Trivia
- This song was released as an April Fools joke.
- The song's catalog number contains the word 'crab' (MCRAB).
- This song was released on the Instinct channel as a music video, a first for Noisestorm.
- Noisestorm created the music video using Unreal Engine 4.
- On the day of its release, April 1st, the Monstercat subreddit, Discord channel, release documents, and Wikia were renamed to Monstercrab.
- Unexpectedly, Crab Rave, as an April Fools' song, was placed on the Instinct Vol. 1 album, replacing Stay.
- The song has spawned a huge meme around social media (such as YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, and Reddit), which has a snippet of the music video with a bass boosted version of the song with multiple absurd quotes.
- Prominent quotes include:
- OBAMA IS GONE (Original Quote)
- MY WIFE IS GONE
- SHE TOOK THE KIDS
- MCCAIN IS GONE
- MY DIAMONDS ARE GONE
- Because of it being a meme, it has its own page at the Know Your Meme website, which can be found here.
- It has also been stated by Noisestorm himself in November interview with Monstercat for their blog (can be found on Monstercat.com) that every time he listened to it, he always imagined it being a tune that crabs would dance to on an island of some sort, hence the 3D rendered video.
- This song has also earned Noisestorm $50,000 USD as a grant from Unreal Engine 4, for having the most creative and original use of their software.
- This is the second Monstercat single to reach the Billboard Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart, peaking at #36.
- This song is also got from PewDiePie attention so much that he also uses this song couple of times and recently got rank #2 on PewDiePie Meme Award 2018 music category
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