The melody is timeless. Anyone who knows anything about melodies, chord progression, and even the average listener could understand how and why this song became so big. It only makes sense. The melody is BRILLIANT!
20 years later, We still play this song in the clubs. There are many remixes but the original version has stood the test of time. One of the greatest pop/dance records ever created.
@@SanoAnniVaan your right ! don't remember who gave me that drink last night but it was blue🙄😜🤣 , so I'm better going to delete my comment, thx for notification of my stupidity
I love how absolutely nobody asked for this and honestly it probably was a big risk and a lot of money but vice said “you know what let’s do it” and we all just love it lol. Nostalgia of us internet kids.
Mike Hunt What’s with you 90s kids and never shutting up about growing up in the 90s? Nobody will like you or the 90s if you act like a conceited douchebag about it. Grow up and deal with the fact that 1990 was 30 years ago.
@@CrustyUgg this is the reason us internet kids hate the 90's kids. All you complain about is "how hard it is to live in the 90's we don't experience the things you have done." Nobody cares, asshole. You don't see the generations older than you complaining right? Why can't you just grow up and shut the fuck up about 'how hard and how good the 90's were'. Shut the fuck up douchebag.
This track comes from legends and this song lives forever. Eventhough being remixed recently by David Guetta, it can never beat the original that got so many emotions in it.
Yeah I liked D Guetta's stuff back in the early 2000's, now most of the music is just resampling someone else's work... not just him, but many 'artists'. 95 -2010 was an amazing time for euro electronic dance music. With very few exceptions, music is stale now.
@@vv6152 if I had a penny for every time someone says yUo JuST NeeD to LoOK 4 TeH MUSic when someone else says music isn't good nowadays. Not everyone has all day to be searching for great music hidden somewhere on soundcloud among a billion other tracks. The whole point of inventing radio and music TV was that people could discover new music outside of their local area. People shouldn't be looking for music, someone else should be making a name for themselves as a great curator and broadcaster of unknown music.
23:02 The best quote of the whole documentary: "I don't remember how many singles I made and failed before blue. You have to mention them to understand how we wrote a song in 2 hours. it's not a question of 'we made a song in two hours'. But its 'we make a life that leads you in those two hours to make a song.'
Well according to Gabry, he did some "tweaks" which nobody noticed. lol But after all if it's a band everyone should be included, regardless of how much they've done.
When he played the piano in the beginning it struck something in my heart from when i first heard the song as a kid. You know you've made something special when music makes you feel a certain way.
I love how none of them are pretentious artists or even your regular industry people, they're literally what happens when unnoticed producers make it big for some reason. Even their boss is cool
Ozzy Man Diaz did you not watch at 20:30 how he tries to passive aggressively take credit for making the song, by saying his name was in the credits and people must have forgot what "actually" happened with time, and how he split from the rest of the group to go on his own career.
RunTo7thst I can't tell if you're either too young or too socially inept to read his attitude when he says, everyone forgets who's name is on the original, but it was a team effort. He says it was a team effort after criticizing the true origins of the song as to avoid any negative comments.
nah man, at least a couple of the people showing up in the video are all but unpretentious... Gabry Ponte first of all, for what I have seen and heard and read around he's a massive diva. Jeffrey and Maury seem to be more down to earth.
That one phrase made me rethink the meaning behind songs like Everlong, Teen Spirit, The Pretender, Under Pressure, No Rest for the Wicked... Wow. I hope someday I can experience a moment like that.
@Lubabalo Mahlombe so are most the greatest songs ever. Except for In My Life, that is the song of all fucking songs. Who'd've thought 4 young lads from liverpool could create the best thing the human race has ever created
What's amazing is at 3:51 he says he 'wasn't able to find C on the keyboard'.... Then 'turns up for lessons at eight thirty the next morning' and makes the doorbell sound which is pitched exactly at middle C. Wonderful.
Marina Betancourt bby girl ur right i actually am a little tone deaf. but my daw told me that the exact pitch of the tone, is -0.377 off C, so it is perfectly understandable that ur amazingly giftet ear is hearing a B - but also, youre wrong.
A memory of this song I’ll never forget: I was in elementary school (born in ‘90) and my bus was just pulling into school in the morning for drop off. This song comes on the radio. The entire bus load of kids-were talking 30-40 kids-was singing along to this song. Every single kid. That’s how big of a deal this song was back in the day. No one could resist it, and no one tried. God the 90s were great 💙
What's I find fascinating is the way that they basically bumped into each other for a short moment in time. That window in time combined their talents and skills into a gem of a song; and the ride it took them on was incredible. I love that serendipity. It's hard for strangers to capture lightning in a bottle, and there's no shame in saying "We had different musical ambitions, and it's ok." They brought so much joy to people all over the world with just one song is such an accomplishment for a bunch of dudes who were just jammin' and riffing off each other.
I know this is the beauty of music and moments in time - you don’t need to write a grand symphony to make something amazing that people love and it’s just pure chance a lot of the time like these videos on vice go to show
Shout out to Eiffel 65. My mother bought Euro Pop for me in 2000 when I was 8 years old. Looking back, I had no idea what the genre of music was, but it was something that was completely different then was on the radio in America at the time. Fast forward to 2010, I picked up Hardstyle and techno. Again, nothing like it in America. Now I look back on those days and I smile. Great times. I still listen to some Hardstyle every now and then. My daughter is a huge EDM fan now. She loves Techno. I played her some tracks from Euro Pop and she loved them. It made me smile. The music I listened too and loved as a child is now the same music my daughter listens to. So special
I've read your comment now after one year... If you want know more... I suggest you try " dream progressive 1/2/3"... By Gino scratch!!! So you can open another door about Italian trance music and movement!!!!!! Because for us "Blue" was (obviously beautiful) but pretty commercial piece for summer ⛱️!!!!!.... Believe me if you and your daughter need more Tecno.... Searching for!!!! Greets from Italy an Italian former mountain trooper Alpini 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹 Son of 90s😮😮😢😊😊😊
Ps. Sorry... Dream progressive story!!! It's an Italian collection of pretty unknown DJ's around Italian peninsula.... They was almost all autoproduced.... And playing in very few Clubs around Italy 🇮🇹 One of them jump out from clubs it's Gigi D'Agostino 😮😮😮😮😮😮... Cheers again 🍻
I know right, I never ever ever ever thought Vice would do this, to me this is quite special they were one of my cabo roten anda of all time, a big fan to say the least, I knew everything about them.
