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Shooting Stars by Bag Raiders (2010)

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Shooting Stars meme gordinho(Original Shooting Stars)

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Uploaded by Eduardo Araújo on 2017-02-05.

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Memeability: "The ability of a song to be easily applied to a humorous formula which others repeat, add onto, or recreate."

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These type of songs are usually very dramatic and intense when taken at face value. But, the humor and formula is defined by the downplaying of the song's tone with video clips of something mundane makes it seem exaggeratedly dramatic forming humor. An example would be

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Ratliff, Ben. Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty. New York: Picador, 2017. EPUB. 1 Aug. 2017.

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JoeDutchCoast “Running in the 90’s.” YouTube video, 04:46. 3 Nov, 2009.

People, Modular. “Bag Raiders - Shooting Stars” YouTube video, 03:51. 22 Jul, 2009.

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Araújo, Eduardo. “Shooting Stars Meme Gordinho(Original Shooting Stars).” YouTube video, 00:30. 5 Feb, 2017.

ಠ_ಠ. “RALLY MEME (running in the 90's).” YouTube video, 00:06. 23 Apr, 2016.

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These type of meme songs are usually extremely happy or simple in tone, making them the perfect songs to put over videos that should be disturbing or alarming. From putting the calm and innocent Wii Shop theme over North Korean Troops marching to the playing of Ween's "Ocean Man" with clips of tsunamis devastating a city; this formula is easy to replicate and has been done numerous times.

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3.) Repetition of certain beat or lyric:

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3.) Repetition of certain beat or lyric:

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Although already defined by Ratliff, this term is applied differently in meme culture. The repetition in these songs (lyrics or a certain beat) make it easy to match up a video (or video clips) and the way these go together in such a formulaic way creates humor which catches on and develops with each new rendition. Lyrical repetition includes songs like, "You Spin me Round" and "I Believe I Can Fly" while the songs I go into depth with are examples of repetition of a certain beat. (I go more into detail there)

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Meme Song types we choose not to include in our essay:

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Meme Song types we choose not to include in our essay:

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-TV Show Opening Themes
-Video Game Themes/OST
-Songs with word replacement
-Memes that slice words/sound cuts to sing/perform a song
-Amazing covers of Meme songs with unorthodox instruments

(With the exception of a few brief mentions in the intro that aren't expanded on!)

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Running in the 90s by Maurizio DeJorio (1998)
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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1_tarHoyzqPpXpcilzjAoTY52DdRQJVH

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Meme songs utilize repetition diffrently than what others say: 

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Meme songs utilize repetition diffrently than what others say: 

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In his novel, Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty, Ratliff explains that “Repetition is a smart psychological operation—a way to make you focus on all that is in fact nonrepetitive. The music seems to stay put, while you (or your perceptions) change. Then you stay put while it changes. It suggests infinity or eternity, basically. But only by distant representation. We couldn’t have actual infinity or eternity in art. We would hate it" (Ratliff 14). To put it simply, a part of a song is repeated often enough that any variations seem more jarring and memorable so once you hear part of it you’re already anticipating what comes next. When most scholars talk about the memetics of music they often take a similar stance to Ratliff’s and argue that music is considered a “meme” when the repetition of a melody or certain lyrics conjures up a memory of what comes next. Steven Jan from the University of Huddersfield directly reflects this statement by saying, “If the memory of a melody can be accessed by hearing its opening notes, this implies that these notes themselves have independent memetic status.”

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The formula is based off of the simple principle that repetition is an essential comedic device therefore utilizing repetition as a tool to keep the joke going instead of singling out anything in particular.