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(PPAP) Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen
[pen pahy-nap-uh l ap-uh l pen]
What does (PPAP) Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen听尘别补苍?
(PPAP) Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen聽is a viral novelty song by the Japanese performer聽Pikotaro. It’s about having a pen, a pineapple, and an apple … and giving Drake some dancing competition.
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Where does (PPAP) Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen come from?
(PPAP) Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen was released in 2016 by聽Kazuhito Kosaka, a Japanese comedian better known by his stage names聽Daimaou Kosaka and persona Pikotaro.
Kosaka says he was inspired to write the song when he picked up a pen to write and thought about the apple trees in his native town while glancing at an open can of pineapple on the table. In the song, while dancing awkwardly to a goofy beat in tacky animal print clothing,聽Kosaka repeats that he has a pen and an apple, fitting the two words together (“Apple pen!”) and repeating it while miming a pen and pineapple (“Pineapple pen!”).
There’s not much more to the song than that鈥攂ut that’s its infectious charm.
The deliberately absurdist (PPAP) Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen was produced for roughly just $1,000 in August, 2016. It was initially popular amongst Japanese students, but went viral after superstar Justin Beiber tweeted a link to the music video in September, 2016, stating it was his favorite video.
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鈥� Justin Bieber (@justinbieber)
As of Jun, 2018, (PPAP) Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen聽had been viewed over 200-million times on YouTube, where there are countless lip-sync and parody versions. It聽even went #1 on the Japanese Billboard charts and was referenced in the 2017聽Emoji Movie. (PPAP) Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen聽has been called the new “Gangnam Style,” referring to a music video by Korean rapper PSY that went massively viral in 2012.
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Who uses (PPAP) Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen?
(PPAP)聽Pen Pineapple Apple Pen is mostly sung, viewed, alluded to, or otherwise referenced for the silly joy its intended nonsense brings. Celebrities have performed the song. Its simplicity even united people across cultures and language barriers.
Did Felix, Seungmin, Han, and Hyunjim really sing and dance the Pen Pineapple Apple Pen song?
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Outside parody videos, (PPAP) Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen also gets amply riffed on in clever images.
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