Caramelldansen

"Caramelldansen" (also known as "LOL Song" on ) is an original song written and composed by Caramell, originally released for the Supergott album. It is also a meme and a frequently ripped track on the SiIvaGunner channel.
==Overview==
===History===
On November 16, 2001, the album Supergott was released by the now split-up band Caramell, containing 13 songs. One of them being "Caramelldansen", in which is listed as the first song from the album. After the album's release, a nightcore remix of the song was made by DJ Speedycake and released on 4chan in late 2005.
After the song releases, the song was associated with a certain GIF animation of two girls dancing, while the said song plays in the background. The animation originates from an adult visual novel anime, called Popotan, and the origin of the GIF in question comes from a now defunct website titled "ANIME LOL!"."ANIME LOL!" on Wayback Machine. The Flash animation from the aforementioned site was uploaded to YouTube as "Caramelldansen / U-U-U-Aua Dance""Caramelldansen / U-U-U-Aua Dance" on YouTube. by Nibbles13, which is the earliest surviving upload of the original.
===Spread===
The same video in question was later reuploaded to Nico Nico. It became a popular video and a meme on the platform and Japan as a whole, due to the specific comments related to the video, that being soramimi (also known as mondegreen). Due to the platform showing the comments over the playing videos, the viewers were commenting misheard lyrics of the song and later would become associated with it, especially the lines "U-u-uma uma" (ウッーウッーウマウマ(゜∀゜)) and "barusamiko-su" (バルサミコ酢, translating to "balsamic vinegar"), with the first one being the Japanese name for the Caramelldansen meme.
After the videos popularization, it became a notable meme and went viral in mid-2000s, more specifically, in 2008, resulting in animations tracing over the original GIF to feature characters from various media, usually anime. Alongside the animations, people would dance and sing the song in varies places, mimicking moves from the GIF. This also led to spread on the internet and worldwide, especially on YouTube.
===After the spread===
Later, an "official" music video for the remix was made, alongside releasing a Japanese website and an album created by Exit Tunes on April 1st, 2008. The EP had additional 6 variations of the song.Discorgs page about "キャラメル* – ウッーウッーウマウマ(゜∀゜)". Around the same time, Remixed Records, the copyright holder for Caramelldansen, would later release another album, titles "Caramell – Caramelldansen (Speedy Mixes)", followed by yet another "official" music video on their YouTube channel, that being "Caramella Girls - Caramelldansen Swedish Original (Official)" (originally titled "Caramelldansen Swedish Original"The original video music on Wayback Machine.) on May 19, 2008. This marked the first appearance of the trio of characters associated with the nightcore version, named Caramella Girls.
The original clip was referenced in the show Phineas and Ferb, in the episode "J-Pop (Welcome to Tokyo)". Around 2019 to 2020, the nightcore version would suddenly become popular again, thanks to the "Caramelldansen Lights" meme, in which someone is recording an apartment window from the outside, meanwhile on the inside, a party is going on, with Caramelldansen playing at loud volume and colorful strobe lights are rapidly changing colors.
==Rips==
On the SiIvaGunner channel, the song was first featured as a joke in "Stage Theme 1 - Spelunker" on May 26, 2016, and later having the song itself being ripped in August 26, 2016, that being "Caramelldansen (Short Version) - Caramellagirls", through the game Caramellagirls, which is a rhythm game about the group and featuring their songs, released on the iOS App Store, some time in 2010. The game is currently considered lost media. Since the initial rip, the channel has made rips featuring the song. A remixed version of Caramelldansen was made for the King for Another Day event, titled "Caramelldansen - SiIvaGunner: King for Another Day" on December 15, 2019, created for the character Nico Nico.
On November 17, 2022, the "Caramelldansen Fusion Collab" was uploaded, which is a taking inspiration from the song and the dance associated with it.
