Big Big Sound
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Big Big Sound
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About
Big Big Sound is the name of the theme song for the Australian Football League club the Greater Western Sydney Giants. The song is inspired by Russian folk music and features lyrics about the superiority of the club. It began seeing use in parodies in September of 2019 after the club reached its first ever AFL grand final.
Origin
The song "There's a Big Big Sound" was written by Harry Angus of The Cat Empire and debuted as the theme song for the Greater Western Sydney Giants on February 16th, 2012 (shown below).
Spread
The song was praised by The Guardian[1] in 2017 as " Their Cossack inspired heel-kicker is brimming with bravado and preposterous enough to work." In 2019, the Giants made the league's grand final for the first time in team history, facing Richmond. This led to jokes about the song spreading through Twitter. On September 22nd, Twitter user @JoeCordy23[2] posted an object labeling meme with the Meet Joe Black Opening Scene (shown below, left). User @MJ20[3] posted a Greta Thunberg Staring At Trump edit (shown below, right).
Other Twitter users posted video parodies using the song. User @BasilZoccali posted a Bart's Testing Megaphones parody that gained over 2,000 likes (shown below, top). User @Jjacko11 also posted a Simpsons parody with the song, gaining over 1,100 retweets and 3,600 likes (shown below, bottom). The jokes were covered by The Guardian[4] and Junkee.[5]
Well there's a big, big sound.#AFLGF pic.twitter.com/efg9OesUnw
— Basil Zoccali (@BasilZoccali) September 26, 2019
#AFLGF #NeverSurrender pic.twitter.com/Z82t9GfoHV
— JJJ (@JJacko11) September 25, 2019
Various Examples
Might as well get in on the fun #bigbigsound pic.twitter.com/SbNvpDpRF7
— jmac (@52johnm) September 26, 2019
#bigbigsound pic.twitter.com/5i02D3NQOA
— Petrik Dengerfild (@Dengerfildpls) September 26, 2019
Hey
GWSGiants</a> Still pinching myself - we heading to a freakin' GRAND FINAL!! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/bigbigsound?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#bigbigsound</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/danceComrades?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#danceComrades</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/aflfinals?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#aflfinals</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/afl?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#afl</a> <a href="https://t.co/ZQ9pVnBQjR">pic.twitter.com/ZQ9pVnBQjR</a></p>— Chris Dubrow (chrisdubrow) September 26, 2019
When the Giants get up on Saturday #bigbigsound #AFLGF #neversurrender pic.twitter.com/pHIfzzim4h
—your.call on Instagram (feastofdan) September 26, 2019
Search Interest
External References
[1] The Guardian – The Joy of Six AFL club theme songs
[2] Twitter – @JoeCordy23
[4] The Guardian – GWS Giants' song gets meme treatment ahead of AFL grand final
[5] Junkee – ‘Big Big Sound’ Memes Are The Next Big Big Thing Ahead Of The AFL Grand Final
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