{"id":113969,"date":"2020-06-09T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/06\/feature_2020s_breakout_star_it_has_to_be_animal_crossings_k_k_slider"},"modified":"2020-06-09T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T13:00:00","slug":"feature-2020s-breakout-star-it-has-to-be-animal-crossings-k-k-slider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/09\/feature-2020s-breakout-star-it-has-to-be-animal-crossings-k-k-slider\/","title":{"rendered":"Feature: 2020’s Breakout Star? It Has To Be Animal Crossing’s K.K. Slider"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Forget the Billboard charts and the most popular celebrities on them \u2013 there\u2019s a new breakout star in town, and most Nintendo fans have heard his music for weeks through remixes, social media videos and trendy TikToks (as well as in Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/a><\/strong>, of course).<\/p>\n

K.K. Slider is an acoustic-guitar-playing white dog most famous for his appearances in all the Animal Crossing titles to date<\/a>. The NPC visits towns (and now islands) to give regular concerts, and in previous versions of the game was known by his alter-ego DJ KK. But K.K.\u2019s music is no longer just<\/em> for Animal Crossing players; since the release of New Horizons, his music has found new life and thousands of new fans, with artists and musicians posting viral videos and covers on YouTube, TikTok and Instagram.<\/p>\n

YouTube has consistently been a popular platform for K.K. remixes, like the K.K. Bubblegum remix by Qumu<\/a> shown below. K.K. Bubblegum has been one of the more popular songs across platforms, and Qumu, an anonymous internet musician, created their first K.K. remix after Patreon subscribers encouraged the choice in a poll. They later decided to do Bubblegum, too, which has turned into their most popular K.K. song.<\/p>\n