Zara Larsson Comments on 'I Just Wanna Be Part of Your Symphony' TikTok Trend, Reveals How She Thinks It Started

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One TikTok trend that might have popped up on your For You Page over the last few weeks is the “I Just Wanna Be Part of Your Symphony” trend.

If you haven’t seen the videos, usually there’s an image of a colorful dolphin world – akin to Lisa Frank – with Zara Larsson‘s 2017 song with Clean Bandit, “Symphony,” playing over top.

The videos will feature a caption – sometimes depressing or morbid – to contrast the mood of the image and song. Captions that we’ve seen include “I’m under your bed,” “I have social anxiety,” “I just pooped,” and many more. Zara is now responding to the memes. Keep reading to find out more… She told Rolling Stone, “I was like, ‘Why is this getting so much attention?’ And then boom, the whole internet started thinking it was funny.” She continued, “If my manager came up to me, like, ‘Hey, I have an idea for how we would make this song go off’ and then they would explain this trend to me, I would have been like, ‘Are you f-king dumb?’ This is just something that started organically and grew.” Zara herself got in on the trend last month, posting the usual dolphin photo with her own caption: “What the f-ck is happening.” Zara also has an idea of how the trend might have started.

There used to be a diary that was sold that would play the song. Fans would often comment about writing dark or upsetting thoughts in the diary, which is similar to the trend. “People made jokes about writing very dark stuff in their diaries.