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[[Kanye West (Music)/Memes|Kanye West has his own section of memes]].

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeZZr_p6vB8 ITS GETTIN' HOT IN HERRREE]

** And for that matter, ANY "Crank That" parody, especially "Kosha Boy", ''Crank Dat [[Haruhi Suzumiya (Light Novel)|Brigade]] and "Crank Dat Spiderman".

** Another bizarre, rambling anime song: "Anime", consisting of lyrics like "[[CowboyMedia BebopResearch At His ComputerFailure|Lookin' like]] [[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]" has given us "Anime, Annie-May, I'd fuck dat bitch, any day".

* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuaQro8BZVI Rickroll], which can result in either hilarity or infuriation depending on who you do it to.

** In ''[[Family Guy (Animation)|Family Guy]]'', Brian performs this on-stage in front of a crowd during his time travels with Peter after he fixes the past to preserve his marriage with Lois. However, not really a true Rickroll, as it was probably meant to be played.

** This troper was always surprised how much the song [[The Jimmy Hart Version|resembled the theme music]] for a [[Chrono Trigger (Video Game)|certain time-travelling robo-buddy]]. Apparently [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ20N6syuwc someone else made a similar connection].

** [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: theThe Abridged Series|LittleKuriboh]] got married. At the reception, they were expecting [[Nickelback]]'s "Far Away". [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93BXFx2PeZM What they got was...]

*** And has got it.

** Even ''[[Chicken Little (Disney)|Chicken Little]]'' uses [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUEkrwYs_M0 this].

** When you combine "[[Crowning Music of Awesome|Dragostea Din Tei]]" with [[Everything's Better Withwith Dinosaurs]], you get [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lcpWqMa0-U this].

* [[Friday (Musicsong)|Yesterday]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2LRROpph0 was Thursday Thursday,] [[Captain Obvious|today it is Friday Friday...]]

** [[BigNon LippedSequitur Alligator MomentScene|Black guy out of nowhere!]]

* [[Avenue Q|"The internet is for porn! The internet is for porn! Why you think the 'net was born? Porn! Porn! PORN!"]]

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RgL2MKfWTo "Ken Lee"] -- Bulgarian—Bulgarian woman... ''interprets'' a Mariah Carey song in local ''Idols''. Quoth [[The Other Wiki]], "''Hasan's extremely broken English, coupled with her yet undeveloped singing abilities, combined to great comic effect (...)''"

* John Petrucci, Guitar virtuoso, has had a few of his video lessons [[Gag Dub|gag dubbed]] to make him out as an unearthly [[A God Am I|guitar]] [[Power of Rock|god]] capable of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAGDRDds3tw impossible time signatures] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evTTHS9hwvU playing speeds,] not to mention ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pJ1ccnC1GI time travel] and ''mass murder'' through music. His [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKMYeXkYcgs gear] is as over the top as his skills.

** Istanbul was Constantinople. Now it's [[Istanbul (Not Constantinople)|Istanbul, not Constantinople]]. Been a long time gone in Constantinople. Why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks!

*** [[Incredibly Lame Pun|No need to be]] [[Final Fantasy VII|Rude]] [[PunA Worldwide Punomenon|about it.]]

** [[Malcolm in Thethe Middle|You're not the boss of me, now, and you're not so big!]]

* Not a meme from a song, but from an artist: Shortly after the 7 July 2005 bombings in London, a story made the rounds that R&B singer Omarion was performing there and had been caught up in the chaos, and asked for his fans to pray for him. This story was proven false (he ''was'' in London at the time, but "he wasn't hurt or anything"), and "Pray for Omarion" quickly became a running joke on Fark.com, as it reminded many of [[The Simpsons (animation)|Helen Lovejoy's]] "Won't someone ''please'' [[You Can Panic Now|think of the children]]?"

** [[Everything's Better Withwith Monkeys|Pray. For. Mojo.]]

* What happens when you replay the [[Foo Fighters (Music)|Foo Fighters]] hit ''Best Of You'' over and over and over again...

