'Do a Barrel Roll' Song a YouTube Video Hit for Star Fox & Google

The "Do a Barrel Roll" song has become a renewed hit on YouTube video, which makes a hit for the search engine Google as well, so to speak. The popular song is also a recent trending search phrase which causes Google search to go for a spin, or barrel roll. The phrase refers to aviation and appropriately a classic video game featuring flying planes or jets.

The "Do a Barrel Roll" phrase first become a hot search as internet users were trying out the search on Google.com the search engine. Once typed in, it caused the search results page to tumble a bit before re-adjusting. It became a top trend for the Google searches as of Thursday. Now there's a catchy little song and video to go with the search engine madness.

That song video from YouTube (seen below) is a mere 17-second long graphics scene with old school video game music below. It comes from the classic Nintendo 64 and SNES game series "Star Fox." IBTimes.com reports the YouTube video has received over 1.6 million hits and also has a ringtone available for download. This would also make one wonder how long before a clever producer or rapper takes the beat as their own and makes a "Do a Barrel Roll" rap song. This could be the latest geeky version of "Teach Me How to Dougie," so watch out!

(image source: Wikimedia)

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