I noticed that it wasn’t on TikTok and I was like, ‘Why not?!

They were added at the behest of directorJon M. Chu.

“‘Blackout’ in the show is this big event,” the director explains.

“But then they take it and they run with it,” he marvels.

“He did both voices.

So, you could say, I had this meme before anyone knew it was a meme.”

She just liked the music.

“I love the tension between the actors.

It was just a whirlwind of emotions they were portraying perfectly,” she says.

“I did find it attractive the way he said it.

“They have to walk with a [one-shot],” he continues.

“We’re not cutting around them.

They have to deliver it in real time.

And the camera has to be perfect going around them.

Our extras, who are walking as if they’re club-goers, have to walk past.

We have certain flashlights and flashes that are going off.

It was emotional.”

“That night was very hard for us,” he admits.

“It was a frustrating night.

They were both in the mode of being frustrated and getting all that out.

You feel like you’re witness to a real fight between two people.

Like, you do not want to get that look.”

Still, no one expected this to become the viral hit of the summer.

In fact, Chu thought another lyric change was far more likely to resonate one with aStar Warsreference.

“So he wrote a new one that I thought was dope.

He wrote, ‘I got more flows than Obi Wan Kenobi, yo.'”

“But I was wrong, nobody paid attention to that one,” laughs Chu.

“No one said, ‘It’s different.'”

But ‘Blackout’ began to take off after Bradshaw uploaded the audio and posted her version.

“And then like the next week, it’d be like 100,000.

And then all these Tik-Tokkers that I follow started using the sound.”

Chu didn’t realize at first quite how big it had become.

Then, the cast got in on the fun too.

“My heart started to race when I saw Anthony and Melissa do it,” Bradshaw gushes.

“I knew it was a trend.

I knew people were doing it.

But whentheydid it, I was absolutely starstruck.

And then, Lin did it, and I was just like, ‘Wow.’

Chu tells EW that he even recorded his own version that he doesn’t plan to share publicly.

It’s him performing the segment with his then 3-year-old daughter.

“I’m trying to get my daughter not to say it,” he laughs.

“She knows all the words to all the songs.

I’m like, ‘Ok, let’s not learn those lyrics.’

How about, ‘I got more flows than Obi Wan Kenobi?'”

May the force be with you on that one, Jon.