{{quote| IS SOMEONE GETTING THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST, THE BEST [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}A-LIPFgMcVA THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST]}}

** Number nine... Number nine... Number nine... Number nine... Number nine... Number nine...

*** [[The Simpsons (animation)|Number eight... *belch*... number eight... *belch...]]

* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v9I8cf5x5M I Don't Want You Back]" (a.k.a. "fuck you, you ho") and the response song. For that matter, any song that has a response song could be considered a meme.

* If you've seen Internet people going "Piiipe wrench fiiight", that's from "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HE9OQ4FnkQ Take On Me Literal Version]", which is [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]].

** [[Ouran High School Host Club|Hikaru and Kaoru]] want to start a nuclear war [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9ZAgToYkLE at the gay bar!] Gay bar!

** [[Portal (Video Gameseries)|Anyway, this cake is great. It's so delicious and moist.]]

*** And [[Peaches (Music)|Peaches]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFXzJbMsows gets in on the act, with "My Dumps"...]

*** I think you mean [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c04EMCF9lyI Let's get Retarded!] The first lines after the intro make absolutely no sense in the edited version - in what context could "let's get it started" be disrespectful?

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVvYTIojDF8 NONONONO BABY NONONONO DON'T LIEEEE....]

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojpbOJjrGBQ [[?]] Where is the love?]

* "[[Three Hundred300|Spartans! What is your occupation?]]" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZBA0SKmQy8 "Remixer!"]

* [[Dragon Force (video game)]] is the hardest metal known to man! Harder than DIAMONDS!

* The song "Futari no Mojipittan" from Namco's Japanese word-puzzle game ''Kotoba no Puzzle'' has proven quite popular, ranging from ''[[The Idolmaster (Videovideo Gamegame)|The Idolmaster]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh2VTx1rB7Y covers] to ''[[Xenosaga (Video Game)|Xenosaga]]'' remixes (which have themselves been [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOwTijS6xHQ appropriated]) to ''[[Touhou]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GUcVeOHJiA homages].

* The chorus to Ai Otsuka's "Sakuranbo" has been [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy_xbXIJ898 set on loop] to dancing ''[[Fate/stay Stay Night (Visual Novel)night|Fate Stay Night]]'' characters.

* [[Dschinghis Khan (Music)|Moskau, Moskau - ]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQAKRw6mToA Wirf die Glaesser an die Wand - Russland ist ein schoenes Land - Ho-ho-ho-ho-ho, hey!]

** [[Family Guy (Animation)|Damn you, Tommy Tutone!]]

** [[A-l-e-x-99|This Troper]] lives near that plumbing company. It's based in Lynchburg, Virginia. <ref>However, I don't have the company's exact name on me; a commercial for it airs only on [[ABCAmerican Broadcasting Company|WSET]] (coincidentally a Lynchburg-based TV station), and I don't typically watch that channel. I'm on my computer (editing TV Tropes articles) when it airs, and I'm scared I'll risk a [[Mondegreen]] by adding it here.</ref>

*** A quick google search (the internet is not just for tvTropes - or porn!) shows that it was at least one time the national number for Ben Franklin Plumbing - but per their [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20100917203603/http://benfranklinplumbing.com/ site] that's no longer the case.

*** [[Ear Worm|BEEEEEN IS THE PUNCTUAL PLUMBER, EIGHT SIX SEVEN FIVE THREE-OH-NIIIIINE!]]]

* [[Metallica (Music)|FRANTIC-]][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5UWNP5o7iQ TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK]

{{quote| "YEAH! ''Yeah!'' OOO! ''Ha-how! '''YEAH-hah!!!'''''"}}

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8IVlfyIc8g 7:00 in the morning and the rays from the sun wakes me. I'm stretching and yawning in a bed that don't belong to me.]

* [[The Angry Video Game Nerd (Web Video)|The Angry Video Game Nerd]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcKBToYsW0I ASS!]

