Music Review: Eiffel 65 "Blue (Da Bee Dee)"

Eiffel 65

Blue (Da Bee Dee)

Album: Europop

Year: 1998

             Jeffrey Jey is really depressed in the idiotic “Blue (Da Bee Dee).”

           Histronic synths open the single, setting a joyous tone.  He says his painted a deep navy blue, which looks black. Outside, the same color adorns his house and car. Despite having all these things, he’s not happy. He’s by himself. No friends, wife or children to keep him company. (“Yo listen up here's a story about a little guy that lives in a blue world/And all day and all night and everything he sees/Is just blue like him inside and outside/Blue his house with a blue little window/And a blue corvette/And everything is blue for him and hisself/And everybody around

cos he ain't got nobody to listen to.”)

                Jey says his life is empty. (“I’m blue da ba dee da ba die.”)

              He adds only one color appeals to him when buying clothes. His girlfriend isn’t in the best shape, either. She has a permenant frown. Actually, no one in their neighborhood is pleased with their life. All day long, he complains and moans. (“I have a blue house with a blue window/Blue is the colour of all that I wear/Blue are the streets and all the trees are blue/I have a girlfriend and she is so blue/Blue are the people here that walk around/Blue like my corvette, it's standing outside/Blue are the words I say and what I think/Blue are the feelings that live inside me.”)

             The chorus is sung again.

            The second verse is sung again.

            The chorus is sung again.

             An edited first verse is sung. (“Inside and outside blue his house  with the blue little window and blue corvette/And everything is blue for him and hisself/And everybody around cause he ain’t got nobody to listen to.”)

               The chorus is sung again.

               At the end, he says he wouldn’t know what do if he felt another emotion other than sadness. (“I'm blue (if I was green I would die.”)

                  Jey lectures everyone about his friend, who has become a cautionary tale. By the second verse, Jey has discovered what all the knobs do, twisting them. It emphasizes the craziness and absurdity of it.

                 The  dumb “Blue (Da Bee Dee)” has nothing to say.