Songs used in Memes
A children song which featured a dance. Popularized in Southeast Asia.
Song featuring the Ugandan Knuckles meme, a distorted version of Knuckles that references an Ugandan action film, a character from the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. The song's lyrics revolves around the meme character's best known line, "Do you know da wae?"
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Song featured in the "Leekspin" / "Loituma Girl" meme of the mid-2000s.
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Rickroll Memes
A song by Rick Astley often used in bait-in-switch prank (e.g. In online discussion, a participant posts a link supposedly relevant to the discussion thread that leads to a video of "Never Gonna Give You Up"). Those who fell for the prank are said to have been "rickrolled"
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The entrance theme of WWE wrestler John Cena. Featured in "Unexpected John Cena" memes.
A short music video by Japanese comedian Kosaka Daimaoh under the persona Pika Taro. The video was widely circularized in 2016.
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Get Down / Geddan video remix of the mid-2000s which originated from a glitch found in the Nintendo 64 game GoldenEye 007.
The theme song of the Nadeko Snake arc of the Bakemonogatari anime series. Fans of the series or just the song made version of the opening sequence that features different characters from several sources from popular culture.
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"Hello Darkness, My Old Friend" meme, named after the first line of "The Sound of Silence". First gained traction when the song was used as a leitmotif for Gob, a character in the American sitcom Arrested Development during the show's Season 4.
Slam Remixes / "X vs. Quad City DJs"
The song Space Jam is superimposed on another song with the characters/people of the cover art or other relevant image superimposed with the face of Charles Barkley, a reference to the indie game ''Barkley Shut up and Jam Gaiden''.
A catchy song from "Lazy Town" about the series' villain Roby Rotten teaching his clones on how to be a supervillain. Versions of the dance sequence of the song circulated in the internet. The meme was popularized as a fund raising effort for the character's actor, Stefán Karl Stefánsson.
Big Enough-Kirin J Callinan feat. Jimmy Barnes and Molly Lewis
Run Away-SunStroke Project feat. Olia Tira
Axel F-Crazy Frog
Tokyo Drift-Teriyaki Boyz
Running In The 90s
I was going to recommend "Darude - Sandstorm" but...
Anyway, Ievan polkka comes to my mind
What about this one? https://lyricstranslate.com/en/kohmi-hirose-promise-get-down-lyrics.html
How about Let It Grow? I've seen a lot of memes on this one.
Also songs that contain memes?
Then: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/sicktanick-god-dead-suicide-lyrics.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide,_it%27s_a_suicide
Not sure whether you include that kind of memes, though, as it's a literary meme, and afaik not an internet meme.
Yes, I'm limiting the collection's scope to internet memes.
What about Fireflies from Owl City?
These memes are giving me some REALLY bad memories! 😂
What about Let it Go from Frozen?
Or the original English Pokémon theme song?
It seems most recently the song Pink Elephants on Parade from the Disney Dumbo movie has become a meme but I don't personally understand why or how the song is used in a meme.
Another song from Frozen that had became a meme was the song "Do You Wanna Build a Snowman?" Usually it was just the very first part of the song though knocking included.
And I'm not sure who preformed this song but it was pretty popular last year for memes. It was called "Turned Down For What?"
Apparently, the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" is the new "To Be Continued" or the new "We'll Be Right Back" meme. As seen in this video: https://youtu.be/HxySdvKgouE
Personally I think it's the dumbest one yet and is just ruining a classic song but that's just me.
What about this?:
https://lyricstranslate.com/pl/lazy-town-you-are-pirate-lyrics.html
This song used in video with Foxy from Five Nights at Freddy's series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8HowNurRh8
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/Elvis-Crespo-Suavemente-lyrics.html (it's only a meme on a streamers channel called Simpleflips cause people kept spamming it)
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/maximum-hormone-whats-people-lyrics.html-0
Add this one to the fray, it's a quite famous:
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/ochame-kinou-おちゃめ機能-ochame-kinou-おちゃめ機能.h...
I think this and this should deserve a place here.