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The a cappella version of the song acquired greater international popularity as part of an Internet phenomenon in the spring of 2006 when the Loituma Girl (also known as Leekspin), a looped Flash animation of anime character Orihime Inoue from the Bleach series twirling a leek, set to a scat singing section of Ievan Polkka sung by Loituma was posted in Russian LiveJournal. For the animation, only the second half of the fifth stanza (four lines) and the complete sixth stanza (eight lines) are used. It quickly became a global hit and the song soon enjoyed overwhelming popularity as a ringtone. Since then the song has been circulating and known under several misspelled variations of its original name or references to the animation, including “Ievas Polkka“, “Levan Polkka” and “Leekspin Song” (the second of which being the result of similarity between the sans-serif lowercase L and uppercase i). After the animation was posted, Ievan Polkka became widely known worldwide, with a significant rise of interest and recognition demonstrated by the search terms popularity.
Wiener Saengerknaben – Ievan Polka
The Finnish folk song was also given popular covers by several Japanese Vocaloid singers, such as Megurine Luka, Kagamine Rin, and Kagamine Len. The most popular Vocaloid cover belonged to that of Hatsune Miku, garnering more than 5 million views on producer Otomania’s official Niconico music video as of April 2020. Its popularity has lent itself to being used in the Vocaloid rhythm game series Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA, mainly as tutorial music. It has also been used in a commercial promoting the LG G5 smartphone.
In 2012, folk metal band Korpiklaani recorded a cover on their eighth album Manala.
Furthermore, mobile ringtones based on various mixes of “Ievan Polkka” gained a wide popularity among Russian and Commonwealth of Independent States mobile subscribers in late 2006. The tune is also the theme song to the Internet sitcom Break a Leg; it was remixed by musician Basshunter of Sweden, DJ Sharpnel of Japan, and Beatnick of Poland; and a version of the song performed by Anne Kulonen was part of a Ready Brek television advert aired in the United Kingdom.
Ievan Polkka Lumberjack band 1952
In 2016, Erika Ikuta, a member of Japanese girls group, Nogizaka46, sang Ievan Polkka as a part of her private segment on a web TV Show titled Nogizaka46 Hours TV. This song then became well known among Nogizaka46’s fans. She later sang it on several occasions such as “JUNK Bananaman no Bananamoon GOLD” radio show, “Nogizaka Under Construction” TV show which aired on TV Aichi & “Banana Zero Music” music program which aired on NHK.
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