I'm Blue Da Ba Dee

Engine · 01-13-2013, 06:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Goofle11

"If I was green I would die" was the original lyric for anyone interested.

I'll admit that I am interested.
Was it originally like: "I'm blue. If I was green I would die, if I was green I would die, if I was green I would die, if I was green I would die, if I was green I would die, if I was green I would die, if I was green I would die. I'm blue."?

If so, did the powers that be decide that those lyrics needed to be censored because they were too harsh or too childish? Either way, hilarious if true. And proof of the insecurities imposed upon the youths of the 90s..

AjayMac · 01-14-2013, 09:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali

I remember the very day I heard that song. (was around 2001 or so) I was working as a welder, fabricating parts for commercial heaters in a hot ass factory in Florida. There was always someone with a radio on, tuned to the local station that played pop and party hits, so we could listen to absolutely asinine crap while we did repetitive, meaningless work for minimum wage and have something to hate more than what we were doing with our lives.

I was SUBJECTED to it the first time I heard it. And was tortured by it for months thereafter. It made some of the other crap that came on the radio a welcome relief.

HA! Sounds terrible. That would definitely make me dread going to work every day. At least with an office job you can, more often than not, plug in your headphones and quietly jam out to your own music on Pandora or Spotify.

Lilja · 01-21-2013, 03:19 AM

I think that Eiffel 65 together was a great band overall but their truly great songs were always overshadowed by this tune and hence, they were ignored. But I guess since they did do the Olympic theme song for the 2006 Winter Olympics and they did make it very big in Italy, they did not do too badly for themselves. I do think their best songs were done in Italian but the English versions are not so bad. Gabry Ponte has some great music out there since he started his solo dj career (the keyboardist/song writer for Eiffel 65).

Engine · 01-21-2013, 03:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Lilja

I think that Eiffel 65 together was a great band overall but their truly great songs were always overshadowed by this tune and hence, they were ignored. But I guess since they did do the Olympic theme song for the 2006 Winter Olympics and they did make it very big in Italy, they did not do too badly for themselves. I do think their best songs were done in Italian but the English versions are not so bad. Gabry Ponte has some great music out there since he started his solo dj career (the keyboardist/song writer for Eiffel 65).

Such as this?

Lilja · 01-21-2013, 04:16 AM

Actually I like that song. It was a big hit in Italy. This one as well:

Everyones musical taste to their own. But it does not deny the fact that in the end, Gabry Ponte and Eiffel 65 did quite well for themselves.

Engine · 01-21-2013, 04:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Lilja

Everyones musical taste to their own. But it does not deny the fact that in the end, Gabry Ponte and Eiffel 65 did quite well for themselves.

True. In my estimation they made terrible-sounding music, but it clearly made some people very rich.

01-21-2013, 03:19 AM	#43 (permalink)
Lilja Music Addict Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 521	I think that Eiffel 65 together was a great band overall but their truly great songs were always overshadowed by this tune and hence, they were ignored. But I guess since they did do the Olympic theme song for the 2006 Winter Olympics and they did make it very big in Italy, they did not do too badly for themselves. I do think their best songs were done in Italian but the English versions are not so bad. Gabry Ponte has some great music out there since he started his solo dj career (the keyboardist/song writer for Eiffel 65).

01-21-2013, 04:16 AM	#45 (permalink)
Lilja Music Addict Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 521	Actually I like that song. It was a big hit in Italy. This one as well: Everyones musical taste to their own. But it does not deny the fact that in the end, Gabry Ponte and Eiffel 65 did quite well for themselves.