Line #28 Music/Eiffel65


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2	[[caption-width-right:300:The band, circa 1999 (L-R: Jeffrey Jey, Gabry Ponte, Maurizio Lobina)]]
3	->''"I'm blue, dabadee dabadie."''
4	-->-- "Blue"
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6	''[[JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere Yo, listen up, here's a story]]'' ''[[MemeticMutation about a little band that lives in a blue world...]]''
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8	Eiffel 65 are an ItaloDisco/[=Eurodance=]/{{Europop}} band (whose first album is actually TropeNamer for {{Europop}}) from Italy consisting of three men: Jeffrey Jey ([[ThisIsMyNameOnForeign real name]] Gianfranco Randone), Maurizio "Mauri" Lobina (known as Apollo pre-Eiffel 65) and Gabriele "Gabry" Ponte. They are probably one of the most popular Eurodance bands out there, despite having [[OneHitWonder only one song that everyone remembers]] -- "Blue (Da Ba Dee)".
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10	It started when Jey (previously singer for another Eurodance band, Bliss Team), Lobina and Ponte met each other at Bliss Corporation, a record label specializing in eurodance. With the help of a computer, which randomly picked one word from a given list, they settled on name Eiffel, but their producer accidentally scribbled number 65 on a label copy while writing down a phone number, [[ThrowItIn and the three decided to roll with it]].
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12	They split up in 2005 to let Gabry focus on his solo carrer, and the other two members started a SpiritualSuccessor band called Bloom 06. The three finally reunited in 2010, and released their first post-reunion song, "Panico"/"Critical", in 2016. They later released the single "G Nel Body" with Alien Cut in 2021. They also competed in the 2023 edition of UsefulNotes/SanMarino's Series/{{Eurovision\|Song Contest}} pre-selection show ''Una Voce per San Marino'' with the song "Movie Star", but ultimately did not win the ticket to the contest.
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15	!!Eiffel 65's music and music videos provide examples of:
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17	* BizarreAlienBiology: The aliens from "Another Race" are implied to resemble humans. However, they have "one way brains" that make communication impossible. Depending on your interpretation of the lyrics, the alien might be able to "walk on air".
18	* BizarreAlienPsychology: The titular aliens in "Another Race" have one way brains that make them impossible to understand. However, they somehow are capable of speech, though their speech is considered incoherent.
19	* ColorMotif: "Blue (Da Ba Dee)"
20	* CrapsackWorld: One way to interpret "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" is that it is both literally and figuratively a man living in a blue (depressing) world filled with nothing but misery.
21	* {{Europop}}: The song of the same name is the TropeNamer.
22	* HeelFaceTurn:
23	** The aliens from "Blue (Da Be Dee)", namely Zorotl, are initially antagonists in the music video for the song.
24	** Likewise with the other aliens from "Move Your Body", who join Eiffel 65's concert as dancers.
25	* LoveTriangle: Discussed in "Your Clown". The narrator's LoveInterest has been having an affair with another person. However, he [[SubvertedTrope refuses to be part of a]] LoveTriangle.
26	* InconsistentSpelling:
27	** [[https://youtu.be/virH8U7P0T8 "Johnny GRAY" or "Johnny GREY"?]][[note]]An official video posted by Bliss Corporation names the song as "Johnny Gray", but the description titles it as "Johnny Grey".[[/note]]
28	** In some releases of the album ''Europop'', the song "My Console" was misspelled as "My '''Consolle'''". [[BilingualBonus It can be justified as the band is Italian and "consolle" is "console" in Italian.]]
29	* LyricalDissonance:
30	** "Hyperlink (Deep Down)", the closing track to ''Europop''. It's a really upbeat-sounding number...about cybersex.
31	** "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" again -- it's a dark MelancholyMusicalNumber about a perpetually miserable ("blue") man living in a [[CrapsackWorld literally blue world populated by people as depressed ("blue")]] as he is set to a catchy beat.
32	* PlanetOfHats: "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" is about a world where everything is the color blue and [[CrapsackWorld everyone is unhappy]] (the proverbial "blue").
33	* RhymingWithItself: In "Move Your Body", the verse repeat the word "body" many times, but this word ''is rhymed on the entire chorus''.
34	* {{Robosexual}}: One interpretation of "Silicon World", given the band's science-fiction theming.
35	* ShockAndAwe: In "Blue (Da Ba Dee)", Maurizio was able to fry a blue alien with lightning.
36	* ShoutOut: "My Console" [[PacManFever namedrops the Playstation as well as the games]] ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', ''VideoGame/Tekken3'', ''VideoGame/OmegaBoost'', ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'', ''VideoGame/GranTurismo'', ''VideoGame/BloodyRoar'', ''Series/TheXFiles'', ''Winning Eleven''[[labelnote:*]]''Pro Evolution Soccer'' outside of Japan; today, ''[=eFootball=]''[[/labelnote]], ''VideoGame/RidgeRacer'' and ''VideoGame/{{Oddworld}}''.
37	* TVHeadRobot: The characters of the music video for "80s Stars" are jagged humanoids with [=TVs=] as heads depicting the faces of the band members.
38	* VirtualCelebrity: Zorotl, the blue alien seen in the videos for "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" and "Move Your Body", released his own single "I Wanna Be" in 2000 and nothing else, thus making "him" an OneBookAuthor. The promotional website [[https://www.zorotl.com/ is still up!]]

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