*** That's beacuse it's [[Kanye West (Music)/Memes|ONE OF THE BEST VIDEOS OF ALL TIME! OF ALL TIME!]]

*** Mama... just killed a man/Put a gun against his head/Pulled my trigger, now he's dead....

**** Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, No escape from reality....

* While we're in Brazil, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s1w2NZrioE a video] about a band cancelling an autograph session. Highlights include the fans calling themselves "[[Restart (Music)|Restart]] Family", and angry kids saying "I'll complain a lot in Twitter!" and "puta falta de sacanagem!" (a [[Malaproper|self-contradictory phrase]] that's along the lines of "a great lack of fuck-up").

** [[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|Shine on, you crazy shippers...]]

* A Czech song, [http://www.joemonster.org/filmy/6201/Ivan_Mladek_Jozin_z_bazin Jozin z Bazin] ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4aqM_wu6Ns English translation here]; more translations [https://lyricstranslate.com/en/ivan-ml%C3%A1dek-jo%C5%BEin-z-ba%C5%BEin-lyrics.html on lyricstranslate.com]), became a meme popular in Poland in early 2008. Its sudden popularity culminated with the original performer (Ivan Mladek) coming to Poland to sing a new, Polish version of the song at a concert. Naturally, there are fan music videos of Czech, Polish, Russian and instrumental variants.

** It got ''covers''. From [[chiptune]] version to [http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/337791 Here's a fast, metal variant] by Dawid Mika.

** [https://web.archive.org/web/20120126123503/http://www.funnyhub.com/videos/pages/SNL-lazy-sunday-narnia.html We love the Chroni- what? -cles of] [[Narnia]]!

** [https://web.archive.org/web/20120323020150/http://www.funnyhub.com/videos/pages/snl-like-a-boss.html LIKE A BOSS!]

{{quote| Ooh, watcha say? Ooh, that you only meant well? Well, of course you did.}}

{{quote| I make her say/Oh oh oh oh/when I/P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face.}}

* While not music per se, [[Kanye West]]'s now-infamous interruption of [[Taylor Swift]] at the VMA's has reached meme status. Various [[Image Macro|Image Macros]]s would like you know something along the lines of "Yo [[TV Tropes]], I'm happy for ya and Imma let you finish, but Encyclopedia Dramatica has one of the best meme databases OF ALL TIME."

** There's already ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131022122454/http://imaletyoufinish.com/ an entire website]'' dedicated to the aformentioned [[Image Macro|Image Macros]]s. The internet has probably never seen anything become a meme so fast.

** Kanye is such a meme font, [[Kanye West (Music)/Memes|he has its own meme page!]]

** [[Shaft]]!

** [["Weird Al" Yankovic|And rolling their eyes 'cause I'm so white and nerdy!]]

** They see me [[Troll|trollintroll]]in', they hatin'...

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOrc37wNUqU Ya ya ya coco jamboo, Ya ya yeah, Put me up, put me down, Put my feet back on the ground..]

** [[Lazy TownLazyTown|There's also]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7mG5pQ-s2U this] [[Lazy TownLazyTown|video]]

** "If you wanna do my mother... you gotta buy her a benz..."

* [[A-ha|Taaaaake oooooon meeeeee...]] [[Ear Worm|Take! On! Me!]]

* In general, upbeat Latin American songs are a ''breeding'' ground for memes. José Luis "El Puma" Rodrí­guez's themes are such [[Ear Worm|Ear Worms]]s that they've been memtic ever since [[The Seventies]]. A good example is "Pavo real" ("Peacock"), with its incredibly catchy chorus: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5ebD6kqke8 CHÉVERE CHÉVERE CHÉVERE CHÉVERE CHÉVERE CHÉVERE - UH!]

*** ''Sandro'' himself was extremely memetic and [[Large Ham|hammy.]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgUJB_EL02A His very eccentric dancing] has been imitated and copied ever also since [[The Seventies]], and his songs are just as [[Ear Worm|Ear Wormy]]y as El Puma's. ''Rosa rosa tan maravillosa, como blanca rosa, como flor hermosa''...

