# Girls Like You "Girls Like You" is a Maroon 5 pop rock song from 2017 that turned into a viral music-video moment in 2018 after a rerecorded version featuring a Cardi B verse dropped with a celebrity-packed video. It hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 that September, ending a 34-week run of rap chart-toppers. ## Overview "Girls Like You" is a Maroon 5 pop rock song that first appeared in 2017 as an album cut and hit its viral peak in 2018 after a rerecorded version featuring Cardi B was released with a music video packed with famous women [1]. The chart-topping run pushed the song into cover territory, where YouTube channels reworked the arrangement and TikTokers looped the chorus for short clips [6]. The track's meme footprint sits in what creators did with it after that chart peak. Cover bands, "without music" edits, and lip-dub parody uploads circulated across YouTube for months [3]. The chorus became recognizable enough to work as a punchline on its own in text-swap rewrites [5]. ## How It Spread On July 10th, 2018, the Walk off the Earth YouTube channel posted a group cover that pulled more than 8.8 million views and 9,700 comments within seven months [3]. Later that month, on July 27th, the Without Music channel uploaded a version stripping the instrumental to isolate Adam Levine's vocals over foley sound, which passed 8.04 million views in the same window [4]. "Girls Like You" hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on the chart dated September 29th, 2018, dethroning Drake's "In My Feelings" after a 10-week run at the top and closing a 34-week streak of rap No. 1s [1]. Billboard called it the first pop song to top the chart since January of that year and Maroon 5's fourth career Hot 100 No. 1 [1]. Parody edits followed the chart peak. On October 8th, YouTuber Alex o posted a bathroom-mirror lip-dub of a father and daughter performing the chorus [5]. On October 19th, Danny Padilla uploaded a MadLibs-style rewrite of the lyrics that passed one million views and 1,800 comments within four months [5]. ## How to Use Creators typically loop the "'cause girls like you" chorus under short lip-dub clips or fill it with new words for MadLibs-style rewrites [5]. Cover versions often stick close to the finger-snap arrangement of the original, while "without music" edits pull the instrumental out to isolate Adam Levine's vocal for comedy [3]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Girls Like You? A 2017 Maroon 5 pop rock song that turned into a viral music-video moment in 2018 after a Cardi B verse and celebrity-packed video pushed it to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 [1]. ### Where did Girls Like You come from? The song first landed on Maroon 5's Red Pill Blues album in November 2017, then broke wider with a Cardi B-featured version and official music video on May 30th, 2018 [4]. ### What does Girls Like You mean? The lyrics describe a partner's specific appeal, and online the chorus is used as backing audio for lip-dub clips and parody rewrites [6]. ### How do you use Girls Like You? Common uses loop the chorus under short lip-dub videos, cover the song acoustically, or rewrite the lyrics MadLibs-style [5]. ### Is Girls Like You still popular? The song hit No. 1 in September 2018 and stayed a radio staple after its chart run, though it fell out of active meme rotation [1]. ## References 1. [https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8476577/maroon-5-girls-like-you-hot-100-number-one-cardi-b]() 2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJOTlE1K90k]() 3. [https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=girls+like+you+cover]() 4. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/girls-like-you]() 5. [https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=girls+like+you+parody]() 6. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Girls%20Like%20You]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/girls-like-you Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library