Hellos Darkness My Old Firend Ive Cone to Talk to You Again

April 22, 2022 Post a Comment

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"How-do-you-do Darkness, My Old Friend" is the opening lyric from the 1964 soft rock song "The Audio of Silence" performed past the American folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel. Online, the introduction of the song is oft used as groundwork music in a multifariousness of parody and remix videos for dramatic effect.

Origin

In October 1964, Simon and Garfunkel released the song "The Audio of Silence" as a track on their debut studio anthology Wednesday Morning, 3 A.K., which features the lyrics "hello darkness, my old friend" in the commencement verse.

Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come up to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Inside the audio of silence

In May 2013, Season four of the American sitcom Arrested Development was released on Netflix, which contained several scenes featuring the song when the character Gob experiences a moment of deep regret (shown below). Following the season'due south release, search involvement for the phrases "hello darkness" and "hello darkness my former friend" saw a dramatic spike on Google Trends.

Spread

On July 8th, 2014, YouTuber Joe Bell uploaded a clip of the Sad Brazilian Fan with "The Audio of Silence" playing in the background (shown below, left). On July 30th, YouTuber convulsion0inc uploaded footage of electronic dance music producer David Guetta performing at the Tomorrowland music festival with "The Sound of Silence" dubbed in the groundwork (shown below, right). The following mean solar day, Redditor dragonsky posted the video to the /r/youtubehaiku^[four] subreddit. Within two years, the videos received upwards of 7.1 million views and one.3 million views respectively (92% upvoted).

On January 27th, 2015, Redditor larperdoodle submitted a post titled "Hello dankness my one-time friend" followed by the phrase "I've come to browse your memes once more" to the /r/dankmemes^[6] subreddit. The aforementioned lyric was subsequently used in a page on the humor site DankMayMays^[7] featuring the Gnome Child with "The Audio of Silence" playing in the background (shown below).

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On February 7th, the /r/TheSoundofSilence^[3] subreddit was launched, featuring various YouTube videos with the song edited into the groundwork audio. On March 14th, YouTuber rockwillor uploaded footage of feminist protester Chanty Binx with "The Sound of Silence" verse playing at the stop of the clip (shown below, left). On May 1st, YouTuber TeamZoo uploaded a video of a human being appearing expressionless while riding a reverse bungee thrill ride with "The Sound of Silence" playing in the background (shown below, correct). In iv months, the video gained over i.ii million views and 580 comments. On July 25th, Redditor beet111 submitted the video to the /r/videos^[2] subreddit, where information technology received more than 5,700 upvotes (89% upvoted) and 700 comments in ii months.

2016 Billboard Hot Rock Songs

On March 24th 2016, Yahoo! News published a video interview with the Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice lead actors Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill, in which they were asked how they felt about the mixed to negative reviews the motion-picture show had received. Cavill so took the pb in answering the question while Affleck remained seated in silence with a noticeably sad look on his face. That same twenty-four hour period, YouTuber Sabconth created a parody of the interview clip titled Sad Affleck, featuring a collage of headlines from review manufactures, indicating the negative reception of the movie, set to the intro from "The Sound of Silence"(shown below). Inside three weeks, the video gained more than than 21 million views and 32,500 comments.

On March 29th, the heavy metal band Disturbed performed a live cover of "The Sound of Silence" during an appearance on the late dark talk testify Conan (shown below). Inside ii weeks of being uploaded to YouTube, a recording of the performance gathered upward of ii.02 one thousand thousand views and 4,00 comments.

Billboard Hot Rock Nautical chart

In April 2016, "The Sound of Silence" reached the No. 6 position on the Billboard'southward Hot Stone Songs chart. On Apr 6th, Billboard^[viii] published an commodity revealing that the song's resurgence in popularity was influenced by the Pitiful Affleck video and Disturbed'southward cover. Additionally, Billboard reported that the song had reached the No. 2 position on the Rock Streaming Songs nautical chart, with upwards of 5.6 million streams up 582 percent.