These terrible Tinder conversations are striking the right note.
Music producer Luke Holloway is taking the awkward and shocking exchanges on the popular dating app and turning them into tunes on Instagram and TikTok.
In his viral videos, he’s belting out the preposterous and painful Tinder prose — mimicking both matches — as a screenshot of the actual convo flashes across the screen.
Holloway, 39, posted his first one — where the man opened with “Do you smoke crack?” — to his page @lewky___ in late August.
“I picked that conversation because the idea that ‘smokes crack’ was on that particular person’s list of things they were looking for in a romantic partner was super funny to me,” he told The Post.
The video got over 2 million views and fans begged him to create more, with comments like, “Never stop making these.”
“So I just kept making them, and then after about a month of posting on Instagram, suddenly, just out of nowhere, I had like 100,000 new followers. It was insane,” he said.
One of the cringiest conversations he set to music, which got more than 4 million views, is based on an exchange where a woman reveals to the man messaging her that he hooked up with both her mother and friend.
“When she provides their names, he replies, “F–k, that’s awkward. So what’s your plans tonight?”
Holloway’s ditties have even gained him celebrity followers like Adrian Grenier, Christina Milian, Melissa McCarthy and Matt Bomer — and he hopes to include famous musicians playing the parts of the Tinder users, like dream collaborations with Ariana Grande and Harry Styles.
He finds the Tinder conversations from places like Reddit and the entertainment website Bored Panda, while his followers simply stuff his inbox with others.
“It’s truly flooded. It takes me hours to get through,” said Holloway, who was on Tinder for two weeks years ago and is now in a relationship.
“Sometimes it’s depressing, I’m not gonna lie. You’re reading just terrible conversations. Some of the people get pretty cruel, so I try to find the ones that are not gonna be huge downers.”
Some messages are simply too X-rated.
“If it’s too overtly sexual, which, I’ve been sent a lot of those, I tend to stay away,” he said.
Holloway looks for conversations that are “genuinely weird without being offensive” — like his most popular song, which garnered 12 million views, that began with the man asking, “Say potato if you’re real.”
The one that sparked the most debate is a tune he crafted from a chat that took a turn when the woman asked, “What do you do for work?”
“Stuff like that is exactly why I don’t do dating apps,” the dejected man replied. “We don’t even know anything about each other and you want the most personal details already.”
“People in the comments have expressed that they don’t like being asked that question either, which has led to debates about whether or not that’s a good or bad question to ask,” said Holloway, who grew up in Indiana, and now lives in Washington, D.C.
“I didn’t see any of that coming. … To me, work is such a non-personal question.”
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