| "I'm A Gummy Bear (The Gummy Bear Song)" |
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| Single by Gummibär | ||||
| from the album I Am Your Gummy Bear | ||||
| Released | October 13, 2007 (U.S.) | |||
| Format | CD single, digital download, remixes EP | |||
| Genre | Dance-pop, electro, novelty | |||
| Length | 3:10 | |||
| Label | Gummybear International, 4 West,[1] Koch[2] |
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| Writer(s) | Schneider, C.P.[1] | |||
| Producer | Tonekind, Papabar, Rene Rennefeld[3] | |||
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"I'm A Gummy Bear (The Gummy Bear Song)" is a novelty dance song by Gummibär referring to a brand of candy, Gummi bear. It was written by German composer Christian Schneider and released by Gummybear International; the song received international and internet meme success, in part, due to its corresponding 30-second Hungarian video clip "Itt van a Gumimaci".[3][4]
The song has since been released in at least twenty five languages and has virally spread worldwide with more than 1 billion plays of the corresponding videos on YouTube and MySpace.[3] With the song ready-made for ringtone use, one critic commented "he's the ultimate cross-platform, cross-cultural phenomenon YouTube was designed to unleash."[2] It also appears in the album I Am Your Gummy Bear released in 2007.
Since the song's release, many songs, including a cover of "Blue (Da Ba Dee)", have been released by Gummibär.
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The single has been released in the original Hungarian ("Itt van a Gummimaci"),[1] as well as versions in Polish ("Ja jestem Gumi Miś"), Hebrew ("Ani Gummy bear" "אני גאמי בר"), Czech ("Jsem pouze z gumy méďa"), German ("Ich bin Dein Gummibär"),[5] Swedish ("Jag är en Gummibjörn"),[6] Spanish ("Osito Gominola"),[1] a version in Spanglish ("Yo Soy Tu Gummy Bear"), a version in Slovak ("Ja som len z gumy macko"), French ("Je m'appelle Funny Bear"),[7] as well as Dutch ("Ik ben een Gummybeer"), Russian ("Ya mishka Gummy Bear" "Я мишка Гумми Бер"), Irish ("Is maith liom an gummy bear"), Persian, and English. A Brazilian Portuguese version ("Eu Sou O Ursinho Gummy"), a Japanese Version, and a European Portuguese version have also been added with their own videos.[8] There are also two songs in the Greek version, the original one ("Θα 'μαι καλό παιδί") and another one which is taken for a commercial.
The song has since been released in at least twenty five languages and the corresponding videos posted as well featuring a "jolly and jiggly" lime green cartoon of a rubbery candy gummy bear in orange underwear basically bouncing around and breakdancing. "Oh I'm a yummy, tummy, funny, lucky gummy bear" and "I'm a movin', groovin', jammin', singing gummy bear" are the most common and mostly understood lyrics of this song.[3][4][9]
Gummibär, the highly stylized green blue-eyed character is naked except for an orange underwear and sneakers. Gummibär also seems to be bitten with a small portion of the upper left ear missing, which may be because the song is about candy. The bear's muzzle or, allowing for anthropomorphism, his mustache and goatee, are sugar-crusted and he only has two small teeth spaced far apart on his lower jaw.
The video, a 30 second CGI pop promo animated in Softimage XSI, was directed, designed and animated by Peter Dodd and produced through Wilfilm in Copenhagen for Ministry of Sound GmbH in Berlin.[10]