Sea shanties have taken over social media, courtesy of a series of viral TikTok videos. "Shanty Tok" isn't a new phenomenon, but a viral video of Scottish singer Nathan Evans singing the song "The ...

From Wellerman to Drunken Sailor, sea shanties are attracting the attention of landlubber TikTokers. "It went wild. I don't really know what happened," says the guy at the center of it all. Erin ...

It's folly to examine why some things go viral on the internet, and by doing so one risks discounting the beauty of the simplest answer: They just do. Nothing makes sense. Roll with it. Or at least, ...

WASHINGTON — What is old is new again. Sea shanties, the centuries-old seafaring tunes, have exploded on TikTok and other social media apps. Videos with #seashanty have been watched 2.8 billion times ...

To get to the bottom of the mystery, we reached out to the singers themselves and a sea shanty expert (yes, you read that correctly), who said there's actually a few different reasons why the work ...

People on the internet are obsessed with "sea shanty TikTok" after a song called "The Wellerman" went viral. A sea shanty expert says the song isn't really a sea shanty because it's not in a call and ...

If someone had asked us to predict 2021's hottest trends, singing sea shanties probably definitely would not have been on our list. Yet here we are, wondering what to do with a drunken sailor early in ...

The news has been a lot these last few weeks, and the U.S. is facing crises on several fronts. But in the background of the chaos, one strong, steady chorus has been cutting through the din. It's a ...

Argh, the latest trend in pandemic distraction may be - shiver me timbers - sea shanties. (SOUNDBITE OF VIDEO) UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: (Singing) There once was a ship that put to sea, and the name of ...