Sweet and sticky: #ReplaceSongTitlesWithTikoy

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Sweet and sticky: #ReplaceSongTitlesWithTikoy
Can you fit the word 'tikoy' into your favorite song titles?

MANILA, Philippines – As millions across Asia and around the world celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year with fireworks and festivities, Filipino Twitter users celebrated the way they do best – through trending topics.

On Thursday, February 19, #ReplaceSongTitlesWithTikoy was seen quickly crawling from the bottom to the top of Twitter’s Philippine Trends.

How fast was the hashtag picked up by the netizens in the Philippines? It only took over 200 tweets in 20 minutes to make it a trending topic in the country.

Soon enough, the hashtag became the second top trending topic worldwide.
Tikoy, a sticky rice cake, is most popular during this time of the year. It can also double as a gift and in this case, as a replacement word in any song title. 
Songs by Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith were not able to escape the hashtag:





Songs by Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, and One Republic were also included:




Check out more song titles below:

[<a href=”//storify.com/rappler/replacesongtitleswithtikoy” target=”_blank”>View the story “#ReplaceSongTitlesWithTikoy” on Storify</a>]

What’s your favorite song? Try to replace one of the words in its title to ‘tikoy’ and share it in the comments section below! Happy Chinese New Year from the Rappler Social Media Team! – Rappler.com

 

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