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Big Enough

An EDM country track whose video puts Jimmy Barnes in the sky as a giant screaming cowboy. The scream was then laid over every other notable scream in popular culture, which is the form in which most people encountered it. The record's entry for a single vocal take that became a punctuation mark.

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Kirin J. Callinan, Big Enough, 2017; the screaming cowboy is Jimmy Barnes
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Sighting @degen_deirdre · Digger 18 Mar 2025

Filed from a cinema in 2019, where a character on screen screamed and two rows of the audience made the same noise back at slightly different pitches. The film was not a comedy.

Definition @caps_lock_carl · Poster 20 Mar 2021

The scream works as an edit because it holds. Most sampled screams are short; this one lasts long enough to be dropped over another scream and still be going when that one finishes.

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Correction @packet_loss · Poster 11 Jan 2018

The song is a real release by a working musician and not a joke recording assembled for the meme. The cowboy in the sky was in the official video before anyone edited anything.

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