I love literal ones like this. It just acts out everything that happens in the lyrics. An illustration of what the lyrics are about. They go for a drive, she puts on her shades, they get noticed by a cop who wants to compliment them on their ride, they stop for gas and spot a circus poster....it's a simple and charming as the song itself
Literally, why am I crying?! I miss music like this so much! Sitting here, listening to all these nostalgia bands because music today isn’t the same. Something about music back than made you feel so alive and positive like everything was gonna be OK. Music today isn’t the same man I’ll tell you that 😮💨. Even one hit wonders back, then hit harder than music today.
Wow. I literally just said the words, “why is this making me cry?” Then I saw your comment. I’m glad I’m in good company. I’ve been listening to this song for 25 years now. One of the best.
My wife liked this song. I liked punk and metal. Since she passed I listen to it to remind me when life was good. God I miss my best friend and soul mate.
Originally from The Chambers Brothers - Funky. Also sampled by A Tribe Called Quest on "I Left My Wallet in El Secundo", who used the bass line from that song as well. That said, OMC made the best use of the sample, IMHO. Even in the Chambers Brothers' song, it feels out of place.
@@EvenTheDogAgrees Although it sounds like it, it's not sampled from that song. It's just a typical guitar embellishment that many songs throughout the ages use in one form or another. They do sample the drums from "WHOOMP! (There It Is)" though...
The lyrics name "Zina" in the front, when actually he says "Sina" refering to background vocalist Sina Saipaia, featured in the video. She is the only surviving member of the group, as founder Phil Fuemana passed away in 2005, his brother Pauly, featured here, who sang "How Bizarre" passed away from pneumonia in 2010. OMC stands for Otara Millionaires Club, a tongue in cheek reference to Otara, one of the poorest suburbs of Auckland NZ.
He had been suffering for a long time from Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) which is a neurological disorder -- a condition that targets your body's nerves, prior to contracting the pneumonia.
I am 66 and find mushrooms also help me enjoy life Life gets strange and lonely when all friends and family die first 2:43 Enjoy your life It's probably later than we think
So privileged to be a 90's kid - this just takes me back to those hazy Summer days that seemed to last forever, hanging out with my best friends riding bikes, exploring and more all day long until the sun went down... I don't see them anymore (we're all in our mid 30's now) and I don't even know what happened to a few or where this crazy ride called life took them, but will always have the cherished memories of those days. Happy tears.
I do like this song if it is 4 pitches lower because then it will felt more like a twilight afternoon sunny day while in it’s original higher pitch,it will more felt like a rainy evening day.
NOTE: RIP Pauly Fuemana. The lead singer of this Really Awesome Song, Died in 2010, at age 40 of pneumonia. We'll forever love 1996 and OMC. Mad Respect UA-cam!
Songs like this remind me that there were indeed some music masterpieces outside of the techno, trance, dance, hip hop, grunge, in the 90s. My beautiful early teen years. Forever special place in my heart. Tho later in my life i realised that i prefer 80s music to any other decade. But was just a little kid in the 80s and grew up in the 90s. The magic of growing up, those are the best years of anyone's life. It's simply like that.
Cake is another 90s group with a very similar vibe to this track. The deadpan vocals, use of trumpets... I didn't get to know their catalog until the early 2000s because I wrote them off after "the distance" or "never there" which were just ok. But they were good.
Nirvana, Metallica growing on us, sexy Christmas guy on Detroit radio. The 90s was a tipping of the universal shift. after that ppl lost their genuine stepping. I a Minnelli boy from 90 itself, we had to grow up a lot, I push myself and I'm doing okay. I did fuck up alot and get locked up a bit for failed probation smh. either way, this song sounds so 90s....a tribe called quest electric
As a little child in the 90s, I remember loving this song that I listened a lot in daddys car , beging for repeat again and again. I’m 31 now and last week my little sister played it on speakers from our dad playlist. What a sudden , unexpected and lovely comeback in time !! Love from France 🇫🇷
Yes! Definitely so for me. I was in my teens. This brings back memories of the beach on summer vacation, my new Nintendo 64 and getting happily lost in Mario 64. Love to you from the US.
I am also 31 years old, but I was a little child from the US. I begged my mom to record this song on a cassette so that I could listen to it on repeat whenever I wanted. I remember the music video came out in 1997, when we were six, and I was just learning how to read, so it's one of the first songs I learned about all on my own. It's how I learned what "bizarre" meant haha
This song was so unique when it came out, nothing like the 90s. Many people say initially they didn't like it. In fact some say the first time they heard it they hated it, thought it was weird. The whole song is unique and unlike the 90s songs. But even some of the people that initially hated it, later loved it. All I know is that the very first time I heard it, I fell in love with it. It's just a beautiful overall song, from the trumpets, the harmonica-like parts, the way Pauly sings it is so perfectly fitting to the music. I never get tired of listening to this song. It is a masterpiece, from start to finish it's just so perfect! How Bizarre!!!
It suffered at the time because it was SO heavily overplayed. I liked it, but you just couldn’t get away from it so it started to get annoying. I’m back on board now
Looking back, it sounds a bit like a Cake song. There’s also hints of what would later be ska revival. So really it fits the 90s given the era and what was popular on rock and college radio at the time.
