Blue (Da Ba Dee) Trivia Questions

The video was made with 3D CGI by a small Italian studio. It featured a blue alien in a cyberpunk world, groundbreaking for a pop song in 1999.

The song peaked at number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100, never reaching number one, so it did not spend six weeks at the top.

The band did not break up right after. They released two more albums and continued touring. The breakup happened years later, in 2006.

The nonsensical hook was a temporary filler while the band wrote the real lyrics. They decided it was catchy and left it in the final track.

No sample from Kraftwerk was used. The distinctive synth sound was created using a Roland JP-8000 synthesizer, not from any existing recording.

Eiffel 65 have stated in interviews that the 'da ba dee' vocals were a nonsense placeholder they improvised while writing the song and decided to keep.

The name came from the color of a character in a video game the band members were playing. The singer's favorite color is actually green.

The song was written and recorded in English from the start. An Italian version ('Io Blu') was made later as a translation, not the original.