Unusual musical hit: South African musician David Scott aka “The Kiffness” has scored a hit with his setting of former US President Donald Trump’s song “Eating the Cats”.
Around Trump’s statement that migrants in the US city of Springfield would eat pets, the 26-year-old created a two-minute reggae song that has been viewed millions of times on YouTube since the week before. It is also very popular in Austria, where it reached number 3 in the YouTube charts this weekend, according to kworb.net.
“People of Springfield, don’t eat my cat. Why would you do that, eat something else,” rhymes The Kiffness in the video, which features him wearing headphones and a microphone in front of a mini keyboard.
At the end the dog and the cat cry
Trump is seen repeatedly in the split screen as he delivers his title phrase — which has since been set to music several times by other YouTube artists. At the end of the video, dogs and cats also get a say, being “whined” by the singer.
The video was originally posted on X, where it had 9.8 million views and 100,000 likes as of Monday. The video has been viewed 2.7 million times on YouTube and has also climbed the ranks on music streaming platforms Spotify and iTunes – in Sweden, for example, it reached number 11 on the iTunes charts, according to figures from specialist website kworb.net.
Performance in Vienna on October 29th
The Kiffness, who will perform at the Arena in Vienna on September 29, have announced that they will donate all streaming proceeds from the song to an animal shelter in Springfield, Ohio. The musician said on X that almost $7,000 (6,317.12 euros) had been raised on Sunday. On Monday, he also refuted media reports that he had political intentions with his song.
In an “open letter to the news media about my song ‘Eating the Cats'” he stressed that his only concern was raising money for the Springfield animal shelter. Anyone who says otherwise is a liar” and wants to divide public opinion, the compatriot of X owner Elon Musk stressed. “I want to unite everyone behind a common goal,” Scott stressed.
This is not the musician’s first charitable act. After the Russian aggression against Ukraine, he released a remix of a Ukrainian folk song and donated the entire proceeds to the Ukrainian army. He does not always show political restraint. He has repeatedly criticized South African politics in songs.
Source: Krone
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