Baracksdubs

Baracksdubs is a popular YouTube channel and series that uses Barack Obama speeches to create cover songs, generally of popular songs. The channel was created by Fadi Saleh as a then-freshman student of the University of Tennessee.^[1][2] The channel was a Maker Studios partner from 2012 to 2015.^[3][4] Afterwards, Saleh formed his own company, Spare Time Entertainment.^[5]

Baracksdubs
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Created by	Fadi Saleh
Years active	2012–2019
Genre	Comedy
Subscribers	1.48 million
Views	309.7 million
Network	Maker Studios (2012–2015) Spare Time Entertainment (2015–2019)
Last updated: October 5, 2024

Episodes

Song	Artist	Released	Ref
"Drink To That"	Rihanna	January 4, 2012	[1][2]
"Born This Way"	Lady Gaga	January 10, 2012	[6][7][8]
"Sexy and I Know It"	LMFAO	March 26, 2012	[1]
"Call Me Maybe"	Carly Rae Jepsen	June 4, 2012	[9][10]
"Boyfriend"	Justin Bieber	June 24, 2012	[11]
"What Makes You Beautiful"	One Direction	July 20, 2012	[12]
"Hot n Cold" (sung by both Obama and Mitt Romney)	Katy Perry	October 15, 2012	[13]
"U Can't Touch This"	MC Hammer	November 6, 2012	[14]
"Deck The Halls"	Traditional	December 19, 2012	[15]
'SexyBack"	Justin Timberlake	January 21, 2013	[16]
"Pokémon Theme"	Jason Paige	February 4, 2013	[17]
"Get Lucky"	Daft Punk	June 24, 2013	[18]
"All Gold Everything"	Trinidad James	July 15, 2013
"Blurred Lines" (sung only by Bill Clinton)	Robin Thicke	July 23, 2013	[19][20]
"Made in the USA"	Demi Lovato	August 13, 2013	[21][22]
"Best Song Ever" (sung only by co-anchors on the Today Show)	One Direction	August 23, 2013
"It's All Good" (sung by both Obama and his wife Michelle)	Ne-Yo	October 9, 2013
"Jingle Bells"	Traditional	December 9, 2013	[23]
"Do What U Want"	Lady Gaga	January 9, 2014	[24]
"Timber" (sung by both Obama and Hillary Clinton)	Pitbull	April 15, 2014	[25]
"Birthday" (sung only by Ellen DeGeneres)	Katy Perry	June 10, 2014	[26]
"Fancy"	Iggy Azalea	August 5, 2014	[27][28]
"Problem"	Ariana Grande	August 19, 2014	[29][30]
"Uptown Funk"	Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars	January 27, 2015	[31]
"Shake it Off"	Taylor Swift	February 9, 2015	[32]
"Anaconda" (sung only by the characters of SpongeBob SquarePants)	Nicki Minaj	May 18, 2015
"Can't Feel My Face"	The Weeknd	September 7, 2015	[33][34]
"Thriller"	Michael Jackson	October 28, 2015	[35]
"Hotline Bling"	Drake	December 14, 2015	[36]
"Jumpman"	Drake	January 5, 2016	[37]
"Sorry"	Justin Bieber	January 25, 2016	[38][39]
"Panda"	Desiigner	April 26, 2016	[40]
"No"	Meghan Trainor	May 3, 2016	[41]
"All I Do Is Win" (sung only by Donald Trump)	DJ Khaled	May 23, 2016	[42]
"Work"	Rihanna	May 30, 2016	[43]
"Power" (sung only by Bernie Sanders)	Kanye West	June 6, 2016	[44]
"One Dance"	Drake	June 27, 2016	[45]
"FDT"	YG	July 26, 2016	[46]
"Cut It"	O.T. Genasis	August 9, 2016
"Can't Stop the Feeling!"	Justin Timberlake	September 3, 2016	[47]
"Stressed Out"	Twenty One Pilots	November 30, 2016	[48]
"All I Want for Christmas Is You"	Mariah Carey	December 22, 2016	[49][50]
"Let Me Love You"	DJ Snake	December 26, 2016	[51]
"Starboy"	The Weeknd	January 11, 2017	[52]
"Alright"	Kendrick Lamar	January 17, 2017	[53]
"Happy Birthday to You"	Traditional	January 23, 2017
"Missing you"	Erik Hassle	January 30, 2017
"Respect"	Aretha Franklin	August 18, 2018
"Money" (sung only by Bernie Sanders)	Cardi B	August 21, 2019
"Woah"	Krypto9095	November 27, 2019

Media coverage

The videos have been featured on Huffington Post,^[12][14][54] Gawker,^[9] Rolling Stone,^[10] Yahoo!,^[11] Mashable,^[55] and several other online news publications.^[1][13][56]