Toad Sings
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Toad Sings refers to video parodies in which people sing popular songs in the high-pitched, shrieking voice of Super Mario character Toad.
Origin
On May 25th, 2011, YouTube Let's Play channel KoopaKungFu was in the midst of a Luigi's Mansion playthrough when he began to joke about Toad singing various Disney songs in the voice of Toad (shown below).
Spread
On August 8th, 2012, YouTuber SuperMarioLogan posted an original song in the voice of Toad, gaining over 2.4 million views (shown below, left). On December 6th, 2014, YouTuber Q*Berts uploaded a video of Toad singing Let It Go, gaining over 35,000 views (shown below, right).
Parodies continued throughout the 2010s. On August 14th, 2017, YouTuber Woozma posted a parody of "How Far I'll Go" from Moana, gaining over 3.1 million views, the most viewed parody to date (shown below, left). The following year, YouTuber Issa_Bass did a cover of Bohemian Rhapsody, gaining over 920,000 views (shown below, right).
In 2019, the parodies saw an uptick in popularity thanks to a series of videos by YouTuber melancholiaah which were covered by media outlets including The Outline[1] and Mashable.[2] Popular videos of theirs include covers of "Chandelier" by Sia and "Shallow" by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper (shown below).
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