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Thomas Jefferson high schooler goes viral for shredding "Thunderstruck" on marching band's marimba

Jason Reed
Reporter · Thursday, November 5, 2026 at 11:59 PM · 1 min read
Thomas Jefferson high schooler goes viral for shredding "Thunderstruck" on marching band's marimba — State College Technology news

A Thomas Jefferson High School student has gone viral for rocking out on a marimba to the marching band's rendition of "Thunderstruck." Millions of people are impressed with the way Layla Clark is tearing up the keys playing AC/DC's "Thunderstruck," going viral after a video of her was posted by a user on the social media app X.A year ago, Layla Clark's mom took a video of her playing the marimba, which is like a xylophone with wooden keys, throughout the band's rendition of "Thunderstruck" by AC/DC. It got millions of views on TikTok, and now she's going viral all over again. A social media user on X wrote that he told his phone to play him something happy every morning, and when it played Clark's video, he wrote "A+" and reposted it. Countless other people, including some celebrities, have reposted the video as well, marveling over the way Clark shreds the keys. "Yes, it was so hard," she said. "It took me forever to actually get it down. And I'm not gonna lie, I still don't have it

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