Nanalan's Princess Song "Who's That Wonderful Girl"

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Nanalan's Princess Song "Who's That Wonderful Girl" is an exploitable video from the Canadian children's television series Nanalan' in which the grandmother's character sings "Who's That Wonderful Girl" as her grandaughter Mona enters the living room wearing a princess costume. The scene resurfaced in a series of POV and relatable memes on TikTok, often related to people being patronized or praised for doing normal things, such as "Pov: me hyping up my little sister after she got a new outfit."

Origin

Nanalan'^[1] is a Canadian children's television series using puppets similar to Sesame Street that aired between 1999 to 2004, which follows the adventures of a 3-year-old puppet girl named Mona in her grandmother Nana Bea's backyard. A particular scene from the show was reuploaded on YouTube^[2] by @nanalanofficial on August 29th, 2023, showing grandmother Nana singing "Who's That Wonderful Girl" while Nana is dressed in princess clothes walking towards the piano. The clip (shown below) amassed over 46,000 views and 1,400 likes in three months.

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A clip of the music with the lyric "Who's That Wonderful Girl" was reposted (shown below) on TikTok^[3] by user @xcomedown on October 12th, 2023. The video was then paired with the caption "When the clothes you ordered arrive and you treat the family to a fashion show which received more than 8 million plays, 1.5 million likes and 615 other videos uploaded using the sound in a month.

On October 30th, TikTok^[4] user @wheresjuniormint added the clip overlayed in a wardrobe paired with the caption "My sister hyping me up as I try on the clothes she's trying to get rid of." The post (shown below, left) received over 4.2 million plays and 949,000 likes in four days.

On October 26th, TIkTok^[5] user @christinajayofficial used the exploitable video paired with the overlay text "My man being extra nice when I'm on my period because he's actually scared." The video (shown below, right) amassed over 2.9 million plays and 472,000 likes in a week.

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