A potato flew around my room song lyrics

A story of a little kid, some misheard lyrics, and becoming a Vine meme.

If you’re on Vine at all, you’ve probably seen #apotatoflewaroundmyroom creep up the trending tags, seemingly out of nowhere.

But actually, this one’s on Frank Ocean.

Apparently, Vine user PG Bree is a fan of the song, but maybe is more familiar with potatoes than tornadoes. (Good for you, PG Bree; potatoes are much more delicious.)

So Bree posted this Vine a couple weeks ago:

Then, a few days later, Vine user lil syd from the trap created this literal video masterpiece to go with Bree’s vocal track:

As we post this, it has 165.3K likes, 158.8K revines, and 20.7K comments. That’s just the original Vine, not counting reposts to other platforms such as YouTube, Tumblr, or anywhere else.

You might say it was inevitable that one little flying potato has inspired thousands of people on every platform—including tumblr.

Image: Tumblr/mak-o

Here are some of our favorite Vine takes:

The Random Potatoes

The Potato Mashups

The Completely Necessary

Photo: Tumblr/common-raccoon

So what about the potato that flew around your room? It’s apparently living a good life, even maintaining a Twitter account.

Me after i made a mess in your room pic.twitter.com/3ZJgIJr1NM

— Around my room (@APotatoFlew) October 21, 2014

We know it won’t last, but we’re pretty sure that if someone spliced a cat video with a potato video right now, the entire Internet would explode.

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by Faith Quist, sophomore writing coach

To be honest, the beginning of the New Year has been a bit rough for me. Maybe it’s because I am faced with the reality of the Vikings not going to the Super Bowl, maybe it’s because I stained a pair of my favorite jeans, but it’s probably both. On the more serious note, school can be demanding and draining. While I am grateful and fortunate to be attending such a remarkable high school, I would be lying to say that sometimes the pressure isn’t exhausting. The past month included the glorious winter break and a three-day weekend, all in which I took full advantage of, and to say getting back into the groove of things was hard would be an understatement.

As noted in previous blog posts “Finals” by Saahil Chadha and “Humans Are Not Robots” by Jai Chadha, finals week can be draining due its stressful nature, and the start of the new semester brings along new stress factors. When I’m stressed out, I usually turn to one of three things: reading, playing the piano, or listening to music. I try to complete one homework assignment followed by a fifteen minute break as a way of preventing myself from becoming overstressed. This system not only helps my brain relax for a moment, it also gives myself a little bit of “me time.” During one of my breaks this past weekend, I came across an infamous Vine which later turned into a meme that people know as: a potato flew around my room.

In 2012, famous singer and rapper Frank Ocean, released a song titled Thinkin Bout You. A Viner mistakened the lyrics “a tornado flew around my room” for “a potato flew around my room.” This prompted another Viner to tie a potato to the ceiling fan while playing the mistaken lyric audio, and thus, an internet meme was born. Though I had never listened to Thinkin Bout You prior to watching this Vine, I couldn’t help but to laugh at the silliness of this Vine, not to mention the tune was pretty catchy.

As I walked into MHS on Monday, the harsh reality of school seemed to hit me a bit harder than usual. I had to take a standardized test in the morning causing me to miss multiple classes and already made me feel stressed out about the upcoming week. The forty minutes prior to taking this test, I could not stop singing, “A potato flew around my room before you came, excuse the mess it made; it usually doesn’t rain in Southern California, much like Arizona…” on repeat to the point that my friends forbade me to continue.

There will always be things in life that cause stress, but it is important that we all take the time to relax and allow ourselves to laugh. I found that as I was stressed out about the standardized test, missing class, and multiple other things, this six second video aided me with a small reminder to relax and allowed me to take a second to smile and laugh, and that alone made me feel immensely better. I suggest we all find our own “a potato flew around my room” to help us get through life’s difficulties because after all, life can’t be all work and no play.

So here’s to an internet meme that through its six seconds of life, it has brought me loads of stress relief. May we all sing “A potato flew around my room” as a new remedy to relieve everyday stress.

Click here to see the Vine!