Does it work? Are these musicians making this music to help? Or is this all a joke? After some anecdotal research involving listening to such music while on my own toilet (the results were inconclusive), I reached out to a few top creators in the genre to understand more.īarcelona-based artists Jordi and Abel, of the channel Binaural System, have been making new age music since 2015 and have one of the more successful poop music videos: November 2018’s “Música Para Hacer Caca” (“Music to Make You Poop”), a 35-minute ambient song with more than 800,000 views that spawned an English and Portuguese iteration.
The prospect of poop music raises a lot of questions. For every toilet user, there is a piece of YouTube poop music for you. These music videos seek to help you go to the bathroom, and while they sometimes touch on popular YouTube genres like lofi beats for the bathroom, they all have the same mission: offering music that encourages bowel movements, whether with a gentle touch or an aggressive throttle. “Poop music” on YouTube - not to be confused with the meta video remixes called “ YouTube Poop” - encompasses everything from easy listening toilet tunes to club adjacent stool synth. If you’re constipated and need musical assistance to empty your bowels? There’s a whole subgenre of YouTube videos dedicated to that. Turning spiders into a snack? There’s a video. Pastel goth beauty tutorial? There’s a video. For every problem, there is a YouTube video.