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These album cover recreations on TikTok have great timing

People are recreating album covers at an alarming rate.

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Audra Schroeder

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Recreating albums covers is nothing new, but a trend on TikTok is punching it up.

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The album cover challenge takes a premise and then adds an album cover recreation or song title to drive the punchline home. A majority of the videos are scored by creator @.arjunn’s remix of the Dave Brubeck Quartet’s “Kathy’s Waltz,” yet another example of an old song being revived on TikTok.

https://www.tiktok.com/@jasminemariexo48/video/6819804819788729606
https://www.tiktok.com/@coldmaplesyrup/video/6819891316940377349
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https://www.tiktok.com/@krista_blakely/video/6819100195645656326
https://www.tiktok.com/@kobigreenn/video/6817917571019427077

There’s a separate contigent of album cover recreations, scored by Apollo Fresh’s “JoJo Pose,” that are more straightforward.

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https://www.tiktok.com/@filaviola22/video/6816875983363165445

And there’s another album cover challenge involving Animal Crossing‘s K.K. Slider.

https://twitter.com/daisygator/status/1252336426613694464
https://twitter.com/Wheezeroni/status/1251775564802854912
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But some of these recreations are a little too real right now.

@michellewozniak

idk why my finger were shaking so bad LMAOOO

♬ Trap Sax – arjun 🧞‍♂️

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