Every millennial knows this song. It is hypnotic to the point of surrealism and was very groundbreaking for the time. Now, ironically, it embodies the spirit of an age that has been all but forgotten.
Already on it. Lately I've been channeling my inner Millennial child self, listening to nostalgic music from the 90s. Dance pop being club music with pop lyrics, European dance music meeting USA electronic music, it all makes sense now why I like party music and EDM today. I also reactivated my boy band dancing skills. Is that something I should be embarrassed about though. lol
This was my song for the year I lived in Kaohsiung, Taiwan for a year as a 17 year old. Brings back so many crazy memories of an exciting time in my life.
No jokes, my mom would play this in the car on my way to school. She had the CD. Which these days is rare. This is like late 90's early 2000. What a beat. I still listen to it and it never gets old. The funny thing is that the while album was good, not just this song.
If you think about what the “dance” music actually is today, dance ‘90 looks like gold compared to it. That said, Eiffel 65 made a piece of art with Blue and that song (along with a few others of those years) will be never forgotten. It was such an important part of my childhood. So many amazing memories rush to my mind as soon as I hear the first couple of notes of the melody. That is exactly what good music is, that is exactly what art is. Thank you Eiffel!
I tip my hat to Vice for this one. They made one hell of a good documentary here. Maybe I shouldn't skip their posts from now on. Cheers to Eiffel 65 too.
Hoss Cartwright amen. Of course I’m biased, but you had these dance tracks, and also alternative rock and rap/hip hop really all getting their stride at the same time. I’m trying not to turn into the bitter old man that hates the younger generations’ music, and there is SOME good stuff coming out, but the 90s-early 2000s was the sweet spot IMO.
Hoss Cartwright fucking right bro! I was in 3rd grade when this song came out and we had a lil elementary dance thing? Lol but they played that song and 3rd grade me is going crazy watching this lol
Blue was a formative song for me in my childhood. I connected with the song because I felt like the music was saying words that I could not articulate. It was as if someone was singing for me, and because of that, I could express myself when I heard this song. I bought all the music that Eiffel 65 and Bloom 06 made because that unique sound was my sound. It was me, and because I loved it, I felt happiness in myself. Blue is the anthem for people looking to see that they are not alone in this world. Thank you Gabry, Maury, and Jeffrey for giving me this connection and this beautiful song.
It's unbelievable how this song holds up today. It has everything to be a hit even today if it was released . And it will definitely be a sure winner in the future. You can play it every time in the club and will be a god damn hit.
My 10 year old sister knows this song.(I’m 34, pops had her late lol) And it’s funny how I got this suggestion after she played this song on her iPad during my visit on Christmas
"Its not a question of we made a song in two hours but we make a life that leads you in those two hours to make the song" Very inspiring and very true.. Such is life, every failure pushes you and that is very humble of him to acknowledge
@@jayrusty2012 08:20 Bit unfair how they try discount Gabry Ponte's contribution. What "HE PUT" is the what made the track an International Hit! (first and second versions were horrible). Gabry Ponte went on to be success on his own. That is what he put. He re-arranged and fine tuned, until he heard a HIT! (all x4 of these guys contributed to the success) 1. Melody. 2. Lyrics & Theme. 3. Da Ba Dee Chorus. 4. The final hit arrangement.
max mix the evidence is what they are today. Gabry produces and releases song after song after song and Eiffel hasn’t released anything since 2016. He clearly won in the end.
@@maxmix-retrodisco usually the guy who does the best or final mix, ends up the asshole. Its not fair at all. If you listen to the rest of the versions in the snippets you hear, they just didnt have "the sound". From what it sounded like in the first versions at least, it didnt sound like it
WOAH! exactly the same here! my mom let me buy a CD for an 12 hour road trip and this is what I picked...she was pretty fed up by the end of our journey
This song literally defined so much of my childhood because it was on ALL the time. Omg and that music video was so cutting edge at the time, amazing to think lmao.
I was born in the late late 90's. I wasnt really there when it blew up since i was a kid but this song still somehow made my childhood and party life. To this day it comes on parties nonstop. And everybody knows and loves it. Its like it unites people in a different level, young and old. And that makes it so beautiful
Its so weird because that song was never not on lol u turn on the radio, tv, go to a mall, annnnyywhere and it was on. Then the ongoing debates on what the dude is sayin 😂
"...for the record, the lyrics are really just 'da ba dee'." Thank you, I can finally rest peacefully. For years I had wondered if "if I was green I would die" was part of the song or not. I appreciate the closure I got from that.
After watching this i went and found my old MP3-player, packard bell FunKey 512 MB (that's *M*), plugged it in and sure enough, Blue (Da ba dee) was on it. Date modified: 15-7-2004. Holy shit lol
1999: This Song Is So Good 2013: This Song Is So Good 2023: This Song Is So Good 3023: This Song Is So Good 4042: This Song Is So Good 5052: This Song Is So Good 9999: This Song Is So Good ထ : This Song Is So Good
All throughout High School, my friends and I would argue over what they were saying in the chorus. I thought they said "I'm Blue if I were Green I would die." Someone else thought it was "I'm Bi I'm in need of a guy." And one thought it was just the "I'm Blue Da Ba Dee Da Ba Die." That's it thought. I only had 2 friends in High School.
@That Guy true, true, but he's right, in this day and age now you make one banger and it just suddenly gains traction over night and no one knows who sings that song until later on you other more two song coming the same yeard
I love the background story, and the fact that it was such a random hit. As a music producer in the late 1990's, it was an amazing time in the world of electronic music production and distribution... Also, a friend of mine thought that the lyrics said "I'm blue, I'm in need of a guy - I'm in need of a..." - which made it all even more fun. Great work, guys!
I first heard blue at a jc penny boys clothing section in 1999, I was 13. Before that momment the only stuff I listened to was country and old blue grass; music life changed forever.
When I first heard this song from a classmate in primary school (because back then we didn't have the internet) I told him he MUST give me that song on a cassette. I gave him a cassette the next day, and he recorded that song for me. I have to tell you, I quickly ruined the radio because I kept rewinding the cassette so I could listen to the song over and over again. One of the best disco/dance music in history.
