We’ve all seen that viral Corona video of people in Italy singing from their balconies as they remain quarantined in their homes. What they’re actually doing is actually hilarious.
The viral video in question is of an Italian neighborhood singing Rihanna’s ‘Bitch Better Have My Money‘. That audio turned out to be a fake. The smooth pronunciation was kind of a giveaway. Plus the user that shared this video isn’t even based in Italy.
https://twitter.com/FENTYGEMlNl/status/1238971916209098752
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Later on, it seemed the same footage depicted Italians singing ‘Love You Like A Love Song‘ by Selena Gomez. We knew at that point something was up.
A whole neighborhood in Italy is singing “Love You Like A Love Song” by Selena Gomez while they’re on lockdown and self-quarantined. #COVIDー19 #Corona pic.twitter.com/oLKitEPlcT
— moh (@selenATEors) March 15, 2020
What they’re actually doing is the ‘Macarena‘!
https://twitter.com/leonardocarella/status/1238511958116175879
You can even see these people busting those Macarena moves in the video. An Italian doctoral candidate at Oxford, Leonardo Carella even revealed that’s not Naples. The neighborhood in the fake Rihanna sing-off video is actually Turin.
There have been similar displays of community singing and dancing in Naples, Salerno, Siena, Florence, Nuoro, Agrigento, stc as identified in Leonardo’s thread. None of them were singing a Rihanna song.
https://twitter.com/leonardocarella/status/1238511612270690305
Siena even made headlines with their ‘Viva la nostra Siena‘ (hooray for our Siena) viral Corona video.
https://twitter.com/leonardocarella/status/1238512898324008960
Regardless of which song they sang, one thing remained constant, the community spirit.
https://twitter.com/leonardocarella/status/1238524676302876673
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https://twitter.com/leonardocarella/status/1238539690808049664
Team spirit helped Italy cope with the quarantine, now we have these ideas to cope.
There have been so many musical messages with the Corona outbreak, but Italy’s community spirit won this round.