The phrase comes from Brazil, where the flip-flop is the legendary symbol of a mother's discipline and jokes about it are everywhere in everyday speech. Saying the slipper is about to sing means a playful smack is coming, and the line became a repeatable meme caption for any moment of incoming trouble. Short voice clips of the phrase now circulate as reaction audios and in short-form meme edits, usually dropped right before someone gets caught, scolded or pranked.