'Little Girl Gone' by Chinchilla / Run Little Girl Run

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About

"'Little Girl Gone' by Chinchilla" also known as Run Little Girl Run is a song by musical artist Chinchilla that went viral on TikTok in April 2023 after the artist posted a video previewing the song. Over the course of the month, the song became popular in lip dub videos about women's accomplishments and defying gender expectations. The song was officially released on streaming platforms on April 21st, 2023.

Origin

On April 4th, 2023, TikToker^[1] and musician CHINCHILLA (@chinchilla_music) posted a video preview of her new song "Little Girl Gone," garnering over 3.5 million views in a week (shown below). The video makes an observation about people not assuming she's a producer when they see her in the studio because she's a woman.

Spread

On April 6th, 2023, @chinchilla_music announced the song was available for pre-save on streaming platforms via a TikTok^[2] video. The song's original sound^[3] was used over 9,000 times in the next week. Some of the most popular videos feature women lip dubbing to the song while discussing gender expectations that they've defied or accomplishments they're proud of (examples shown below). On April 13th, HITC^[4] published an article about the song's popularity.

On April 21st, the song was officially released on streaming platforms, including Spotify.^[5]