Mike you would be 50 in 94. We are celebrating my sons birthday tomorrow the big 30 I was a young dad just a lad of 16 me and the mrs celebrating 22 years married tomorrow. 32 years together and the lady still loves me. Stay forever groovy my friend ❤
@@BoundInChains Pauly was half Niuean, half Māori...but Hawaiians and Māori are very closely related. For one, the native Hawaiians call themselves Maoli, speak a language very similar to Māori, and also the Māori ancestral homeland was an unidentified place called Hawaiki. Since Māori does not have any Ls (they swap them for Rs), you can see these words are extraordinarily similar for two places so far apart. Words they share include the fact that Māori and Maoli both mean “normal” in each language (i.e “normal people” in contrast to European people hahaha)
That's what I thought in the 90's. The 80s SUCKED (but some good music 😀) and 90s were a breath of fresh air, just like this song. 2022... Society is dumpster fires, everywhere. As bad as I thought Reagan was making things in the 80s, I'm still shocked to be living in this dystopian nightmare that news and polticians still keep acting like is normal.
When his wife heard his new band and music she kept saying “How Bizarre” anytime she’d hear what they did.. this whole song is a nod to his wife. Is there anything sweeter you can do for someone you love?
J’écoutais cet album en boucle avec mon père quand j’étais petit, il est parti il y a longtemps maintenant. Merci Pauly, les bons moments font les bons souvenirs, j’honorerai ta mémoire comme celle de mon père.
28 Aug 24 ...Amazing Kiwi ..I play this often ..makes me proud to be a Kiwi living on Saltspring Island bc canada ..RIP Pauly ...you had so much to offer ..how bizzar
Heard this song yesterday and it almost brought tears to my eyes. To be caught off guard by a song from ur childhood-such a nostalgic feeling. Now I'm listening to this song until SOMETHING ELSE from my childhood re-emerges. 90's, you are desperately, terribly, sadly missed. :'(
hell ya 90's were the best im so thankful to be born in late 80's growing up. i miss all the cartoons movies everything was the best.i love oldschool and rest in peace to this guy song brings back hella memories since 8yrs old
I absolutely love this song. When it came out I was the Service manager for the biggest jukebox route in the upper Florida Keys and I put this cd on every jukebox on the route the day it came out in advance of everyone else. My boss who was a country music fan thought I was nuts. This done increased our next collection 23 percent by itself. Bartenders were bitching at me because it was getting played damn near constantly at the best party locations like Holiday Isle, Whistle Stop, Hog Heaven, Carribean Club, Slimey's Raw Bar and others. Even up at the Last Chance Saloon a serious Country Western bar. The last bar on the mainland before the stretch to the 18 mile Keys. I got a bonus next pay day and given full control on new music picks other that country music. That's when I began adding electronic dance music and we saw another increase in collections. Boss was mucho happy. Our company motto was. "It keeps us in the bars and off the streets". I loved every second of my 10 years living down there and this song stayed in the top 10 money slots the till I left.
Maybe "one hit wonder," but makes you feel good just the same: camera angles, vignettes, singers, dancers and editing; it all comes together with a vibe that's still fresh.
@@Me-ui1zy You are 100% right. My dad grew up in the 50s and thought that was the best time, I grew up in the 80s and 90s and I consider that the best, my kids will look back on the 2020s and think how amazing and lucky they were to grow up now. It's been going on since we were cavemen.
@dyslexicbatnam1350 There's always going to be pessimists and depressed people like yourself. The majority of happy healthy people with positive outlooks on the experience of life and existing in general have strong nostalgia for their youth. I'm sorry life has been so hard for you.
Concordo 100%. Muitas músicas eu não tenho a mínima ideia de como a banda/cantor tirou da mente notas e melodias tão perfeitas. As vezes eu tento mentalmente criar uma música não existente e não consigo.
I come back to this song anytime I want to remind myself of the beautiful childhood I had, and how extremely lucky I am to have been a youth in the 1990s. God thank you
This brings back very strong childhood memories, life was so simple back then, long hot summer days, picnics and camping with the kids next door in their garden. Those were good times :)
Well said, what a sad one. Your right about his style accent and moves he was incredible guy looks like the girl was important to him thanks for your information
I love how Pauly always made this style of “rapping” so classy and just made it work with the music him and Jansson pumped out. He’ll always have my respect for it. This song came out in like 95-96 I was like 5th grade and it makes me think back to simpler and more positive days. I always loved this song. He was taken from us way too soon. May he Rest In Peace.
I honestly think these classier and eclectic variations on rap that were being experimented with in the 90s, especially outside of the US rap scene, are an unfairly forgotten chapter in pop music history. :-( It's an honest shame we don't get more music like this, and crass glam rap (nowadays made further unlistenable via autotune additions) is still around and grinding ahead. Desperate and dreary.
This song brings back great memories for me. I moved to Northern California in 1996 to take my first job after graduating from university and this song was playing on all the radio stations. Still associate it with such a special and amazing time in my life. Thank you OMC!
This song brings back great memories for me. I moved to Southern California in 1994 and learned to inline skate at age 48. Still associate it with a special and amazing time in my life.
Had this in my head at work today. Had a serious conversation about how this song is far beyond classic. It fits for every era that's passed. It's still relevant.
Pauly Fuemana took me to Rainbows End when I was a kid because I was good friends with one of his children. He was a kind man and his kids were great. Love this song
I used to be a radical metalhead back then, and I hated this song and pop-rock back then. I had totally forgotten about it. Now, there I was, 37 y.o me in an Uber a couple of days ago, and heard this song by accident in a radio station, and here I am loving it and amazed at how good of a song it is.
It's amazing what becomes cool and what becomes trash as we get to the end of our 30s! It's the same way with food to. Also people, old friends we can't stand and new friends who we love.
@@indigojones8 Sounds ('sounds') Fine, but let me ask you: when you were an Obituary Writer, did you wear thrift store vintage suits, old wingtips and a beret? And ride an antique BMW Motorcycle? And now, (just for the academic hell of it) would you be able to describe your 'style?' let me promise you I mean no impertinence! Of course I was sort of clowning around with the initial guess, but your post implies a pretty novel life, and if you're also writing a novel, I hope it's an absolute bombshell!
