 have responded to the song going viral on TikTok nearly 15 years after its original release. TikTok is well known for its abundance of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}