Scatman John, the stage name of American singer John Larkin, brought scat singing to mainstream pop with his 1994 hit Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop), built around rapid nonsense syllables and a dance beat. The track became a novelty classic and later found a second life online, where short vocal snippets are reused as meme sounds. This tiny I'm Scatman moment survives because it instantly signals playful confidence and retro silliness in just a couple of seconds.