Caramelldansen
| "Caramelldansen" | ||||||
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| Song by Caramell from the album Supergott | ||||||
| Released | June 1, 2001 | |||||
| Recorded | December 29, 2000 - January 26. 2001; Unique Recording Studios (New York City, New York, U.S.) |
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| Genre | Dance pop, Eurodance | |||||
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| Label | Remixed Records | |||||
| Writer(s) | Jorge "Vasco" Vasconcelo and Juha "Millboy" Myllylä | |||||
| Language | Swedish | |||||
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"Caramelldansen" (Swedish for "The Caramel Dance") is the first track and the second single off of their second & final album Supergott released on June 1, 2001. by the Swedish music group Caramell.
The meme started as a fifteen frame Flash animation loop showing Mai and Mii, characters of the Japanese visual novel Popotan, doing a hip swing dance with their hands over their heads to imitate rabbit ears, and the chorus of the sped up version of the song "Caramelldansen" sung by Malin Sundström and Katia Löfgren from Swedish music group Caramell.
Popotan first appeared as a Japanese PC game on December 12, 2002. After the anime was aired from July 17 to October 2, 2003, short GIF animations clips were created from the opening of the game and posted on the internet. It was not long before parts from the introduction of the PC game were captured too. Caramelldansen is also known as the "Uma uma dance" (ウマウマダンス?) in Japan.
As the Caramelldansen video gained popularity, it became a meme. Artists and fans started to copy the animation and include other characters performing the dance. Its boom began at the end of 2007 in Japan (known as the "Uma uma Boom") where an explosion of different Caramelldansen iterations appeared in the Japanese video-sharing site Nico Nico Douga. The meme soon after spread to YouTube and became a global phenomenon. By 2008, one critic derided YouTube as a chasm filled with "endless versions of 'Caramelldansen'."
The meme is not limited to the small Flash animation loops. 3D animation shorts have been released performing the dance, and live action videos made by fans. Caramelldansen is known in Japan as "Uma uma dance" (ウマウマダンス), because the chorus's lyrics "u-u-ua-ua" were misheard as ウッーウッーウマウマ ("u- u- umauma"; "uma" has been interpreted as "yummy", "nice" (うまい umai?, slurred: umē (うめぇ?) or "horse" (馬 uma?) in Japanese). The Japanese title is sometimes written with the symbol (ﾟ∀ﾟ) added to the end. Also, Japanese listeners have interpreted the lyrics, "Dansa med oss, klappa era händer" ("Dance with us, clap your hands"), as "Barusamiko-su Yappa irahen de" ("(I) don't want any Balsamic vinegar after all" in the Kansai dialect). Thus, the song has a different interpretation in Japan than in Sweden.
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