# U.N. Owen Was Her? U.N. Owen Was Her? is a doujin game track composed by ZUN for the 2002 shooter The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, where it plays during the Extra Stage boss fight against vampire Flandre Scarlet. The frantic chiptune became one of the most remixed songs on Nico Nico Douga and later fueled the 'Ronald McDonald Insanity' YouTube MAD trend of 2008. ## Origin ZUN released The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil in 2002 as Touhou's first PC-98-free Windows installment, and U.N. Owen Was Her? plays only once in the game, as the backing track for secret boss Flandre Scarlet[1]. The composition and arrangement are credited solely to ZUN under his Shanghai Alice label[2]. The title is a wink at Agatha Christie's 1939 novel And Then There Were None, where party hosts Ulick Norman Owen and Una Nancy Owen share initials that read as a homophone for 'unknown'[3]. ZUN leaned on that pun to match Flandre's reclusive, barely-canonized character. - **Platform:** Touhou doujin game (source) / Nico Nico Douga and YouTube (viral spread) - **Creator:** ZUN (composer); meme spread driven by COOL&CREATE and anonymous Nico Nico MAD creators - **Date:** 2002 ## Overview U.N. Owen Was Her? (U.N.オーエンは彼女なのか？) is the Extra Stage boss theme from The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, the sixth Touhou game and the first entry released for Windows[1]. Composed by series creator ZUN, the track scores the fight against Flandre Scarlet, which is why fans still call it 'Flandre's theme'[2]. Its driving tempo and jittery melody made it the single most sampled piece in Touhou's enormous remix catalog[3]. The meme is really the song itself, chopped, pitched, and dropped under unrelated footage. Doujin producers built dance remixes and hardcore edits, YouTubers paired it with cursed video clips to make YouTube Poop Music Videos, and vocal fans wrote their own Japanese and English lyrics because ZUN never gave the piece any[3]. Dedicated listeners also kept hunting down loose covers, including a 2010 video that fans briefly mistook for sheet music by composer John Stump[3]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is U.N. Owen Was Her?? It is the Extra Stage boss theme from the 2002 Touhou game The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, composed by ZUN for the fight against Flandre Scarlet[1]. ### Where did U.N. Owen Was Her? come from? ZUN wrote the track for Touhou 6, released by his Shanghai Alice label in 2002, and later remix circles like COOL&CREATE spread it through the doujin scene[4]. ### What does U.N. Owen Was Her? mean? The title puns on Agatha Christie's 1939 novel And Then There Were None, where the Owen hosts' initials read as a homophone for 'unknown'[3]. ### How do you use U.N. Owen Was Her?? People remix or layer the song under unrelated video, from COOL&CREATE's hardcore edit to the Ronald McDonald Insanity MADs that paired it with a Japanese McDonald's ad[6]. ### Is U.N. Owen Was Her? still popular? The track is still a classic in Touhou's remix catalog and the backbone of the McRoll MAD trend that spread on YouTube from 2008 onward[3]. ## References 1. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Embodiment_of_Scarlet_Devil]() 2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIop055eJhU]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/un-owen-was-her]() 4. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_lYJpMqsiQ]() 5. [https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm3306]() 6. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q16KpquGsIc]() 7. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwTB3mD-kDc]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/un-owen-was-her Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library