Kenan Salazar, 23, remakes songs by Steely Dan, the Eagles, and more with nonsensical online slang lyrics. The results are bizarrely catchy Kenan Salazar, 23, says he's just paying tribute to the music he loves Gabe Perez Somewhere in the sleepy suburbs of Philadelphia, a 23-year-old jokester is committed to a bit that will either make you laugh, get you to sing along, utterly baffle you, or all three. has found his calling in creating pitch-perfect covers of classic rock songs that sub in nonsensical Gen-Alpha slang for the original lyrics, cracking up his 12,000-plus (and growing) on the daily.
He’s made lots of fans — and maybe even a few enemies, if you count the algorithmic takedown notice he got after posting a mind-melting take on the ’ 1972 hit “Take It Easy,” hijacking the original backing track to lilt “Skibidiiiiii ” in sun-dappled, four–part harmony. Granted, Don Henley didn’t cease-and-desist Salazar personally. Chances are he doesn’t know his name.
Either way, that clip got taken down from Instagram in several territories just as it was taking off. “As far as I know, it was blocked in Australia and the United Kingdom,” the singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer tells outside a bookshop-café in Blackwood, New Jersey, near where he lives with his parents and sisters in Deptford Township (A spokesperson for the Eagles says, “The Eagles were unaware of the post until contacted by and did not issue a takedown.”) None of that’s liab.