{"id":1146,"date":"2025-05-23T19:49:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T18:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/illuminatedmag.co.uk\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2025-06-02T16:41:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T15:41:00","slug":"playing-the-part-viral-how-i-met-your-mother-song-the-actor-explores-modern-dating-and-being-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jusmedia.co.uk\/illuminatedmag\/2025\/05\/23\/playing-the-part-viral-how-i-met-your-mother-song-the-actor-explores-modern-dating-and-being-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing the Part: Viral How I Met Your Mother song \u2018The Actor\u2019 explores modern dating and being yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted has-small-font-size\"><em>Image from How I Met Your Mother, CBS<\/em><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How Jason Kimmel\u2019s viral hit \u2018The Actor\u2019 has us talking about modern dating, positive male role models and just what is \u201cThat Ted Moseby feeling\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the 8th of January Jason Kimmel uploaded a TikTok video. In it, he\u2019s sat at his piano in his New York apartment, softly playing the keys, he looks straight at the camera and sings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>And she told me I remind her of Ted Moseby.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>I said \u201cHonestly I&#8217;m flattered.\u201d She said \u201cDon\u2019t be.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>I said \u201cReally no I\u2019m flattered, Ted\u2019s annoying but I like Josh Radnor.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>She said \u201cWho?\u201d I said, \u201cThe actor.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Catchy lyrics, playful melody and relatable subject matter with a whopping pop culture reference bow on top. The song reached 3.5 Million views on the original sound, which was then used in over 4000 videos by other creators, also getting views and likes in the millions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-tiktok wp-block-embed-tiktok\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@jasondrewkimmel\/video\/7457541207183461662\" data-video-id=\"7457541207183461662\" data-embed-from=\"oembed\" style=\"max-width:605px; min-width:325px;\"> <section> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@jasondrewkimmel\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@jasondrewkimmel?refer=embed\">@jasondrewkimmel<\/a> <p>The bar was called Puzzles <a title=\"howimetyourmother\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/howimetyourmother?refer=embed\">#howimetyourmother<\/a> <a title=\"tedmosby\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/tedmosby?refer=embed\">#tedmosby<\/a> <a title=\"barneystinson\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/barneystinson?refer=embed\">#barneystinson<\/a> <a title=\"songwriter\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/songwriter?refer=embed\">#songwriter<\/a> <a title=\"originalmusic\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/originalmusic?refer=embed\">#originalmusic<\/a> <a title=\"benfolds\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/benfolds?refer=embed\">#benfolds<\/a> <a title=\"benplatt\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/benplatt?refer=embed\">#benplatt<\/a> <a title=\"boburnham\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/boburnham?refer=embed\">#boburnham<\/a> <a title=\"jasonrobertbrown\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/jasonrobertbrown?refer=embed\">#jasonrobertbrown<\/a> <a title=\"musicaltheatre\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/musicaltheatre?refer=embed\">#musicaltheatre<\/a> <\/p> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound - Jason\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-7457541049829935903?refer=embed\">\u266c original sound &#8211; Jason<\/a> <\/section> <\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We spoke to Jason about the song, which soon became known as \u2018<em>The Actor<\/em>\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was 100% a real person, real conversation!\u201d he smiles, clearly used to answering this question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe musical theatre kid in me just wanted to capture that moment\u2026 the comedy of it, but also how relatable that is. To find someone just completely on another planet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Delivering the final line \u201cThe actor\u201d as if it was the most obvious thing in the world, played heavily as punchline for many of the creators using the song in their videos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe all have our bubbles right?\u201d Jason continues, \u201cThings I\u2019m interested in are so important in my head, and that&#8217;s backed up by the content on my feed. In that world, everyone is talking about the things I\u2019m interested in.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut that falls apart as soon as you talk to someone in the real world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what is it about How I Met Your Mother that has fans so emotionally invested?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u2018New York sitcom\u2019 is a well established seat in the Television royal family. Household names like Friends ruled for ten seasons, and before that the mighty Seinfeld held the throne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat late 90s, early 2000s era is often thought of as the golden age of sitcoms. People would rush home to watch Friends and you had to watch Sex and the City so you could talk about it at work the next day.\u201d Says Professor Lincoln Geraghty, American Pop Culture expert and Author of <em>Cult Collectors: Nostalgia, Fandom and Collecting Popular Culture.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friends and Sex and the City both ended in 2004 and for the first time in decades, the throne was empty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How I Met Your Mother premiered the following year and took the throne as THE New York sitcom, until its finale in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs soon as you notice something has run for nine seasons, it\u2019s pretty guaranteed to have an impact.\u201d Says Geraghty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNine seasons means every year, it was popular enough that it was worth making, with the actors getting more and more popular, needing higher salaries and so on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHow I Met Your Mother was a phenomenon. Not only for its longevity but the reach that it had. Barney\u2019s \u2018Legendary\u2019 became common speech. Still in online culture, the frequency of shared images from HIMYM is well above other similar shows.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, there are some aspects of the show that have aged poorly. Specifically the actions of Barney Stinson, played by Neil Patrick Harris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barney is a womanizer, a con-man and in a few instances, borderline abusive in his treatment of women. He most frequently plays the devil on Ted\u2019s shoulder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In contrast to Barney, Ted is far less set in his ways. He makes mistakes, he\u2019s hypocritical and often learns lessons the hard way. He\u2019s emotional and earnest, which often leaves him isolated, just like Jason\u2019s character in \u201cThe Actor\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI always related to Ted.\u201d Jason says, \u201cBut for that moment in the song, I\u2019m kind of censoring myself. I know Ted isn\u2019t cool to some stranger in a bar\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That self-censorship is an all too familiar feeling when getting to know someone for the first time. We can be defined by the things we\u2019re passionate about. These characters we laugh, cry and grow with can be so important, and Jason agrees:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI stand by that fully, I don\u2019t think I could be with someone that doesn\u2019t know that Josh Radnor played Ted Moseby.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe show was huge for me\u2026 Like are you living under a rock? Or you just don\u2019t care? As an actor myself, it\u2019s just so disrespectful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe message was always more introspective than that one verse about Ted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s self-doubt, a kind of unmotivated frustration. It\u2019s nostalgia for an older version of myself, but an unwavering optimism. It\u2019s that Ted Moseby feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The format of How I Met Your Mother is \u2018future\u2019 Ted looking back on himself with the wisdom to understand his mistakes, teaching his kids to be better. This portrayal of masculinity is so important for our modern society. For that we can thank Ted Moseby, and for Ted we thank Josh Radnor, <em>The Actor<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more stories on People click here: <a href=\"https:\/\/illuminatedmag.co.uk\/people\/\">https:\/\/illuminatedmag.co.uk\/people\/<\/a>&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Jason Kimmel\u2019s viral hit \u2018The Actor\u2019 has us talking about modern dating, positive male role models and just what is \u201cThat Ted Moseby feeling\u201d?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[171,41,172,84,114],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-how-i-met-your-mother","tag-music","tag-people","tag-tv","tag-viral"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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