Geesh man, this hit just never does and never get old! Just the good old days when errybody be sitting back chillin' and blasting this music on repeat mode at the beach, or having family gathering cookouts! R.I.P Pauly Fuemana. One hell of a legend!
Man, 1996 was a phenomenal year! I remember all this great music, and seeing so many summer blockbusters in the cinema, like Independence Day, Twister, and Mission: Impossible. I sure do miss the 90s!
@@danielward7008 Chill cuzzy, just wanted to add the album was great as you didn’t elaborate I thought that’s all you had heard and not given the album a go but if you have, wicked.
Years ago, I burnt a CD with some songs and this one was on it. I played it in my car when I was commuting, and this song was my favorite on a friday night. When I was stuck in the infamous traffic jams of Brussels, my weekend already started by loudly singing "How bizarre?" My fellow commuters in the other cars must have thought I was crazy! Only recently I rediscovered this song on UA-cam, and got to know its Maori origins, and the fact that Pauly died far too young and that Sinna never had the singing career she deserved. Life can be so cruel... But whenever I feel down, I promise I will sing this song, and I will feel better!
I was coming home from work one day and heard this on the radio. The Dee Jay said what song it was and who was performing it. I went straight to the music department of my local box store and bought this. Put it on the CD player as soon as I walked in the door and left it on repeat the rest of the evening. I just love that big horn in it!!! The rest of it is pretty cool too!!!
"Johnny I'm stuck!"
How bizarre
We came here from the same meme ahahahahhq
Same
Whats the name of that girl
@@saatwik603 Aria Banks I believe, I saw someone mention her on one of the reposted memes
@@infinityedits1498 u r right its aria banks
You gotta love that the low budget, non-sensical music videos of 80s and 90s have aged the best...
This is the amazing nonsense I grew up with and it still makes me so happy!
@@gnomie2.0what a time to be alive
Wasn't low budget lol it was the times. Nowadays, everything is CGI, aka low-budget
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I love literal ones like this. It just acts out everything that happens in the lyrics. An illustration of what the lyrics are about. They go for a drive, she puts on her shades, they get noticed by a cop who wants to compliment them on their ride, they stop for gas and spot a circus poster....it's a simple and charming as the song itself
Why is this song so soothing like everything is gonna be okay.
Don’t know. How bizzare
@@mauricioperez3854 how bizarre.
how bizarre
@@grillkaeseh ooooh baby
@@mikk. it’s making me crazy
Literally, why am I crying?! I miss music like this so much! Sitting here, listening to all these nostalgia bands because music today isn’t the same. Something about music back than made you feel so alive and positive like everything was gonna be OK.
Music today isn’t the same man I’ll tell you that 😮💨. Even one hit wonders back, then hit harder than music today.
Wow. I literally just said the words, “why is this making me cry?” Then I saw your comment. I’m glad I’m in good company. I’ve been listening to this song for 25 years now. One of the best.
I feel you girl 😢
All generations see that
Man you couldnt go 2 hours without hearing this in 96. The whole decade was full of radio frinedly gems like this. Great time.
It was in your face ... 🤣
@@coca9005 NICE lol!!!!
@@coca9005literally, every time I looked around!
😂
I swear this and “fly like an eagle” would always be playing like back to back
- Song trending 20 years after its release
- OMC " how bizarre"
Dude it’s from 1995 😂
@@Stiglitz_AE 😂😂 I didn't know
@@Stiglitz_AE its from 1996
And he's been dead for 10 years.
@@anarkie2016 no, it was released in December 1995...
One of the biggest songs to ever come out of New Zealand ... R.I.P Pauly.
Wrong, Slice of heaven is a banger.
No it was iconic, stole my car was better, Pauly knew, he could of changed his ways...
There are songs that come out of New Zealand? Stop lying.
I had no idea this song came out of N.Z. Always thought it was some kind of Latino group. How Bizarre.
That came out of otara
My daughter and I sing this loud with the windows down in the car. Pure serotonin 💞
feel free to renew Ur prescription lol
My wife liked this song. I liked punk and metal. Since she passed I listen to it to remind me when life was good. God I miss my best friend and soul mate.
I'm sorry for such a loss
@@LightFromADeadStar Thank you
Sorry for your loss
Sorry for your loss bro. I will jam this song in her name.
Sorry for your loss🙏
One of the most memorable hooks in the history of music. Unmistakable and unforgettable
How bizarre
Originally from The Chambers Brothers - Funky. Also sampled by A Tribe Called Quest on "I Left My Wallet in El Secundo", who used the bass line from that song as well.
That said, OMC made the best use of the sample, IMHO. Even in the Chambers Brothers' song, it feels out of place.
Hey, Buy the Rights
@@EvenTheDogAgrees Although it sounds like it, it's not sampled from that song. It's just a typical guitar embellishment that many songs throughout the ages use in one form or another. They do sample the drums from "WHOOMP! (There It Is)" though...
you miss the story just listen to it
The lyrics name "Zina" in the front, when actually he says "Sina" refering to background vocalist Sina Saipaia, featured in the video. She is the only surviving member of the group, as founder Phil Fuemana passed away in 2005, his brother Pauly, featured here, who sang "How Bizarre" passed away from pneumonia in 2010. OMC stands for Otara Millionaires Club, a tongue in cheek reference to Otara, one of the poorest suburbs of Auckland NZ.
I live in the Philippines with many Kiwi friends. We love this song
Thank you for the clarification. All these years I thought it was Gina.
