Dan Da Dan Fans Have Discovered the Real Song Behind the ‘Pikmin Noises’ in Its Catchy Opening

One of the champion parts astir tuning into Dan Da Dan each Thursday—aside from its wacky enactment sci-fi romance premise—is grooving retired to the catchy taxable opus by renowned hip-hop duo Creepy Nuts. Since the anime’s premiere successful October, “Otonoke” has skyrocketed to the apical of the euphony charts and has go the receptor worm of each anime fan. Fans successful the West person besides churned retired memes joking astir Nintendo’s Pikmin being an uncredited feature. That is until 1 attentive listener dissected the catchy anime opening’s precocious transportation vocals and claims to person discovered that the illustration wasn’t from Nintendo’s colorful small dudes, but an adjacent weirder source.

Over the weekend, user DankidyDan uploaded a video connected the Dandadan subreddit claiming to person recovered the vocal illustration Creepy Nuts utilized successful “Otonoke.” Rather than simply lifting the high-pitched mumbo jumbo from a Pikmin dependable file, DankidyDan asserts that Creepy Nuts chopped and sped up the vocal way from Billy Murray’s 1915 people song, “I’ve Been Floating Down the Old Green River.” In what tin lone beryllium described arsenic the communal man’s TikTok Dissect video, DankidyDan broke down however Creepy Nuts mightiness person gone astir sonically  engineering Murray’s vocal way into “Otonoke.”

The idiosyncratic "DankidyDan" connected DDD Reddit, recovered the root of the samples for the "Pikmin" sounds utilized successful the opening

this is conscionable insane pic.twitter.com/okiDXhwxri

— Ayase 💞 (@MomoAyasee) November 2, 2024

To further enactment DankidyDan’s claim, the fashionable online euphony encyclopedia Genius credits the Philadelphia-born creator arsenic a illustration utilized successful the anime theme. Musicians sampling from a erstwhile generation’s dependable (or earlier, successful this case) is simply a beauteous communal practice—especially betwixt Japan and the U.S. For example, 1 of rapper Tyler, the Creator’s astir caller samples (from his Chromakopia opus “Balloon”) is the instrumental from ’70s Japanese popular prima Akiko Yano’s “To Ki Me Ki.”

While “Otonoke”‘s sampling of Murray is arsenic bizarre arsenic it being lifted from Pikmin audio files, there’s a bladed enactment of logic arsenic to wherefore Creepy Nuts sampled his song.

Upon further inspection, Murray’s euphony successful a Science Saru anime makes sense, considering the studio’s animated logo features a Betty Boop-looking canine (thing?) whistling portion it struts. Coincidentally, Murray lent his vocal talents arsenic the archetypal dependable histrion for Betty Boop’s love interest, Bimbo. Seeing however I made this escaped transportation betwixt Murray and Science Saru’s throwback logo vibes from a cursory Wikipedia dive, there’s a non-0 % accidental Creepy Nuts made a akin relation aft being contacted to make an opening for the Dan Da Dan. Thankfully, their philharmonic ingenuity led to the duo completing a hat instrumentality of catchy anime taxable songs successful their discography.

btw the full opening of the dandadan opening with the cut-outs is 1 large ultraman opening reference

momo adjacent turns into ultraman for a framework arsenic her greenish earrings tilt up https://t.co/CvMR8APWc5 pic.twitter.com/X5Z6uRPARa

— TAHK0 ☕️ (@TAHK0) October 3, 2024

Dan Dan Dan’s meme-focused Pikmin probe is the astir caller successful a bid of scrutinizing from the anime assemblage diligently examining each framework of its opening sequence. Other notable findings see the anime’s stylish silhouettes paying homage to the Ultraman opening and its character’s creation moves being adjacent parts overt and subtle references to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air‘s Carlton dance and Rihanna’s shimmy successful her “Where Have You Been” euphony video.

Momo and Rihanna's creation broadside by broadside pic.twitter.com/t5ZwQjnFaq

— 𝙈𝙧𝙕𝙚𝙙💫 (@spinitbackzed) October 23, 2024

Time volition archer if upcoming episodes from Dan Da Dan volition pb to much references, beryllium they philharmonic oregon artistic, to celebrated oregon obscure artists, cryptids, oregon oddities acold beyond our atmosphere. Should thing of enactment arise, we’ll beryllium the archetypal to interruption down what could beryllium the anime of the year’s adjacent improvement to exhausting detail. Until then, we’ll beryllium listening to “Otonoke” connected repeat.

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