Jauz Actually Finally Debuted His Baby Shark Remix, Then Dropped Sandstorm Immediately After
The world was begging for this remix for months. The second that the children’s song, ‘Baby Shark’ hit the airwaves in an insane resurgence, fans were pretty insistent that Jauz try his hand at remixing the track.
After months of waiting, and a lot more teasing than was probably necessary – Jauz finally gave the world what it thought it wanted for so long yesterday at Coachella.
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Like all things in life, the remix was met with mixed reviews, as many people were pretty confused about what was happening. Obviously, Coachella doesn’t match up 100% with the EDM Twitter demographic.
That being said it was an absolute Coachella moment that will go down in history beside the Walmart Yodel kid taking over Whethan’s set last year. Check out the full remix below.
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A Coachella Set Nobody Saw Coming
What made this moment so chaotic is that Jauz has built his whole career on heavy-hitting bass music and drum and bass, not novelty children’s songs, so watching him drop a full bass remix of ‘Baby Shark’ on one of the biggest stages in the world felt like a genuine prank pulled off in front of tens of thousands of people. He’d been teasing snippets of the edit on social media for weeks beforehand, which only ramped up the anticipation and made the eventual drop feel like an inside joke the whole EDM Twitter community was in on together. Then, in true Jauz fashion, he immediately followed it up by mixing in Darude’s ‘Sandstorm,’ another internet-meme staple, stacking two of dance music’s most-memed tracks back to back in the span of a few minutes.
Meme Culture Meets Main Stage
It’s the kind of stunt that only really works at a festival with Coachella’s cultural reach, since clips of the set spread across timelines almost instantly and pulled in reactions from way outside the usual bass music crowd. Jauz has always leaned into having fun and not taking himself too seriously between festival sets, and pairing ‘Baby Shark’ with ‘Sandstorm’ back to back is about as on-brand as it gets. Moments like this tend to outlive the actual set in people’s memories, and years later it still gets brought up whenever fans talk about the most unhinged festival drops of the late 2010s.
