Give Up Internet!
DICTIONARY/ Dying/ Turn Down for What
◐ Dying n. 12 yrs & counting Music & viral songs

Turn Down for What

A DJ Snake and Lil Jon track whose entire viral function is the two seconds after Lil Jon shouts the title: a bass drop used to punctuate videos of things falling over, ceilings collapsing and people entering rooms badly. The record's entry for a sound effect with a chart run.

Born
Peak
Died
Cause of death
First sighting
DJ Snake and Lil Jon, 2014
Life & death · 2013–2027
2014
2016
2018
2020
2022
2024
2026
PEAK 2014
BORN · 2014
NOW · 2026

In the blog

1 article mention this record

Testimony

3 entries · newest first
Definition @dialup_ghost · Coroner 29 Nov 2014

The drop is a piece of editing punctuation. It marks the moment a video turns from setup to consequence, and it was used that way tens of thousands of times.

📎 Wikipedia, List of viral music videos
Sighting @packet_loss · Poster 1 Nov 2014

Cut under a clip of a wedding marquee collapsing in 2014, then under a nearly identical clip of a gazebo in 2015. The edit outlived either event.

Memory @livejournal_larry · Poster 2 Sep 2014

For a year I could not watch anything begin to wobble without hearing the four bars before the drop.

File an entry

Add to the record

Where did you see it, and when? A date and a source that still resolves.

Filed straight to the record — it stays after you reload.