But back on topic.Įuropop would be the only album Eiffel 65 released outside of Italy. It's passionless, manufactured, music-by-committee fluff. What I do dislike is how few effs were given to make the group a legitimate musical act, that's all. It's auto-tuned nearly to death, but it's catchy. I really don't mean to sound as if I dislike this song, I don't. Group members are anonymous, swapped out as needed and it isn't unheard of for several versions of the same band to tour simultaneously. The way it works is, a producer puts together a song, whichever studio musicians available at the time are slapped together to give the band an "identity" - strictly for touring purposes - and that's it. As a brief aside, I must apologize for there being so many instances of "I don't know" and "I have no idea" in this post, but European dance/club/house/techno acts are notorious for being Frankensteined out of studio projects with concern about who will actually be performing the song a distant second after production value. Why was it nominated in 2001 when it was released in 1998? I have no idea. Their second single, Move Your Body, was well received by fans but considered somewhat of a disappointment since it charted well below Blue.īlue (Da Ba Dee) hit number one in over eleven countries and received a Grammy nomination in 2001 for Best Dance Recording, which they lost to the Baha Men's Who Let the Dogs Out. They had to have been, hell, in 1990 alone we had classics like Born to Sing, Violator, Gonna Make You Sweat.but I digress. Channel 4, the hugely influential British television station, named it the greatest album of the 1990s but I like to think that they were just kidding. Europop reached #4 in the United States on the Billboard 200 and was eventually certified double platinum by the RIAA. Their debut album Europop hit the shelves on November 22, 1999, the lead single Blue (Da Ba Dee) having been released just over a year prior. I assume they worked as studio musicians on various projects, because there doesn't seem to be any information about them during this period. I don't know what they did for the next six years because it wasn't until 1998 that they released their first anything. They liked the way it looked, so they kept it - and thus Eiffel 65 was born. They got their unique name by plugging in several words that the three liked into a randomizer program, which provided the "Eiffel" the "65" was tacked on later after two digits from a phone number were accidentally added to some early promotional sheets. Check it out, off the top of my head: Yo, listen up here's a story/about three guys who made a song in 1999/called Blue (Da Ba Dee) and it was pretty popular/now let's find out whatever happened to.Įiffel 65 was founded in Italy in 1992 and is comprised of members Jeffrey Jey, Maury Lobina and Gabry Ponte. This may be the only song in existence that anyone can make up their own lyrics to as they go along and they'll sound just as legitimate as the real ones.
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