
A number of the cover songs actually use lyrics from the end of the song when Eminem sings, “It may seem a little crazy, pretty baby/But I promise mama's gon' be alright/And if you ask me to, daddy's gonna buy you a mockingbird/I'ma give you the world.”Īfter hearing a snippet of the song on TikTok, many users likely flocked to Spotify to hear the full version, helping it garner 500 million streams in roughly a year. Many TikTok users have also covered the song, mimicking the Detroit rapper's singsong style but adding their own vocal chops.

Like many other TikTok songs, a sped-up version of “Mockingbird” is also popular, having been used in over 150,000 videos.


On TikTok, the hashtag #mockingbird has been used in videos that have gotten over 1.5 billion views while #mockingbirdeminem has gotten an additional 375 million views.
