About

Snow Halation is song by the Japanese idol group µ's (pronounced "Muse"). It was released as a single on December 22, 2010. It has gained popularity on YouTube in 2016 when the channel GiIvaSunner began using it as a bait-and-switch piece in videos appearing to be rips of video game music.

Origin

Love Live! – School Idol Project is a collaborative multimedia project created by ASCII Media Works’ Dengeki G’s Magazine, music label Lantis, and animation studio Sunrise. It follows the adventures of the school idol group µ's, and includes music releases, an anime, manga series, and a mobile game. Snow Halation, µ's second single, and one of their most popular songs, released in December 2010. It would be featured in Season 2, Episode 9 of the anime, which aired on June 1, 2014.

Spread

In February 2016, the YouTube channel GiIvaSunner began uploading videos which appeared to be pieces of video game music, but were actually mashed up with other songs. Included among the recurring pieces of music used was Snow Halation. The song became controversial, as many of GiIvaSunner's fans perceived it as forced or catering only to weeaboos. Meanwhile other mashups of the song exist on communities such as Soundcloud as joke mashups or "Soundclowns."

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