* A popular MS Paint comic on 4Chan features a man attempting to [[Murder the Hypotenuse]] to the tune of [[Mastodon]]'s "Blood and Thunder": Animated [https://web.archive.org/web/20130924145242/http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/524563 here.]

** Also, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk0si1Wx0Rw try] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeVi4qzIGY0 "chipmunking"] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU6PwPGkEtA a] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hda7XmpJNKI song.]

** [[MC Hammer (Music)|Can't touch this.]]

* ''[[Vanilla Ice (Music)|YO Vanilla! Kick it one tiiiime Boyeeeeeee]]''

* [[Dragon Force (video game)]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jgrCKhxE1s "Through Fire And Flames"]

** [[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Grass grows, birds fly,]] [[Brooklyn Rage|brutha, I hurt]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P-MKyb_h3I&videos=3uKdunsOZI8 people!]

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oavMtUWDBTM Eduard] [[Uncanny Valley|Khil]], [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant|Russian singer]]. A.K.A [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTSA_sWGM44 The Trololo-guy.]

*** Which goes into [[Harsher in Hindsight]] as [https://web.archive.org/web/20131014162542/http://en.ria.ru/world/20120604/173831212.html he has passed away]. :(

* Microsoft Songsmith generates music to accompany vocals, so naturally people started feeding it vocal tracks from famous songs to see what it would spit out. [[Weezer]] - "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kirdrHuWpSI Buddy Holly" comes out as a slow piano track], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7yqfknBfBg Billy Idol - "White Wedding" comes out as a county track with a banjo], [[Ozzy Osbourne (Music)|Ozzy Osbourne]] - "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-vvk7kXhP8 Crazy Train" comes out as a polka], etc.

** Autism. Wish I could find the video. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110910192252/http://directmag.com/casehistories/nonprofit/0601-benefits-autism-education/ Best I can do for now.]

** [http://flapperorslapper.tumblr.com/post/4672349134/a-doctor-who-parody-song We also didn't built the TARDIS.]{{Dead link}}

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFKtYCcMWT4 Dr. Wily Stage 1 & 2] from ''[[Mega Man 2 (Video Game)|Mega Man 2]]''. It was made into the J-rock song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmaltChJnV0 Omoide wa Okusenman] .

* * BAWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO* '''{{smallcaps| [[Black Sabbath (Music)|I AM IRON MAN!]]}}'''

** [[Epic Riff|* DA~NA~NA~NA~NA~, DANANANANA NA-NA-NA* ]]

{{quote| ''In memory of Ass Dan - 1981-2010''}}

* [[Pixie Lott|What Would My Momma Do ]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sFiYvvcP0c Uh oh, uh oh.]

* [[MIA (Music)M.I.A.|ALL I WANNA DO IS '''* BANG* * BANG* * BANG* * BANG* ''' AND * click* * ca-'''CHING'''* AND TAKE YOUR MO-NAY.]]

** "Father?" "Yes, son?" "I want to kill you. Mother? I want to...BAAAAAAABY! Come on, yeah!"

** [[Aqua Teen Hunger Force (Animation)|Party Party Party/I wanna have a Party/I need to have a Party/You better have a Party...]]

** '''[["Weird Al" Yankovic|WELL WE DON'T SOUND, LIKE MADONNA! HERE WE ARE NOW, WE'RE NIRVANA! A GA-ROCK BAND, FROM SEATTLE! WELL IT SURE BEATS, RAISING CATTLE! YEAH]]''' *Riff and riff and riffriff* *Moooooooo!*

** Also, within the fandom, his love of Hyde, "fiyaa" and his unceasing use of the word dakishimete in nearly every song he has ever written are memes.

* The campy direct-to-home-video [[Mary -Kate and Ashley Olsen]] movies were long forgotten until one shameless Youtube user slowed down the .[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wusGIl3v044 "Gimme Pizza"] song from a sleepover episode, spawning dozens of parodies.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHozn0YXAeE MMM-BOP] [[Ear Worm|BA-DOP BA DOO-BOP]], BA-DEE-BEE-DOP, [[Most Annoying Sound|BA-DOO-WOP]] [[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life|BA-DOP-BOP-DOO]], YEAH YEAH.

