Stereo Hearts was released in 2011 by American band Gym Class Heroes, featuring Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine, and its chorus became one of the most recognisable pop hooks of the early 2010s. Years later editors began making slowed and reverbed versions for social media, and the in da grave treatment pushed that idea further by making the track sound buried and distant. The edit now circulates in meme videos and short edits where a romantic moment is played for loss, rejection or dark comedy instead of celebration.