Flume officially releases remix of Eiffel 65’s ‘Blue’. Eyes, really.
The madman actually went and did it.
Back in May, Flume served up a snippet of a lil' something he’d been cooking up while in lockdown: a remix of ‘Blue (Da Ba Dee)’, the inescapable 1998 Europop smash hit for Italian group Eiffel 65.
Eiffel 65's Number 1 hit Blue (Da Ba Dee) has been re-worked by hit producers SONDR
“Roses r red my face is blue here is a song I made it for u,” Flume captioned in the post to his million-plus Insta followers. The visual reveal, synced to the drop, was legit funny and the remix didn’t sound too shabby. But most of us thought that was that. Good meme, keep scrolling.
Guess again, mates. Flume has now officially released his ‘Blue (Da Ba Dee)’ remix in all its glitchy, goofy glory. Listen below.
Flume’s rework of the love-it-or-loathe-it hit follows on from `The Difference’, his 2020 team-up with Toro y Moi, and a string of Hottest 100-charting collabs, including ‘Rushing Back’ with Vera Blue (#2 in the 2019 countdown), ‘Friends’ ft. Reo Cragun (#30), and ‘Let You Know’ ft. London Grammar (#81). Could the Hottest 100 sound a little bluer this year?
In an alternate timeline, Flume’d be headlining Splendour In The Grass next month. Or at least in October, but alas. Assuming he’s playing Splendour next year, can you just imagine the scenes at the Amphitheatre if he busted out this ‘Blue’ remix?
‘Blue (Da Ba Dee)’, a song as famous for its awful CGI video as its naggingly catchy mondegreens, was first released way back in October, 1998, when a pre-Flume Harley Streten was only 6-going-on-7-years-old.
Here in Australia, it went to #1 and went 3x Platinum, as well as topping the charts in the UK, New Zealand, Canada, Iceland, and all over Europe (but curiously, only #2 in the US).
If you’re keen to learn more, VICE did a great doco on ‘Blue’ last year. They track the manufactured tune’s origins from flop to iconic mega-hit with the members of Eiffel 65: Jeffrey Jey, Maurizio “Maury” Lobina, and Gabry Ponte. It’s great viewing.
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