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Meet the Dad Making Music from Toddler Twaddle
Last edited Thu Apr 30, 2026, 10:59 AM - Edit history (1)
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https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVy0myJEQRv
Stephen Spencer is a college music lecturer, but his side gig is producing songs written by his three-year-old. “Apple The Stoola,” Record of the Year?
By John Kenney
March 2, 2026
On October 16, 2025, Stephen Spencer sent his mother a fifty-three-second video that he had made. It was her birthday. In the video, Spencer, a composer, plays keyboard and guitar and sings in a gorgeous tenor that reaches effortlessly to falsetto. The song relays, word for word, a story by his three-year-old daughter about a girl who won’t stop wiggling.
There was a little woman
Who liked wigglin’ so much.
She liked wigglin’, she just really liked wigglin’.
Her mom said, her mommy said, You can’t . . .
You can’t keep wigglin’, honey, you gotta stop wigglin’. . . .
After sending the video to his mother, Spencer posted it on Instagram, to his thirty-six followers. “Most of them were my mom’s friends,” he said.
Today, about four months and fifteen videos later, Spencer has roughly three hundred thousand followers. In that time, more than thirty million people have streamed his videos, the lyrics of which are written by his daughter. Songs such as “Purple bear princess (she was a grown up dog),” “Apple The Stoola (he was an apple man),” and “I’m an important mermaid.”
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/03/09/meet-the-dad-making-music-from-toddler-twaddle
By John Kenney
March 2, 2026
On October 16, 2025, Stephen Spencer sent his mother a fifty-three-second video that he had made. It was her birthday. In the video, Spencer, a composer, plays keyboard and guitar and sings in a gorgeous tenor that reaches effortlessly to falsetto. The song relays, word for word, a story by his three-year-old daughter about a girl who won’t stop wiggling.
There was a little woman
Who liked wigglin’ so much.
She liked wigglin’, she just really liked wigglin’.
Her mom said, her mommy said, You can’t . . .
You can’t keep wigglin’, honey, you gotta stop wigglin’. . . .
After sending the video to his mother, Spencer posted it on Instagram, to his thirty-six followers. “Most of them were my mom’s friends,” he said.
Today, about four months and fifteen videos later, Spencer has roughly three hundred thousand followers. In that time, more than thirty million people have streamed his videos, the lyrics of which are written by his daughter. Songs such as “Purple bear princess (she was a grown up dog),” “Apple The Stoola (he was an apple man),” and “I’m an important mermaid.”
...
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/03/09/meet-the-dad-making-music-from-toddler-twaddle
Wigglin' Song
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DP4sqJGDVLP/
Interview with The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/feb/16/stephen-spencer-daughter-three-year-old-instagram
Linktree
https://linktr.ee/_stephenspencer
Released two days ago, April 28th, 2026, Straffer the Boy Duck:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXr02wBh5a2/
I hope everyone has a lovely day and we all live happle dever dafter. 😉
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