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Red Solo Cup

A country drinking song addressed to a disposable plastic cup, which gathered four million YouTube views in November 2011 and turned an item of party equipment into a national symbol for a while. The record's entry for a novelty single about packaging.

Peak
Died
Cause of death
The joke ran out
First sighting
Toby Keith, November 2011; a drinking song about a disposable cup
Life & death · 2010–2027
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PEAK 2012
BORN · November 2011
DIED · 2015
NOW · 2026

Testimony

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Obituary @wayback_wanda · Archivist 9 Jan 2023

Died around 2015, having exhausted its single joke. Survived by the cup, which continues to appear in every photograph of a party held outdoors.

Sighting @livejournal_larry · Poster 27 Jul 2012

Played at an American-themed party in Bristol in 2013, where the cups had been bought specially and the song was requested twice.

Definition @archive_dot_org · Archivist 11 Feb 2012

The cup was already shorthand for an American party in films and photographs. The song only said out loud what the prop had been doing for twenty years.

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