Astronomia

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"Astronomia" is a 2010 electronic dance music (EDM) track by producer Tony Igy. The song has since been used in a series of videos on YouTube and TikTok. The most popular variations of the meme feature FAIL clips that cut to a clip of dancing pallbearers carrying a coffin.

Origin

On March 13th, 2010, Russian EDM producer Anton Igumnov (Tony Igy) released^[1] track "Astronomia", uploading it to PromoDJ^[2] on April 28th. The song received over 250,300 listens on the site in ten years. During 2010, the song was included into rotation of several Russian FM radio stations, reaching top chart position on Russian radio station DFM^[3] in November 2010. On December 21st, 2015, a music video for the song was uploaded to YouTube,^[4] gaining over 1.8 million views in four years (shown below, left). A February 2018 reupload^[5] of the video received over 4.8 million views in two years.

On July 9th, 2014, Dutch house music duo Vicetone uploaded a remixed version of the song on YouTube.^[6] Within six years, the video has received more than 33.1 million views (shown below, right).

Spread

The following year, on September 9th, 2015, YouTuber Videosdful shared a video of three men rapping over the song. The post received more than 22,000 views in less than five years (shown below, left).

Over the next few years, the song continued to appear in various videos, particularly flash animations. On February 26th, 2018, for example, YouTuber ღMaySlendyღ posted the video "ASTRONOMIA ft Walten -meme- ~May Slendy~" that received over 38,600 views in two years (shown below, right).

In 2019, the song gained popularity on TikTok. For example, on October 11th, 2019, TikTok^[7] user @danny.lkh shared a video using the song that received more than 59,000 likes and 400 comments in less than one year (shown below, left). The following year, on February 26th, 2020, TikTok^[8] user @lawyer_ggmu shared a video of a skier falling on the slopes before cutting to a clip of dancing pallbearers. The post received more than 469,000 likes and 3,500 comments in less than two months and started the Dancing Pallbearers meme format (shown below, center).

The dancing pallbearers format spawned numerous iterations. For example, on March 12th, TikTok^[9] user @xacamnhuong posted a variation with another coffin video (shown below, right). The post received more than 324,000 likes and 2,800 comments in less than one month.

As of March 2020, the hashtag ^[10] #astronomia has more than 2.4 million views on TikTok.

Dancing Pallbearers

Dancing Pallbearers or Dancing Coffin refers to several videos showing Ghanian pallbearers dancing while carrying a coffin. In March 2020, the videos, paired with EDM song "Astronomia" by Vicetone, gained popularity in FAIL edits, similar to To Be Continued and We'll Be Right Back memes.