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Wait, what? you may reasonably be asking. Why sea shanties, and why now? I do not have any concrete ideas about this; all I can tell you is that it’s happening. Apparently we’re doing sea shanties now. It makes as much and as little sense as anything else. Shanties typically comprise simple, repetitive, easy-to-remember verses with nautical themes. It is possible that “shanty” came either from the English word “chant,” or from the French “chanter,” meaning “to sing.” The end result is basically the midpoint between those two verbs. In any case, Britannica says shanties declined in popularity with the rise of the steamship. Until now, that is.
Since then, “Wellerman,” a shanty apparently inspired by the Weller Brothers’ ships that sailed between Australia and New Zealand in the 1800s, has become particularly popular, for whatever reason. Per Polygon, a Wellerman would’ve been a supply ship that restocked a whaling ship such as the one immortalized in song.
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