"Blue (Da Ba Dee)" is written in the key of G minor, with the vocal range spanning from C 3 to E ♭ 4, and is set in common time with a moderate tempo of 128 beats per minute. Problems playing this file? See media help. Lyrics and composition Ī 30-second sample of Jeffrey Jey's vocals on "Blue (Da Ba Dee)." The song was one of the first ever popular tracks to use pitch correction. The pitch-shifted vocal effect used in the song was created with a harmonizer. Gabutti came up with the "da ba dee" hook. The colour blue as the main theme of the song was picked at random, with Lobina telling him to write nonsensical lyrics. Jey explained that his inspiration for the lyrics was how a person chooses their lifestyle. The producers of the song then came up with the idea for a dance song.
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Written by Eiffel 65 lead singer Jeffrey Jey, keyboardist Maurizio Lobina, and producer Massimo Gabutti, "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" was inspired by Lobina's composed opening piano hook.
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The song also received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Dance Recording at the 2001 Grammy Awards, two years after it was released. In the United Kingdom, the song initially entered the top 40 purely on import sales it was only the third single to do this. The song is the group's most popular single, reaching number one in 17 countries, charting at number two in Italy, and peaking at number six on the US Billboard Hot 100 in January 2000. It is the lead single of their 1999 debut album, Europop. It was first released in October 1998 in Italy by Skooby Records and became internationally successful the following year. " Blue (Da Ba Dee)" is a song by Italian music group Eiffel 65. We really weren't very deep.1998 single by Eiffel 65 "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" that's a bunch of 9-year-olds' interpretation of the song when it first came out.
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"My friends and I used to sing that part as "I'm blue, if I was green I would die." we were in elementary so we thought the person's favorite color was blue and they hated the color green, so if they were green, they wouldn't like it. Then, the vocals were distorted using a device called "vocoder" and so it sounds strange and mysterious, but there’s no secret message there.Īnyway, my favourite comment comes from Ranna (Boondocks, IA), who says: Well, reality is often less exciting, and the truth is that the chorus says exactly that, "Da Ba Dee, Da Ba Die". Some popular interpretations are: "I’m blue and I’m in need of a guy / in Auberdeen I would die / and I believe I will die". If you listen carefully to it, it is not easy to know what it says, so there has been lots of opinions about what is "the secret message" contained in that cryptic sentence. When you are depressed, even the trees and the sky looks sad and depressing.īut the most interesting thing here is the chorus, the magic line " Da Ba Dee, Da Ba Die". He feels so sad that all his life and everything around him looks depressing.
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So the most obvious meaning for this song is the life of a man who is depressed. The music style called " blues" is a sad kind of music. " The blues" means depression, so you can say " I've got the blues" ( I'm depressed) or " That gives me the blues" ( that makes me feel sad). IT’S STANDING OUTSIDE= He refers to his car (a corvette), which is parked outside.įirst of all, let’s say that in English blue is the colour of sadness, so the expression " I’m blue" means " I’m sad, I’m depressed". Notice that in these examples we’re using the double negative (ain’t / nobody), which is incorrect in standard English but quite common in slang (very colloquial English).ĭA BA DEE= We’ve already talked about this line in the section about the general meaning of the song. I ain’t got nobody= I haven’t got anybody. Or maybe this really means "his self", which is "his inner essence".ĪIN’T (coll.)= The negative form of the verbs "to be" and "to have": There guys, money doesn’t bring happiness.ĮVERYTHING IS BLUE FOR HIM= From his point of view (in his opinion) everything is sad.ĪND HIS SELF= In some English dialects they use "his-self" instead of "himself". Listen up= A more emphatic way to say "Listen".īLUE HIS HOUSE= A shortened sentence which means "his house is blue".ĬORVETTE= An expensive brand of car ( you can see the picture here), so this depressed man is rich. YO! (slang)= A cry used as a greeting or to attract someone's attention. About a little guy that lives in a blue worldīlue are the streets and all the trees are tooīlue are the people here that walk aroundīlue like my corvette, it's standing outsideīlue are the words I say and what I thinkīlue are the feelings that live inside me