Coke Hard Times; The Simpsons

Last Sunday was the Super Bowl. New Orleans Saints versus Indianapolis Colts. Saints won. For those who don't know, Super Bowl is the National Football League final game. It is the most important sporting event in North America at all. It is like the Brazilian Championship Soccer final match, if there was one...

Well, 'cause the Super Bowl is the most watched TV program in US, the ads on its commercial breaks are the most expensive of all, where one minute can cost 3 million dollars! What makes the commercial breaks an apart spectacle, in which the best, the richest, the most famous trademarks in the world introduce their products to the average consumer.

One of them, of course, is the Coca-Cola Company. This year, Coca-Cola hired the advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy to make two ads especially for the Super Bowl's breaks. One of them is here, of course, because there are whistlings on it. It's a Simpsons animation called "Hard Times".

According Coca-Cola website: "'Hard Times' features a variety of characters from the FOX television show THE SIMPSONS, most notably greedy billionaire C. Montgomery Burns, who has fallen on difficult times. Just when all hope seems to be lost, Mr. Burns learns to appreciate life's simple pleasures as he joins other characters enjoying Coca-Cola and Opening Happiness in a neighborhood park."

I searched on the ad if there was one Simpsons' character whistling along the scene, but I didn't find. So, I can only figure out who is the whistler... I bet on Homer! What do you think?!

Jigsaw; Chris Madin

With you, Chris Madin by himself:

I’m Chris Madin a singer/songwriter originally from Doncaster, South Yorkshire (England) who made the move to London when I was 18 to pursue my dream of writing and recording my own album… and here it is “Jigsaw”.

I wrote most of my album “Jigsaw” with Pete Woodroffe and Charlie Grant and two of the songs with Mr Jem Godfrey all three of whom have been a huge inspiration.

I love to write songs that have a concept behind them, something that people can relate to without singing about the obvious and put as much personality into my songs as possible! I spend most of my time writing, singing, playing, performing or listening to my music but I do love football too.

Unfortunately, I couldn't find the complete song anywhere. If you have it, please send it to me in my email adress: assobie@gmail.com. Thanks a lot!

EDIT (10/4): Found it!

PS: If you want to listen to Madin's others songs, visit him on MySpace.

Your face, your style, your kiss, your smile
All the puzzle pieces I've been missing
No man alive could walk on by
Won't even try it 'cause there's no resisting you

You've been a long time coming around
Thought I was lost but now I'm found

You're like the final piece of the jigsaw puzzle
I've been waiting for all my life

Baby you make it better
now my Cinderella's got the slipper that fits
And I know this is it 'cause this Jigsaw sure looks right

To think that I could ever find
Anyone better baby who am I fooling

I missed all the signs blew so much time
I only found you when I stopped looking ooo

You've been a long time coming around
Thought I was lost but now I'm found

You're like the final piece of the jigsaw puzzle
I've been waiting for all my life

Baby you make it better
now my Cinderella's got the slipper that fits
And I know this is it 'cause this Jigsaw sure looks right

And even though sunshine fades
There's nobody could ever take your place

You're like the final piece of the jigsaw puzzle
I've been waiting for all my life

Baby you make it better
now my Cinderella's got the slipper that fits
And I know this is it 'cause this Jigsaw sure looks right

The Real Slim Shady; Eminem

Awn... I'm tired these days.

There is a "phew, pheeew" whistling right on 3:08. See ya!



(Talking)
May I have your attention please,
may I have your attention please,
will the real slim shady please stand up,
I repeat will the real slim shady please stand up
we're gonna have a problem here

