Texas native’s career thrives months after viral TikTok song ‘Beer Beer, Truck Truck’

AUSTIN, Texas – The powerfulness of societal media tin beryllium life-changing, and nary 1 knows that much than Austin-native George Birge.

He turned a TikTok effect video into a top-charting song, yet launching his vocation arsenic a state artist.

The deed opus began its viral travel connected June 18, 2021. That was the time that changed Birge’s beingness forever.

But, let’s rapidly backtrack.

The state creator had a calling for euphony beauteous overmuch his full beingness portion increasing up successful Austin.

“I’ve been playing Sixth Street since I was 14-years-old with SX {guitar} connected my hand,” Birge said. “Being successful the unrecorded euphony superior of the world, it’s a beauteous peculiar spot to turn up conscionable due to the fact that there’s euphony everywhere.”

Music is thing helium couldn’t get distant from.

“I effort to spell to assemblage and get a table occupation and bash the close thing,” Birge said. “But I conscionable was ever obsessed with penning and singing state music. I unrecorded for it.”

But erstwhile the clip is right... the clip is right.

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So let’s leap ahead.

The inspiration for the opus “Beer Beer, Truck Truck” came from Erynn Chambers, a societal media influencer and TikToker.

She posted a gag video astir state songs connected TikTok, yet giving the melody for the song.

Birge responded and their fates aligned.

“It feels beauteous astonishing conscionable to spot however the net tin benignant of travel unneurotic similar that,” Chambers said. “It’s been an wholly affirmative acquisition successful presumption of similar each of my interactions with George person been large and helium was ever precise upfront astir giving maine credit.”

“I deliberation that determination was conscionable a batch for radical to link to that song,” Birge said. “As a songwriter, I felt ace flattered to beryllium getting each these comments of radical telling maine however they enactment the communicative into their ain lives.”

Now let’s skip to what has followed aft the song’s release.

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Birge made a impermanent quality connected The Bobby Bones Country Radio Show successful precocious June.

He was connected NPR’s “All Things Considered” successful August.

Featured connected a opus alongside Rapper Nelly successful August.

He besides appeared connected the tours of artists similar Jake Owen and Brantley Gilbert.

And, helium co-wrote songs connected Clay Walker’s latest medium “Texas to Tennessee,” which released successful July.

In fact, Walker really was the 1 to person Birge to articulation TikTok.

“George is the existent deal,” Walker said. “He’s an unthinkable vocalist and songwriter -- the implicit package.”

“It is nary exaggeration to accidental that the opus has been wholly life-changing for me,” Birge said.

Fast forwarding to now, astir six months later.

“Mind connected you” is his newest single, and it’s disposable present connected immoderate streaming platform.

He’s finishing up connected tour and putting the last touches connected his EP, which is expected to travel retired adjacent year.

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“Beer Beer, Truck Truck” has surpassed 10-million streams.

Birge hopes this TikTok opus sensation is the commencement to a long-lasting career.

“Country euphony is my passion,” Birge said. “It’s what I emotion to do. And truthful arsenic acold arsenic I tin instrumentality it, that’s however acold I privation to go.”

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