Blue was a great song but the Album Europop is soooooo criminally underrated its insane. TONS of great songs on that album that you will come for Blue but stay for everything else. And Contact was also great! These guys had serious talent that kinda gets overshadowed by Blue.
Agreed, blue is a classic but the rest of the album trumps it harddddd. LIvin in the bubble baby! Move your bodayyy! I hyperlink to go insideeee you!!! DEEP DOWN! atoomuch of heavuaaannn! Fuck I know every single word.
MTV had this song on the heaviest rotation, and as someone who's main media source was MTV I quickly grew to hate it (like I did with a lot of popular Eurobeat). But now, as a middle-aged, somewhat broken individual scarred from the ravages of life, this song is a wonderful nostalgia trip with which I only associate people laughing and smiling.
YES to all of this! 💯 Same. I'm young genX and our generation has lost so many of its heroes way too soon. There have also been tragic losses in my personal life. Everyone forgets about us, but we pioneered a lot of tolerance towards alternative lifestyle choices, racist attitudes were repugnant and feminism was seen in a different light through our eyes. We saw beauty in the sunny times, but also in the gloomiest of lows. I only hear about millennials and boomers. Maybe it's because we never were the kids who received or required a lot of attention to begin with. Everyone had divorced parents and moments of latchkey life, as I remember it. Being invisible has always been in the undercurrent. I was in my early 20s when this song came out. It reminds me of the carefree life, but also the pain & uncertainty of young adulthood. I was always wondering where I would end up. It seems like yesterday, but very far away at the same time. Middle age has taken hold, but there's still so much of that kid alive inside me.
This series is probably one of the best out there. It’s interesting to see the behind the scenes on some of the most nostalgic songs for many of us. Sad how they never worked out as a band in the end but it’s nice to see they’re all doing pretty well.
Excellent documentary! It’s mind blowing to see the creative process behind music and so disheartening when it doesn’t become successful. We are all so lucky that it eventually got it’s well-deserved break. I love how down to Earth they all seem even after all these years. Congrats to them for continuing to live their dream
Atleast its not as sad as the 303 story. Out for more than a years. Out of production for 10 years. Blew up big after 10 years. Never came back to production.
We'd recently got married and in the B & B where we spent our honeymoon, this song was always floating out of the kitchen area on the radio every morning, without fail. Whichever station they listened to REALLY liked this song lol, it was a staple, every morning. No other songs stick out in my memory of those mornings, apart from this one. All these years later, still married to the same guy, now with a 19 year old son, and every time I hear this song I am transported back in time to being a newlywed couple again. I have a really fond affection for this song. I also feel a bit old reading most of the comments saying that they were in school when this song came out lol!
These guys were the soundtrack of my childhood. Their music means so much to me and I still listen to their stuff regularly. Just last week I finally got my hands on a physical copy of Europop, and it's so wonderful to finally be able to hold in my hands the album that legitimately changed my life. Best $5 I've ever spent. I will always be an Eiffel 65 fan.
It always makes the whole experience of listening to music much more enjoyable for me holding and owning the physical copy. The generation growing up today will never know the experience of popping a cd into your player and flipping through a fresh CD booklet reading all the lyrics and seeing all the album artwork
@Adrian Cooper: I've given that so much thought and I don't know if I can pick just one. I think I'd narrow it down to Living in a Bubble and Hyperlink. Absolutely every song is excellent though. Contact is next on my list, a bit harder to stumble across here in the states! Also on the lookout for their third album too. @teethgrinder 83: I totally understand where you're coming from man. If I heard their stuff for the first time today I don't know if I'd feel the same way about them. I'd chalk some of it up to nostalgia for sure. It's funny how that works, I guess I just discovered them at the right time. @siberian mustang: Absolutely! I've always preferred physical media, be it music, video games, etc. Having something tangible like that, that you can dig out decades later and reminisce with, is priceless. Much better than a couple of mp3 files. In particular I've always loved the album art for Europop.
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What were the actual lyrics?
I'M BLUE DABADI DABADY
Oo e oo ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bang
The old Lance Stewart vine says it all 😂
I'm blue, I will bleed I will die, I'm blue I will bleed I will die. swear to god thats it
HE JUST FUCKIN EXPLAINED IT TO YOU GUYS
The documentary nobody needed, but everyone wanted.
Gabe Brusky facts haha
hahahahaha
RIGHT
we do need this
Great Comment!
This song was miles ahead of its time. That melody on the piano was beautiful.
The most beautiful melody ever made and to be made in my opinion.
i could listen to the piano alone on a 3hr loop honestly... then id throw in Blue as is again xD
That really is a gorgeous melody and I'd love it if someone did their own song to it as well. They'd be interesting, just to hear alternate takes.
@@lasekerhovd I think that's a bit of a stretch when you take into account the piano pieces in classical music
John Lennon Imagine is far better .... real musicians. Not someone that took a melody.
Vice 2012: Cannibalism
Vice 2019: I'M BLUE DA BA DEEE
General Butt Naked
Lol
Ok?
Link to the cannibalism one please :)
@@antomat85 I found this, there's more tho: ua-cam.com/video/ZRuSS0iiFyo/v-deo.html
The melody is timeless. Anyone who knows anything about melodies, chord progression, and even the average listener could understand how and why this song became so big. It only makes sense. The melody is BRILLIANT!
Jajajajjajajajaa your so funny 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Same Level as "A Thousand Miles".
Hahaha! What?
Totally. The melody is massive.
Well said bruv. If you don’t like the melody, you have a block to ur emotional level
1503: Leonardo paints the Mona Lisa
1998: The Planet’s national anthem is born
lmao
HAHAHAHA
Nahhh that’s darude sandstorm
Since Earth is also called the blue planet, this one is really spot on...
*YO LISTEN UP HERES A STORY..*
20 years later, We still play this song in the clubs. There are many remixes but the original version has stood the test of time. One of the greatest pop/dance records ever created.
Fab Funty shit attempt at trollin
@Flamez Kush Actually some discos meant for older people play this, at least in tourist places😄
@@FabFunty - 98 it was😂😂😂
Yes I’m still 💙
@@SanoAnniVaan your right !
don't remember who gave me that drink last night but it was blue🙄😜🤣 ,
so I'm better going to delete my comment,
thx for notification of my stupidity
I love how absolutely nobody asked for this and honestly it probably was a big risk and a lot of money but vice said “you know what let’s do it” and we all just love it lol. Nostalgia of us internet kids.