Ya'll act like you never seen a white person before
jaws all on the floor
like Pam and Tommy just burst in the door
and started whoopin her ass worse than before
they first were divorced
throwing her over furniture (aaaaaah)
It's the return of the...
"ano wait, you're kidding,
he didn't just say what I think he did,
did he?"
and Dr. Dre said...
nothing you idiots, Dr Dre's dead
he's locked in my bassment
feminist women love Eminem
chicka chicka chicka Slim Shady,
"I'm sick of him, look it him
walkin around, grabbin his you know what
flippin' to you know who"
"yeah, but he's so cute though"
yeah, I probably got a couple of screws up in my head loose
but no worse than what's goin on in your parents bedroom(eheheheh)
sometimes, I wanna get on TV and just let loose
but can't, but it's cool for Tom Green to hump a dead moose
My bum is on your lips, My bum is on your lips
and if I'm lucky, you might just give it a little kiss
and that's the message that we deliver to little kids
and expect them not to know what a woman's clitoris is
of course they're gonna know what intercourse is
by the time they hit 4th grade
they got the discovery channel, dont they?
we ain't nothing but mammals
well, some of us cannibals
who cut other people open like cantelopes
but if we can hump dead animals and antelopes
then there's no reason that a man and another man can't elope
but if you feel like I feel, I got the antedote
women wave your pantehose, sing the chorus and it goes

I'm Slim Shady, yes, I'm the real Shady
all you other Slim Shadys are just imitating
so wont the real Slim Shady please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up
cause I'm Slim Shady, yes, I'm the real Shady
all you other Slim Shadys are just imitating
so wont the real Slim Shady please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up

Will Smith don't got to cuss in his raps to sell records
well I do, so fuck him and fuck you too
you think I give a damn about a grammy
half of you critics can't even stomach me, let alone stand me
"but slim, what if you win, wouldn't it be weird"
why? so you guys can just lie to get me here
so you can sit me here next to Britney Spears
bullshit, Christina Aguilera better switch me chairs,
so I can sit next to Carson Daly and Fred Durst
and hear em argue over who she gave head to first
little bitch, put me on blast on MTV
"yeah, he's cute, but I think he's married to Kim, hee hee"
I should download her audio on MP3
and show the world how you gave eminem VD (aaaaaah)
I'm sick of you little girl and boy groups
all you do is annoy me
so I have N'SYNC here to destroy you
and there's a million of us just like me
who cuss like me, who just don't give a fuck like me
who dress like me, walk, talk and act like me
and just might be the next best thing, but not like me

I'm Slim Shady, yes, I'm the real Shady
all you other Slim Shadys are just imitating
so won't the real Slim Shady please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up
cause I'm Slim Shady, yes, I'm the real Shady
all you other Slim Shadys are just imitating
so wont the real Slim Shady please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up

I'm like a head trip to listen to
cause I'm only giving you things
you joke about with your friends inside you livin' room
the only difference is I got the balls to say it
in front of ya'll and I aint gotta be false or sugar coated atall
I just get on the mic and spit it
and whether you like to admit it (riiip)
I just shitted it better than 90% you rappers out can
then you wonder how can
kids eat up these albums like valiums
it's funny,cause at the rate I'm going when I'm thirty
I'll be the only person in the nursing home flirting
pinchin nurses asses when I'm jackin off with jergen's
and I'm jerkin' but this whole bag of viagra isn't working
in every single person there's a slim shady lurkin
he could be workin at burger king, spittin on your onion rings
or in the parking lot, circling, screamin I dont give a fuck
with his windows down and his system up
so will the real shady please stand up
and put 1 of those fingers on each hand up
and be proud to be outta your mind and outta control
and 1 more time, loud as you can, how does it go?

I'm Slim Shady, yes, I'm the real Shady
all you other Slim Shadys are just imitating
so wont the real Slim Shady please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up
cause I'm Slim Shady, yes, I'm the real Shady
all you other Slim Shadys are just imitating
so wont the real Slim Shady please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up

cause I'm Slim Shady, yes, I'm the real Shady
all you other Slim Shadys are just imitating
so wont the real Slim Shady please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up
cause I'm Slim Shady, yes, I'm the real Shady
all you other Slim Shadys are just imitating
so wont the real Slim Shady please stand up,
please stand up, please stand up

(Talking)
haha guess it's a slim shady in all of us
fuck it let's all stand up

Ue o Muite Arukō (Sukiyaki); Kyu Sakamoto

Ohayo!!! I'm happy! I found a Japanese song with whistlings! It's our first song from a Japanese singer in Japanese language! And I can't understand anything! LOL

First of All, "Ue i Muite Arukō" means "I shall walk looking up", and people use to call it "Sukiyaki" because in Occident it is so much easier to speak than the original name, so the Pye Records gave it the new title when Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen covered the song. Still citing Wikipedia: "The title, sukiyaki (which is a Japanese steamboat dish), has nothing to do with the lyrics or the meaning of the song; the word served the purpose only because it was short, catchy, recognizably Japanese, and more familiar to most English speakers (very few of whom could understand the Japanese lyrics anyway). A Newsweek columnist noted that the re-titling was like issuing 'Moon River' in Japan under the title 'Beef Stew'.