Yea as a Poly I knew they got it wrong cause we don’t even have a letter “Z” lol
He had been suffering for a long time from Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) which is a neurological disorder -- a condition that targets your body's nerves, prior to contracting the pneumonia.
@Villanelle yes, sad to have lost such a talented artist, but we still have his amazing songs.
Absolute classic piece of 90s pop, a Kiwi 'Spanish Stroll' of it's day.
RIP Paulie
He was handsome and smooth 🥀
Get down!!!
Rest in Power..
I am 61 and this makes me feel like a teenager! amazing...:)
Alan Smith cool!!
I am 66 and find mushrooms also help me enjoy life
Life gets strange and lonely when all friends and family die first 2:43
Enjoy your life
It's probably later than we think
Everytime I hear or read the word "bizarre", I am reminded of this damn song.
How Bizarre.
How bizarre
OHHHH BAYBEH
How Bizahh
I know what you mean, every time I look around it's in my face.
That is Bizarre. 😆
RIP Pauly Fuemana.....thanks for the music & the memories!
This song takes me back as well. That is sad the lead singer died young.
How bizarre
This is the post I was looking 👀 4.
R.I.P. I just now learned that he passed.
How Bizarre. 😢😭
Wow that's sad
R.I.P Pauly. Such a chill feel good song
2023
So privileged to be a 90's kid - this just takes me back to those hazy Summer days that seemed to last forever, hanging out with my best friends riding bikes, exploring and more all day long until the sun went down... I don't see them anymore (we're all in our mid 30's now) and I don't even know what happened to a few or where this crazy ride called life took them, but will always have the cherished memories of those days. Happy tears.
@@charliethompson4354what dude I literally fucking ball every summer it isn't a time based thing😭 ur just chilling with the wrong homies
Shut up
Would have rather been a 60s kid.
I'm so privileged to be a 1540's kid, but then a vampire came and now i forever young
SAME...
It's such a simple song.
Play it often.
Sleep well, Pauly.
☆☆☆☆☆
Who’s Pauly?
I do like this song if it is 4 pitches lower because then it will felt more like a twilight afternoon sunny day while in it’s original higher pitch,it will more felt like a rainy evening day.
@@talkingtreefrombugaboocree4847the vokalist
@@talkingtreefrombugaboocree4847😂
@@talkingtreefrombugaboocree4847 one of the artists. Pauly Fuemana 1969 -2010
NOTE: RIP Pauly Fuemana. The lead singer of this Really Awesome Song, Died in 2010, at age 40 of pneumonia. We'll forever love 1996 and OMC. Mad Respect UA-cam!
rip i've loved the song forever...
0:05 - Who is The Man in Car Red Behind Back Pauly Fuemana?
@@JoseCarlos-zr8sd a Filipino man named Hill who stood in for Brother Pele
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Bizarre_(song)
Damn, I mean, I guess there are no good ways, but shit.
The main reason he died was because of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauly_Fuemana#Death
I am, I am going on 76 and LOVE this and always have.
Used to hate this song, but nostalgia has made me like it now. How bizarre.
Haha same
+Danblukk I loved it ever since it came out.
Seems like most people's opinion on this, hated it when it was out but it's just too catchy 😂
+Danblukk How Bizarre, how bizarre!
. How bizarre. How bizarre
Swear to God my creative writing professor looked exactly like this guy so I always tried to drop "How Bizarre" every chance I got around him.
krakendude2 hahaha good shit my man
krakendude2 haha
i wonder if they even have creative writing as a class anymore.
Christian S Its now called "App Downloading"
lol I love this 😂
R.I.P Pauly Fuemana 1969 -2010
R.I.P. Philip Fuemana (1964-2005)
Woww they died young 🥀
How Bizarre
@@Mthomas116-t1m Yeah to have no fun in my life like you. No thanks
They died both 41
@@nicolascabrera2285 This is a case for X-Factor
Songs like this remind me that there were indeed some music masterpieces outside of the techno, trance, dance, hip hop, grunge, in the 90s. My beautiful early teen years. Forever special place in my heart. Tho later in my life i realised that i prefer 80s music to any other decade. But was just a little kid in the 80s and grew up in the 90s. The magic of growing up, those are the best years of anyone's life. It's simply like that.
Cake is another 90s group with a very similar vibe to this track. The deadpan vocals, use of trumpets... I didn't get to know their catalog until the early 2000s because I wrote them off after "the distance" or "never there" which were just ok. But they were good.
i grew up in the 90s too, God bless you
This 90's classic is never out of style 👍
RIP Pauly and Phil Fuemana 🙏
Yeah dam poor fulla got rich quick then lost in LA
@@MrDizyspell How bizarre.
Yeah, 🙏
‘90s*
Nirvana, Metallica growing on us, sexy Christmas guy on Detroit radio. The 90s was a tipping of the universal shift. after that ppl lost their genuine stepping. I a Minnelli boy from 90 itself, we had to grow up a lot, I push myself and I'm doing okay. I did fuck up alot and get locked up a bit for failed probation smh. either way, this song sounds so 90s....a tribe called quest electric
As a little child in the 90s, I remember loving this song that I listened a lot in daddys car , beging for repeat again and again. I’m 31 now and last week my little sister played it on speakers from our dad playlist. What a sudden , unexpected and lovely comeback in time !!
Love from France 🇫🇷
That's all good
Yes! Definitely so for me. I was in my teens. This brings back memories of the beach on summer vacation, my new Nintendo 64 and getting happily lost in Mario 64. Love to you from the US.
