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Hatten är din
Hatten är din (Swedish for "The hat is yours"), was a inter- ly surprised by this mutilation of his song and the craze
net meme from 2000. It is a Flash animation featuring the that followed, but liked the idea.[5]
music of Lebanese musician Azar Habib; the name of the In the English-speaking world, the animation was al-
song playing is "Habbeetik". The animation prominently so known as "Hatt-baby".[4][2][3]
features a hat, Swedish text, and an assortment of bizarre
imagery.
See also
• Animutation
Origin • Mondegreen
In 1984, Habib recorded "Meen ma Kenty/Habbeetek" • Soramimi
(Whoever you are/I Loved You, or I Fell In Love With
You) in Arabic for his Ajbeen el Layl album; the tape even-
tually made its way to Sweden. Sixteen years later,
References
Swedes Patrik Nyberg, Johan Gröndahl and Pet Bagge no- [1] Mary Huhn (April 19, 2001). "DESPITE WEB WOES,
ticed that the lyrics sounded like Swedish. With this in SILLY SITES SHOW SURF’S UP". New York Post.
mind, they published an mp3 file and a text file with http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nypost/access/
the "misheard" lyrics on their website. Shortly after this, 71500879.html?dids=71500879:71500879&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT
another Swede, Martin Holmström, decided to make a [2] ^ Nancy Friedman (April 27, 2009). "Fritinancy:
flash video of the song, which he published on his site Word of the week: soramimi".
http://come.to/hatten (which came back online in 2008). http://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/
It has been seen by millions of people around the away_with_words/2009/04/word-of-the-week-
world.[1] soramimi.html.
[3] ^ "Phonetic Transcriptions (video)". Know Your
Meme (Cheezburger, Inc.). 2009.
Details http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/phonetic-
The Swedish "subtitles" are not a translation of the Ara- translations.
bic, but rather an approximated phonetic transcription [4] ^ Åsa Erlandson (April 30, 2001). "Fylleskämt blev
of the lyrics into Swedish,[2][3] resulting in outlandish folkrörelse ("Drinking songs become a popular
non sequiturs such as Limma skinkbit, cooligt (glue a piece movement")". Aftonbladet.
of ham, cool-ish) and Man kan knarka och hamna i TV (You http://www.aftonbladet.se/pryl/dator/
can do drugs and end up on TV). From the contents of article10207582.ab. (in Swedish)
these lyrics the deadpan site presented a Swedish drink- [5] "Featured Site Week of March 18, 2001". ESC!Webs.
ing game involving the passing around of hats, which was http://www.escwebs.com/siteofweek/pastsites/
sometimes taken at face value by viewers. sow-3-18-01.asp. Retrieved 2007-11-11.
The accompanying images of the animation are os-
tensibly Middle Eastern men in hats; one of those hats
floating among a party of people, who appear to be
External links
dressed in traditional Turkish or Middle Eastern clothing; • Original site
and visualizations of the Swedish lyrics such as "cool guy • Everything2 Hatten är din page, includes English
holding a soda" and "borrow the LP ’Hatten är din’ ". translation of Swedish "subtitles"
• Even further background from ESC!Webs
Reception
The song became famous in Scandinavia and, according
to Nyberg, was often played at drinking parties. Copies
were made and sold without the creators’ permission.[4]
The Metro newspaper of Stockholm even sent a journalist
to get an interview with Azar Habib. Habib was apparent-
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