Hello, it's me, Picasso. I've bleeped you and I'm Tom.
Hello, salut, sent ae on, your favourite part-time podcasters. We are back after a short break and
today we are flying over the linden trees in an action comic book nightmare skip so we can have
an introscopic look at the internet meme days of past.
"Dragon's Dead in Thai" by Ozone.
Moldova's best export after Epic Sax Guy, the boy band Ozone,
taped the skies to dance in and outside their private jet while smouldering at the camera.
Smouldering?
Smouldering as in like, look of a smouldering look.
Yeah, that, that.
Okay.
While smouldering at the camera,
with obligatory shots of the band in the studio laying down some surefire hits.
Oh, and as it's common in our podcast, it might have been all a dream.
The second single from Ozone's 2004 album Discozone
topped the charts in France, Germany and Austria
and reached a respectable number 3 in the UK
The song even made to the US via a viral video
titled Numa Numa by vlogger Gary ProSlamma
ProSlamma?
guess that's how you pronounce it. The UK, US
and Australian versions of the album feature a version
with all new English lyrics, however
it totally changes the meaning of the song, riffing
off a passing mention of Picasso in the original
lyrics, so purists need not
apply.
When you leave my colors fade to gray
Every word of love I used to say
Now I paint it every day
When you leave my colors fade to gray
Hey little love I stay
Your own colors fade away
Every word of love I used to say
Now I paint it every day
So first thoughts
what are we all thinking
about the song?
Well you two start
because if I go
the moment I go
I'm off
Good
You're never sad
when this comes on
in a club
and you're shitfaced
And next thing you know
you're on top of an airplane
I can't find a reason
to dislike this song
because it doesn't really
doesn't feel like
it has any malice in it
and they don't really know
what's going on
because you know
it's all a dream isn't it?
Or is it?
I don't know
Maybe he's remembering
at the party from the night before
where they all got drunk
and wound up on the top
of a plane
That would be the most
Balkan thing to be honest. So it sounds like Nelly has some thoughts so unleash your thoughts. I've
once again tricked you into listening to a song from my childhood. But early teens. Well man this
is the whole point of this podcast isn't it? No it's so this song it absolutely exploded and sure it
was like a general Balkan thing. It absolutely exploded it was everywhere. So I absolutely love
this song not because it's a good song or a particularly good video but because it reminds me of
first year of high school when it came out in 2003 we had both morning and afternoon uh sessions
and we had about an hour and a half lunch break so that lunch break would usually just like you
know have lunch just kind of chill maybe do some homework for the next session if you had to do
stuff but when this song came out it was so big and it was so dorky and it was so like just kind
of making you happy and dancing around because we spent so much time listening to this song on really
bad mobile phone recordings like 2003 mobile phones imagine that and just laughing and dancing
on the song so this song in my head it's just happy place where I was a kid where nothing else
mattered and it was great and that's kind of the point of the song I think were you the kid that was
uh sitting in the back of the bus listening to it on your phone no quite no uh but I was the kid who
was listening to together in like at lunch break it was a communal experience with I was like just
sit on top of the desks
at school
bantering and listening
to this really fucking dumb song
to be honest
just to explain the level
of maturity we're at
together with this song
but also listening to
the fucking Mortal Kombat song
like the movie Mortal Kombat
that is a tune though
it's a 2003 movie
it is a tune
but this song is a tune as well
pardon the puns
but this song
flew past me
I can't remember
ever hearing it
outside of that meme
which I've just been
that yeah
that's just brought the memories
back on that one
google that thinking who is this blogger guy and like oh yeah i remember the video yeah i can't
remember this ever ever being a thing in my childhood so which is kind of strange i guess
you know maybe it was just very european i don't know to be honest this is this song kind of feels
like the the eurovision song that was never this was never if it wasn't eurovision it would have
100% reached more people and probably honestly entirely honestly with that video would have
probably won let's be honest feels like it sort of could be a eurovision hit
ever do a Eurovision song? They didn't.
I think the lead singer wrote some
Eurovision songs.
He was quite
prolific after the band
separated. Shall we discuss how
they look and probably more
specifically how they're dressed? Yep.
Let's dive straight.
Yeah, I got quite a distinct
impression as soon as I watched it.
I just had an image of
some producer with a cigar sitting there
going like, ah, the kids these days, they like
NSYNC, the boy's owns.
We want you to dress like them.
Yeah.
Because I get the feeling
this isn't how they generally dress.
They do look very uncomfortable.
Do they?
I wouldn't say they look uncomfortable.
It looks like they're doing
a boy band cosplay.
Yeah, they're like
parodying themselves.
I don't know.
I think they look fabulous.
As long as they're owning it.
