Ievan Polkka
Song Information
Artist: Otomania feat.初音ミク
Composition/Lyrics: Traditional
Arrangement: Otomania
Vocals: Miku Hatsune
Movie: ?
Album: 初音ミク 1st Song Album (2007)
BPM: 119
Length: 2:27
maimai Genre: niconico & VOCALOID
First Music Game Appearance: maimai MiLK PLUS
Other Music Game Appearances: None.
Lyrics
Note: The "lyrics" of this song are approximations of the following meaningless scat section of Loituma's version of Ievan Polkka.
Finnish
Ratsatsaa ja ripidabi dilla beritstan dillan dellan doo A baribbattaa baribbariiba ribiribi distan dellan doo Ja barillas dillan deia dooa daba daba daba daba daba duvja vuu Baristal dillas dillan duu ba daga daiga daida duu duu deiga dou
Song Connections / Remixes
- The original Ievan Polkka is a Finnish folk song. Loituma, a Finnish quartet, covered it, adding meaningless scat sections that were not present in the original. The Hatsune Miku cover approximated one of the scat sections.
Trivia
- Ievan Polkka was the very first song sung by Miku Hatsune to gain popularity, and established multiple traits that are associated with the character.
- Its original video prominently features Miku waving a spring onion. This is a reference to the meme "Leekspin", which features Bleach character Orihime Inoue twirling a spring onion (misidentified as a leek) to the tune of the version of Ievan Polkka by Finnish a capella group Loituma. As a result, the spring onion/leek became Miku's signature item.
- The chibi-style version of Miku seen in the original video, named "Miku Hachune" (はちゅねミク) has become well-known as an official "derivative character" of Miku.
- Ievan Polkka was added to maimai MiLK PLUS on August 21st, 2018.
- In Asian English versions of maimai, Ievan Polkka's artist was romanised as Otomania feat. Hatsune Miku.
- Ievan Polkka received an UTAGE chart in maimai FiNALE on December 25th, 2018.
- From maimai でらっくす to maimai でらっくす Splash PLUS, Ievan Polkka was used as the tutorial song for maimai.
- Ievan Polkka was previously used as the tutorial music for the Project DIVA games.
- After Ievan Polkka was removed from the Chinese versions of maimai in 舞萌DX and from the Asian versions of maimai in maimai DX スプラッシュ PLUS, it was replaced with different tutorial music.
- Ievan Polkka was removed from 舞萌DX on August 7th, 2020. It was announced that it would return later, but it never did.
- Ievan Polkka was removed from the Asian versions of maimai starting with maimai DX スプラッシュ PLUS.
Genre Changes
None.
Difficulty & Notecounts
maimai difficulty rated 1 to 13 from MURASAKi to MiLK PLUS, 1 to 14 from FiNALE to でらっくす, and 1 to 15 from でらっくす PLUS onwards.
(Ratings and notecounts obtained from maimai on gamerch, and CHUNITHM and オンゲキ wikis on wikiwiki.)
maimai
Standard Charts
| Game | Level | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Easy | Basic | Advanced | Expert | Master | Re:Master | |
| Notecounts | 73 | 226 | 374 | 349 | 671 | - |
| (Tap / Hold / Slide / Break) | 60 / 6 / 6 / 1 | 208 / 10 / 2 / 6 | 312 / 29 / 4 / 29 | 112 / 197 / 1 / 29 | 494 / 64 / 98 / 15 | - |
| Chart Designer | - | - | - | 合作だよ | 小鳥遊さん | - |
| maimai MiLK PLUS | 1 | 3 | 6 | 9+ | 12 | - |
| maimai FiNALE | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10+ | 12 | - |
| maimai でらっくす | - | 3 | 6 | 10+ | 12 | - |
| maimai でらっくす PLUS | - | 3 | 6 | 11 | 12+ | - |
| maimai でらっくす Splash→Splash PLUS | - | 3 | 6 | 11 | 13 | - |
UTAGE (宴)
| Game | Designer | Attribute | Chart Comment | Notecount | Ta/Ho/Sl/Br |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| maimai FiNALE | ? | 蔵 | 罠がいっぱいなんですがこれは | 296 | 78/216/1/1 |
Videos
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Standard Charts
Master
UTAGE (宴)
蔵