Ethan Shanfeld What happens when a band breaks up and then becomes TikTok famous? In the case of the Walters, they reunite and sign a record deal, seven years after the release of their now-hit song.Released in 2014, “I Love You So” helped boost the Walters to mild indie success.
The Chicago bedroom pop darlings played 200-capacity rooms and released two projects — “Songs for Dads” and “Young Men” — without a record deal.
Now, “I Love You So” boasts over 200 million Spotify streams and is featured in over half a million TikTok videos, outperforming some of this year’s biggest hits. (For reference, The Weeknd’s “Save Your Tears” soundtracks just over 130,000 TikToks, and Ariana Grande’s “34+35” is featured in 184,000 videos.) Since early.
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