Hannah Montana premiered on Disney Channel in 2006, starring Miley Cyrus as Miley Stewart, a teenager living a double life as pop star Hannah Montana. The series ran until 2011 and became one of the channel's defining hits, with music and styling central to its identity. Its short transition cues were part of that sound. Clips of the show later circulated widely on TikTok and other video platforms, where editors reused this cue for transformation videos, separating it from the episodes and turning it into a familiar shorthand for a dramatic change.