Numa Numa?

[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...

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[likeneontubing.livejournal.com]

For the first time? Tis ooold.

[andrewducker]

You've heard people sing it on the bus before??

[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.

[andrewducker]

When I said Singing, I meant it.

And they were Eastern European, and they clearly knew the song. So they may well have been Romanian.

Why do you assume they didn't know the words?

[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.

[andrewducker]

1) There was no phone involved. I've been stuck on buses with people playing those loads of times, and that _is_ horrible. But one a few occasions there have been girls just singing. As there was last night. Alcohol is usually involved, of course.

2) What were not the words? They weren't actually _singing_ Numa Numa - they were singing Dragostea din tei, which nearly everyone knows as The Numa Numa Song. If I'd referred to it as "Dragostea din tei" then about 6 people on my friends list would have known what I was talking about...

[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.

[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.

[andrewducker]

Yes, my point seems to have been "I am not awake yet :->"

[andrewducker]

Aaah. I just realised we were talking at cross-purposes. I thought you were talking about my lot of people singing. I'm an idiot. :->

[likeneontubing.livejournal.com]

Nee bother - tis early :D

Vrei să pleci dar nu-mă, nu-mă iei

[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

[andrewducker]

"This video is not available in your country"

Goldarnit.

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

[nwhyte]

Do a search on "dragostea din tei" which is the song's real title.

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

[andrewducker]

Oh, I know that. I saw the original video a few years ago. Not seen it for ages though.

[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)

[andrewducker]

The Numa Numa song I'm thinking of _is_ Dragostea Din Tei.

I don't know of another one.

[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.

[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.

[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....

[andrewducker]

Oh, they certainly weren't _good_ singers. But I'm not too fussed by that. I wish more people would sing, to be honest. People should have more fun :->