# Giorno's Theme Giorno's Theme, also known as Giorno's Piano, is the piano passage from Il vento d'oro, the main soundtrack cue of the 2018 anime JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind. Because the melody plays whenever protagonist Giorno Giovanna is about to defeat an opponent, Reddit's /r/ShitpostCrusaders turned it into a running joke in early 2019, and by late that year YouTubers were pasting the piano over Avengers scenes, public piano covers and reaction edits. ## Origin JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind began airing on October 5th, 2018, with music composed by Yugo Kanno. The soundtrack arrived on December 19th, 2018, and the same day YouTube channel Golden Weed uploaded Il vento d'oro, where it drew more than 98 million views over the next two years[1]. A separate reupload trimmed to just the piano passage picked up over 17 million views in the same window[4]. The meme format emerged on February 4th, 2019, when Redditor Solariu posted a joke to /r/ShitpostCrusaders titled "Piano dramatically intensifies," calling out how the piano cue signals Giorno is about to win[2]. The post gained over 1,500 upvotes in five months[3]. On June 24th, Redditor hiimawerewolf posted a chart comparing how each JoJo protagonist fights, with the punchline that Giorno just needs the piano, bringing in over 14,100 upvotes in two days[5]. - **Platform:** YouTube (source) / Reddit (viral spread) - **Creator:** Unknown - **Date:** 2018 ## Overview Giorno's Theme, also called Giorno's Piano, is the orchestral and piano cue titled Il vento d'oro (Italian for Golden Wind) that plays over climactic scenes in the fifth part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure[1]. In the show, the delicate piano intro starts just before Giorno Giovanna lands a decisive blow, so viewers began treating the opening bars as a sound effect for inevitable defeat[2]. Memes using the track fall into two shapes. One is image-based: a screenshot or drawing captioned so the reader supplies the melody in their head, like Redditor Solariu's February 2019 post playing on the piano trope[2]. The other is video-based, where editors paste the piano under any scene of someone being outclassed, from Marvel fights to real-life pratfalls[3]. First-listen reaction edits and public-piano stunts round out the format, pairing the music with surprised bystanders or crossover anime villains. ## How to Use A typical video edit drops the piano intro at the moment someone is about to be humiliated or defeated, letting the melody imply the outcome before it happens. Image macros often lean on the subreddit convention of a caption like "image you can hear," trusting viewers to supply the music from memory[6]. First-listen reaction videos invert the joke by showing someone experiencing the full track for the first time. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Giorno's Theme? Giorno's Theme is the fan nickname for Il vento d'oro, the piano-and-orchestra piece from the 2018 anime JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind that plays when Giorno Giovanna is about to defeat an enemy[1]. ### Where did Giorno's Theme come from? The track was composed by Yugo Kanno for the Golden Wind soundtrack, released on December 19th, 2018, and uploaded to YouTube the same day by Golden Weed[1]. ### What does Giorno's Theme mean? In meme usage, the piano opening signals that someone is about to lose, so hearing or captioning it over any image or scene reads as a joke about imminent defeat[2]. ### How do you use Giorno's Theme? Editors typically drop the piano intro over a scene of someone getting outclassed, while image posters caption pictures with the understanding that readers will hear the melody in their head[6]. ### Is Giorno's Theme still popular? The format is classic rather than currently trending, but the original Golden Weed upload crossed 98 million views and Joe Jenkins' public-piano cover reached 32.8 million views as the song kept circulating through 2019 and beyond[11]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MtOpB5LlUA]() 2. [https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitPostCrusaders/comments/an2yzo/piano_dramatically_intensifies/]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/giornos-theme-giornos-piano]() 4. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLyRpGKWXRs]() 5. [https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitPostCrusaders/comments/c4z30a/_/]() 6. [https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitPostCrusaders/comments/b7jl83/images_you_can_hear/]() 7. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-veXvxWzeac]() 8. [https://www.instagram.com/p/B0G9FGPHw2F]() 9. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5pxHgnrz0M]() 10. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfmoIHY7Z-k]() 11. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np1enCo5vVY]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/giornos-theme-giornos-piano Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library