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If you’re on TikTok, you’ve definitely heard Audrey Mika’s song “Y U Gotta Be Like That,” it’s been used in more than 793K videos on the platform and catapulted Mika into stardom. The 19-year-old started uploading songs on Soundcloud, Distrokid and amassed nearly 60 million views and 1.2 million YouTube subscribers in under a year when she started uploading cover songs.