The video racked up one million views in just two hours, over 16 million today. A nice revenge for Corinne Savage, 28, who composed this song while she was going through a period of ill-being faced with the impossibility of “entering the boxes”.
She composed her ditty without great ambition, just to comfort herself, but the title If I Were A Fish took on the dimension of a real hit: 16 million views in a few days, hundreds of thousands of messages and interviews on almost all the channels in the United States. Corinne Savage, Corook by her nickname, is 28 years old, she lives in Nashville, Tennessee and for two years, after obtaining her degree in contemporary music, she launched herself on social networks and regularly publishes songs, her own compositions on the guitar.
She had a small success last year: It’s OK, but she had never exceeded 500,000 views until April when she uploaded a video to TikTok of herself singing with her friend Olivia on her sofa, If I Were a Fishif I were a fish:If I were a fish, and you caught me, you would say to yourself: damn it, what a fish! Exceptional, enormous, a rarity, how lucky I am to have found such a one!”
This exceptional fish that Corinne Savage sings about is a way of talking about the value of difference, her difference, the fact that she is in love with a girl and not a boy, the fact that she does not not a size 36 but rather 46, the fact that it does not fit into the boxes, that it does not correspond to the standards. A discrepancy of which she is proud, which she claims but which also sometimes earns her degrading comments, even insulting from anonymous people on the internet.
“I wrote these lyrics while I was going through a very difficult dayshe explains on TikTok, a trying day, I felt very bad, sad, out of place in this world, so I cried, called my friend Olivia and to overcome all that, we wrote this song together in ten minutes, just to remember the joy of being different“. His ode to celebrating difference immediately found its audience: a million views in two hours, more than 16 million today, thanks from thousands of Internet users experiencing the same discrepancy, and articles everywhere, from New York Times To RollingStone.
The enthusiasm is such that a week ago, in a park, Corook found herself surrounded by a hundred people who unexpectedly sang her song, like an outlet, a therapy, a communion, the best proof that happiness is not in the fact of returning to the boxes but in sticking together.