Thursday, August 7, 2025
Time: 8:03 PM
Song: Baby Shark
Artist: Pinkfong
Mode of Consumption: Played at the Rodeo at the Carroll County Fair.
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/5ygDXis42ncn6kYG14lEVG?si=756a787d35b0438f
There are always down times in any rodeo. It’s when the cowboys and the rodeo workers are changing from one event to the next event, mostly. Sometimes, it’s when a bull rider is struggling to mount a bull before he can ride it.
Either way, that’s why they have a clown. Usually, he’s meant to entertain the crowd. Sometimes that’s with jokes or stoies. Sometimes it’s with tricks.
This year, the rodeo also had a man come out that did tricks on his horse and two long horn cows. This included getting both long horns and his horse to climb atop the flat bed of a Dodge truck and then climb on top of the long livestock trailer it was pulling. It was a pretty impressive trick for anyone that has had animals. Heck, we have a hard enough time keeping our miniature Hereford in the pasture she’s supposed to stay in.
One of the other distractions during delays is to play songs and to either get the crowd to sing the next verse or to act along with the lyrics.
A song like “Sweet Caroline” is often used. Others are usually 80s rock gems like “Summer of 69” or Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin.’’”
It’s also the only place I hear, or I think, that I have ever heard the song “Baby Shark.”
When this became popular, I was too old to be watching cartoons and didn’t have kids of my own.
The funny thing now is that I think that the people that reacted most to this song were in their late teens and twenties. It’s now survived a generation.
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