Taye Purks how is it nostalgia for internet kids when us 90’s kids didn’t have or care about the internet?
Loved this video but I dislike Vice 💩 have NO idea why this is in my front page👀
Mike Hunt What’s with you 90s kids and never shutting up about growing up in the 90s? Nobody will like you or the 90s if you act like a conceited douchebag about it. Grow up and deal with the fact that 1990 was 30 years ago.
@@CrustyUgg this is the reason us internet kids hate the 90's kids. All you complain about is "how hard it is to live in the 90's we don't experience the things you have done." Nobody cares, asshole. You don't see the generations older than you complaining right? Why can't you just grow up and shut the fuck up about 'how hard and how good the 90's were'. Shut the fuck up douchebag.
@@CrustyUgg no one asked
This track comes from legends and this song lives forever. Eventhough being remixed recently by David Guetta, it can never beat the original that got so many emotions in it.
Yeah I liked D Guetta's stuff back in the early 2000's, now most of the music is just resampling someone else's work... not just him, but many 'artists'. 95 -2010 was an amazing time for euro electronic dance music. With very few exceptions, music is stale now.
@@kleetus92 Agreed 100%
@@kleetus92 music is not stale you just need to find it
@@vv6152 K.... where?
@@vv6152 if I had a penny for every time someone says yUo JuST NeeD to LoOK 4 TeH MUSic when someone else says music isn't good nowadays.
Not everyone has all day to be searching for great music hidden somewhere on soundcloud among a billion other tracks. The whole point of inventing radio and music TV was that people could discover new music outside of their local area. People shouldn't be looking for music, someone else should be making a name for themselves as a great curator and broadcaster of unknown music.
Band name: French
Band musicians: Italian
Song language: English
States where the song is known: WORLD
The state world??? NO WAY 😳😳😳
Literally every eurodance and bubblegum dance song in a nutshell
che onore
Mr. Worldwide
GERMANY should be a BLUE WORLD!
23:02 The best quote of the whole documentary: "I don't remember how many singles I made and failed before blue. You have to mention them to understand how we wrote a song in 2 hours. it's not a question of 'we made a song in two hours'. But its 'we make a life that leads you in those two hours to make a song.'
Well according to Gabry, he did some "tweaks" which nobody noticed. lol But after all if it's a band everyone should be included, regardless of how much they've done.
Not only the best quote but when the song starts afterwards it gives me chills every time
@@rcran2491 Ponte keeps leaving and rejoining so I don't blame him.
Andrea M 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽
PlayerCompare what do you mean he didn’t do anything? For blue?
One of the highlights of human history.
I mean they had an Italian named Jeffrey, how could they not be destined for immediate success?
😂
You must not know much of human history C,even though it’s a good 90’s song
Timothy Clift nah man, it’s great because it fuccin bumps and brings people together.
I'm blue in color, will I remember?
I am from Egypt and this song was massive in my country back in the day. Crazy how music can unite the world!
same, I still remember when my friend made me listen to it in 2001 (a bit late, I know).
Send all the hot egyptian women to me please!
I was born 1990 and this song was a big part of my childhood! Thanks for this cool video about them.
Same! 90 baby here too.
Me too
What's up dude!
same age as you, this was my favorite song when it came out
:( da ba deer okey no dee
Now this is my kind of VICE documentary
Yeah vice has really gotten way off track between trans b.s. and weed.
Nothing but facts
FINALLY A VICE DOCUMENTARY I CAN GET DOWN AND FUNKY WITH
Shakalkg you must have missed the sandstorm doc...
@@smoothoperator9901 the WHAT documentary? Brb
I can get funky to this shity
@Big Rock, yes but only because shrek
When he played the piano in the beginning it struck something in my heart from when i first heard the song as a kid. You know you've made something special when music makes you feel a certain way.
I think the piano melody is very pretty, and I'd love to hear a full orchestral piece developed from the original.
A full orchestral Rolf....
There's a good piano cover of it by radio --> piano.
done
x100
this one has a beautiful Piano track in the background:
ua-cam.com/video/fdpjmvet1Gw/v-deo.html
I love how none of them are pretentious artists or even your regular industry people, they're literally what happens when unnoticed producers make it big for some reason. Even their boss is cool
we are Italian man: we always do things with style :P
is really strange to read "unnoticed" in a sentence related to GABRY PONTE. lol
Ozzy Man Diaz did you not watch at 20:30 how he tries to passive aggressively take credit for making the song, by saying his name was in the credits and people must have forgot what "actually" happened with time, and how he split from the rest of the group to go on his own career.
RunTo7thst I can't tell if you're either too young or too socially inept to read his attitude when he says, everyone forgets who's name is on the original, but it was a team effort. He says it was a team effort after criticizing the true origins of the song as to avoid any negative comments.
nah man, at least a couple of the people showing up in the video are all but unpretentious... Gabry Ponte first of all, for what I have seen and heard and read around he's a massive diva. Jeffrey and Maury seem to be more down to earth.
It's not about writing a song in 2 hours. It's about making a life that leads you to those 2 hours
i like this guy give him a beer
Damn so true
That one phrase made me rethink the meaning behind songs like Everlong, Teen Spirit, The Pretender, Under Pressure, No Rest for the Wicked...
Wow. I hope someday I can experience a moment like that.
this comment blew my mind
Damn that's the best way to look at it
1999 this song came on MTV. It gave birth to my love for dance music. I was 6 years old. :)
"We wrote the song in two hours." I love how he means that like, can you believe it? Yes. Yes, I can believe that.
I’m blue da ba dee da ba da... okay guys, we still have 2 hours left to write this song, what next? 😄
@Lubabalo Mahlombe so are most the greatest songs ever. Except for In My Life, that is the song of all fucking songs. Who'd've thought 4 young lads from liverpool could create the best thing the human race has ever created
@Caleb Edwards 😂
If you didn't hear him he said i wrote 3 versions in 30-40 minutes
The whole song was constructed in 2 hours
What's amazing is at 3:51 he says he 'wasn't able to find C on the keyboard'.... Then 'turns up for lessons at eight thirty the next morning' and makes the doorbell sound which is pitched exactly at middle C. Wonderful.
Holy crap dude, I wasn't sure so I just tested it and you are absolutely right. Good ear!
