Numa Numa?

May. 24th, 2009 09:44 pm
andrewducker: (fish bicycle)
[personal profile] andrewducker
One of the amusing thing about being on buses is listening to pubescent girls singing pop songs badly.

The great thing about living in a cosmopolitan city is that these songs are sometimes in foreign languages.

The great thing about the EU expansion, is that today Julie and I heard some Eastern European girls singing the Numa Numa song...

Date: 2009-05-24 08:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] likeneontubing.livejournal.com
For the first time? Tis ooold.

Date: 2009-05-24 09:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] likeneontubing.livejournal.com
If by 'sing' you mean play it on their phones to the entire bus in an attempt to flirt with some 20odd year old neds, then yes.

If actually sing in a way that someone could appreciate... no.

And they certainly weren't singing on a foreign language, they were talking gibberish as they obv. Didn't know the words. Romanian it is.

Date: 2009-05-25 03:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] likeneontubing.livejournal.com
Then that actually does sound fun. I had presumed you were putting an overly optimistic spin on chav phone jukeboxes as I have never, in many bus riding years, seen anyone actually sing on one, and I know you are a very optimistic chap at times.

Why do you assume it was an assumption? Hehe.
1. The song was being blasted down the bus at the same time, so any idiot could hear the difference
And 2. I speak some romanian. Not much, but enough to know those were not words.

Date: 2009-05-25 08:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] likeneontubing.livejournal.com
like instead of numa, they were singing noomy and making noises similar to the song - def not the song.

the only one they got right was 'hallo' hehe.
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Date: 2009-05-25 08:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] likeneontubing.livejournal.com
lol :D You asked above about my 'singing on the bus' experience with this song. So I told you, then you asked questions about it, so I replied.

you asked 'Why do you assume they didn't know the words?'
so I told you they were not singing the words.
then you asked 'What were not the words?'
and I said noomy and similar noises to the song, but not the song.

I did wonder why you were going to such great lengths to find out how I knew the girls I saw on the bus were not singing the correct words - but I thought you had some kind of point somewhere that might be revealed if I kept going hehe.

Date: 2009-05-25 08:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] likeneontubing.livejournal.com
Nee bother - tis early :D

Vrei să pleci dar nu-mă, nu-mă iei

Date: 2009-05-24 08:56 pm (UTC)
nwhyte: (moldova)
From: [personal profile] nwhyte
I've always liked teh real thing. (I once quoted it at a NATO seminar in Chişinău. Not many people in the room recognised the reference.)

Re: Vrei să pleci dar nu-mă, nu-mă iei

Date: 2009-05-24 09:05 pm (UTC)
nwhyte: (moldova)
From: [personal profile] nwhyte
Do a search on "dragostea din tei" which is the song's real title.

Date: 2009-05-24 09:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davesangel.livejournal.com
The great thing about the EU expansion, is that today Julie and I heard some Eastern European girls singing the Numa Numa song...

Well, that could be because 'The Numa Numa song' is a more dumbed-down version of 'Dragostea Din Tei', a very popular song that was released worldwide in 2004 by the Romanian pop group O-Zone.

(check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragostea_din_tei for further info)
Edited Date: 2009-05-24 09:14 pm (UTC)

Date: 2009-05-24 09:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sttatus-quo.livejournal.com
Almost 29 million views on that YouTube video.
Cripes, that boggles the mind.

Of course then I found "other stuff" like the Puss N Boots video. YouTube is such a never ending source of amusement.

Date: 2009-05-25 12:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ashfae.livejournal.com
Well, Dragostea Din Tei was a popular song, even before it became the Numa Numa phenomenon. I have it on my mp3 player regularly, it just makes me happy.

Date: 2009-05-26 09:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] channelpenguin.livejournal.com
Just my 2ps worth. You will probably never hear anyone who can actually sing singing on a bus. Or in public at all really (unless it's karaoke or actual performance or church or a disco/rock night too loud for anyone to hear). Even I have gathered that that is Just Not Done. It seems the social diktat that thou shalt not show anyone else up (it is allowed to sort-of-sing, quietly, deliberately making it not all that good). So the one not singing? She's probably the one that can....

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