@@comgeek24 thanks to you, i’m now listening to the Goldeneye 64 OST 😁
I am also 31 years old, but I was a little child from the US. I begged my mom to record this song on a cassette so that I could listen to it on repeat whenever I wanted. I remember the music video came out in 1997, when we were six, and I was just learning how to read, so it's one of the first songs I learned about all on my own. It's how I learned what "bizarre" meant haha
lucky you bro. My best friend Mike Phillion loved this song, unfortunately he died in december 2003. I still come here to remember him
RIP this dude. This song was SUCH a big hit and yet hardly gets any nostalgia air play now. How bizarre. :-)
Such a shame. Only 40. The whole album is pretty chill, such an interesting style.
My friend, the fact that this song gets hardly any airplay now is - for my money - an insult.
How bizarre how bizarre
are he dies?
@@thersten yes en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauly_Fuemana
This song was so unique when it came out, nothing like the 90s. Many people say initially they didn't like it. In fact some say the first time they heard it they hated it, thought it was weird. The whole song is unique and unlike the 90s songs. But even some of the people that initially hated it, later loved it. All I know is that the very first time I heard it, I fell in love with it. It's just a beautiful overall song, from the trumpets, the harmonica-like parts, the way Pauly sings it is so perfectly fitting to the music. I never get tired of listening to this song. It is a masterpiece, from start to finish it's just so perfect! How Bizarre!!!
Cooler than the other side of the pillow 😎
It suffered at the time because it was SO heavily overplayed.
I liked it, but you just couldn’t get away from it so it started to get annoying.
I’m back on board now
It is weird...it is not a love song, not a ballad, not violence...just a group's journey
I loved this song from the first time I heard it. Gave me happiness. RIP
Looking back, it sounds a bit like a Cake song. There’s also hints of what would later be ska revival. So really it fits the 90s given the era and what was popular on rock and college radio at the time.
I'm now 80 & just watched the Tesco advert & had to see this again, it's now in my head for the rest of the day.
It's phenomenal.
Same here.
Me too
Wooow excelente ritmo. Excelente compás. Como decimos en Monterrey, "conmadre!:
Love you bro.
Mike you would be 50 in 94. We are celebrating my sons birthday tomorrow the big 30 I was a young dad just a lad of 16 me and the mrs celebrating 22 years married tomorrow. 32 years together and the lady still loves me. Stay forever groovy my friend ❤
This guy is still considered the coolest man in New Zealand by the way, twelve years since he died so young. Our Elvis lmao
I mean. He’s pretty cool.
I thought he was Hawaiian or something. Lol
@@BoundInChains Pauly was half Niuean, half Māori...but Hawaiians and Māori are very closely related. For one, the native Hawaiians call themselves Maoli, speak a language very similar to Māori, and also the Māori ancestral homeland was an unidentified place called Hawaiki. Since Māori does not have any Ls (they swap them for Rs), you can see these words are extraordinarily similar for two places so far apart. Words they share include the fact that Māori and Maoli both mean “normal” in each language (i.e “normal people” in contrast to European people hahaha)
@@walterzamalis4846 thanks, that's really interesting
Chur Pauly..Niue Strength
I was never embarrassed to admit I love this song. Simple, sincere grooves, great little stories. Awesome jam.
You’d only be embarrassed in middle America, we was jamming this in the island for so damn long lol
I'm WHITE 62 years old and love this song . NOTHING wrong with it.
Everyone loved it. I still do in dec 2021
Not only is it a great song the lyrics are pretty cleverly written
How bizarre
Timeless classic. Sounds as good today as it did in the past.
I’m so happy this song is trending on tiktok because I completely forgot about it for years and now I found it again!
Hqhaha same
Same
I’ve been hearing from the Tasti tv ad for years. It’s nice that they’ve been using the same ad for years.
How bizarre!
Same here
The vibe of this song makes it feel like everything is going to be ok.
coronavirus pandemic HOW BIZAARE!!!!!
How bizarre. :)
Yeah... but deep in your gut & when the song ends you know it won't be ok
Join the fight.
That's what I thought in the 90's.
The 80s SUCKED (but some good music 😀) and 90s were a breath of fresh air, just like this song.
2022... Society is dumpster fires, everywhere. As bad as I thought Reagan was making things in the 80s, I'm still shocked to be living in this dystopian nightmare that news and polticians still keep acting like is normal.
"Destination unknowEn"..
pure gold
Turn it up!
Favorite cruising song on Pacific Coast Highway (PCH)!
When his wife heard his new band and music she kept saying “How Bizarre” anytime she’d hear what they did.. this whole song is a nod to his wife. Is there anything sweeter you can do for someone you love?
Yes!
A great example of: It pays to listen to your wife, instead of just tuning out and saying "Yes dear!"
it's about the Dawn Raids
@@LindaPerry_337 that is such a "wife" thing to say...
@@LindaPerry_337 Yes, dear.
@@wordup897 : She backed herself, right onto that 1 like 🤣
I'm 72 years old and I just see myself cruisin' down the freeway with sweet Seena in that Chevy 59.
I'm 53 years young and see myself with the wife in a Ford Mustang '60 instead. @Alonso Cushing
@@mikeysuzefour Mustang was introduced in 1964, sooooo yea, 'bout that 60 Stang...😒
Amen
Im 1125 years old and I just see myself crusading down the middle east in my trusty steed slaying Muslims to reclaim the holy land.
but u are cruisin' down the freeway with sweet Seena in that Chevy 59 u just aren't seeing. u lost yo vision.
Glad to see people enjoying music from New Zealand lol, people forget that we exist😂 ka pai🇳🇿
I like New Zeeland, when the pandemic is over i will visit it for the first time :D
Put some shoes on you dirty hobbit.