"The lyrics tell the story of a man who looks up and whistles while he is walking so that his tears won't fall. The verses of the song describe him doing this through each season of the year. The English lyrics of the version recorded by A Taste of Honey are not a translation of the original Japanese lyrics but a completely different set of lyrics set to the same basic melody. Probably the nearest translation, at least in feel, was recorded by US soul singer Jewel Akens, on ERA records, as "My First Lonely Night" which, although not a literal translation, tells a similar story. A lonely man walks through the night, after losing his love."

Now, a little of SongFacts.com: "This became a hit in the US when a disk jockey in Washington state heard the British version, and started playing the original by Sakamoto. The title remained "Sukiyaki," even though it had nothing to do with the song. Marsha Cunningham explains:
"In 1961-2 I was a high school student at The American School In Japan, living in Zushi, Japan. My dad was a pilot for Japan Airlines. While enjoying a Japanese movie staring Kyu Sakamoto, I heard the most unbelievably beautiful song. I purchased the record at a local shop and brought it back to the states the next year when I attended a girl's boarding school in Sierra Madre, CA. I played it in the dormitory frequently; everyone liked it. One girl took my record home with her on the weekend so her dad could play it on his radio station, and the rest is history!"

Ue o muite arukou
Namida ga kobore naiyouni
Omoidasu harunohi
Hitoribotchi no yoru

Ue o muite arukou
Nijinda hosi o kazoete
Omoidasu natsunohi
Hitoribotchi no yoru

Shiawase wa kumo no ueni
Shiawase wa sora no ueni

Ue o muite arukou
Namida ga kobore naiyouni
Nakinagara aruku
Hitoribotchi no yoru

Whistling

Omoidasu akinohi
Hitoribotchi no yoru

Kanashimi wa hosino kageni
Kanashimi wa tsukino kageni

Ue o muite arukou
Namida ga kobore naiyouni
Nakinagara aruku
Hitoribotchi no yoru

Despre Tine; O-Zone

I've heard this song a lot when I go clubbing. I asked people its name, but nobody knew it. So I went ask to the right person. And he knew it. One friend of mine is a DJ and it was on the tip of his tongue: Despre Tine by O-Zone.

O-Zone was that Moldovan band that made a lot of success with the hit "Dragostea Din Tei" in the faraway summer of 2003, reaching #1 in several hit parades around the world. Do you remember this viral video?

"Despre Tine" is a song from the same album of "Dragostea Din Tei", the 2004 "DiscO-Zone". It is the last album by the band, which broke up in 2005. "Despre Tine" is the O-Zone second hit and was re-released in 2004. Below I put these two versions.

To finish the topic, the usual picture by the group (formed by Arsenie Todiraş, Dan Bălan and Radu Sîrbu):

Ma trezesc cu tine în gînd
Despre tine vreau sa cînt
Melodia mea de dor
Care place tuturor

Nu respunsi la SMS
Eu iti scriu atat de des
Poate m-am purtat urat
Dar sa stii ca te-am iubit

Ma inec in ochii tai,lal-la-lei
Plange lumea dupa ei,lal-la-lei
Esti un inger pe Pamint
Despre tine cînt si zi zi noapte,lal-la-lei (2x)

Daca mergi cu mine-n vis
Am sa te invat sa riz
Si-am sa-ti cant pana in zori
Cantecelul meu de dor

Nu respunsi la SMS
Eu iti scriu atat de des
Poate m-am purtat urat
Dar sa stii ca te-am iubit

Ma inec in ochii tai,lal-la-lei
Plange lumea dupa ei,lal-la-lei
Esti un inger pe Pamint
Despre tine cînt si zi zi noapte,lal-lei (2x)