@Marina Betancourt wrong. its middle c
Marina Betancourt bby girl ur right i actually am a little tone deaf. but my daw told me that the exact pitch of the tone, is -0.377 off C, so it is perfectly understandable that ur amazingly giftet ear is hearing a B - but also, youre wrong.
Jeppe Fogh Poulsen it’s a b...
@@jeppefoghpoulsen355 It may not be a perfect B, but it's definitly not a C
I love this series! So many classics!
There need 2 b way more episodes. _Stat_ !
This is not a classic
@@z3bv1onm17 Their Multi-Platinum plaques say otherwise lol
@@stevezac_cptlpnshmnt from overseas where they listen to anything lol
Classics? Wtf
A memory of this song I’ll never forget:
I was in elementary school (born in ‘90) and my bus was just pulling into school in the morning for drop off. This song comes on the radio. The entire bus load of kids-were talking 30-40 kids-was singing along to this song. Every single kid. That’s how big of a deal this song was back in the day. No one could resist it, and no one tried. God the 90s were great 💙
Just came across an old vhs of us skating at the rink in 2000, and this song was playing.
This is a documentary I didn't know I needed. This song always brings me back, love it.
Definitely didn’t need it. Buncha fatcats rich off garbage music
This is a song from my childhood
I literally thought this same thing. Scrolled down once on my mouse and landed on your comment. WOW!!!!!!!!!
@@CANControlGRAFFITI dude. U listen to rap by any chance?
What's I find fascinating is the way that they basically bumped into each other for a short moment in time. That window in time combined their talents and skills into a gem of a song; and the ride it took them on was incredible. I love that serendipity. It's hard for strangers to capture lightning in a bottle, and there's no shame in saying "We had different musical ambitions, and it's ok." They brought so much joy to people all over the world with just one song is such an accomplishment for a bunch of dudes who were just jammin' and riffing off each other.
“Lightening in a bottle.” So true, so true!
I know this is the beauty of music and moments in time - you don’t need to write a grand symphony to make something amazing that people love and it’s just pure chance a lot of the time like these videos on vice go to show
I love this comment 🥹
I’m a 90’s kid and this song was EVERYTHING to me lol
Holy shit this song was literally ahead of its time when it released, that’s crazy that it took a year for it to blow up.
That's Italy.... ;)
I was about to say it was light years ahead of its time
Yeah thats why most of people on there place didnt like it i think the trends of the in edm music in there is much Probably techno or hardcore...
@@joebermuda6452 light years don't meassure time, they meassure distance, in case you didn't know.
Dude I loved and still love all of their Europop album. Way ahead.
This song to me is nothing but a time machine to beautiful memories. Priceless.
who else had goosebumps when he suddenly played the "Im Blue" melody on the piano at the very beginning?
i did
I still love that part
Me @24.00 too
The piano part just makes it amazing
Damn you got me
6:58 "They trust me, I don't know why."
Relatable every day at work
true, sometimes i get scared about others trusting me but fail them...
@@paulvincentarriesgado3323 yep
Flowmasta Flam your good and I now about the story I wish luck and I want you to read this please😊😂😂
7:02 ?
Let’s get a documentary about darude sandstorm now
Already happened
Youre not gunna believe this
yes they ALREADY made it
Lemme tell ya somethin-
IT ALREADY HAPPENED?!?
The whole Europop Album was perfection. I still have it to this day. Absolutely timeless.
I still have my original copy too. It’s been bumped over and over so many times even in recent years that I am surprised it still plays 😂
Now i can finaly die in peace.
Amen brother.
Only if you're green.
Still up there?
Same here.
Where did you land bro?
Every 90's kid needs to watch this
Already on it.
97' here, love it :D
91 baby
Checking in for duty
I was born in 04 but I remember this by heart
In 1999 I was 5 years old. And "I'm blue" was one of the first songs I absolutely loved. It really stands out. Still love it!
the way they dressed in the video is exactly what h&m and forever 21 sell right now
They were ahead of their time
You mean the astronaut clothes?
It's more like 90s chic is in.
Really? I still dress normal so I do not know nothing about those stores.. and I'm 22.. lol
Travis you are very right . The whole Miami vice theme is coming back .
Please rise for the National Anthem
Buusack Noodle international anthem
Anthems are great
Better listen to Buk Lau, kids....
As Finnish I'll raise as soon as they play Sandstorm
🤦♂️
ive never been so excited for a video. my childhood has been completed
Vice likes pretty girls
Jays adventures well ty
@@jaysoddfutr1136 Vice are trying to get laid
💯
nope
Shout out to Eiffel 65. My mother bought Euro Pop for me in 2000 when I was 8 years old. Looking back, I had no idea what the genre of music was, but it was something that was completely different then was on the radio in America at the time. Fast forward to 2010, I picked up Hardstyle and techno. Again, nothing like it in America. Now I look back on those days and I smile. Great times. I still listen to some Hardstyle every now and then. My daughter is a huge EDM fan now. She loves Techno. I played her some tracks from Euro Pop and she loved them. It made me smile. The music I listened too and loved as a child is now the same music my daughter listens to. So special
I've read your comment now after one year... If you want know more... I suggest you try " dream progressive 1/2/3"... By Gino scratch!!! So you can open another door about Italian trance music and movement!!!!!! Because for us "Blue" was (obviously beautiful) but pretty commercial piece for summer ⛱️!!!!!.... Believe me if you and your daughter need more Tecno.... Searching for!!!!
Greets from Italy an Italian former mountain trooper Alpini 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹
Son of 90s😮😮😢😊😊😊
Ps. Sorry... Dream progressive story!!! It's an Italian collection of pretty unknown DJ's around Italian peninsula.... They was almost all autoproduced.... And playing in very few Clubs around Italy 🇮🇹
One of them jump out from clubs it's Gigi D'Agostino 😮😮😮😮😮😮... Cheers again 🍻
20 years later and still a banger, this is when you know you have succeeded
Wait... it's been TWENTY YEARS? Damn, getting old sucks!
LandonGendur Indeed 😭Spongebob is going on 20, I’m going on 20, Melee and Digimon are going on 20. It’s been so long yet feels so short
oow im getting older
NOW I CAN'T STOP SINGING / DANCING TO IT MAN !!!
Wow are you serious? 20 years? Then it means i was 3 when it happened...i still remember perfectly when the commercials on Tv showed this song.
