GC38TJX One Hit Wonders - "Chocolate Rain" (Traditional Cache) in Florida, United States created by Sticks & SkaryShari

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Sticks & SkaryShari: Had to pull all the, "One Hit Wonders" due to a prescribed burn in this section. Cacheapalooza 6 for Sticks & SkaryShari is now officially over... Bummer. See ya all in January.

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Hidden : 1/17/2012

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Tay Zonday

"Chocolate Rain" is a song and music video performed by American Internet personality Tay Zonday. After being posted on YouTube on April 22, 2007, the song quickly became popular. As of November 2011, the video has over 74,000,000 views. However YouTube has since stopped counting the hits this video receives within a year after it achieved this number, so realistically its hit count is much higher. The music video portrays a bespectacled Zonday in a recording studio wearing a white T-shirt and singing into a condenser microphone. Occasional cutbacks to Zonday playing a digital piano are also shown. A caption appears early in the video - "**I move away from the mic to breathe in" - which has been parodied many times. The song, and its writer/performer, has attracted major media attention.

"Chocolate Rain" is ranked as the hottest viral video of summer 2007 by CTV and as the number 2 viral video in the world by utalkmarketing.com. It was the winner in the Music category in the 2007 YouTube Awards.

The song is known for the deep voice of its singer and his mannerisms while singing. David Lowe of The Sun characterized Zonday's voice as being "gravelly as Rod Stewart but alas without the groove", expressing no surprise at Zonday's lack of formal musical training. Other reviews have been more favorable. Garth Montgomery of The Daily Telegraph praises the song's "hypnotic quality" while criticizing its "cheesy drum loop".

During a brief interview on The Opie and Anthony Show, Zonday referred to the song as "cheesy" and stated that its cryptic lyrics dealt with racism. This echoes Zonday's comments posted to the video's page on YouTube.

Many attribute the initial spread of the popularity of the song to 4chan.org

Tay Zonday said,
I'm pretty sure the 'Chocolate Rain' attention started as a joke at 4chan.org, an internet forum that is credited with starting lots of popular internet phenomena. It spread to a general **I move away from the mic to breathe in** audience and people started uploading spoofs. I don't know what causes people to listen to my music. If I could speak it, there would be no reason to write songs