I thought they were british
@@Leon-ub8pe well they wanted new zealand to be all British, they should honestly change the flag
Between this and superlonely, tiktok really put NZ under the spotlight!
I will never be able to say the phrase “how bizarre” without immediately hearing this song in my head. Never!! 😂
RIP Pauly Fuemana....listening to this with a tear in my eye!
True
gag
Not only did I learn this guy died because of your comment, but I'm really close to my 41st birthday. How bizarre.
I was sad to learn that he passed away, this was my jam growing up.
What happened with he?
OMC was way underrated , I loved them in the 90's , at least what I remember of the 90's.
No Kiwi BBQ is EVER complete without this song
69th like... how bizarre
@@isaaccross2542 XD
Those tiny birds have mastered 🔥? How bizarre!
This song 4 sheep & uncle Bully. Now that's a party👍🏻
This is making me feel nostalgic for a kiwi BBQ even tho I've never attended one. How bizarre
J’écoutais cet album en boucle avec mon père quand j’étais petit, il est parti il y a longtemps maintenant.
Merci Pauly, les bons moments font les bons souvenirs, j’honorerai ta mémoire comme celle de mon père.
What a wonderful thing to say!
Thank you for sharing.
28 Aug 24 ...Amazing Kiwi ..I play this often ..makes me proud to be a Kiwi living on Saltspring Island bc canada ..RIP Pauly ...you had so much to offer ..how bizzar
One of the finest road trip tunes EVER! RIP Pauly. Still burning up the road jammin' to ya!
It is truly
I was 44 when this song came out in the US. It has remained one of favorite songs ever since. RIP Pauly
This was a pretty big hit back then!
+whatever How bizarre.
+whatever didn't expect to see you here, how bizarre
+whatever What are you doing here whatever?
+Animation Life are you sure about that.?
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Heard this the other day on a UA-cam short for the first time and now I can't stop it's in my playlist
My serotonin level when i hear this song: 📈
How bizzare
@@bobthepervyuncle Just thinking that... How bizzare
Iona Grace Gibb. It happens the same to me. The rhyhtm,,
the song ,, the voice, the man. ALL BREATHTAKING. !!!!
@@bobthepervyuncle 😂
333 LIKES, I WOULD LIKE TOO! BUT IM NOT GOING TO RUIN IT!
Heard this song yesterday and it almost brought tears to my eyes. To be caught off guard by a song from ur childhood-such a nostalgic feeling. Now I'm listening to this song until SOMETHING ELSE from my childhood re-emerges. 90's, you are desperately, terribly, sadly missed. :'(
true, pure nostalgia, very good
They shouldn't be.
hell ya 90's were the best im so thankful to be born in late 80's growing up. i miss all the cartoons movies everything was the best.i love oldschool and rest in peace to this guy song brings back hella memories since 8yrs old
Twelve years old riding my bicycle with a Walkman and headphones when this song came out.
isto sam radio sony walkman :D
A walkman?!? How bizarre.
I was 19 and doing the same.
Same here!
wow he died at 40 how bizarrre
This is the biggest "blast from the past" of my life. Haven't heard a second of it since early childhood. It's crazy what music does to you.
If you are listening to this song in 2020, you are a legend❗💯😉
Neel Ghai always a crowd pleaser
I'm listening in 2020
You already know
2020 most bizarre year I’ve seen
You too!
Rest in peace Pauly. Your music will live on forever.
👍👍
👍👍
👍👍👍👍
He had a bunch to carry his name on
Awww man I did not know homie passed. RIP childhood memories lol. The Box loved him lol. We would go from Eazy e to Omc. 🤣🤣🤣
*I miss these days as a 90’s kid* 😩😭
How bizzare
Sister Sina says funky
Yes seriously, never will be decade better than 90s
I am an 80s baby love this song you are so beautiful and sexy one of the best songs to listen to while having sex we should hook up beautiful
Jay Best you’re a weirdo ahahahahahah
this song always reminds me of days 96-97 at 21 years young full of dreams working at a restaurant Malibu CA 😢
This guy looks like he's annoyed but not really annoyed but kinda annoyed so he made a song to politely talk about it and vibe at the same time...
Any New Zealander ever.
hahaha
I love it.
Lol
Yeah na
I absolutely love this song.
When it came out I was the Service manager for the biggest jukebox route in the upper Florida Keys and I put this cd on every jukebox on the route the day it came out in advance of everyone else.
My boss who was a country music fan thought I was nuts.
This done increased our next collection 23 percent by itself.
Bartenders were bitching at me because it was getting played damn near constantly at the best party locations like Holiday Isle, Whistle Stop, Hog Heaven, Carribean Club, Slimey's Raw Bar and others.
Even up at the Last Chance Saloon a serious Country Western bar. The last bar on the mainland before the stretch to the 18 mile Keys. I got a bonus next pay day and given full control on new music picks other that country music.
That's when I began adding electronic dance music and we saw another increase in collections.
Boss was mucho happy.
Our company motto was.
"It keeps us in the bars and off the streets".
I loved every second of my 10 years living down there and this song stayed in the top 10 money slots the till I left.
90s electronic dance music was primo. I still play it everyday and now my kid loves it. Can't beat that sound and vibe.
cool story, thanks for sharing!
Great story party on bro...
so good
Legend
Thank you Tesco for bring me back to this one again...and again...and again...I love those trumpets and the whole damn thing is just sooooo good!
Lmao i just got a Tesco ad and right away searched for this
Now featured in a popular Tesco advert in the UK
I was so happy when I heard it in that advert 😂
Every Little Helps 😏
Been seeing it because of this😂
They dont make quality songs like this anymore, how bizarre ... how bizarre, how bizarre
Maybe "one hit wonder," but makes you feel good just the same: camera angles, vignettes, singers, dancers and editing; it all comes together with a vibe that's still fresh.
