Sea shanties are all the rage presently, as you may have seen. New York writer types would love to tell you that the 19th century New Zealand folk song currently blowing up on TikTok is “honestly a bop,” and that its current popularity can be chalked up to the fact that songs designed to be sung in unison to optimize the experience of arduous group labo…
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