The world is standing still right now, but music might just be moving faster than ever before. October 14, 2020. Rising TikToker Jeris Johnson throws a 43-second DIY clip of himself reworking Papa Roach classic Last Resort up on the bitesize video-sharing platform with the flippant lowercase caption “could u imagine if i got a real papa roach feature on this”. Roughly 1 million subscribers, 2.1 million views and three months later, a full Papa Roach x Jeris Johnson version – imaginatively titled Last Resort (Reloaded) – has dropped as the cornerstone of Jeris’ My Sword EP, complete with high-production music video, and even its own merch line. “When TikTok first came out, it was like ‘What the fuck is this new platform?’” Papa Roach frontman J...
