Songfacts®:

• One of the strangest chart hits of 2026, "Angels Above Me" by MDB is an AI-generated, unauthorized bootleg remix of Stick Figure's 2019 song of the same name. It became a viral European hit without the band's knowledge or consent. Released around May 1, 2026, the track spread rapidly through TikTok edits and YouTube upload channels before climbing iTunes charts across Europe, an outcome that must have felt a bit like waking up to discover someone had borrowed your car, repainted it neon green, and somehow won a rally championship with it.
• The vocals are the AI-processed/manipulated voice of Scott Woodruff taken from Stick Figure's original and fed through an AI remix generation tool. Scott Woodruff is the singer, songwriter, producer, and essentially entire creative engine behind Stick Figure.
• Woodruff and TJ O'Neill wrote Stick Figure's original version of "Angels Above Me." A love-and-longing ballad wrapped in spiritual imagery, Scott Woodruff is separated from the woman he loves, traveling alone on the road, and calling on celestial forces to guide him back to her. The river and road function as metaphors for the journey home, while the ocean represents comfort and belonging.
• MDB's remix transforms that atmosphere almost completely. The bootleg sits broadly in the Melbourne Bounce/electro-house world - all pulsing basslines, festival-ready builds, and rhythmic drops - though a slower atmospheric deep-house variant also circulates online. Both versions preserve Woodruff's vocals, digitally processed and repositioned over glossy electronic production.
• The track first gained traction on TikTok, where an account operating under the handle @mdbhouse seeded short clips that spread rapidly through dance and travel videos. From there it migrated to YouTube bootleg channels and DJ mix pages under titles like "Angels Above Me (MDB Bootleg Remix) Melbourne Bounce Beat." By early May 2026, the song had become so widespread that Stick Figure themselves publicly acknowledged it.
  
  On May 3, 2026, Woodruff posted to social media: "Woke up today to find out an AI-generated remix of our song Angels Above Me is #1 on the iTunes charts (all genres) across much of Europe." The statement made clear the remix had charted entirely without Stick Figure's involvement. It was one of the first major cases of an AI-generated bootleg becoming a mainstream commercial hit before the original artists even knew it existed, a development that probably caused several music lawyers to sit bolt upright in bed at once.
• The identity behind "MDB" is murky. Streaming metadata credits a musician and producer named Dillen Dixon, and the track was formally uploaded through Label Engine, a legitimate music distribution service, suggesting a real person filed the paperwork rather than an entirely automated process. However, no established presence for either "MDB" or "Dillen Dixon" exists within Melbourne Bounce or any recognised electronic scene, and crucially, the original upload failed to credit Woodruff and O'Neill as songwriters at all. Stick Figure confirmed they were working to have all versions taken down that didn't properly credit them. Whether MDB is a calculated pseudonym, a one-off opportunist, or something murkier still, the effect was the same: an anonymous operator repackaged someone else's song, filed the paperwork, and accidentally created an international hit from somebody else's voice.