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About
Sad Violin is a nickname given to the song Sad Romance from the soundtrack to the Korean drama Over the Green Fields, which is usually used during a sad or otherwise depressing event in montage parodies.
Origin
The song, originally titled “Sad Romance”, was written in 2002 by composer Ji Pyeongkeyon for the soundtrack of the Korean TV drama Over the Green Fields (저 푸른 초원위에) (shown below, left).[1] Pyeongekeyon also made a violin-heavier remix of the song (shown below, right), which has become the most well-known version, and the version used in montage parodies. Song is given as 2002 because that is when the soundtrack apparently came out.
Spread
The first known instance of the song on YouTube was on July 25th, 2007 when user elmo126 used the song as background music for a Final Fantasy X music video. As of 2015, the video has over 2,000,000 views and over 7,700 likes. As montage parodies became more popular on YouTube, use of the song became more frequent. On March 14, 2014, YouTuber Dankster Prankster uploaded a heavily distorted version, featuring the phrase “I crei everytime”. Since 2014, the video currently has 48,000+ views and 1,000 likes.
An air-horn version of the song (shown below) was first uploaded by Youtuber Baba Yetu on April 22nd, 2014. Despite being incomplete, (only about 21 seconds long), it is still used in montage parodies.
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