I need more stories about 90's songs
There are netflix
@@pandaprod2360 what documentary is on Netflix?
Which one?
Yea like Rick astley never gonna give you up
Check out the channel called "Todd in the shadows" and his one hit wonders series, it's pretty interesting.
This might be the best video Vice has made. Something people actually give a shit about and very unexpected.
and something that defies politics that everyone can get behind
A ton of Vice's stuff is interesting and well done.
I know right, I never ever ever ever thought Vice would do this, to me this is quite special they were one of my cabo roten anda of all time, a big fan to say the least, I knew everything about them.
Every millennial knows this song. It is hypnotic to the point of surrealism and was very groundbreaking for the time. Now, ironically, it embodies the spirit of an age that has been all but forgotten.
Don’t forget Gen X, I was 20 when it came out.
Wonderfully put
Listen on spotify to get it back on the charts one more time
6BRENO6 lets do it chief
Backed!
im down
Already on it. Lately I've been channeling my inner Millennial child self, listening to nostalgic music from the 90s. Dance pop being club music with pop lyrics, European dance music meeting USA electronic music, it all makes sense now why I like party music and EDM today. I also reactivated my boy band dancing skills. Is that something I should be embarrassed about though. lol
No joke, this was an incredibly important song in shaping pop music. It was way ahead of its time.
I bloody loved this song when it came out. Hearing it now gives me proper chills, it’s soooo nostalgic and brings back so many memories! Ahh, the 90s.
This was my song for the year I lived in Kaohsiung, Taiwan for a year as a 17 year old. Brings back so many crazy memories of an exciting time in my life.
No jokes, my mom would play this in the car on my way to school. She had the CD. Which these days is rare. This is like late 90's early 2000. What a beat. I still listen to it and it never gets old. The funny thing is that the while album was good, not just this song.
Now i can sleep easier at night.
Thank you Vice
😂
Yae One *starts to fade away
Wonder if James Cameron heard this song and made Avatar.
most unappreciated comment here :P
#longstorySHORT !
@FromTheChi Tothe305 and raping the planet and it's inhabitants in the process with weird clone bodies... yuch!
@FromTheChi Tothe305 r/woooosh
😂
I’m so glad Eiffel 65 didn’t decline this interview
If you think about what the “dance” music actually is today, dance ‘90 looks like gold compared to it. That said, Eiffel 65 made a piece of art with Blue and that song (along with a few others of those years) will be never forgotten. It was such an important part of my childhood. So many amazing memories rush to my mind as soon as I hear the first couple of notes of the melody. That is exactly what good music is, that is exactly what art is. Thank you Eiffel!
*VICE PLEASE MAKE MORE DOCUMENTARIES ON POPULAR 90s MUSIC*
facttttttttttsss
Alice Deejay please
Vengaboys ,aqua
I tip my hat to Vice for this one. They made one hell of a good documentary here. Maybe I shouldn't skip their posts from now on. Cheers to Eiffel 65 too.
The late 90s/early 2000s had some really weird songs, but as a 30 year old I feel I grew up at the right time considering the music 🤘🏻
Hoss Cartwright amen. Of course I’m biased, but you had these dance tracks, and also alternative rock and rap/hip hop really all getting their stride at the same time. I’m trying not to turn into the bitter old man that hates the younger generations’ music, and there is SOME good stuff coming out, but the 90s-early 2000s was the sweet spot IMO.
Yeah I pooped too
JTD472 Just remember that a lot of music nowadays is ironic and not meant to be good. Seems like no one gets this
Hoss Cartwright fucking right bro! I was in 3rd grade when this song came out and we had a lil elementary dance thing? Lol but they played that song and 3rd grade me is going crazy watching this lol
Lola's theme
Blue was a formative song for me in my childhood. I connected with the song because I felt like the music was saying words that I could not articulate. It was as if someone was singing for me, and because of that, I could express myself when I heard this song.
I bought all the music that Eiffel 65 and Bloom 06 made because that unique sound was my sound. It was me, and because I loved it, I felt happiness in myself.
Blue is the anthem for people looking to see that they are not alone in this world. Thank you Gabry, Maury, and Jeffrey for giving me this connection and this beautiful song.
Goosebumps when the piano played 🔥🔥 child hood memories !!
23:05 is such a strong message. One of the best I’ve ever heard. After watching everything, it sinks deep.
Leoni Days beautifully said.
true
This was so fun to watch! I blast the whole album with my 6 year old daughter and she loves it! Greetings from Chicago!
It's unbelievable how this song holds up today. It has everything to be a hit even today if it was released . And it will definitely be a sure winner in the future. You can play it every time in the club and will be a god damn hit.
My 10 year old sister knows this song.(I’m 34, pops had her late lol) And it’s funny how I got this suggestion after she played this song on her iPad during my visit on Christmas
@@nate_p416 google listening bro
@@jeremiahfyan Ayo shhh we don't do that here
@@therealneji no its actually true tho
@@jeremiahfyan I know I'm trying to the you not to blow my cover
The first song I ever liked as a child, I’m blue
Updated8SecondsAgo Facts!!!!
Same, amazing song
I'll be listening to this song right after this video
Big Fat Liar put me on that good good
same here, funny how it stood out to so many young people, i dont know if its the aliens in the video or what but this song is metaphysical
"Its not a question of we made a song in two hours but we make a life that leads you in those two hours to make the song" Very inspiring and very true.. Such is life, every failure pushes you and that is very humble of him to acknowledge
Something about that piano riff just hits you right in the feelings. Nostalgia overload.
Probably because it uses a variation of the I, iV, V, Vi progression
“I’m more focused on having my music more famous than me.” So humble
Centric and a slight dig at the other guy, with the implication that he chose personal fame above artistic merit.
Funny though because the music can reach more people if the artist markets his product with his personality/fame
@@jayrusty2012 08:20 Bit unfair how they try discount Gabry Ponte's contribution. What "HE PUT" is the what made the track an International Hit! (first and second versions were horrible). Gabry Ponte went on to be success on his own. That is what he put. He re-arranged and fine tuned, until he heard a HIT! (all x4 of these guys contributed to the success) 1. Melody. 2. Lyrics & Theme. 3. Da Ba Dee Chorus. 4. The final hit arrangement.
max mix the evidence is what they are today. Gabry produces and releases song after song after song and Eiffel hasn’t released anything since 2016. He clearly won in the end.