* "I have no idea what a [[Justin Bieber (Music)|Justin Bieber]] is, but it..." was probably coined by [[Fark|Farkers]]ers in response to everybody and their daughter hyping the kid up like crazy.

* It turns out that even the noise community has them. Two common one among The Gerogerigegege's fanbase: [[A Date Withwith Rosie Palms|SENZURI!]] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn9ETe1ojnc ONE][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHwpcXznGxk TWO][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXZ21s71kDU THREE][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wby8z_RpVCw FOUR!!!]

* The Passenger Of Shit song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGRsg9YyRRo "Staple Tapeworms On My Penis"] has caught on quite well within the [[YoutubeYouTube Poop]] community.

* [[They Might Be Giants|Particle Man, Particle Man...]]

* [[The Rolling Stones|Please allow me]] [[Sympathy for Thethe Devil|to introduce myself]], [[Man of Wealth and Taste|I'm a man of wealth and taste...]]

* I was listening to a couple of these songs with the volume on full blast. A bunch of them were so bad that [[The Fresh Prince of Bel -Air|my mom got scared and said "You're moving with your auntie and your uncle in Bel-Air." I whistled for a cab and when it came near the license plate said "Fresh" and there were dice in the mirror. If anything I could say that this cab was rare but I thought, naw, forget it, yo holmes to Bel-Air. I pulled up to the house about seven or eight and said to the cabbie "Yo holmes smell ya later." Looked at my kingdom, I was finally there, to sit on my throne as the prince of Bel-Air.]]

** The lyrics get used an [http://apt.bitcore.org/stuff/Stupid%20Pics/4chan/fresh_prince_of_pokemon.jpg awful lot]{{Dead link}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20110208104917/http://frakarme.com/__oneclick_uploads/2009/09/the-fresh-prince-of-persia.jpg in] [http://www.lamebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/fresh-prince-of-bash-air.png jokes] [http://edge.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/574185/80520425.jpg a lot]{{Dead link}}.

* [[Avenged Sevenfold (Music)|Look at the size of that fucking duck!]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqxvtvIEMwk Come back here, you stallion duck!] He's not afraid at all!

** [["Weird Al" Yankovic|Jurassic Park is frightening in the dark...]]

* Lately the song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suRsxpoAc5w "Moves Like Jagger"] by Maroon 5 has been quite popular for videos.

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20111015090539/http://www.quickmeme.com/I-AM-THE-TABLE---James-Hetfield/oldest/ JAMES HETFIELD IS A TABLE]!!! Courtesy of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LWtb621DRg The View] off of ''[[Lou Reed]]'' and [[Metallica (Music)|Metallica]]'s album ''Lulu''

* [[wikipedia:Banned from Argo|And we're banned from Argo, ev'ry one ... ]]

*** Many mutual fans of Lady Gaga and Britney have coined the term "If I was born this way, would you hold it against me?" to answer back to dedicated fans from either artist as they get pretty tired of having to defend the fact that it's okay to like them both.

** It originated after a [http://www.gametrailers.com/user-movie/goldeneye-007-gets-down/316987 Niconico video] posted it playing over a glitch in ''[[GoldenGoldenEye Eye007 (1997 (Videovideo Gamegame)|Golden Eye 1997]]'' that makes the characters look like they're dancing.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWNaR-rxAic&ob=av3e Call Me Maybe]] by Carly Rae Jepsen usually has its lyrics altered as such.

{{quote| Hey I just met you<br />

And this is crazy<br />

But [long and drawn-out run-on sentence filled with fangirling]<br />

* [[Rage Against the Machine (Music)|Rage Against the Machine]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=QNzIKoAy2pk#t=254s FUCK YOU, I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME! FUCK YOU, I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!]