One of the beneficial part about tuning intoDan Da Danevery Thursday — aside from itswacky action sci - fi love story premiss — is groove out to the catchy theme song by notable hip - hops duet Creepy Nuts . Since the anime ’s premiere in October , “ Otonoke ” hasskyrocketed to the top of the music chartsand has become the pinna louse of every Zanzibar copal rooter . Fans in the West have also churned out meme joke aboutNintendo’sPikminbeing an uncredited feature article . That is until one thoughtful listener dissected the attention-getting anime opening ’s high tar vocals and claim to have discovered that the sampling was n’t from Nintendo ’s colorful small dudes , but an even weirder source .
Over the weekend , exploiter DankidyDan upload a telecasting on the Dandadan subredditclaiming to have found the outspoken sample Creepy Nuts used in “ Otonoke . ” Rather than but lift the high up - peddle mumbo jumbo from aPikminsound file , DankidyDan assert that Creepy Nuts chopped and pelt along up the vocal caterpillar track from Billy Murray ’s 1915 folk song , “ I ’ve Been float Down the Old Green River . ” In what can only be draw as the coarse piece ’s TikTok Dissect picture , DankidyDan break in down how Creepy Nuts might have snuff it about sonically engineering Murray ’s outspoken track into “ Otonoke . ”
The user " DankidyDan " on DDD Reddit , establish the origin of the samples for the " Pikmin " sound used in the opening
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this is just insanepic.twitter.com/okiDXhwxri
— Ayase 💞 ( @MomoAyasee)November 2 , 2024
To further patronize DankidyDan ’s claim , the popular online music encyclopedia Genius credit thePhiladelphia - deliver creative person as a sampling used in the gum anime paper . Musicians sampling from a old genesis ’s phone ( or to begin with , in this event ) is a pretty common pattern — especially between Japan and the U.S. For example , one of rapper Tyler , the Creator ’s most recent samples ( from hisChromakopiasong “ Balloon ” ) is the implemental from ’ 70s Japanese bulge out starAkiko Yano ’s “ To Ki Me Ki . ”
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While “ Otonoke”‘s sampling of Murray is as off-the-wall as it being lifted fromPikminaudio single file , there ’s a thin strain of logical system as to why Creepy Nuts sampled his birdcall .
Upon further inspection , Murray ’s euphony in a Science Saru anime make horse sense , considering the studio apartment ’s animate logo features aBetty Boop - looking dog ( thing?)whistling while it struts . coincidently , Murray loan his vocal talents as the first vocalisation actor forBetty Boop’slove interest , Bimbo . Seeing how I made this promiscuous association between Murray and Science Saru ’s throwback logotype vibes from a cursory Wikipedia dive , there ’s a non-0 % chance Creepy Nuts made a similar association after being contacted to create an opening for theDan Da Dan . gratefully , their melodious ingenuity lead to the duo completing ahat trick of catchy gum anime theme call in their discography .
btw the entire beginning of the dandadan opening with the cut - outs is one with child ultraman possible action reference
momo even reverse into ultraman for a skeletal system as her light-green earring tilt uphttps://t.co/CvMR8APWc5pic.twitter.com/X5Z6uRPARa
— TAHK0 ☕ ️ ( @TAHK0)October 3 , 2024
Dan Dan Dan’smeme - focusedPikmininvestigation is the most recent in a series of scrutinise from the anime community diligently examining every frame of reference of its opening sequence . Other noted determination include the anime ’s stylish silhouettes paying homage to theUltramanopening and its persona ’s dance movement being equal parts overt and elusive acknowledgment toTheFresh Prince of Bel - Air‘s Carlton danceand Rihanna ’s shimmy in her “ Where Have You Been ” medicine video .
Momo and Rihanna ’s terpsichore side by sidepic.twitter.com/t5ZwQjnFaq
— 𝙈𝙧𝙕𝙚𝙙 💫 ( @spinitbackzed)October 23 , 2024
Time will severalize if coming episode fromDan Da Danwill lead to more denotation , be they musical or aesthetic , to famous or obscure artist , cryptids , or oddities far beyond our atmosphere . Should anything of note stand up , we ’ll be the first to break down what could be the anime of the year ’s next phenomenon to exhausting item . Until then , we ’ll be listen to “ Otonoke ” on repeat .
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