I'm going to go
they're probably parodying themselves.
Because it has got lots of shots
of them in the studio
you know,
laying down their next hit single
and all that stuff.
So it could just be
a parody of
what the world maybe thinks are meant to be like so what do you guys think or feel about the random
comic book panel art thing is so basically for people who are yet to watch the video every now
and then there is a freeze frame of something dumb they do on camera and that turns into a comic strip
of some sort it's not movable it's kind of literally just a painting of them and it's very
often some characters from like movies or um comic books like this but my favorite character
gay terminator which will also be on instagram uh there's like dracula which makes sense because
romania there's the village people people at some point as well so it's like kind of just
pop culture characters they've been inserted into uh the video what are your thoughts on this uh
impromptu art course i don't think it makes any less sense than anything else in the video so i
think it's fine it's great it's quite a cool effect actually it makes sense in the end i was a bit sort
of when i first sort of watched the thing and what is this i mean feels a bit disjointed but yeah it
obviously makes sense because he's thinking about it and writing about it and drawing about it and
all that um i thought it was actually quite good the way they were done i was thinking about oh i
would i so they must have like obviously drew them after the video because then you know they can
insert them here or there um but i kind of liked it as an effect it was i mean it didn't i don't
think it helped that the drawings were a little bit i don't know a little bit shit but um but hey
you know it's fine feels like it was like deviant deviant art fan art um rather than like a professional
like art job maybe that's that's the charm i don't know i do find it quite creative what they did as
in like they could have gone very straight with just rotoscoping something on top but they kind of
did an extra layer of it in if you will like again the gay the gay terminator i makes me laugh
time uh that image will also be posted on instagram but it's basically a terminator
image rotoscoped top of the face of the main character uh main lead singer sorry with a flower
behind his ear and the rainbow flag behind him i definitely like it more than cgi did though
cgi is bad we've got a cgi plane that they're all flying around on uh which at one point turns into
speaker which was interesting but you know if if you if you're going to have a party plane yeah i
actually thought yeah talking about the airplane um i mean like i spotted like four different types
of airplane in the in the video so you know nothing nothing has continuity there um but i mean that's
kind of impressive you know i don't think you could probably you know shoot on an airplane like
unless you had obviously enough money and someone who owns one to to do that but i i did love the um
standing on the wing um while the plane clearly isn't moving and um you know getting that effect
across was it just a camera guy underneath the wing running back and forth or did they put him
in like a wheelchair and sort of spin him down i think i let's be honest i think they brought no
no kit they're using whatever the airport's uh been able to provide some part baggage trolley and
someone's waiting to get their cases the the mental image of them doing that is hysterical because one
you've got the band up the top just giving it all that you know giving it the moves and then you've
got the camera guy running or being rolled or whatever down below as well i want to see the
behind the scenes footage of that genuinely think the most of genuinely offensive part of the video
is just the beginning cgi it's just so bad had they completely forgot cgi and just done it all in the
shitty drawings would have been so much fun and kind of like almost witch doctor-esque by the cgi
that start do you mean the city and all that jazz or is it yeah which never appears again it's just
there and then it disappears because they probably run out of money and realize they can't actually
afford to do anything they want to do like ah shit let's just go to an airport and fuck around for
half an hour and film that yeah i mean i don't know what kind of plane they had there but i did
notice the handbrake thing that they show like a close-up of the hand moving forwards the actual
break had the
Pacific Coast was
stopped which makes
me think it's
probably like an
old Russian plane
or something that
they just hired
for the day.
They got a
decommissioned
plane and threw
a boy band in it.
That's what you're
talking about.
It's a clearly
working plane as we
can see from the
video.
From the clearly
real flying plane
shot.
I do wonder
there is
there's scenes with
the propeller
spinning and then
some without and
I don't think they
would have been
standing on that
wing with that
thing going full
help. Well, there's one minute
to, you can see the propeller
quite clearly.
Does look legit. But I like to think
that they just chucked him up there and went
fucking turn the propeller on, guys.
If any of you feel
a rushing force sucking
you in, then hold on to her. Would it
not be sucking in from the front, from the
bucket we're pushing out? Oh, yeah. Yeah, no,
it would, yeah. Ah, so it's perfectly safe.
Perfectly safe.
It might launch them across
the airport, but, you know, they could
boy band members
worst case
there's like a
whole line
the moment one
falls off
just to get
the next one on
send in the next
boy band member
10 a penny in this
time
well what is the
height of a
of the commissioned
Russian airplane
uh wing
like say
two and a half
meters more
high enough to
hurt i imagine
well
they might have
mattresses underneath
that's true
mattresses
thinking they came
that prepared
everything's safe
if you have a
mattress underneath
Maybe this is the one thing they thought about, or maybe we don't want to cure our members.
