This Medieval Remix Of Shakira’s ‘Hips Don’t Lie’ Has Everyone Making Dark Ages Jokes
"Mine child-bearing hips doth not tell falsehoods!" -- Shakireth in 500AD, probably.
Very strange but addictive medieval remixes to popular songs have been all the rage in 2020.
From Foster the People’s ‘Pumped Up Kicks’ being given a full female Middle Ages makeover to ‘Blue’ by Eiffel 65 getting a facelift with old school lutes and harps, these remixes are everywhere.
These medieval remakes have become such a craze that a term has even been created to explain the phenomena: Bardcore. According to The Guardian, Bardcore — derived from the Celtic word “bard” which roughly translates to “story teller” — started back in April when the pandemic’s Black Death-style reality really settled in.
Following the first remix making its way online in April, a number of pop songs have since been transformed into medieval melodies too. The latest of which is a lyric-less remix of Shakira’s ‘Hips Don’t Lie’ — and it slaps.
The Bardcore remix of ‘Hips Don’t Lie’ has specifically shot into virality because people on TikTok just can’t stop making medieval jokes set to the Dark Ages tune. Standing in front of drawings of the medieval era, people have been imagining what life would be like in the Middle Ages.
Specifically, people have been pointing out the times in life where you can’t help but feel like you’re in the Dark Ages and not the modern world — like when you hold a washing basket on your hip like a peasant woman or when your groceries are wrapped in butchers paper instead of plastic.
Others decided to use ‘Mine Hips Doth Not Bare False Witness’ — the unofficial title of the remix — to point out how Shakespearean one sounds when they use proper English instead of our more modern, short-form language.
Meanwhile some decided to flip the Medieval trend on its head by acting out scenarios of what life would be like if Gen Z and millennials were thrown back into the Middle Ages now. The answer? Just extremely petty, but iconic scenes.
All praise the queen, Shakireth for we would not have this medieval TikTok trend without her.