It's A Beautiful Day (TikTok Song) / Rushawn Ewears

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About

It's A Beautiful Day refers to a TikTok song sung by a young Jamaican boy named Rushawn Ewears in a school setting with the primary lyrics, "Lord I thank you for sunshine / Thank you for rain / Thank you for joy / Thank you for pain / It's a beautiful day." The boy singing the song went viral on TikTok in late 2022 but was originally posted in 2017 on Facebook by the page of Jamaican school Top Hill Primary School. The original song is titled "Beautiful Day" by Jermaine Edwards, however, the viral video of the boy became more notable after many musicians remixed his singing, such as U.K. drill rapper Prinz and DJs TRINIX.

Origin

On October 26th, 2017, Facebook^[1] user Fran Cine posted a video showing one of her students named Rushawn Ewears singing the song "Beautiful Day" by Jermaine Edwards^[2] in Top Hill Primary School located in Jamaica. The Facebook^[1] page of Top Hill Primary School also reposted the video, and over the course of six years, it received roughly 20,000 reactions (shown below).

Spread

After the video went viral within Jamaican Facebook circles, it was reposted by the Instagram^[3] page proudjamaicans on October 31st, 2017, gaining roughly 50,700 views and 9,900 likes in six years (shown below).

On TikTok / 2022 Resurgence

Although the video was known among Jamacain internet users, the video wasn't known by the internet at large until late 2022 after multiple cross-platform reposts that manifested into virality on TikTok. This started on November 22nd, 2022, when YouTuber^[4] THE MOSTHIGH reposted the video, gaining roughly 165,900 views and 18,000 likes in two months. Then, Snapchat^[5] user marcus.randall reposted the video on an unknown date, however, the repost received roughly 3 million views.

Also on November 22nd, 2022, TikToker^[6] rrrandomvideos reposted the video, writing in text overlay that producers should remix the video's audio. The TikTok received roughly 16 million plays and 1.7 million likes in two months (shown below, left). Following the viral TikTok repost, others used the sound or dueted the video and went viral in their own right, such as TikToker^[7] therealherphero on November 23rd, 2022, who earned roughly 498,000 plays and 12,700 likes in two months (shown below, right).

Remixes

On December 17th, 2022, DJ group TRINIX posted a TikTok^[8] in which they remixed the boy singing, gaining roughly 41.6 million plays and 4.7 million likes in one month (shown below, left). On December 28th, 2022, U.K. drill rapper Prinz posted a TikTok^[9] that previewed his own remix and sample of the boy singing, gaining roughly 4.6 million plays and 530,500 likes in two weeks (shown below, right).

Streamers such as Kai Cenat and iShowSpeed reacted to specifically Prinz's remix on stream. Additionally, the boy in the video, Rushawn Ewears, began posting to TikTok^[10] and Instagram^[11] following the video's mainstream virality.