This does lead us to an interesting question.
Did John Travolta teach them how to fly?
*music*
Well, should we then move on to talking about the meme then?
I think this song got another release of life through the Numa Numa dance, as the YouTube video was called,
which you've probably seen, and if you haven't seen, it's in the show notes,
where it's just a guy making funny faces and doing a stupid dance along to the song.
But let's be honest, if you haven't seen the video, you're probably a bit too young to listen to this podcast, so...
Don't repeat any of the words we're f***ing using, alright? Jesus.
Yeah, you f***ing c***s go away, you b***s.
Feel free to blame me.
But that kind of just got me thinking about the general terrifying, to me anyway, the terrifying concept of accidentally becoming a meme.
Like a photo or a video of something that you just sort of put up on the internet or someone put up over you on the internet without thinking about becomes a thing which thousands of people are seeing and using in reference as you do in memes and all that shit.
Do you think that's harder than ever now, do you not think?
Like what would you have to do to actually become one of those now?
when i mean mean like a meme or something i mean literally like someone just takes a picture of you
making a stupid face or something like you don't have to actually do anything or sense and it's not
like you're getting like showed out because of my opinion or whatever but you just become that person
who was in this meme without any real say in the matter but yeah but the good news about the numinua
guy is he seemed to take actually being made a meme quite well because i think he did show up in a
bunch of like parody videos and stuff about it and he's now making his own music on youtube so go
watch some of that or listen to some of that if you fancy although every single comment in all of
the video all of his videos is oh my god you're the numa numa guy make the new numa numa song
and it's just a bit depressing because he probably can never escape the numa numa it's part of him
for life now we did we didn't do the we didn't do the translated lyrics i'm not gonna sing this
You're not getting that luxury
This episode
Do it
I haven't lubricated my throat
That's what she said
I was waiting for it
It was a very long hanging fruit
How about this
Let's take a paragraph each
That's fair right
That is fair
Hello hey it's me
A nightlaw
Which I obviously need to explain what it is
Well eastern European
Hold on, that's not, that's a part of your notes.
That's not part of the song.
It's not.
Weird lyrics, but you know, it works.
Hello, hey, it's me, an outlaw.
And please, my love, accept the happiness.
Hello, hello, it's me, Picasso.
I've bleeped you and I'm tough.
I bleeped you.
I don't ask you anything.
You don't want to leave, but don't take me.
You don't want to take me with you.
Don't take me.
Don't take me with you.
Don't take me.
Don't take me with you.
Your face and the love from the linden tree
reminds me of your eyes.
Reminds me of your eyes.
That sounded like a ross on video.
It does sound like, yeah, I gotta cut that out of the newspaper
and post it through your letterboxes.
I call you to tell you what I feel now.
Hello, my love.
It's me.
the happiness hello hello it's me again picasso i've beat you and i'm tough but now i don't ask
you anything you want to leave but don't take me don't take me with you don't take take me don't
take take me with you don't take me don't don't me take don't take
That was the other side of the kidnapping.
So Neil is kidnapping
Nellie for unknown reasons.
We're kidnapping
each other. I think that's the premise
of that movie.
They've just got to get
to the london tree, you know?
I'll finish it off then.
My ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
You want
to leave, but don't take me.
Don't take me with you. Don't take
me. Don't take me with
you don't take me don't take me don't take me with you your face and the love from the london tree
remind me of your eyes remind me of your eyes i'm not sure if something's lost in the translation
here but um it doesn't flow well google translate is just that good hey if we have a like someone who
is actually a romanian speaker please do let us know that we fucked up this stuff because please
make sense of it please i remember when i found these two like competing translations but they
weren't google translate the only bit i did kind of figure out was uh i beeped you i'm guessing
that's like as in i called you text you texted you or whatever so basically this is this is it
the moldovian hotline bling the true meme song ahead of its time and apparently it's picasso as well
and also hey okay okay okay listen here we go uh okay so he in the song they don't say it's me
of law they say it's Mia Heyduk uh Un Heyduk is a it's a very specific thing in Balkan like
Eastern European history but they are lost in terms of like kind of guerrilla underground
resistance fighters and depending whether you're looking at them from like depending on which
era exactly you're talking about they can be either outlaw slash like bandit kind of types or
like sort of almost like romanticized Robin Hood-esque figures which who thought like you
know again underground resistance against whoever oppressive at the time was. They're actual people
and haidu is an actual word. I'm sure that like it's kind of vague to translate as a noun law but
it's haidu is an actual specific thing which if you go on google on wikipedia haidu is like it's
own thing even in English. I just want to
specify this not because of elves but because
it's such a like across the border
bulk of thing, Eastern European thing
good to teach, I will listen to
something occasionally you know. I've learned two
things about Bulgaria, I've learned that it used to be part of the
Ottoman Empire and that
haidux are a thing. Yeah I mean
they're connected
because there was a lot of
the plural is haiduxi
a lot of haiduxi who would fight
against the Ottoman Empire
like there'll be resistance
culture
that's what this podcast brings
This video is so dorky.
