# Rockefeller Street Rockefeller Street is Estonia's 2011 Eurovision entry by Getter Jaani that found a bizarre second life as a Nightcore remix soundtracking a viral video of two Japanese Osu! players dancing in their chairs. The clip bounced around YouTube and 4chan for years before exploding on TikTok in late 2018 as the backbone of the #showtimechallenge duet trend. ## Origin The song's YouTube trail began on January 9th, 2011, when Moonwalkstudio uploaded the official track; the video had picked up more than 2 million views by late 2018[3]. On July 21st, 2011, an Osu! player going by Andrea uploaded a Nightcore remix to his YouTube channel andrea1992rw and three days later submitted a beatmap of the song to the rhythm game[2]. The remix was re-uploaded by TheNightcoreWitcher on September 16th, 2011, which is the version most meme audiences actually hear[2]. The meme video itself came almost three years later. On January 1st, 2014, YouTuber na k posted a clip of two Japanese men playing Osu! and chair-dancing to the Nightcore remix under the title "新年明けたからosuときちがい"[4]. The video drifted between unlisted and unavailable states over the years but still racked up over 3 million views, and was later re-uploaded by CatHoward in March 2015 and by Chan Ylyl in July 2015, who noted he had pulled it off 4chan's /gif/ board[2]. - **Platform:** Eurovision (song) / YouTube (Nightcore remix) / TikTok (viral spread) - **Creator:** Unknown (song by Getter Jaani; viral dance video by YouTuber na k) - **Date:** 2011 ## Overview Rockefeller Street started as a straight pop song written by Sven Lohmus and performed by Estonian singer Getter Jaani at the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest, where it placed 24th[1]. The meme life of the track has almost nothing to do with the original performance and almost everything to do with a pitched-up Nightcore remix set to anime art from the doujin artbook Fuyunagi, published by the Ice to Choco circle in 2010[2]. The recognizable format is twofold: the sped-up chorus ("1273 down to Rockefeller Street") paired with a specific chair dance where arms shoot diagonally up on alternating sides, repeated and remixed with moves from other TikTok trends like Default Dance, The Floss, Shoot Dance and Orange Justice[2]. Users mostly encounter it as a looping sound clip under duet chains rather than as the full Jaani single. ## How to Use The common convention is a TikTok duet: the user films themselves doing the chair-dance (arms diagonally up, side to side, double tap, repeat) in sync with the Nightcore chorus, often splicing in moves from other dance memes. Longer duet chains stack multiple users doing their own variation on the same loop, and the audio is typically the @zee.456 sample rather than the full song. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Rockefeller Street? It's a 2011 Estonian Eurovision song by Getter Jaani that turned into a meme through a Nightcore remix soundtracking a viral Osu! chair-dance video and later a huge TikTok duet trend[2]. ### Where did Rockefeller Street come from? The song was written by Sven Lohmus for Eurovision 2011, where Jaani's performance placed 24th[1]; the meme itself grew out of a Nightcore remix an Osu! player posted in July 2011[2]. ### What does Rockefeller Street mean? Online it mostly refers to the sped-up Nightcore chorus ("1273 down to Rockefeller Street") and the specific chair-dance from the 2014 Osu! video rather than the lyrics of the original Eurovision track[2]. ### How do you use Rockefeller Street? Users typically duet the @zee.456 TikTok sound while doing the diagonal-arm chair-dance, often mashing in moves from Default Dance, The Floss, Shoot Dance or Orange Justice[2]. ### Is Rockefeller Street still popular? Its peak was the 2018 to 2019 TikTok wave, when the #rockefellerstreet hashtag passed 84 million views and the follow-up #showtimechallenge added another 43.8 million by June 2019[2]. ## References 1. [https://web.archive.org/web/20180628233910/https://eurovisionworld.com/eurovision/2011]() 2. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/rockefeller-street]() 3. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdNAYokSlCc]() 4. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPVIgshtOag]() 5. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XdQa9EvFjA]() 6. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLJdfrVa3p4]() 7. [https://menu.err.ee/911083/sotsiaalmeedia-hitt-rockefeller-street-kolas-eesti-laulu-finaalis]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/rockefeller-street Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library