American Dad Theme Song Remixes

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American Dad Theme Song Remixes refers to hip-hop, trap, drill and metal remixes of the American Dad! theme song, specifically when Stan Smith sings, "Good morning U.S.A." The trend took off on TikTok in early 2022 where many of the remixes were used as sounds by TikTokers for humorous videos. However, the trend started on YouTube in 2016.

Origin

On November 10th, 2016, the YouTube^[1] channel Remix Maniacs uploaded the first known American Dad! theme song remix online, having both trap and dubstep stylings. Over the course of six years, the video received roughly 118,500 views and 2,600 likes (shown below).

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On August 12th, 2017, music producer C 'Los uploaded an American Dad! trap remix to YouTube,^[2] earning roughly 5,100 views over the course of five years (shown below, left). On November 21st, 2021, the channel TRAP MUSIC NOW posted a YouTube^[3] video that was a different American Dad! trap remix, earning roughly 64,800 views in nine months (shown below, right).

In early 2022, meme creators on TikTok started replacing the audio of live music performance videos with the American Dad! theme and then accompanying the videos with phrasal templates similar to RapTV headlines and The Beatles If They Were a Good Band trend. This started on May 5th, 2022, when TikToker^[4] mutediornymemes posted a "DaBaby Doesn't Need Autotune" meme that used the American Dad! theme, earning roughly 254,000 plays and 32,100 likes in three months (shown below, left). On July 1st, 2022, TikToker^[5] fingerehrmantraut_ used the sound for Eminem's 8 Mile Rap Battle, earning roughly 1.3 million plays and 283,000 likes in one month (shown below, right).

Prior to the aforementioned video, on May 29th, 2022, TikToker^[6] opiumgang0 posted a mash-up remix of the American Dad! theme and a Playboi Carti song, earning roughly 3,400 plays and over 700 likes in two months (shown below, left). On July 4th, 2022, TIkToker^[7] young_pineapple30 posted an NBA YoungBoy mash-up of the theme, earning roughly 8,100 plays and over 400 likes in one month (shown below, right). These are the first known remixes on TikTok.

On July 9th, 2022, TikToker^[8] deviousrapnews posted a video that stated, "Babytron Doesn't Need Autotune" and remixed in the American Dad! theme. Over the course of one month, the video received roughly 28,100 plays and 3,200 likes (shown below, left). TikToker deviousrapnews continued the trend in July 2022, becoming the primary proponent on the platform. For instance, on July 10th, 2022, deviousrapnews posted an American Dad! x Playboi Carti remix on TikTok^[9] that received roughly 122,600 plays and 18,100 likes in four weeks (shown below, center). On July 14th, 2022, TikToker^[10] quandaledingle_0 used deviousrapnews' audio in a Misheard Song Lyric Speech Bubble video that received roughly 3 million plays and 382,000 likes in three weeks (shown below, right).

Multiple TikTokers went on to use the sound^[11] from quandaledingle_0's TikTok, amassing roughly 78,100 videos that used it over the course of three weeks. TikToker deviousrapnews continued to post American Dad! rap mash-ups with other artists like Yeat and Lil Durk, among others, in July 2022.