Shit this was one of three hits. Right On Lingo with the Gringo I stole a car this man was a legend
Once again, Todd In the Shadows reminds me of a One-Hit Wonder song I forgot that I really really like. Thanks Todd.
Todd's awesome!
The 90’s were a weird time for radio, so much variety and generally a lot better than today. Glad I was a 90’s kid.
Almost like the decade in which you were a kid is what you consider to be the best
@@Me-ui1zy no, that decade was awesome. Every decade since has gotten worse and worse. If you don't know how or why, you mustn't have been alive yet
@@Me-ui1zy You are 100% right. My dad grew up in the 50s and thought that was the best time, I grew up in the 80s and 90s and I consider that the best, my kids will look back on the 2020s and think how amazing and lucky they were to grow up now. It's been going on since we were cavemen.
@dyslexicbatnam1350 There's always going to be pessimists and depressed people like yourself. The majority of happy healthy people with positive outlooks on the experience of life and existing in general have strong nostalgia for their youth. I'm sorry life has been so hard for you.
Every time I look around 🗣️🎵🎶🔥🔥🔥
it's '24, amigo and his gang still O.G., percussion, refrain, video, message: real. much love from bavaria
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One of those perfect recordings where you can't imagine how they made so many great musical choices. Wouldn't change a single note of this.
Concordo 100%. Muitas músicas eu não tenho a mínima ideia de como a banda/cantor tirou da mente notas e melodias tão perfeitas. As vezes eu tento mentalmente criar uma música não existente e não consigo.
This is a great comment. Every choice they made is perfect. All the random trumpet parts, vocal additions, and even the crazy lyrics. Just perfect.
@@luizfelipesoares7204 ¡Yo también exactamente! a mi me pasa lo mismo.
Every time I hear this song on the radio it brings me right back to the 90's.
I come back to this song anytime I want to remind myself of the beautiful childhood I had, and how extremely lucky I am to have been a youth in the 1990s. God thank you
thank you!
That’s lovely
Damn straight 🎉🎉😂
I was teen of the 1990s and I loved it back then and I still do.
Thank God! Kids are mad these days
I loved this song when it came out in the mid-nineties! And I still love it today!
RIP Pauly Fuemana.
This song will always be on my playlist.
@j s nice try
31 January 2010 eight days before his 41st birthday
@@js-wl3wi f Donald Trump and stop loser here
This song put its hooks into every person who ever heard it. It has permanent residence in the pantheon of great pop / rock songs of the 90's.
How I miss the 90s!
@@bostongirlsandy I couldn't live out the 90's again. I need wifi.
I still say, how Bizarre now more than ever.
you couldn't avoid this song in 1996, still sounds fantastic.
This song is a very specific vibe
This brings back very strong childhood memories, life was so simple back then, long hot summer days, picnics and camping with the kids next door in their garden. Those were good times :)
How bizarre....
Sad that Pauly & Phil are both gone! This was my jam back in the day! RIP Pauly & Phil Fuemano!
what a beast of a track, thanks for the memories Pauly Fuemana R.I.P.
I’m 40 and these ladies take me back to when I was 5 they are like a time machine
Damn, I can’t believe the man is gone. His flow, his style, his accent, IMPRESSIVE and IMPECCABLE. What a loss. RIP
Indeed what a tragic loss. We were with him one minute and next minute he was gone. One of the greats.
He died?
@@joesmo5143 yes unfortunately 😞
How bizarre ❤
Well said, what a sad one. Your right about his style accent and moves he was incredible guy looks like the girl was important to him thanks for your information
I love how Pauly always made this style of “rapping” so classy and just made it work with the music him and Jansson pumped out. He’ll always have my respect for it. This song came out in like 95-96 I was like 5th grade and it makes me think back to simpler and more positive days. I always loved this song. He was taken from us way too soon. May he Rest In Peace.
Wait- who died?
He was definitely copying Falco.
I honestly think these classier and eclectic variations on rap that were being experimented with in the 90s, especially outside of the US rap scene, are an unfairly forgotten chapter in pop music history. :-(
It's an honest shame we don't get more music like this, and crass glam rap (nowadays made further unlistenable via autotune additions) is still around and grinding ahead. Desperate and dreary.
This song brings back great memories for me. I moved to Northern California in 1996 to take my first job after graduating from university and this song was playing on all the radio stations. Still associate it with such a special and amazing time in my life. Thank you OMC!
This song brings back great memories for me. I moved to Southern California in 1994 and learned to inline skate at age 48. Still associate it with a special and amazing time in my life.
Diomedes01 what part of cali?
Sacramento here 🤚🏽
rest in peace OMC male singer u will be missed u did an awesome singing this song
Had this in my head at work today. Had a serious conversation about how this song is far beyond classic. It fits for every era that's passed. It's still relevant.
And that conversation was with myself 😁
Talking to yourself again I see?
I wanna' know the rest. Hey, I'll buy the rights!
@@bluejoker03 🤣
@@bluejoker03 thanks for your honesty 😆
@@clareb1565 you're very welcomed!!🤣🤣
I remember this song coming on the radio like a million times when I was a kid.
Same haha and now it is trending again how bizarre how bizarre
i was at school when this masterpiece dropped. now tiktok absolutely destroyed it's reputation.
Released in 96, still enjoyable in 2019...
How bizarre.
