![]() “In the video I mostly called him ‘Giovanni Caramelldansen,’” Misali said. Misali believes this was most likely done “so that people would more strongly associate ‘Caramelldansen’ with the Caramella Girls, in an attempt to capitalise on a meme that was over a decade old.” Sconfienza is one of two Remixed Records owners who, many years after the Caramella Girls’ debut, used the trio to rebrand “Caramelldansen,” retroactively changing who was credited with the song’s creation and effectively trying to erase Caramell and DJ Speedycake from the song’s complex history. This claim, which Misali’s efforts to explore the song’s true history suggest is categorically false, came courtesy of one Giovanni Sconfienza. The anime trio that appeared in this video was the Caramella Girls, who not only started releasing their own original music in 2010, but also claimed to have written the popular 2006 remix despite not coming together until after its initial release. This became the most popular version of the song yet. Speaking to Kotaku over Twitter DMs, Misali said Remixed Records, the label that owns the rights to “Caramelldansen,” released a new version of the song in around 2008, one that sounds exactly like DJ Speedycake’s popular remix rather than Caramell’s slower original, and created an animated music video based on the popular gif to promote it. Here’s where things start to get a little more complicated, though. The dance became so popular that you might’ve seen or used it as an emote in various video games like Destiny 2 and Roblox. In particular, the gif’s dance, swaying hips and flapping hands to the rhythmically thumping beat, is what’s most commonly connected to the memeified song. A 4chan user known as Sven from Sweden then paired it with a gif of two dancing anime girls from the adult visual novel Popotan, a combination that went viral and further propelled the song’s inescapable meme status. (Speedycake allegedly hit on this version after accidentally remixing the tune at considerably faster than its normal speed.) This version went on to become a massive hit in the mid-to-late aughts. But we’ll get to that in a minute.Īccording to Misali, the version of “Caramelldansen” that achieved internet popularity in the mid-2000s was a sped-up nightcore rendition of Caramell’s original which was uploaded to 4chan by someone named DJ Speedycake in 2006. No, that honour belongs to “Caramelldansen” by the Caramella Girls, an anime trio completely separate from Caramell who today are widely credited as the song’s creators. In fact, many people familiar with the “Caramelldansen” meme have never even heard it. But that’s not the most popular version of the song. It’s this electronic dance tune, one that’s not too far off from the Europop you might hear in an anime like Initial D. In case you weren’t there at the time - and it was a long time ago now - ”Caramelldansen” is the lead single from Caramell’s second and final album Supergott, which was released in November 2001 by Remixed Records. Explaining why requires that we take a brief tour of the song’s complicated history ourselves. Misali’s video was then taken down on December 20 after being hit with multiple copyright strikes from the song’s record label, Remixed Records. On October 25, a YouTuber named jan Misali uploaded a video digging into “Caramelldansen,” originally a Swedish dance-pop song by the group Caramell that exploded into popularity a few years after it was released. Read More: YouTuber Hit With 150 Copyright Claims For Reviews Featuring Anime Footage
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