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Listening to comfort music:
Contact! by Eiffel 65 (2001)
Eurovision 2003 - Number 20 - Eiffel 65 - "Quelli che non hanno età"
Are you blue? Da-ba-dee-da-ba-dai? Eiffel 65 were four years prior to 2003. After several of their own hits, perhaps not quite so earworm infested as Blue (Da-ba-dee), as well as remixing many other artists including Nek and S Club 7, they're pretty much at the peak of their fame and fortune.
Eiffel 65 are vocalist Jeffrey Jey, Maurizio Lobina and Gabry Ponte. Together they form a full-strength Italian Eurodance phenomena known throughout the charts of Europe. Their sound is far away from what Sanremo normally has in its running order, but like all the European competitions, the Festival di Sanremo does like to get a little experimental occasions. This year they invited Eiffel 65 to participate with Quelli che non hanno età (Those Who Are Ageless)
The song, true to form, is a Euroclub floor filler, with synth chords over a hard, hard dance beat, on this occasion accompanied by the strings of the Sanremo orchestra. Jeffrey lays out the manifesto about staying young and possibly becomes the singer with the most microphone hand swaps in Sanremo history. He does it almost every line.
The beat is so big that I'm amazed the Ariston theatre's audience aren't propulsively lifted from their seats to dance right there - how they managed to sit still through this I don't know.
Given it's non-orthodox genre for Sanremo it's not altogether surprising that it finished 15th of the 20 songs performed in the main competition this year, but by the end of it Eiffel 65 can claim to have been a Sanremo act.
For another three years, they performed as Eiffel 65 before Gabry Ponte left, and the remaining two were forced to change their name. The band have had an on-again off-again set of reunions since, with releases during their occasional reformations. Most notably, they reformed in 2023 to take part in Una Voce per San Marino, and to try to make it into Eurovision but could only finish 5th in the final.
Eugene Ryabchenko's drum playthrough for Blue (Turns to Red) (Eiffel 65 cover) by Fleshgod Apocalypse
“When Eiffel 65 released 'Blue (Da Ba Dee),' it was a flop. They sold around 200 records, shrugged it off as a loss, and forgot about it But in a wild turn of events, the track got picked up by a small local station before getting airplay on one of the biggest radio stations in Italy—and within days, it was steamrolling its way to becoming one of the biggest hits of the late 1990s, taking the electronic music group touring around the world as their song shot up the charts...“ From Youtube channel VICE: The Story of "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" by Eiffel 65 Yes, that very catchy song...
