"Blue (Da Ba Dee)" is a single by Italian group Eiffel 65. It is by far the band's most popular single, reaching #1 in 17 countries, including the UK, Australia, and Norway, and also peaking at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. The song was released in 1999 on the album Europop. The vocals were recorded using a vocoder, giving the vocals a robotic sound. The song was featured in an episode of the MTV shows Undressed and The Osbournes.
The song refers to a person who is figuratively "blue" - so "blue" that it begins to affect his world and life.While in depression contemplates committing suicide as he sings, "I will bleed I will die". Those lyrics were electronically altered to be censored form audiences.
The song was used during a scene of the Frankie Muniz movie, Big Fat Liar. Muniz dyes the antagonist, Marty Wolf, blue in Wolf's pool by the addition of blue coloring. Later Muniz drives up beside as the song plays, referring to Marty's blue skin.
The song appears at #14 on Rolling Stone's list of the 20 Most Annoying Songs.http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2007/07/02/the-20-most-annoying-songs/
Blue is a 24 hour music video channel that broadcasts exclusively for Greeks abroad and is owned by Antenna Group.
Blue features music content including video clips from Greece's top artists, concerts, exclusive interviews and other special programming. Antenna has united with Greece's premier music service, MAD TV, giving it access to MAD TV's vast library of musical content. MAD TV has a database that includes 17,000 video-clips, 70,000 songs and over 1,000 hours of live concert footage. Blue is similar to MAD TV's own international music channel, MAD World, which is available to viewers in Australia, the Pacific Rim and North America. Blue broadcasts exclusively to viewers in North America and is available on the Dish Network.
"Blue" was the first single by British band The Verve to be released from their first album, A Storm in Heaven. The song peaked at #69 in the charts.
The song has a minimalistic approach about it, with loops in the mysterious introduction and reverse guitar parts that give it a psychedelic sound, like many on the Storm in Heaven album.
The video shows the band down a dark alleyway in Islington, London. There was a separate video for the USA, which was filmed in Dublin.
Blue is the last single from American Alternative band A Perfect Circle's 2003 album Thirteenth Step. The song was later remixed entitled "Blue (Bird Shake Mix)" by James Iha and Geoff Sanoff for the 2004 aMOTION CD/DVD.
A video was made for the song, not by the band, but as the result of a fan-video contest. The winner, along with three runner-ups, are all watchable on the aMOTION DVD.
"Blue" is the first hit from the album of the same name by LeAnn Rimes. The song was written by radio personality Bill Mack, and won the 1997 Grammy Award for Best Country Song.
"Blue" is a song by the Finnish rock band The Rasmus (named just "Rasmus" back then), originally released on the band's second album Playboys on August 29, 1997.
If you exclude 1st, 2nd and 3rd and count them as EPs, "Blue" is the first single released by The Rasmus. It was released in 1997 by the record label Warner Music Finland. It was the first single from the album Playboys and features the tracks "Blue" and "Kola", both from the album Playboys.
"Blue" is a softer, more melodic song compared to the other songs from the album.
The single was a big success in the band's native country, Finland, where it sold gold and reached #3 on the Finnish Singles Chart.