==Lyrics==
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Swedish (Original)=
Vi undrar är ni redo att vara med
Armarna upp nu ska ni få se
Kom igen
Vem som helst kan vara med (vara med)
Så rör på era fötter
Oa-a-a
Och vicka era höfter
O-la-la-la
Gör som vi
Till denna melodi
Oa-oa-a
Dansa med oss
Klappa era händer
Gör som vi gör
Ta några steg åt vänster
Lyssna och lär
Missa inte chansen
Nu är vi här med
Caramelldansen
Oo-oo-oa-oa
Oo-oo-oa-oa-a
Oo-oo-oa-oa
Oo-oo-oa-oa-a
Det blir en sensation överallt förstås
På fester kommer alla att släppa loss
Kom igen
Nu tar vi stegen om igen
Oa-oa-a
Så rör på era fötter
Oa-a-a
Och vicka era höfter
O-la-la-la
Gör som vi
Till denna melodi
Så kom och
Dansa med oss
Klappa era händer
Gör som vi gör
Ta några steg åt vänster
Lyssna och lär
Missa inte chansen
Nu är vi här med
Caramelldansen
Dansa med oss
Klappa era händer
Gör som vi gör
Ta några steg åt vänster
Lyssna och lär
Missa inte chansen
Nu är vi här med
Caramelldansen
Oo-oo-oa-oa
Oo-oo-oa-oa-a
Oo-oo-oa-oa
Oo-oo-oa-oa-a
Så kom och
Dansa med oss
Klappa era händer
Gör som vi gör
Ta några steg åt vänster
Lyssna och lär
Missa inte chansen
Nu är vi här med
Caramelldansen
Dansa med oss
Klappa era händer
Gör som vi gör
Ta några steg åt vänster
Lyssna och lär
Missa inte chansen
Nu är vi här med
Caramelldansen
|-|English=
Doo doo, yeah yeah yeah
Women, are you ready to join us now?
Hands in the air, we will show you how
Come and try
Caramell will be your guide (be your guide)
So come and move your hips sing
Oa-ah-ah
Look at YouTube clips, do it
La-la-la
You and me, can sing this melody
Owah-owah-ah-oh
Dance to the beat, wave your hands together
Come feel the heat, forever and forever
Listen and learn, it is time for prancing
Now we are here with caramelldansen
O-o-owah-owah
O-o-owah-owah-ah
From Sweden to UK, we will bring our song
Australia, USA and you people in Hing Kong
They have heard
This meaning all around the world
So come and dance to the beat, wave your hands together
Come feel the heat, forever and forever
Listen and learn, it is time for prancing
Now we are here with caramelldansen
Dance to the beat, wave your hands together
Come feel the heat, forever and forever
Listen and learn, it is time for prancing
Now we are here with caramelldansen
O-o-owah-owah
O-o-owah-owah-ah
So come and dance to the beat, wave your hands together
Come feel the heat, forever and forever
Listen and learn, it is time for prancing
