Watched a show that had that "Oh Yeah" song by Yello. You know the one, it goes "(oh-oh) Oohhhhh yyyeeeaaahhhhh," you've heard it every time a sitcom wants to show avarice or lust, it was in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, you know it.
Anyway I remembered that being the first CD my dad bought to go with his new CD player, and he was talking about how it was a very digital song it suited this new whizbang future digital format, and he cranked it up so hard the windows rattled, it's a happy memory
Anyway on the show I had subtitles on and there are lyrics? "Oh yeah! The moon! (oh-oh) Beautiful. (oh-oh) The Sun! Even MORE beautiful, hahaha! (oh-oh) OHHH YYYEEEAAAHHHH" and wow his voice was so distorted I never clocked he was saying that, it always sounded like mrrworrbrglebrglehuhuhuh
So I go look it up and there's an interview:
"First I did the music and then I invited Dieter to sing along, and he came up with some lines which I thought, ‘no Dieter, it’s too complicated, we don’t need that many lyrics’. I had the idea of just this guy, a fat little monster sits there very relaxed and says, “Oh yeah, oh yeah”. So I told him, ‘Why don’t you try just to sing on and on 'oh yeah’?… Dieter was very angry when I told him this and he said, ‘are you crazy, all the time “Oh yeah”? Are you crazy?! I can’t do this, no no, come on, come on.’ And then he said, ‘some lyrics, like “the moon… beautiful”, is this too much?!’ and I said, ‘no, it’s OK’, and then he did this ‘oh yeah’ and at the end he thought, ‘yeah it’s nice’, he loved it himself also. And also I wanted to install lots of human noises, all kind of phonetic rhythms with my mouth; you hear lots of noises in the background which are done with my mouth."
I love this, that this song used in sexy or covetous situations, is actually about this floppy-bellied lazy goblin just sitting around and appreciating the sky
Also I have this image of Boris patting Dieter's hand and looking into his eyes and going "TRUST me, Dieter, this chubby little flopgoblin will be a big hit for us"
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