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The Hampster Dance is one of the earliest Internet memes.Created in 1998 by Canadian art student Deidre LaCarte as a GeoCities page, the dance features rows of animated GIFs of hamsters and other rodents dancing in various ways to a sped-up sample from the song "Whistle-Stop", written and performed by Roger Miller for the 1973 Walt Disney Productions film Robin Hood.
Hampsterdance: The Album (also referred to as The Hampsterdance Album) is the debut album by Hampton the Hampster, released on October 24, 2000, [1] through Koch Records.It was produced by the Canadian producer team the Boomtang Boys after the success of the novelty track "The Hampsterdance Song" featuring the hamster character Hampton, which was created by Canadian art student Deidre LaCarte ...
"The Hampsterdance Song" is a novelty song by Hampton the Hampster. The song's hook is based on a sped-up sample of "Whistle-Stop", a song from the 1973 Disney film Robin Hood . This sample was originally used for a 1998 web page called the Hampster Dance , created by Canadian art student Deidre LaCarte.
Released on 30 June 2017, "Mi Gente" became the first music video by a French artist to reach one billion views, although this version of the song is not in French. Only three French-language videos, "Dernière Danse", "Papaoutai" and "Ego" have hit the 1 billion view mark, the most recent occurring on 14 September 2023.
Many of the songs favoured by the voyageurs have been passed down to the present era. "Alouette" has become a symbol of French Canada for the world, an unofficial national song. [3] Today, the song is used to teach French and English-speaking children in Canada, and others learning French around the world, the names of body parts.
"Don't Play That Song Again" was the United Kingdom entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2000. The song was performed by Nicki French , already a well-known name, having had a worldwide hit in 1995 with a cover of Bonnie Tyler 's " Total Eclipse of the Heart ": on the night she wore a lilac trenchcoat over a bright purple two-piece outfit.
The song goes on to add (in translation) "She wasn’t the brightest/But in bed, that’s not important." [3] [10] The singer runs into her in the street many years later. He sees a woman who is as fat as a hippopotamus, has a double chin and "triple breasts". She runs up to him with an affectionate shout and throws her arms around his neck.
"Masters in This Hall" (alternative title: "Nowell, Sing We Clear") is a Christmas carol with words written around 1860 by the English poet and artist William Morris to an old French dance tune. The carol is moderately popular around the world but has not entered the canon of most popular carols.