25 years ago, Eurodance was booming. For example, Vengaboys were killing it with songs like Boom Boom Boom Boom, Barbie Girl by Aqua kept playing on the radio and the Italian group Eiffel 65 swept everywhere with Move Your Body and Blue (Da Ba Dee). One of the catchiest songs in pop history, according to several studies. In fact, the single is so memorable that even in 2024 people still sing it by heart.
That was precisely what happened last Saturday at IFEMA, when the band performed at the Love The 90s festival, in front of more than 40 thousand people. “It was something exciting. After all these years, Seeing that people dance and sing like this with us is incredible.. That’s our real job: to entertain,” they mentioned to LOC as they came off the stage. “Although we should also mention that The Spanish public is special“, they commented.
“We often come to Spain to play and we always feel very comfortable. We believe that Spanish and Italian culture are similar. Even though our languages are not the same, they sound similar and we would love to learn a little more. We have never thought about singing in Spanish, but maybe We could translate some of our topics into your language“It would be great,” they said. Although, at the moment, Eiffel 65 has its efforts focused on other projects.
“We will soon release a single called Bestiale with Loredana Bertè, who is a legend in Italy. It is playing a lot in our country, we are happy with the reception and we believe that we will continue working like this: releasing singles. The time for producing full albums has passed. It is an old concept“They said. However, what they will continue to do is travel the world. “There are people who tell us ‘you’re back’. But we have never stopped,” they said.
“We have been working hard for 25 years. If you knew the number of planes we take, you would be surprised. We like it, we are used to it, but we have to fight to have free time.. Which is something you need when you have a family with children. But it’s hard to disconnect. Even when we are at home… Because our head is always busy and the phone doesn’t stop ringing. We have had to learn to find balance and say no,” they revealed.
As for their children, the musicians say they are not interested in following in their footsteps in eurodance. But their vocalist, Jeffrey Jey does have an heiress who sings“My daughter sings opera and has an incredible voice. But no, she doesn’t sing her dad’s songs. Others do that,” explained the interpreter, then referring to the new versions that have come out of Blue. Among them, the successful Some Say of Nea and I’m Good by David Guetta and Bebe Rexha.
“All the people who have covered our song have contacted us and we have always said yes. Our bank accounts love that! Plus, It is an honor to have recorded and produced a song that is still so popular.. Although when we created it we didn’t know all the potential it had. Obviously, we wanted to make something that was timeless and bigger than ourselves. But we had no intention of getting rich.“What we wanted was to have fun and make a fun song that we believed in,” they said.
But what is Blue – really – about? “During these years, we have heard everything. There are people who believe that the phrase “da ba dee, dabba da-ee” means strange things. For example, there was a theory that we actually wanted to sing ‘I’m blue and I believe I would die’ (‘I’m blue and I want to die’) and others who thought I was saying ‘I’m blue and I’m in need of a guy’ (‘I’m blue and I’m in need of a guy’)‘I’m blue and I need a boy’). Or worse, others believed we were racist,” they declared.
“There were people who thought we were babbling ‘I’m blue and if I was green I would die‘ (‘I’m blue and if I were green I would die’). So we had to face angry fans who told us ‘what’s up with your racism?‘, because they believed that blue and green were a metaphor for black and white. And the true meaning has nothing to do with that. We wanted to talk about perception that people have about things, adding a phrase that didn’t make sense,” they revealed.
“When I was writing the lyrics, I was studying some physics and I was thinking about the strange illusion we all have that things are solid… But they are not. Everything we touch is actually made up of an incredible number of atoms, which – when they come into contact with our body – are pushed by our own atoms and perception What you have of that goes through a filter that you yourself create. Everything we live and how we live it goes through a filter,” Jey reflected.
“That filter could be blue, orange or yellow and it leads us to perceive things in our own way. Today I see your blouse and it seems to me that it is pink. But… is it really pink? My eyes and my brain tell me yes, but in reality it is because I am seeing it with a filter that I have chosen myself. And in the song we talk about the protagonist using a blue filter.… That’s why he sees everything blue,” they confessed, as well as speaking out about another theory. A social one, which led them to write Move Your Body.
“What it really means is that if you want someone to move their body, you have to move yours first. If you want something to happen, you have to start it.You can’t wait for something to happen if you don’t do anything. It’s a very social concept. It’s true that in 1999 it seemed like many songs didn’t say anything.“But we believe that music does give you the opportunity to say what you think and we took that opportunity,” they said.
“Our songs have two levels: a superficial one, that of babbling, and a deep one… And we have given our fans the possibility to choose. You can stay with the first thing you hear, but you can also choose to delve deeper “in our world,” said producer Maurizio Lobina, who has been trained as a great pianist. “People think a project like Eiffel 65 is superficial, but we are trained musicians. I sing opera. And the fact that today you hear my voice with a synthesizer is a choice,” Jey concluded.
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