@@maxmix-retrodisco usually the guy who does the best or final mix, ends up the asshole. Its not fair at all. If you listen to the rest of the versions in the snippets you hear, they just didnt have "the sound". From what it sounded like in the first versions at least, it didnt sound like it
What an honour to have watched this video. Europop was my very first album. I was 9 years old.
I was 15! 36 now and my 5 yr old son loves the song!! Will always be a classic for me.
@@sunhun same here, exactly same thing
Welcome to the club 💜
WOAH! exactly the same here! my mom let me buy a CD for an 12 hour road trip and this is what I picked...she was pretty fed up by the end of our journey
Same story for me :)
I remember listening this in 1999, I was 14... and I was like - wow. This is the song of the millennium. The future is now. Lol
This is a typical "im only 14 years old" comment, bet you ain't born in 1999, you are just looking for a comment that would get alot of likes 🤡🤡🤡
Ramon 7 born in 1999? she didn’t say that. you’re obviously like 12. foh.
@@Aurora-rw9lplmao if im 12, you're prob 7
@@Aurora-rw9lp calls himself "bruhh" 🤣 clearly a sign of an underaged kid 🤡🤔🤫
Ramon 7 oh so we being racist now? “bruh” originated from black people. I’m a female. Don’t be racist 💕
Amazing story about one of my favorite childhood songs! It’s still catchy after all these years!
Bro it’s crazy some people will never know how crazy this song was😂😂
This song literally defined so much of my childhood because it was on ALL the time. Omg and that music video was so cutting edge at the time, amazing to think lmao.
This and the thong song! 😂😂
I was born in the late late 90's. I wasnt really there when it blew up since i was a kid but this song still somehow made my childhood and party life. To this day it comes on parties nonstop. And everybody knows and loves it. Its like it unites people in a different level, young and old. And that makes it so beautiful
@@Silagane dude your reaching hella hard
Its so weird because that song was never not on lol u turn on the radio, tv, go to a mall, annnnyywhere and it was on. Then the ongoing debates on what the dude is sayin 😂
"...for the record, the lyrics are really just 'da ba dee'."
Thank you, I can finally rest peacefully. For years I had wondered if "if I was green I would die" was part of the song or not. I appreciate the closure I got from that.
I thought it was - I believe i will die. Which i thought, hmm, a factual song. We all die. Even as a kid lol
Same
numgun sounds like what a lizard person would say “What is the English”
After watching this i went and found my old MP3-player, packard bell FunKey 512 MB (that's *M*), plugged it in and sure enough, Blue (Da ba dee) was on it. Date modified: 15-7-2004. Holy shit lol
I had got the same MP3 player and a cd with "I'm blue" ;) memories
Eaglewilliamjohn dang what a blast from the past hahaha
That's gonna be a relic of history, if it isn't already. Packard Bell, holy crap.
What's incredible is that that thing still turned on
1999: This Song Is So Good
2013: This Song Is So Good
2023: This Song Is So Good
3023: This Song Is So Good
4042: This Song Is So Good
5052: This Song Is So Good
9999: This Song Is So Good
ထ : This Song Is So Good
A Challenger appears: Lamour Toujours
cuz: This Song Is So Blue
Both songs are great
This is a documentary of one of the greatest moments in history
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
you’re serious?
@@Draftspike yes .
I’m blue
This song represents so much of our youth, I loved the 90s
Exactly the 90s and mid 00s were a cool thing. I feel so old and sad, I am almost 30 now.
I’m an ‘02 guy and this song was such a huge part of my life when I was a kid
Couldn't have picked Smells Like Teen Spirit or No Rain or something?
I loved the LA riots
My god look at all these fossils
Next time pls make a “Darude : Sandstorm” documentary !
@@Bawbalicious Thank you for your service.
@@Bawbalicious Thank you!!!
@@Bawbalicious LMAO it's even in the description of the video. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who hits that down arrow to read it. 😄
@@Bawbalicious it's private, now ☹️ I really want to see it though!
They made it and its a stolen song.
This is proof that simplicity is sometimes the best option
All throughout High School, my friends and I would argue over what they were saying in the chorus. I thought they said "I'm Blue if I were Green I would die."
Someone else thought it was "I'm Bi I'm in need of a guy."
And one thought it was just the "I'm Blue Da Ba Dee Da Ba Die."
That's it thought. I only had 2 friends in High School.
Gianni Brown Holy shit it can’t be un heard now
Lmfao those are the same arguments I had with friends over this song. That's awesome.
My cousin insisted it was "I'm in need of a diet"
"Overnight success takes years."
@That Guy true, true, but he's right, in this day and age now you make one banger and it just suddenly gains traction over night and no one knows who sings that song until later on you other more two song coming the same yeard
Oh My God, this documentary was full of life lessons.
Seriously. It made my night. I feel genuinely better a human being after watching this. Like a fire started burning inside me.
I love the background story, and the fact that it was such a random hit. As a music producer in the late 1990's, it was an amazing time in the world of electronic music production and distribution...
Also, a friend of mine thought that the lyrics said "I'm blue, I'm in need of a guy - I'm in need of a..." - which made it all even more fun. Great work, guys!
Nobody:
Vice: Let's do a whole peice on that "I'm blue" song!
Glad they did
they did a video about darude sandstorm as well, so...
Nobody:
Vice: Let's do a whole piece on that "I'm blue" song!
Everybody: _BUT WHAT DO THE LYRICS MEAN?!_
But as you can see there was a story behind it all a heart touching story
Just like a 1990 high school doccumentary video
I first heard blue at a jc penny boys clothing section in 1999, I was 13. Before that momment the only stuff I listened to was country and old blue grass; music life changed forever.
3DGEM3 so what do you listen to now?
@@evilspawn edm and classical
You should listen to Italodance if you like blue, it's the same genere and there's plenty more that never came out of italy
Try jazz
What were you doing in 2002
This "The Story Of" series is phenomenal
When I first heard this song from a classmate in primary school (because back then we didn't have the internet) I told him he MUST give me that song on a cassette. I gave him a cassette the next day, and he recorded that song for me. I have to tell you, I quickly ruined the radio because I kept rewinding the cassette so I could listen to the song over and over again. One of the best disco/dance music in history.