Now we are here with caramelldansen
Dance to the beat, wave your hands together
Come feel the heat, forever and forever
Listen and learn, it is time for prancing
Now we are here with caramelldansen|-|Japan (Kanji) (misheard)=
オナラでリードをトラップ
肺の中 ソースは日本人
コミケ～
目を覚ませフォロミ (フォロミ)
ちょレコード屋さんで ワッハッハ
取りかえなヘルプをラララ～
要すに 自然なメロディ
ウマ ウマ ああ
バルサミコ酢 やっぱ要らへんで
幼女に乗れた 仁王立ちの先生
滅相もないミサイル本戦
滅多に逢えぬ キャラメル探偵
ｳｯｰｳｯｰｳﾏｳﾏ (ﾟ∀ﾟ)
ｳｯｰｳｯｰｳﾏｳﾏ (ﾟ∀ﾟ) ああ
ｳｯｰｳｯｰｳﾏｳﾏ (ﾟ∀ﾟ)
ｳｯｰｳｯｰｳﾏｳﾏ (ﾟ∀ﾟ) ああ
金融車で東名は楽勝
吸い込めながら 引っ張るの
コミケ～
少女見て 飲みてえ (ウマ ウマ ああ)
ちょレコード屋さんで ワッハッハ
取りかえなヘルプをラララ～
要すに 自然なメロディ
そこを
バルサミコ酢 やっぱ要らへんで
幼女に乗れた 仁王立ちの先生
滅相もないミサイル本戦
滅多に逢えぬ キャラメル探偵
バルサミコ酢 やっぱ要らへんで
幼女に乗れた 仁王立ちの先生
滅相もないミサイル本戦
滅多に逢えぬ キャラメル探偵
ｳｯｰｳｯｰｳﾏｳﾏ (ﾟ∀ﾟ)
ｳｯｰｳｯｰｳﾏｳﾏ (ﾟ∀ﾟ) ああ
ｳｯｰｳｯｰｳﾏｳﾏ (ﾟ∀ﾟ)
ｳｯｰｳｯｰｳﾏｳﾏ (ﾟ∀ﾟ) ああ
そこを
バルサミコ酢 やっぱ要らへんで
幼女に乗れた 仁王立ちの先生
滅相もないミサイル本戦
滅多に逢えぬ キャラメル探偵
バルサミコ酢 やっぱ要らへんで
幼女に乗れた 仁王立ちの先生
滅相もないミサイル本戦
滅多に逢えぬ キャラメル探偵
|-|Japan (Romaji) (misheard)=
Onara de rido o torappu
Hai no naka sosu wa Nihonjin
Komike~
Me o samase foromi (foromi)
Cho rekodo-ya-san de Wahaha
Torikaena herupu o lalala~
Yosu ni, shizen'na merodi
Uma Uma aa
Barusamiko-su, yappa irahen de
Yojo ni noreta niodachi no sensei
Messo mo nai, misairu honsen
Metta ni aenu Kyarameru tantei
Uu-Uu-Uma-Uma (ﾟ∀ﾟ)
Uu-Uu-Uma-Uma (ﾟ∀ﾟ) Aa
Uu-Uu-Uma-Uma (ﾟ∀ﾟ)
Uu-Uu-Uma-Uma (ﾟ∀ﾟ) Aa
Kin'yu-sha de Tomei wa rakusho
Suikomenagara hipparu no
Komike~
Shojo mite nomite (Uma Uma aa)
Cho rekodo-ya-san de Wahaha
Torikaena herupu o lalala~
Yosu ni, shizen'na merodi
Soko wo
Barusamiko-su, yappa irahen de
Yojo ni noreta niodachi no sensei
Messo mo nai, misairu honsen
Metta ni aenu Kyarameru tantei
Barusamiko-su, yappa irahen de
Yojo ni noreta niodachi no sensei
Messo mo nai, misairu honsen
Metta ni aenu Kyarameru tantei
Uu-Uu-Uma-Uma (ﾟ∀ﾟ)
Uu-Uu-Uma-Uma (ﾟ∀ﾟ) Aa
Uu-Uu-Uma-Uma (ﾟ∀ﾟ)
Uu-Uu-Uma-Uma (ﾟ∀ﾟ) Aa
Soko wo
Barusamiko-su, yappa irahen de
Yojo ni noreta niodachi no sensei
Messo mo nai, misairu honsen
Metta ni aenu Kyarameru tantei
Barusamiko-su, yappa irahen de
Yojo ni noreta niodachi no sensei
Messo mo nai, misairu honsen
Metta ni aenu Kyarameru tantei
</tabber>
==External links==
* "Caramelldansen" - Wikipedia article.
* "Caramelldansen" and "Caramelldansen Lights" on KnowYourMeme.
* "who wrote Caramelldansen?" - A more in-depth explanation about the meme's origin made by jan Misali.
* "Rips featuring Caramelldansen - YouTube playlist by Aidan Zamboni.
==References==
Category:Memes
Category:Frequently ripped tracks