Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Americans react to Penn Badgley dancing to Meghan Trainor’s Made You Look viral dance on TikTok.
Just one week after Taylor Swift’s Midnights was released to historic impact, we got an even longer-anticipated return from a global pop icon: Rihanna, who released her first new single in six years with the Def Jam-released Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ballad “Lift Me Up.” The song debuted with nearly eight million official on-demand U.S. streams and 10,000 in sales on Oct. 28, and racked up another 6.9 million streams and 6,000 sales over the next two days, all according to initial reports to Luminate. Those numbers should portend a major Billboard Hot 100 debut for the single, though how deep it can strike into the Swift stronghold atop the chart currently remains to be seen. (A strong radio showing should also help: “Lift Me Up” registered 26.3 million in radio audience on pop, adult, rhythmic and R&B/hip-hop stations combined in its first three days (Oct. 28-30), 10 million better than even Swift’s Hot 100-topping “Anti-Hero” over the same period the prior week.)
In the meantime, “Lift” has also raised the rest of Rihanna’s catalog, with her non-”Lift” streams bubbling up from 5.8 million last Monday (Oct. 24) to 6.8 million that Thursday as anticipation for the new song grew – then spiking another 24% to 8.4 million on Friday, after the song’s release. Gains for those songs – along with a Halloween-themed hike for her spooky smash “Disturbia” – should result in an increased presence for the Bad Gal on next week’s Billboard 200 albums chart, including a likely gain for 2016’s ANTI (No. 122 this week) and a possible re-entry from 2007’s Good Girl Gone Bad. – ANDREW UNTERBERGER.
“this kind woman was lost, but I’m so sad I was unable to help her 😭,” she wrote across the video, which started with a selfie-style video of the TikToker standing at the front of the line to meet Trainor.
“Oh my gosh, what’s your name?” she asked frantically, turning the camera onto the pop star.
But she stood there with her hands on her hips, looking a bit confused, as she answered, “No,” refusing to give any information.
“What’s your sign?” Preeti tried next, which the singer also shot down.
“What’s your number?” She tried next, which was met with a slightly more upbeat “No” and a silly grin. “You gotta let it go.”
The camera switched back to Preeti as she gave up. “Um, okay. Okay, okay,” she said as she walked away.
Reactions below:
Michael Michael: oh no the penn badgley social experiment. he’s done a dance. he’s replied to a comment. he’s lipsync to taylor swift.
Rushane: I’m going to be so disappointed in myself if Penn Badgley is the reason I get an account on TikTok.
Charlie: Penn Badgley is the only Scorpio man that deserves to live the rest of y’all can get cremated.
Mihlali: can’t explain why but Penn Badgley doing a dance on TikTok feels both unexpected and inevitable.
Paula: Me when Penn Badgley crosses my timeline.
