We caught up with TikTok star Nathan Apodaca, who rode to fame on a skateboard singing Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams" and garnering more than 50 million views. Not many social media stars have reach the kind of visibility did Apodaca did after he rode his skateboard and created the video of himself skateboarding along a highway in Idaho Falls, Idaho, while drinking Ocean Spray cran-raspberry juice and lip syncing to "Dreams."
Five Things You Need to Know:
- Apodaca's video went viral, garnering over 50 million views around the world.
- Fleetwood Mac's hit song "Dreams" skyrocketed in popularity, reappearing on many worldwide music charts, including climbing to number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 single charts.
- Mick Fleetwood, Lindsay Buckingham, and Stevie Nicks released responses to Apodaca's video on TikTok, with Nicks donning a pair of roller skates while performing the song.
- Apodaca said he has spokes to Mick Fleetwood and says "we keep pitching about it and him wanting to do something but the way everything is right now, we are just waiting for the timing. Hopefully we can get something going but it’s just been me and him talking on TikTok. Oh hopefully, when this pandemic goes away we could, I said, yea that would be awesome."
- Apodaca just got engaged to his girlfriend Estela Chavez in Las Vegas. As of now he hasn't quit his day gig in a potato factory saying, " I have no problem going back to the warehouse and figuring out the rest of those buttons on the machine to work the whole side of the warehouse, cause I know the warehouse, I’ll basically go back and do me again."