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Minecraft Song Parodies refers to a series of original animated music videos set in the Minecraft universe with parodies of popular songs rewritten with Minecraft-themed lyrics.

Origin

On August 8th, 2010, YouTube user Viktor Cepeda posted a Minecraft music video to an original song "Minecraft Everyday," gaining over 2.3 million views (shown below, left). On February 26th, 2011, YouTuber CaptainSparklez posted one of the earliest popular parody song videos, featuring the song "TNT" by Taio Cruz rewritten to be about Minecraft, gaining over 104 million views (shown below, right).

Spread

On August 19th, 2011, CaptainSparklez posted "Revenge," a parody on Usher's "DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love," gaining over 180 million views. He would later prove instrumental in the trend's spread with his Fallen Kingdom series. Other popular parodies include "Mine," a parody of Nicki Minaj's "Fly," posted January 10th 2012 by YouTuber BeBop VOGSCAST, caining over 10 million views (shown below, left). On December 21st, 2013, YouTuber TheAtlanticCraft posted "Supernatural Mobs," a parody of Katy Perry's "California Gurls," gaining over 140 million views (shown below, right).

While the trend is not as popular as it was in the first half of the 2010s, several recent parodies have gained millions of views. These include a Sicko Mode parody posted by ReptileLegit on January 27th, 2019 (shown below, left) and a Bad Guy parody posted by grande1899 on July 9th, 2019 (shown below, right).

Fallen Kingdom

CaptainSparklez was instrumental in the spread of serious Minecraft music video parodies, specifically with his Fallen Kingdom series. On April 1st, 2012, the first video in the Fallen Kingdom series, featuring a parody of the song "Viva la Vida" by Coldplay, was uploaded to Youtube, garnering over 116 million views within the next seven years. The video would later be followed be followed up by three sequels: "Take Back the Night" in 2013, which garnered over 127 million views, "Find the Pieces" in 2015 which accumulated 35 million views, and "Dragonhearted" in 2016 which gained 23 million views.

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