About
Snow Goose is a popular soundtrack from a Japanese arcade music video game jubeat[1], which is produced by KONAMI as a part of BEMANI line.
This electric pomp styled song was used in many MAD on the Japanese video sharing service Nico Nico Douga (NND) in 2009.
Origin
Snow Goose was written by a Japanese composer Mutsuhiko Izumi for the first rhythm game of jubeat, that was released on the Japanese arcade on July 24, 2008.
This song was ported to beatmania IIDX 19 Lincle[2] together with "I'm so happy" in 2011. And its remixed version was included in Guitar Freaks XG3 & Drummania XG3[3] in 2012.
Spread
The earliest instance in this series had been already uploaded to NND in the 5th Music Rhythm Game MAD contest, a small user-organized online MAD video event mostly dedicated to BEMANI songs in November 2008. It was a derivative of Shuzo Matsuoka.
Meanwhile, the trigger video that led subsequent popularity of this series came from Hammer MADs, an another fad on NND. The video “Hammer Goose” was posted by a legendary MAD editor The Hammer Man on April 11th, 2009.[4]
By the influence by The Hammer Man, many other MAD editors have been introducing this song into their works since the middle of 2009.
As of September 2012, the amount of videos related to this song is near 300.[5] And most of them are MAD videos in this series.
On YouTube
Since the late of 2009, tens of YouTube Poop Music Videos (YTPMVs) reusing this song have been occasionally posted on YouTube. The first instance importing this song to YTPMVs was posted by a YT user HTFFan8500[6] on September 20th, 2009, which featured Happy Tree Friends.
But it seems it hasn’t been able to become a popular music resource for YTPMV creators yet.[7]
Notable Examples
For more videos, check out the videos section in this entry.
MADs
Shuzo Matsuoka[8]
Untan[9]
There's No F**king Seat For You![10]【ニコニコ動画】Airmoto GooseHissu Amoto San[11]
YTPMVs
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
WUBUBU
Billy Mays
MysteryGuitarMan
Search Interest
[Not Available]
External References
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[2] Wikipedia – Beatmania IIDX 19: Lincle
[3] Wikipedia – GuitarFreaksXG&DrumManiaXG (Japanese)
[4] Nico Nico Douga – HAMMER GOOSE / Posted on 04-11-2009
[5] Nico Nico Douga – Search results for SnowGoose OR snow_goose
[6] YouTube – HTFFan8500’s channel
[7] YouTube – Search results for – snow goose YTPMV
[8] Nico Nico Douga – 炎 Goose / Posted on 11-16-2008
[9] Nico Nico Douga – うんたん Goose / Posted on 04-23-2009
[10] Nico Nico Douga – Desk No Goose【おめーの席×SnowGoose】 / Posted on 05-20-2009
[11] Nico Nico Douga – Airmoto Goose / Posted on 04-26-2009