Geordie Greep performed viral meme song "Rectangular" with original singer at Nashville show

Last night, Geordie Greep stopped by Nashville's Blue Room at Third Man Records as part of his lengthy world tour promoting his debut album, The New Sound. Yet the 25 year-old British indie rocker is always full of surprises: in the middle of the performance, Greep invited Sean Stephens (@seanstephens.music on TikTok) to sing the 2023 viral meme song "Rectangular" together. Watch concert goers' clips posted to X (formerly Twitter) and TikTok below:

@arachnidgrips

#rectangular #geordiegreep #holyholy #alvin #chipmunks

♬ original sound - marg

Stephens's "Rectangular" became viral on TikTok in July 2023 when he posted a video of him singing it in New York City's Times Square. (He also posted the same video to Instagram reels the same day.) Sporting neon green hair and a matching gingham tie, the Canadian singer claimed he "traveled a thousand kilometers to New York City" to sing his short song about feeling spiritually connected to a rectangle.

The lyrics "I am rectangular, I feel no hole" received extra attention from the thousands of people liking, sharing, and reposting the original TikTok, as the double-entendre of "hole" sparked its own branch of memes and jokes.

@seanstephens.music

Performing my new song in Times Square 🚨 Rectangular is out today, so I'd love to hear what you guys think!! 😄 #newsong #timessquare #nyc #music #newmusic #newyork #musician #fyp #singer #newrelease #musictok #newartist #artist #songwriter #live #singersongwriter #musiciansoftiktok #singersoftiktok

♬ Rectangle Sean Stephens - Sean Stephens

And perhaps no one is more worthy of donning the stage with icon Sean Stephens than fellow weirdo and meme-lover Geordie Greep. In late 2024, the singer-songwriter admitted on NTS Radio that the memes he sees on Instagram Reels inspire his work. “I just like the songs people make up," he said. "People make up the weirdest songs, and they go big.” He then notably cites "Rectangular" as one of his recent favorites.

@nts_radio

Listen to Flo Dill with #geordiegreep on nts.live

♬ original sound - NTS Radio

This isn't even the first time Greep performed "Rectangular" at one of his concerts for The New Sound tour. Shortly after his original comment on RTS Radio, he and his band debuted their instrumental arrangement of the song, incorporating it into one of their jam sections at their Liverpool show. Watch an audience member's TikTok documenting the event below:

@greepgreepgreep

i am rectangularrrr #geordiegreep #greep #blackmidi #rectangular @Sean Stephens

♬ original sound - 👽🪱

Geordie Greep is still on his global tour promoting his debut album The New Sound, with the majority of US dates completely sold out. Check out the upcoming dates below:

01/25 St. Louis, MO @ Off Broadway
01/27 Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
01/28 Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre
01/29 Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge
01/30 Chicago, IL @ The Empty Bottle
01/31 Chicago, IL @ The Empty Bottle
02/01 Kalamazoo, MI @ Bell's Eccentric Cafe
02/03 Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Concert Theatre
02/05 Montreal, QC @ Theatre Fairmount
02/06 Brattleboro, VT @ The Stone Church
02/07 Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
02/08 Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw
02/13 Tokyo, Japan @ Liquid Room
02/14 Nagoya, Japan
02/15 Kyoto, Japan
02/16 Osaka, Japan
02/18 Hiroshima, Japan
03/29 Manchester, UK @New Century
03/30 Edinburgh, UK @ Liquid Rooms
04/01 Dublin, IE @ Vicar Street
04/03 Southampton, UK @ The 1865
04/04 Bath, UK @ Komedia
04/05 Margate, UK @ The Lido
04/06 Norwich, UK @ The Adrian Flux Waterfront
04/15 London, UK @ KOKO
04/16 London, UK @ KOKO
04/23 New Orleans, LA @ House of Blues
04/24 Houston,TX @ Last Concert Cafe
04/25 Dallas, TX @ Texas Theatre
04/28 Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom
04/29 Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory
05/01 Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern Theatre
05/02 San Diego, CA @ Quartyard
05/03 Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy + Harriet's Pioneertown Palace
05/05 Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst Atrium
05/06 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
05/07 Sacramento, CA @ Harlow's
05/09 Portland, OR @ Aladdin Theater
05/10 Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile
05/11 Vancouver, BC @ The Pearl
05/17 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount


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