Blue (Da Ba Dee)
| Blue (Da Ba Dee) | |
|---|---|
| Eiffel 65 | |
| publication | January 15, 1999 (IT) June 28, 1999 (DE) |
| length | 3:29 (single version) 4:43 (album version) |
| Genre (s) | Italodance |
| text | Massimo Gabutti Maurizio Lobina |
| music | Maurizio Lobina Gianfranco Randone |
| Award (s) | see section success |
| album | Europop |
| Cover versions | |
| 2009 | Flo Rida : Sugar |
| 2012 | Michael Mind Project feat. Dante Thomas : Feeling So Blue |
| 2019 | Nea : Some Say |
| 2020 | Shiva & Eiffel 65: Auto blu |
Blue (Da Ba Dee) is a Eurodance song by the Italian music group Eiffel 65 . It was written and produced by Jeffrey Jey , Maurizio Lobina and Massimo Gabutti in 1998. The song was released in spring / summer 1999, first as a single, and later on the debut album Europop . It is the group's most successful single release and was number one in the sales charts in over 15 countries, sometimes for several weeks.
Emergence
In October 1998 Maurizio Lobina played the melody on the piano in the studios of the Bliss Corporation , after which the owner of the label and producer Massimo Gabutti suggested developing a dance song from it. Jeffrey Jey contributed the lyrics. According to Jey, the color blue stands for a person's lifestyle, which includes all things important to them ( girlfriend, car, house ). The line of text "Da Ba Dee" was used because it can be understood across languages and countries.
success
Blue was sent to a few radio stations and DJs in 1999 and disappeared into oblivion. It wasn't until Blue got into the Italian radio rotation in April 1999 that the song became a bestseller. There were quick licensing inquiries, and in July 1999 Blue was published almost all over Europe. The song then dominated the charts for a few weeks, sometimes months, and rose to number one in over 15 countries. In Germany occupied Blue (Da Ba Dee) from August 1999, nine weeks number 1 in the UK for three weeks. With some delay, the leading New York radio station Z100 took the song into their program and thus helped the band to break through in the USA in 2000 . The single rose to number 6 on the Billboard charts.
For the song there was
- Gold records in Italy, the Netherlands and Canada
- Platinum record in Austria and Great Britain
- Multi-platinum record in Germany, Switzerland, Sweden and Australia
- Diamond record in France
Chart placements
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New editions
- In 2008 the band members Jeffrey and Maury Lobina released a new version of the song under the name Bloom 06 , it appeared in Italy on the EP Club Test 01 and in Germany, Austria and Switzerland as a bonus track on the single Being Not Like You . Since the reunification of the Eiffel 65s in 2010, she has also been played in live performances by the band.
- Band member Gabry Ponte released some remixes under the title Eiffel 65 - (A Decade In) Blue (Da Ba Dee) - Remix 2009 together with the DJs from Mars on the occasion of the song's tenth anniversary
- A number of official remixes were released between 2016 and 2018, including by Boostedkids & Monkey Bros, Luis Rodriguez and Da Tweekaz , Code Black and Adrenalize as Team Blue.
Cover versions (selection)
- In 1999 Klaus & Klaus recorded a German version entitled Schön Blau (Da Ba Dee) .
- Max Raabe sang his version of the song for the album Superhits with the Palast Orchester in 2001 .
- The rapper Flo Rida covered the chorus in his song Sugar (2009).
- The German DJ - project Michael Mind Project participated together with the US singer Dante Thomas in 2012 the song as the basis for the song Feeling So Blue .
- The Canadian DJ and producer Dzeko covered Blue (Da Ba Dee) together with the Colombian duo F4ST in a future house version.
- Alex Christensen and The Berlin Orchestra released an orchestral version of the song together with Bars and Melody in 2018 .
- The Italian rapper Shiva released the song Auto blu in 2020 , which is based on a sample from Blue . Eiffel 65 are named as additional performers.
Music video
The media department of Bliss Corporation BlissCoMedia produced a music video for the song in 1999, for which, among other things, the 3ds Max program was used. The music video has over 190,000,000 views and more than 1,400,000 likes on YouTube . (As of September 2019) The story for the music video was designed by Jeffrey Jey and BlissCo employee Davide La Sala. At the beginning it shows the members of the band on different monitors, which have movable, rotating robotic arms. During a concert, Jey is kidnapped by the two blue aliens Zorotl and Sayok6 and taken to their planet Tukon4. Lobina and Ponte then climb into their own spaceship and pursue the kidnappers. In the next scene, they fight the aliens while Jey is teleported from the spaceship to a stage in front of an alien audience. Shortly afterwards he is picked up by his bandmates and together they travel back to earth. The Tukon4 residents ask them to come back soon, whereupon they turn back and play a concert.
Others
In 2013, an excerpt from Blue was used in the opening scene of the film Iron Man 3 . Jeffrey Jey sang the song's intro in Mandarin for the release in China .
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Chart sources: Worldwide ; Guido Racca: Top 100 FIMI Singoli. Lulu , 2013.
- ↑ YouTube - Official Bloom 06 video biography
- ↑ Interview with NBC GIGA, July 1999
- ↑ jam! - The color of money is Blue , March 25, 2000
- ↑ a b c d 1999 annual charts: DE AT CH UK US
- ↑ Annual charts 2000: US
- ^ Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee) Live at Discothek Indie , August 13, 2010
- ^ Max Raabe & Palastorchester - Superhits ( German ) Das Palast Orchester - Musicians, Max Raabe & Partners. Archived from the original on July 10, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 9, 2015.
- ↑ Bloom 06.com - “BLUE” PART OF THE NEW FLO RIDA SINGLE
- ↑ Feeling So Blue at Technobase.fm
- ↑ YouTube - Official music video
- ↑ Blue (Da Ba Dee) from Eiffel65 in Marvel's “IRON MAN 3” , eiffel65.com, accessed February 28, 2015
