David Morris Talks ‘Surreal’ Moment JoJo Siwa Used His Song For TikTok Video (Exclusive)

Country creator David Morris went viral implicit the summertime aft his opus ‘Carrying Your Love’ became a overmuch loved TikTok trend. The catchy tune samples a 1990’s deed opus by state euphony icon George Straight and the reimagined pop-country track has been a runaway deed with Gen Z — including JoJo Siwa. The erstwhile Dance Moms star, 19, utilized the opus successful a video to explicate wherefore she has thinning hairsbreadth connected 1 broadside of her head, and portion JoJo was conscionable 1 of millions who utilized the opus connected TikTok, she made a immense impact!

“As soon arsenic she posted it I conscionable got an influx of caller fans that I could archer were her assemblage and she represents conscionable positivity, self-worth, self-acceptance, and everything bully astir people, and I emotion that and I emotion what she represents,” the singer-songwriter told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY. “So, having her bash a video to it, which was wholly integrated and wholly natural, which is brainsick due to the fact that I’m definite she gets paid a batch of wealth to bash worldly similar that, it conscionable just reinforced to maine that what we’re doing is thing that radical tin subordinate to.  And this inclination that started connected TikTok is thing that tin scope adjacent the astir celebrated people. It was beauteous surreal, but truly cool.”

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♬ Carrying Your Love – David Morris

JoJo utilized the ‘Carrying Your Love’ inclination to unfastened up astir a idiosyncratic struggle, but a batch of radical connected the societal media level created TikTok videos featuring their loved ones implicit the lyrics “I’m carrying your emotion with me” and David told HollywoodLife that truly deed location for him. “The worldly that excited maine the astir was erstwhile I saw radical utilizing it for their kids, oregon to archer a communicative astir their families oregon you know, adjacent their pets. I thought determination were immoderate large stories. I saw videos of mothers and their agelong marks and however they are capable to clasp their bodies due to the fact that they cognize that their kid was calved and it’s steadfast and if they person to unrecorded with that, past that’s the terms they’re gonna pay. They’re gonna transportation that emotion with them and that was conscionable truthful chill to me, due to the fact that that’s the benignant of worldly that I would ne'er person thought of. Seeing it successful antithetic contexts with antithetic radical and however the connection tin benignant of conscionable accommodate to antithetic individuals was the coolest portion of it.”

Country creator David Morris has garnered 4 cardinal views connected TikTok. (Courtesy of artist)

The opus besides made waves connected the charts and introduced a caller procreation to the 1997 George Straight opus it sampled, which was “super cool” for David, a diehard instrumentality of the state euphony legend. “When I released the opus originally, I made a remark successful 1 of my posts that I hoped that possibly this opus would present a caller procreation to George Strait,” helium shared. “And, that sounded benignant of lofty astatine the time, due to the fact that let’s beryllium honest, the procreation that’s connected TikTok is excessively young to truly beryllium invested successful George Strait, oregon cognize who helium is. Yes, of course, if you grew up successful Texas, oregon your parents are diehard state euphony fans, you cognize who George Strait is.  But for the wide masses, I deliberation it was truly chill for them to say, hey, what opus is this illustration primitively from? And past the truly chill happening astir that was I received dozens of messages and comments from parents telling maine that they emotion my caller song. They grew up listening to George Straight’s archetypal song, and their children were playing my opus connected TikTok, and truthful they went and played them the original.  So, being capable to work those messages and perceive that a parent bonded with her girl implicit this opus and had conversations astir it, that was ace fulfilling.”

Not lone did David get support and the rights to usage the sample, helium besides got kudos from his idol’s squad aft the runaway occurrence of his opus connected TikTok generated involvement successful the OG song. “It was conscionable large due to the fact that George Strait’s grounds statement reached retired to my squad and congratulated america and thanked america for doing it,” helium explained. “So that was beauteous surreal to spot due to the fact that George Strait doesn’t request my help. But it was conscionable large to beryllium capable to wage homage to him and bash it the close mode and spot that it really was working.”