--- title: Baby Shark Gets an Emotional Makeover With Sad Remix Video description: The viral earworm Baby Shark got an emotional makeover with a sad remix video that surfaced on the Internet this week. canonical: https://time.com/5648743/emo-baby-shark/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-08-09T16:01:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:59:52.446Z og:title: Someone Found a Way to Make Baby Shark an Emotional Ballad og:description: Baby Shark, but make it emo og:url: https://time.com/5648743/emo-baby-shark/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6532bfcaf0c6dc85/698a0127e76ad22f8d636461/emo-baby-shark.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Piano keyboard of an old music instrument, close up og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Someone Found a Way to Make Baby Shark an Emotional Ballad twitter:description: Baby Shark, but make it emo twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6532bfcaf0c6dc85/698a0127e76ad22f8d636461/emo-baby-shark.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Someone Found a Way to Make Baby Shark a Really Emotional Ballad and It Gets Dark  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Aug 9, 2019 4:01 PM UTC  Piano keyboard of an old music instrument, close up with blurry background, selective focus and very narrow depth of field Piano keyboard of an old music instrument, close up with blurry background, selective focus and very narrow depth of fieldGetty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Aug 9, 2019 4:01 PM UTC [Baby Shark](https://time.com/5499273/baby-shark-song/), the [viral earworm](https://time.com/5408494/sophie-turner-baby-shark/) of an educational banger geared towards the next generation, has gotten an emotional remix that will make you feel all the feelings. Now the popular children’s song by Pinkfong, which made headlines when ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5648743/emo-baby-shark/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5648743/emo-baby-shark/"},"headline":"Someone Found a Way to Make Baby Shark a Really Emotional Ballad and It Gets Dark","datePublished":"2019-08-09T16:01:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:59:52.446Z","description":"Baby Shark, but make it emo","url":"https://time.com/5648743/emo-baby-shark/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6532bfcaf0c6dc85/698a0127e76ad22f8d636461/emo-baby-shark.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6532bfcaf0c6dc85/698a0127e76ad22f8d636461/emo-baby-shark.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Piano keyboard of an old music instrument, close up","caption":"Piano keyboard of an old music instrument, close up","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5648743/emo-baby-shark/","name":"Someone Found a Way to Make Baby Shark a Really Emotional Ballad and It Gets Dark"}}]}] ```