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Why You Always Lying

You might remember it as Nicholas Fraser lying song, oh my god why you always lying

The archive has not found a surviving copy.

2015·The platform era·funny

The Vine that gave a generation its way of calling somebody out, sung to a 1997 R&B hook.

At a glanceThe facts

Remembered as
Nicholas Fraser lying song
Spread in
2015
Began as
A video upload
Format
Video
Era
The platform era
Made by
Nicholas Fraser
Taken from
A parody of Too Close, a 1998 song by Next
Where it started
Vine
Origin
Origin not yet established
Available
Not held by ViralWorld

What this wasThe story

Nicholas Fraser, filming himself in summer 2015, sings an accusation over the melody of Next's 1997 single "Too Close": why you always lying, mmm, oh my god, stop f—ing lying. He pulls a face at the end, and it is that frozen expression rather than the six seconds that most people actually remember.

It is a Vine that produced a reaction image, a catchphrase and a piece of music all at once, and the reaction image outran the video entirely — the still of Fraser's face became a standard way to accuse anybody of anything. It was among the defining Vines named in the platform's obituaries, and Paste put it first on its farewell list.

Fraser has kept working online for a decade and, in 2022, sold the still from the Vine as an NFT for around $96,000 — one of the few Vine creators to have converted the moment into anything. NBC News profiled him as part of its series marking five years since the platform's death.

TimelineIn order

  1. Made

    Next release Too Close, the song being parodied.1

  2. Posted

    Nicholas Fraser posts the parody to Vine.1

  3. Later

    A full-length version follows on YouTube.1

LegacyWhat it left behind

Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later

Originally published on Vine.

Where it came fromWhat we know

Original source uncertain. This is the earliest copy currently known.

No original upload has been established for this record. The index is showing the earliest copy it currently knows about, and says so rather than guessing.

Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.

SourcesWhat was read

  1. Wikipedia — Too Close (Next song)

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