Waters had started posting on TikTok in 2020 during the pandemic lockdown and had found two niches on the app: the sea shanties like “Soon May the Wellerman Come” that were suddenly everywhere on TikTok, and the trend of bass singers adding a low part to viral songs. Waters arranged tracks for all seven voices — “I spent a couple of weeks arranging the piece because I like to take my time with this stuff,” he says, in a world where a couple of weeks is only slow in TikTok time — and sent each singer a couple of parts to sing. Waters wasn’t even really paying attention to how the song was doing on social, anyway; he’d made the TikToks, then made the full song, and the full song was what he cared about most.