The soundbite ‘Tu Velo’ seemingly has no meaning. What’s more is the obscurity of the origin. Despite dozens of viral clips including the phrase, it’s exceedingly difficult to find out what it means. Some say it’s a Spanish phrase. Google translate indeed returns “your veil” when typing in Tu Velo. Alas, that isn’t the origin. So where does it come from?
Origin of ‘Tu Tu velo’
The unlikely source of the meme phrase ‘Tu tu velo? Period!” is none other than Megan Thee Stallion. During an Instagram livestream, Megan can be seen slightly bemused trying to pronounce the artists name of the song she’s currently listening to: Tove Lo – Habits. The end result is the iconic meme.
The whimsical hilarity of Megan’s pronunciation of the Swedish singer captured the attention of fans and onlookers, who quickly got to work reworking the audio of the clip into their own meme creations. Examples include making fun of the incidental Spanish sounding nature of the pronunciation. Many others are sass-filled moments in everyday relatable moments.
![Image showing a person pronouncing Tu velo in spanish class to mean "Your Veil" and a girl captioned "Me making my own names for people in the Bible because I cant pronounce them".](https://megasplain.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Tuvelo-meme.jpg)
The phrase ‘Tu Velo’ has become an inside joke with people ‘in the know’ who turn the phrase into potentially any meaning. Because “Tu velo” effectively has no meaning, there are endless possibilities for how it can be used as a phrase, joke or meme. Additional laughs can be had when people try to discover what it means.
![YouTube comment stating "My whole math class says tu velo when we finally understand something"](https://megasplain.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/tu-velo-2.png)
The popularity of the meme is such that most people do not know the origin of “Tu velo” and instead only know the jokes that have arisen from it. The popularity of the trend has been explosive, with a TikTok of Megan Thee Stallion pronouncing ‘Tove Lo’ accumulating over 3,000 reshares.
What’s the correct way to pronounce Tove Lo?
Tove Lo uploaded a YouTube video addressing her name. She explains that the correct way of pronouncing her name in her native Swedish is “Too-ve-loo”, however she has “embraced the international way” of saying her name, that being “Toe-vlow”. When everybody pronounces your name wrong, sometimes you have to accept defeat and run with the popular consensus. Otherwise, a lot of confusion and hard times will be met.
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