It’s a waist twisting song!
The waist-twisting song is the name in otaku culture for the song "Caramelldansen" that became popular due to the waist-twisting video.
The twisting dance corresponding to the twisting song is also called the "caramel dance", and the people in District 11 also call the twisting dance "? ()".
The hip-twisting song "Caramelldansen" was originally an electronic dance song by the Swedish band Caramell.
Initially, "Caramelldansen" was only popular as a dance song in some European countries and had nothing to do with the otaku field.
The origin of this song’s spread in otaku culture is that a certain otaku in Germany used “Caramelldansen” as the soundtrack and made a MAD to display the animation materials he had collected over the past five years.
This MAD is composed of many short paragraphs, the most eye-catching of which is the character dance (まい) that appears in the OP of the 2002 adult game "Dandelion" (ぽぽたん) that appears at 2:17 A scene with Mi(みい).
Later, a certain otaku in District 11 cut out this section of MAD alone and added a loop to play it, that is, putting his hands on his head, swinging them like cat claws, and twisting his waist at the same time. limbs, with a smiling expression on his face.
In fact, as early as 2003, during the broadcast of the animated version of "Dandelion", someone intercepted the dancing scene of Mai (まい) and Mi (みい) in the opening title and made it into a gif, but it didn't attract much attention at the time. interest.
Since then, various versions and various characters of "waist-twisting songs" have emerged, which have become popular in the ACG cultural circle and the Internet. Onion song.
The most commonly used version of "Caramelldansen" on the Internet is the 1.2x accelerated version, which has a stronger rhythm and is full of radio waves.
After the teeth-brushing meme "Is It Wrong to Seek Encounter in a Dungeon?" appeared, because the tooth-brushing action also has a twisting action, a large number of MAD works also use "Caramelldansen" as the background music .