That piano melody is absolutely beautiful.
I remember back in 90s when my mom screaming at me after 300 plays, "You're never going to get tired of listening this track" and I reply "NEVER"
"I'm blue, if I was green I would die" is actually brilliant lyrics IMO
Heard that a lot back in the day. I didn’t know it was only a German thing lol
Yea I dont understand why he thought that didnt make sense.
@@theborgqueen6891 Deep truth in that statement
Why what does it mean for Germans?
Agree
I don't think a song gets anymore 90's than this
Blue was a great song but the Album Europop is soooooo criminally underrated its insane. TONS of great songs on that album that you will come for Blue but stay for everything else. And Contact was also great! These guys had serious talent that kinda gets overshadowed by Blue.
Blue is a meme
I liked the playstation song
Agreed, blue is a classic but the rest of the album trumps it harddddd. LIvin in the bubble baby! Move your bodayyy! I hyperlink to go insideeee you!!! DEEP DOWN! atoomuch of heavuaaannn! Fuck I know every single word.
I agree! Europop is one of my favorite dance albums. I don’t dislike any of the songs and I still have the original CD to this day.
dantheman1998 agreed. Great music.
MTV had this song on the heaviest rotation, and as someone who's main media source was MTV I quickly grew to hate it (like I did with a lot of popular Eurobeat). But now, as a middle-aged, somewhat broken individual scarred from the ravages of life, this song is a wonderful nostalgia trip with which I only associate people laughing and smiling.
YES to all of this! 💯 Same. I'm young genX and our generation has lost so many of its heroes way too soon. There have also been tragic losses in my personal life. Everyone forgets about us, but we pioneered a lot of tolerance towards alternative lifestyle choices, racist attitudes were repugnant and feminism was seen in a different light through our eyes. We saw beauty in the sunny times, but also in the gloomiest of lows. I only hear about millennials and boomers. Maybe it's because we never were the kids who received or required a lot of attention to begin with. Everyone had divorced parents and moments of latchkey life, as I remember it. Being invisible has always been in the undercurrent. I was in my early 20s when this song came out. It reminds me of the carefree life, but also the pain & uncertainty of young adulthood. I was always wondering where I would end up. It seems like yesterday, but very far away at the same time. Middle age has taken hold, but there's still so much of that kid alive inside me.
MTV made a lot of music popular. I really miss MTV
You hated it? Lol smh
@@jdkingsley6543 because of the over play
Typical gen x hating an absolute banger like this
This series is probably one of the best out there. It’s interesting to see the behind the scenes on some of the most nostalgic songs for many of us. Sad how they never worked out as a band in the end but it’s nice to see they’re all doing pretty well.
Excellent documentary! It’s mind blowing to see the creative process behind music and so disheartening when it doesn’t become successful. We are all so lucky that it eventually got it’s well-deserved break.
I love how down to Earth they all seem even after all these years. Congrats to them for continuing to live their dream
Watch the the other episodes of this series
Atleast its not as sad as the 303 story. Out for more than a years. Out of production for 10 years. Blew up big after 10 years. Never came back to production.
"we make a life that leads to those 2 hours" is probably the most powerful statement i ever heard
Yeah that was deep, it’s always the journey
one of the best part of this documentary
metal gear solid influenced the music video, that's badass
That is something else pure 90s gold right there brother
Reminded me more of Oddworld: Abe’s Odyssey
If you listen to the album that had blue on it there was a song titled “my console” it’s all about the OG Playstation
MGS for life.. I'll never forget the music in the ps1 double disc set.. that starting music. still sends me back
They also say it in their playstation song
"Blue" is one of those songs that has created its own pillar in the music world, it's timeless and will be enjoyed for years to come 💙
I agree
This was my jam back in the day! The whole Europop album is still a bop to this day. I love hearing the story behind the song.
Figuring out that he doesn’t say “if I was green I would die” shattered my entire existence
Zimbaa lmao
Going through this currently. All the times I argued with people about those lyrics. They were right.
“I would beat up a guy”
"i believe i will die"
somehow I figured this lyric fact out many years ago and I don't even know how I did.
It became a hit on "the 1st of April, 1999" so on April Fools' Day these guys lives changed forever.
I love it on the piano.
We'd recently got married and in the B & B where we spent our honeymoon, this song was always floating out of the kitchen area on the radio every morning, without fail. Whichever station they listened to REALLY liked this song lol, it was a staple, every morning. No other songs stick out in my memory of those mornings, apart from this one. All these years later, still married to the same guy, now with a 19 year old son, and every time I hear this song I am transported back in time to being a newlywed couple again. I have a really fond affection for this song. I also feel a bit old reading most of the comments saying that they were in school when this song came out lol!
Thank you for sharing this lovely story. Here's to a long life with your love!
@@hibisco345 Thank you! All the best to you.
These guys were the soundtrack of my childhood. Their music means so much to me and I still listen to their stuff regularly. Just last week I finally got my hands on a physical copy of Europop, and it's so wonderful to finally be able to hold in my hands the album that legitimately changed my life. Best $5 I've ever spent. I will always be an Eiffel 65 fan.
mpacz99 i owned that album when it cme out. i was in the 3rd grade. rodeo clown, my playstation, living in a bubble. all insanely good
What's your favourite song on the album. You need to find Contact as well.
Each to their own bro. Personally I'm not into them but it makes me happy that music can make people come together and feel great
It always makes the whole experience of listening to music much more enjoyable for me holding and owning the physical copy. The generation growing up today will never know the experience of popping a cd into your player and flipping through a fresh CD booklet reading all the lyrics and seeing all the album artwork
@Adrian Cooper: I've given that so much thought and I don't know if I can pick just one. I think I'd narrow it down to Living in a Bubble and Hyperlink. Absolutely every song is excellent though.
Contact is next on my list, a bit harder to stumble across here in the states! Also on the lookout for their third album too.
@teethgrinder 83: I totally understand where you're coming from man. If I heard their stuff for the first time today I don't know if I'd feel the same way about them. I'd chalk some of it up to nostalgia for sure. It's funny how that works, I guess I just discovered them at the right time.
@siberian mustang: Absolutely! I've always preferred physical media, be it music, video games, etc. Having something tangible like that, that you can dig out decades later and reminisce with, is priceless. Much better than a couple of mp3 files. In particular I've always loved the album art for Europop.