It has such an early 90s, sorry, early 90s aesthetic.
Bright colours, tie-dye shirts, horrible haircuts, horrible CGI.
Kind of like shoddy finishes of everything.
But everyone seems just to be having fun and I don't know if that's actually true
or they were kidnapped at the gunpoint trying to make this video.
But, you know, three guys dancing on top of the airplane and making them faces
just never really fails to put a smile on my face.
When I first watched it, I was kind of like, what is this?
shite but the more i watch that you can't really help but get caught up in the sort of infectious
perceived good time they're having in their nsync cosplay the the mental image of the cameraman
running and running under the plane while they're dancing will forever be in my mind is something
fucking hilarious yeah so like i said at the beginning i can't remember ever seeing this or
hearing this song it's sort of literally did fly by me um looking at it in 2021 it's it's kind of one
of those songs of early noughties which doesn't annoy me when i think back to crazy frog i think
back to the barbie song or to the ketchup song it just you know they they do wind me up and i wouldn't
want to listen to them i wouldn't choose to i think with this yeah i think it would be a part
of a spotify playlist and it wouldn't bother me if it comes on yeah it's good fun can't fault it
so my favorite part is the synchronized dancing on the wings just so dumb and out of nowhere just
Italian chef's kiss, perfect.
It's great.
And the worst part for me,
and that's a bit funny speaking,
but it just genuinely felt like slog.
The slogging through is the first 20 seconds
while the lead singer guy is kind of dreaming,
I guess, whatever he's doing.
And it just, basically before the band
starts running towards the plane,
like those two 20 seconds,
not needed, can be cut off entirely
and the song will not lose a single thing.
Mine are pretty similar to Nelly's
my favourite bits, Dancing on the Wing.
I've already talked that to death,
So I won't go over it, although I will give a special shout out to the line dancing, which was particularly good on the wing.
And the worst is also in the first 20 seconds, where it's the random like CGI shots of a futuristic city.
It looks cool enough, but I don't know why it's there.
There's no relevance at all.
Favorite bits when the engines of the airplane become massive speakers and start polluting the air with the song.
I just seen that and went, that's just utterly ridiculous.
It just wouldn't work.
Actually, I would like Scott's opinion on that, Nellie.
Is there any way you can show them that?
What would actually happen to the plane?
The engines were going to turn into giant speakers.
Neil is asking you, what is your science opinion on this?
What would happen to a plane?
If they turned into speakers?
Yes, put this on.
Okay.
That plane's probably fine because it's still got two working pels.
But they're the small ones on the side.
They'll fly for a bit.
Get it like lungs.
The problem is the speakers are facing outwards.
Okay.
So what speakers do is they push air in a direction.
So what they're essentially doing is providing a backwards force,
slowing the plane down even more.
It won't go straight down,
but it will definitely slow down and start to dip.
If that plane was flying and air was hitting the diaphragm of those speakers,
surely nothing would come from that because it's being forced.
Depends how powerful the speakers are.
Yeah.
You'd have to think about wind speeds and the speed of the plane through the air.
They're still applying a force to the air.
It's just it's probably going to be squished up against the speakers.
Don't look at me.
You're fucked.
They're asking you.
I'll just sit there and then that will decrease the wavelength.
So it should increase the frequency.
So you're going to get higher.
It's essentially the Doppler effect.
You're going to get a massive Doppler effect from it.
Yeah, let's go with that.
so you know scott um at four minutes eight seconds the plane is crashed
gentleman he doesn't know about the dancing guys so he will be seeing oh no those guys are dead
those guys are like 100 no no they don't understand scott they are they're on top of that
and they're dancing it's not how it's not how it works that's the problem is very much very much
like not physically accurate and therefore should be shunned and ridiculed thanks scott no worries
Scott from Aerodynamics Corner.
Yeah, I'm glad we cleared that up.
Should we do an AI or no?
Big old yes from me.
I wasn't sure at first, but they won me over.
Yeah, I'm not going to fault this.
I think it's a good song.
It's a good video.
Yeah, if you don't like it, then I guess you can find something else you do.
I thought you were going to say, if you don't like it, you can fuck off.
I was going to, but...
Find a new podcast.
No, if you don't like it, go fuck off.
It's a fantastic piece of bad shlokyard.
Very big guy for me as well.
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