U Can't Touch This is an electronic song performed by Gummibär released by Gummybear International on YouTube under the channel of The Official Gummibär Channel on February 28, 2025 in an animated music video format and later released as a digital single on YouTube Music in the same day. On March 5, 2025, the single was released on the rest of streaming platforms and was uploaded on GummyRadio.
The song is a cover of the 1990 song of the same name, which prominently sampled the song "Super Freak". It was produced by Maci Schneider, who has also provided his voice for the main singing vocals of Gummibär. The instrumental and vocals were slightly edited for the music video adaptation.
Prior to being uploaded publicly, it was streamed on Gummibär's Official Server at 11:00 AM EST by the administrator known online as gummydude, who is affiliated with Gummybear International, and an unlisted link redirecting to the video was left in the chat, before it was finally made public.
Although there is no detailed information behind the music video's production, gummydude would eventually announce two music videos that would then be uploaded in early 2025; King of Sports coming in first, and U Can't Touch This coming in second.
Development[]
One of the first signs of the music video's released was on January 7, 2025, where gummydude discussed about two brand new animated music videos being in the works, and stated one of them was a completely original composition, while the other one was based on a cover from an already existing song.[1]
On January 23, 2025, a screencap from the music video was unveiled exclusively on Gummibär's Official Server.[2] gummydude stated that the music video would be based on a song released in the 90's[3], which led server members to theorise what song it could have been. However, the music video was later delayed due to unknown circumstances, now being scheduled to release after King of Sports.[4]
On February 25, 2025, gummydude would announce again that the music video would be finally released as of Friday, February 28, 2025[5], to then send another screencap of the music video.[6]
Shortly before the music video was released on February 28, 2025, people asked gummydude to give a clue as to which of the people who theorised anonymously got it right.[7] A few hours later, gummydude begun to post a couple of more screencaps of the music video[8], until he started to stream the music video through a public voice chat where people could watch it prior to the official video being released publicly on YouTube.[9]
Video[]
Trivia[]
General[]
This is the first song to have a title beginning with the letter U.
Callbacks[]
Gummibär's typical car from the 2-minute long version of I Am A Gummy Bear returns for this music video, appearing while being driven by Gummy who bounces it.
Additionally, the microphone from said music video and the Nuki pacifier from the music video of Nuki Nuki (The Nuki Song) reappear for a few brief moments.
Gummibär's act of bouncing upside down using his head is similar to one of the previously released music videos Funny DJ (RƎMIX).
Production[]
A remnant of the original outfit seen on the Nuki.
In early teaser screenshots, Gummibär was shown wearing an open, seemingly golden vest, reminiscent of the style commonly worn by MC Hammer. This change was made due to the team not being satisfied with the animations in certain scenes.[10]
It is possible that this is the reasoning behind the music video's delay.
Cultural references[]
Gummibär partially does a dance move that is quite reminiscent of one of the dance moves that the rapper BlocBoy JB performed for the song Shoot released in 2017, which was later popularized by the online video game Fortnite, adding the dance move as the "Hype" emote after the song's success.
The beginning of the music video with Gummibär falling from the sky while a spotlight is pointed at him with choirs in the background can be associated with the opening sequence of the original Mr. Bean television series, as it shares the same features.
