TikTok’s song ‘Bored In The House’ was trending massively during the lockdown, with everyone well and truly bored out of their minds.
Check out these hilarious TikTok videos created using the ‘Bored in the House’ song from Curtis Roach.
What is TikTok’s ‘Bored in the House’ song?
The original TikTok was created in March 2020 and went viral, hitting 46.2 million views on the platform – which is crazy!
Rapper @curtisroach created the video when the first lockdown happened during the coronavirus pandemic.
Thousands of recreations using the ‘bored in the house’ sound then went viral on TikTok due to everyone literally being stuck in their house bored out of their minds.
The TikTok sound now has 4.2 million videos, where TikTok creators are recreating their own version of how they are bored at home.
Who is @curtisroach?
A 21-year-old rapper from Detroit, Curtis Roach is the voice behind the trending TikTok sound ‘bored in the house’. With a 2 million follower fan-base on the app, the rapper was messing around during lockdown singing about being bored in the house… although that quickly translated into 46.2 million views and 4.2 million recreations!
Curtis is well known for his catchy beats when messing around drumming his hands to a catchy tune about being bored in the house. Although he didn’t expect to gain the reaction from TikTok that he received when posting the 20-second clip.
Curtis tells Metro times:
“I didn’t see that coming at all, I was really bored in the house. I think at that point we all were losing our minds a bit, so this catchy tune gave TikTok creators a way to make being bored in the house more entertaining by dancing and singing along to the catchy tune.”
Those relatable ‘Bored in the House’ lyrics!
The lyrics are the most simple yet catchy 20-second song there is wont take you long to learn!
“Okay, I’m bored in the house and I’m in the house bored (Bored)
Bored in the house and I’m in the house bored (Bored)
Bored than a m*therf*cker, in the house bored
And I’m bored than a m*therf*cker, in the house bored, ha
Bored in the house, bored in the house bored (Bored)
Bored in the house, bored in the house bored (Bored)
I’m bored than a m*therf*cker, in the house bored
And I’m bored than a m*therf*cker, in the house bored (Ayy)”
The song later has been turned into a full single by Curtis Roach and Tyga with seven million views on YouTube.
Meaning of the lyrics!
While it’s a very catchy song, it’s quite self-explanatory when figuring out what the lyrics mean.
If your ‘bored in the house, in a house bored’ it does literally mean that you are in a house and you are bored. It sounds like rocket science, doesn’t it?
The extended version on YouTube with rapper Tyga is still a catchy tune and worth checking out if you loved the 20-second TikTok version.
Some more examples
It has a lot of people showing off moves on Instagram as well.
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