Nearly 40 years after shooting his famous song “In The Air Tonight”, Phil Collins is once again climbing music charts through a viral YouTube video.
The song scaled up to the iTunes Top Songs chart last week, and came in at no. 3, behind Megan Thee Stallion and Cardi B’s “WAP” and “Beers and Summer.” From Darius Rucker. The recent rise of the number in the charts comes almost two weeks after his iconic drum break was the subject of a video by YouTubers Fred and Tim Williams.
“That was cool, that was cool,” said the 22-year-old twin of the famous beat. “I never saw anyone drop a beat in the song for three minutes.”
Fred and Tim Williams, who lead the YouTube channel Twinsthenewtrend, filmed their reactions to the first movie. Their July 27 video has since gone viral, garnering the attention of Ava Duvernay, Mindy Kaling and others.
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The twins told CNN that their channel, which focuses primarily on their reactions to hip-hop songs, turned up when they decided to listen to Frank Sinatra. Since the switch, Fred and Tim Williams have recorded reaction videos of “Jolene,” by Dolly Parton, “I Will Always Love You” by Whitney Houston and even “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen.
“We’re black, and they do not expect us to listen to that kind of music,” Fred told CNN.
“We’re young too,” Tim added. ‘It’s just rare to see people open these days. People do not open up to step outside their comfort zone and simply react to music they do not know. “
Slaughtered in the 2009 comedy The Hangover, boxing legend Mike Tyson made his name in the air during the break “In the Air Tonight” – “here’s my favorite part” – and sang along before bad guy Zack Galifianakis left. The track, which made the pop Top 20, was also famously included in the first episode of Miami Vice in 1984. Collins himself would play a sledgehammer griffin in a season 2 episode of the NBC cop drama.
