Original Loituma (original song named Dolly Song Leva's Polka Holly) is a singing group from Finland, with four members singing in four parts. Their songs are mainly traditional Finnish music. They received much attention after attending the Kostin Folk Music Festival on 1997. This is a Finnish folk band. Anita Lehtola, the lead singer, is a female singer with a charming voice. She often participates in various world music. Anita's singing means Runo-song (also known as "rune-song" or "poem -song"). "rune" means ancient Nordic and Finnish poetry. This is a kind of Finnish folk poetry, which is repetitive in form and rhymes at the beginning. It is cold and charming, as if it brought us to a green land, which is far away and just a fantasy. At the Kostin Folk Music Festival with a history of 1997, Leutuma sang this song in the form of cappella, and then this song began to attract everyone's attention.
However, until 2006, this song was only known in a few European countries such as Finland.
The meaning of throwing onions
What is the onion song? Instead of throwing vegetables and radishes?
"Tite Kubo" was serialized in the weekly magazine "Youth Jump", which was animated on June 5, 2004 and began to be shown. Then the scene of "Orihime Inoue, smiling, walking around with onions in his hand" appeared in the second sentence of the animation, which is the origin of turning around and throwing onions.
Furthermore, the Finnish band "Loituma" sang the Finnish folk song "Ievan Polkka" at 1995, which is the music part of the song "Turn Onions".
Later, an anonymous person who liked these two works very much made a 26-second flash animation with a short piece of Ievan Polkka as the background music, "Orihime Inoue, smiling, kept spinning onions in his hand", which became the famous song "Turn Onions". Orihime Inoue won the title of "Loituma Girl" which has nothing to do with the original work because of animation.
In 2007, the virtual idol software "Hatsune Hatsune Hatsune" of Otomania, Japan (later released the Lenka version), was powered by the speech synthesis software VOCALOID2, and sang this song, which became an instant hit and brought it to other cultures outside Japan.
Influenced by Hatsune Miku's imitation of Loituma's girl "Throwing Onions", she nicknamed the song "Throwing Onions" in Chinese. The Japanese lyrics of Song of Onions are only transliteration of the original lyrics, which is actually meaningless.