Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen: Why is this absurd music sensation breaking the internet?
A strange new music video goes madly viral.
Lasts about a minute? Check.
Sung by a Japanese man named Piko-taro? Check.
Meaningless lyrics about fruits and pens? Check.
All the ingredients for an online hit with over five million views and counting?
Uncheck.
Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen, also known as PPAP, is being touted as the next Gangnam Style. Piko-taro is dressed in bright yellow clothing, perfoming a dancing routine while rapping about pineapples, pens, apples and pens.
Brace yourself, because this one promises to be stuck in your head as soon as you’re done listening to it.
PPAP is fast inspiring reaction videos, tributes and more from people.
And in case you were wondering, the man himself has put up a video with English subtitles to offer instructions on how exactly to go about performing his baffling dance routine.