No NameGiven Nice one
Makes me sad asf cuz i remember the 90's like it was a few years ago, we really don't know how good we had it back then 😞
grown up you window licker
95*
No NameGiven 😂
Dear Band Members, I love this song. It has been an extremely long time since I heard it. Thank you. Much Love ❤️, Gayle Raye Bremer
25 years later and this song still sounds great. How bizarre!!! 😁
Hey don't make me feel old! Jk. I remember listening to this in my moms car when I was kid. Good memories.
how bizarre indeed
@@trentondohse1851 was just the other day
I remember listening to this song in repeat back then...Wow, what a blast from the past!
R.I.P. Pauly Fuemana!
Bro, how did you do repeat on a tape deck? You'd wear the crap out of the cassette using rewind.
@@The_Invisible_Self well..it was worth the effort..and cost. 😉
Pauly Fuemana took me to Rainbows End when I was a kid because I was good friends with one of his children. He was a kind man and his kids were great. Love this song
It's always made me smile
May he Rest In Peace
a good tune is immortal
Thank you Tesco for reminding us how great this song 🎶was, and still is. RIP Pauly and Phil. 20/12/2023.
I’m listening to OMC How Bizarre 12/21/2023
1:17
such is the path of all men
Alas, Tesco! Thanks for being my salvation during the cruise ship contract.
What is tesco?
@tennillej9601. Tesco, is one of the U.K's 🇬🇧 biggest chain of supermarkets. They used part of How Bizarre for their Christmas 2023 ad campaign.
I used to be a radical metalhead back then, and I hated this song and pop-rock back then. I had totally forgotten about it. Now, there I was, 37 y.o me in an Uber a couple of days ago, and heard this song by accident in a radio station, and here I am loving it and amazed at how good of a song it is.
How Bizzare
It's amazing what becomes cool and what becomes trash as we get to the end of our 30s! It's the same way with food to. Also people, old friends we can't stand and new friends who we love.
@@danger5489 very interesting indeed. How stable are our personalities again?
Check out Lingo With The Gringo. If you like How Bizarre, I know you'll like that one. Such a great deep bass and smooth melody.
Stop asking who's still listening in 2020, We never stopped listening.
yes . Reality at long last . FFS . enough
Who's listening in 2021?
Never ever!
ya mom
Exactly, once you've started listening to good music you don't stop.
I was an obituary writer in North Carolina at the time. Now I'm a widowed freelancer in Italy. How bizarre, indeed.
LMAO........ sorry your windowed but that is Bizarre, indeed.
@@indigojones8 Sounds ('sounds') Fine, but let me ask you: when you were an Obituary Writer, did you wear thrift store vintage suits, old wingtips and a beret? And ride an antique BMW Motorcycle? And now, (just for the academic hell of it) would you be able to describe your 'style?' let me promise you I mean no impertinence! Of course I was sort of clowning around with the initial guess, but your post implies a pretty novel life, and if you're also writing a novel, I hope it's an absolute bombshell!
Buy the rights
Geesh man, this hit just never does and never get old! Just the good old days when errybody be sitting back chillin' and blasting this music on repeat mode at the beach, or having family gathering cookouts! R.I.P Pauly Fuemana. One hell of a legend!
▶️🙋♂️Type on UA-cam : Sugar Ray - Fly 🌟
Man, 1996 was a phenomenal year! I remember all this great music, and seeing so many summer blockbusters in the cinema, like Independence Day, Twister, and Mission: Impossible. I sure do miss the 90s!
@entschlossen it doesn't count when it's with your dog.
Couldn't agree more!!! Ace of Base was popping back then too!
Reds Fan way before that in uk
I was made in this year, I was born in this year ✔
Thanks for listing three shitty movies. Somehow makes this shitty song looks a tad better.
A one hit wonder but boy, what a hit! One of the seminal pop songs of the 90s.
90s was the decade of Epic one hit wonders
Man this dude didn’t have one hit wonders the album was beautifully crafted on every song created.
RIP
@@DonDonLiom I said they had one hit song, I didn't say the album was bad.
@@danielward7008
Chill cuzzy, just wanted to add the album was great as you didn’t elaborate I thought that’s all you had heard and not given the album a go but if you have, wicked.
This album has quite a few good songs. Check out Lingo With The Gringo. Love that deep bass.
To Birgit, my Austrian friend, From San Martín del río,Teruel,Spain❤
Years ago, I burnt a CD with some songs and this one was on it. I played it in my car when I was commuting, and this song was my favorite on a friday night. When I was stuck in the infamous traffic jams of Brussels, my weekend already started by loudly singing "How bizarre?" My fellow commuters in the other cars must have thought I was crazy! Only recently I rediscovered this song on UA-cam, and got to know its Maori origins, and the fact that Pauly died far too young and that Sinna never had the singing career she deserved. Life can be so cruel... But whenever I feel down, I promise I will sing this song, and I will feel better!
Maybe it was making the the other commuters crazy every time they looked around.
@@jdee8407 Hahaa yes
@@jdee8407
LMAO... Good one Bro
@@jdee8407 well its in there face.
How bizarre
I was coming home from work one day and heard this on the radio. The Dee Jay said what song it was and who was performing it. I went straight to the music department of my local box store and bought this. Put it on the CD player as soon as I walked in the door and left it on repeat the rest of the evening. I just love that big horn in it!!! The rest of it is pretty cool too!!!
Memories bro
I once played this song on a loop at work for about an hour. It drove everyone crazy but i couldnt get enough!!
bomb1o1
Well done.
It's one of those tunes you have repeat.
It's so catchy and cool.
Everyone went crazy? How bizarre!
How bizarre, how bizarre.
bomb1o1 Try playing ‘Shine’ by Aswad on repeat - it’s infuriating 😏
Thanks for all the good memories, Pauly.
Rest easy my dude.