Music

This Jigglypuff Is Belting Pop Bangers And It’s Glorious

Let Jiggypuff bring insurmountable joy to your life.

by Jared Richards  3 August 2018
Jigglypuff

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Jigglypuff, the cutest Pokémon, is a hypnotising singer — an enchantive chanteuse, if you will.

See, if a Jiggypuff serenades you through song, you’ll fall asleep. It is a power that each Jigglypuff has to reckon with and control — some, like the one in the Pokémon anime, are deeply upset that everyone sleeps on their talent, drawing on everyone’s faces in retribution. Classic!

But Twitter user @ccakeblackwig has now created an alternate reality, called ‘Jigglypuff Singing To‘, where Jigglypuff’s music could only ever pop off.  The concept’s pretty simple: Twitter users can request songs, then they’re synced up to footage of Jigglypuff grabbing the mic and belting it out in Pokémon episode ‘The Song Of Jigglypuff’. The result is pure happiness.

Some are perfect fits, like Britney Spears’ femme fatale anthem ‘Toxic’:

We also learn a lot about this Jigglypuff through the music they sing. For example, when they sing ‘Wannabe’ by the Spice Girls, we learn they have no time for lovers who can’t get down with their friends:

We also now know this Jigglypuff is more than ready to embrace its sexual energy — we don’t really want to imagine it, but that’s cool:

Jigglypuff released one of the year’s best music videos:

Jigglypuff is a bi-lingual icon:

Jigglypuff isn’t afraid to push what pop can be:

Jigglypuff can be anything — and judging by how the Twitter account’s around 60 videos in a week, Jigglypuff is going to be everything. Be inspired: follow Jigglypuff’s journey here.