Chocolate Rain goes huge

The song Chocolate Rain is a piano driven piece with a cheesy drum loop playing beneath Zonday’s curious vocals that sound like a man much older than the young artist.

The YouTube hit has captured the world’s imagination with its home made quality clip that includes Zonday singing and captions to explain that he moves his head away from the mic to breath in.

Over four minutes and 52 seconds, the piano riff and drum loop don’t change and retain a hypnotic quality which has put the song on the verge of an Internet Zietgeist shared by luminaries such as Star Wars kid and Mahir.

The song has reached such prominence online that it has now created a cottage industry of backlash, tribute and spin offs.

There were 4280 YouTube videos related to Chocolate Rain at the time of publishing. See here for more on the best of Chocolate Rain remixes.

But Tay Zonday claims to be no joke. His YouTube profile bills him as a “singer-songwriter-vocalist” capable of doing any range of musical styles.

“I might do anything. No style is off limits.”

The 25 year-old adds that his deep voice is real and not faked, and he has made a number of his songs available in MP3 format and video.

Zonday’s recent popularity been so overwhelming that he warns he can “only respond to a small fraction” of the messages he now gets.

Here’s the original. Go here for the equally entertaining spin offs.