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Liz Scarlett

Why is Slipknot's Custer so big on TikTok? Dancing cats, 'girly pop' and...erm...the Macarena

Various TikTokers dancing to Custer

Back in 2014, Slipknot entered a new era with the release of their fifth studio album, 5: The Gray Chapter. While the record is solid and was certainly received positively at the time, it'll unlikely be topping many fans' rankings of Slipknot's back catalogue in the cold light of day - which makes it all the more surprising that one of the album's later singles, Custer, has become one of their most popular songs of all time.

In fact, on Spotify, it hails a mammoth 126,788,783 streams, putting it in the same league as classics such as People = Shit and Spit It Out. 

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