Whenever the music stops and players freeze, the pieces of newspaper are torn in half to a smaller size.

[5] For another version, pairs of players dance around the sheet, which they must step on as the music stops; the newspaper being folded to smaller sizes as the game progresses.

Over 1,500 students at Mansfield State High School in Brisbane, Australia participated in the event.

[7] In the opening credits to the Australian children's animated series Bluey, the characters play a game of musical statues.

[8] The game is also mentioned in the Harry Potter series, where the titular character and his spoiled cousin Dudley Dursley played it at the latter's fifth birthday party in 1985, only for Harry to lose when Dudley's aunt, Marge, beat him in the shins with a cane.