The song of singing green onions. . .
The original name is "Ievan Polkka", which is a polka (Polkka) dance song from Finland and a local Scandinavian ballad. It was written in the 1930s by Eino Kettunen in the traditional polka tune of Eastern Europe. After the a cappella group Loituma made it famous in 1995, the version circulated changed the first letter "I" of the song's title to "L", not only because they looked very similar, but also symbolized Another nickname for this song is "Loituma's Polkka". Among them, Ievan in Finnish is Eva in English (Ieva, Eeva). The version mainly circulated in the market is about 2 minutes and 30 seconds.
Loituma Girl or Leekspin is a Flash animation that embeds an onomatopoeic chant from the traditional Finnish folk song "Eva's Polka", which comes from Finland. Quartet Loituma's 1996 debut album "Beautiful Things". It appeared on the Internet in 2006 and quickly became popular. The animated version consists of five parts. The content is the action of Orihime Inoue throwing onions in the Japanese animation "BLEACH", and intercepts a 27-second loop of music from "Eva's Polka" mentioned above.
The Onion Song animation is excerpted from an episode from the 12th minute to the 14th minute (different versions) of episode 2 of "BLEACH". In the original animation, Inoue Orihime is playing with the other two characters in the animation. When Ichigo Kurosaki was chatting with Rukia Kuchiki, he shook the green onion in his hand counterclockwise. This episode is one in a series of jokes surrounding her character, where she wants to cook dishes with flavors so unique that they are almost inedible. There are also some differences on whether the thing Orihime throws in the anime is a real plant. In the Japanese version of the anime, it is labeled as an onion, but in the American version, it is shown to be a different species of leek, the plant from which the anime is named. The reason for this disagreement may be that the national symbol of Wales is the leek.
This music comes from the second half of the 5th section and the entire 6th section of "Eva's Polka". Unlike the rest of the song, this section has no specific meaning at all. It is just some syllables that sound like Finnish. This section is different in every performance and is completely improvised by the singer on the stage. out (compare onomatopoeic singing in jazz). As a result, these stanzas are often not listed on the sheet music, which can cause problems when finding lyrics that match the music of the anime.
In 1995, in the famous handheld game "Pocket Monsters" produced by Nintendo, the elf No. 83, the Green Onion Duck, used onions as weapons, unintentionally pioneering the practice of throwing onions.
In 2001, in the 31st chapter of Keio Sawai's comic "Nose Hair Shinken", Bobo Baqi used the strongest weapon Baqi's sword, which looks like a green onion.
Loituma
In 1995, the song was included in the first album of the same name "Loituma" released by the Loituma band in Finland. The song was very popular in Finland at the time and entered the radio charts, a rare occurrence for a song adapted from a classical folk song.
In 2006, the Loituma band became popular again with the popularity of "The Onion Song" and released the album "Things Of Beauty" on May 21, 2006, which once again included the 1995 version of "Eva's" Polka". Finnish lyrics and English translations are provided on the album liner notes.
Inoue Orihime
In 2006, the author was unknown. Now it is only believed to be of European origin.
An unknown internet person made a FLASH of Orihime Inoue's onion-throwing action in the second episode of the BLEACH animation with music and forwarded it around the world. Before that, the song was only limited to a few countries such as Finland. It became known in European countries, and after spreading on the Internet, Loituma became popular again.
Timo V?n?nen, a member of the band Loituma, expressed his first impression of the onion song:
For the first time I discovered that there are some What happened was when I was looking at the statistics for my personal website. After looking at the statistics, I realized something strange was going on because the page traffic was incredibly high. And most of the traffic was coming from Russia, and I was trying to find out what was going on, and that's how I found this animation. Also, I don’t know what this animation and this girl are about.
Dolly Baby
In the same year, Holly Dolly covered this song, changing its title to "Dolly Song", and it was included in the album "Dolly Song" on November 17. Pretty Donkey Girl". With the promotion of German ringtone operator Jamba!, "Dolly Song" set off a wave of craze in Europe.
On August 8, 2007, "Pretty Donkey Girl" was released in Japan. The Japanese title of "Dolly Song" is "Dream Seeing るドリー".
In addition, this song is another song after Mark Ah Xi that first became popular on the Internet and then released an album.
Hatsune Miku
In 2007, VOCALOID user otomania recreated the song with Hatsune Miku as the virtual singer and uploaded it to Niconico animation. The arrangement design of this version is very similar to "Dolly Song" ("梦见るドリー"), and the lyrics are also the same.
In September 2007, CRYPTON released a character vocal series based on YAMAHA's VOCALOID speech synthesis software, in which the anime character Hatsune Miku was used as the mascot and sang. One of the first popular videos in this series used the already popular onion-throwing song, and the content was a Q version of Hatsune's onion-throwing action.
The popularity of the Vocaloid version of Eva's Polka has led to the Q version of Hatsune appearing in this video being regarded as an independent character Hatsune Miku, who even has her own Nendoroid character model (produced by GOOD SMILE COMPANY launched).
As of August 2012, its number of views has reached 3.58 million. Audiences reported that it had an "excellent brainwashing effect" and some people even produced a ten-hour version. This song played an important role in making Hatsune Miku recognized by many people. Hatsune Miku's publisher, CRYPTON, believes that the publicity effect of this work has brought in far more than 1 million yen in revenue, and this version has also become the first choice for all second-generation networks. Among the versions, the most widely spread and popular version is used in multiple TV programs, movies (such as Dinner Party) and sports venues.