Fans of SK8 the Infinity in the past few weeks have used the new single “Boy Toy” to in videos using clips of that show. Loveman” to post moody edits and memes of a romantic pairing between two main characters, Gojo and Geto. More recently, in August, fans of Jujutsu Kaisen reclaimed “Mr. Fans will sing additional lines said in Banana Fish at his concerts. He credits getting his record deal to anime fandom. Now, Montgomery’s music has become inextricably linked with anime. Loverman” and “Line Without a Hook” went platinum, and Montgomery was signed to Warner Records. Shortly afterward, Banana Fish fans claimed a second song, “Line Without a Hook,” and Montgomery soon had two songs going viral at once. Silly videos of Montgomery reacting to fan videos garnered hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions, of views. Montgomery’s fame only grew as he engaged with fans on TikTok. And so from there I went, Oh, whoa, this is fertile with just finished banana fish :( part 2 i guess ♬ original sound - ricky montgomery “I remember the first TikTok I ever made that got a million views was just this TikTok of me saying that I was going to watch Banana Fish and it went. Fans of Banana Fish - an anime series following the friendship of a photographer and a gang member that ends in tragedy - had started to create fan edits overlaid with Montgomery’s lyrics, and posted clips or lighthearted memes of the show with his song “Mr. In 2020, Montgomery noticed his music was being streamed more and more on Spotify and TikTok. Or, at least, a bunch of anime fans obsessed with Banana Fish did. After returning to music and a canceled tour due to the pandemic, he once again considered leaving music - but the internet held on to him. Montgomery released the now-popular album “Montgomery Ricky” in 2016, but left the music industry for a career in marketing. Prior to his current success, Montgomery dipped in and out of the music scene for several years. The same force that brought viral success to the indie-pop artist is also responsible for connecting Montgomery’s music to videos where people paint their feet to look like characters. Montgomery’s music has become the soundtrack for anime fan edits and memes of Banana Fish, Attack on Titan, Jujutsu Kaisen, and more. It’s a blessing and a curse that has buoyed his music career. His success is uniquely a product of TikTokers’ anime obsession, a fandom his music has become “fully enmeshed” with, Montgomery told Polygon. At the time of publication, his music has surpassed 1 billion streams globally, and he has two platinum records. TikTok has launched numerous musicians into stardom, and Montgomery took off during the COVID-19 pandemic, around the same time anime and manga fandom intensified online. Loverman” and “Line Without a Hook” have been used and reused for trends. His songs have commanded enormous audiences, and clips from “Mr. If you also chronically scroll through TikTok, and you’re an anime fan, then you likely know of musician Ricky Montgomery.
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