that's a bunch of 9-year-olds' interpretation of the song when it first came out. "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. 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". Bakhtiar Khattak - Gul De Pa Zulfo Lyrics Stargay De Sraay Bara de. 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. / Sample by Eiffel 65, from Im blue / Im blue, DA BA DE DA BA DI DA BA DE DA BA DI DA. 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. It wouldn’t surprise me if the next generation of historians discovers that this was actually a documentary of the band’s early success, captured with primitive film cameras and devoid of digital manipulation.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 No spoiler alert here but let’s just say the last 30 seconds of the video have done more to cement my trust in intergalactic cooperation than anything George Lucas ever did. But a quick glance back at the planet generates a severe case of Stockholm syndrome in the band members’ bleached guido souls: The keyboardists fight their way to the stage and recapture their frontman, escaping the throng and setting coordinates back to Italy. By this time, Jey has been beamed down to a stage and made to perform for a sea (get it?) of obsessed extraterrestrial fans, bobbing and weaving their webbed hands in unison to their favorite Terran anthem. Unclear of the captors’ intentions, keyboardists Maurizio Lobina and Gabry Ponte board their own spaceship and give chase, eventually docking with their craft and using a series of Street Fighter II-derived missile and extended-limb attacks to fight off waves of foot soldiers (guess what color they are!!?). Three stunningly goateed Italians use the opening stanza to introduce themselves to the world, rotating incoherently through space on robot-arm-mounted cathode ray tubes, before Jey is beamed up by a duo of body snatchers, his shuffling tearaways and bucket hat frozen mid-stride in the hull of a ship. But I was able to look past the poorly rendered polygons on my fourth viewing and discover a fish-out-of-water tale that Tim Burton would be proud to direct. I don’t know if it’s just me but I was so transfixed by the rough-hewn scenery of the “Blue” video that I had no idea what the fuck was going on the first three times I watched it. Three stunningly goateed Italians use the opening stanza to introduce themselves to the world
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