What, no thread about Basshunter?

A thread about Basshunter is just about as needed as a thread about Las Ketchup. Or Los Del Rio. Or O-Zone. Or The Crazy Frog.

AKA urgent and key

http://www6.nrk.no/magasin/upunkt/gallery/albums/album401/ArtistArkiv_Basshunter.sized.jpg

Pepper pizza and Red Bull? Ew!

Peppes Pizza, not Pepper Pizza. :)

Well, wtf is that?

i have nothing against one-hit wonders, I loved "Macarena" and "Dragostea Din Tei", but "Boten Anna" is really, truly awful. I guess it's easier to discuss for Americans, because you haven't been forced to continuously hear that song in the clubs and on the radio for the last year or so.

Well, wtf is that?

Norwegian pizza chain. No idea why a Swedish act should cite a Norwegian brand, but the interview was Norwegian.

I guess it's easier to discuss for Americans

I don't know! Take a look at the thread...

To be honest, I just think the juxtaposition of the lyrical content with the overly sentimental quality of the music is humorous. I might be missing something contextual about it that would otherwise make it unfunny to me, but that's par for the course, I suppose, when listening to something in a language you don't really know.

I know a bot
Her name is Anna. Anna is her name.
And she can ban, ban you so hard
She rules in our channel
I will tell you that I know a bot.

Yes, I know the English translation, Geir!

And I actually lolled reading that just now.

I dunno, I'm not even sure what "a bot" is. Some some sort of an IRC moderator? I guess there's something funny in having such a mundane song subject for such a melodramatic tune, I don't think the context is any different in Sweden.

To me, the most interesting thing in the song is that the BPM count is quite low for such a pop-trance tune. I usually run away from the dancefloor when this comes on, but I wonder if the trance crew finds it harder to dance...

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It does seem slow for a trance tune.

such a mundane song subject for such a melodramatic tune

Otm, but is it meant to be a joke there?

I dunno, I'm not even sure what "a bot" is. Some some sort of an IRC moderator?

Bot is short for robot. An automatically generated moderator. In this case, that is.

What I mean to say is: Is it understood as a joke there? xpost

I'm not part of the target group, but the album is called LOL, I guess that tells you something.

Bot is short for robot. An automatically generated moderator. In this case, that is.

I don't get it... How can a moderator work automatically?

A bot is basically a program that logs into IRC like a user. You can use them to do anything from banning people, to executing cute little scripts when people type certain things.

Like swear words or something? How can they decide who to ban automatically?

people who run the channels set the bots up. they can ban people through the bots, or have the bots trigger kicks and/or bans from swear words, IP addresses, or whatever. bots can be whatever the programmer wants it to be: they can help operators run a channel in their absence, run games, distribute movies, porn, etc, or even act like a person to fake people out.

And the subsequent Dutch parody hit of it: "I Have A Boat" which reached the top 10 as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HAUuwiqIXc

!!!!

They've added horrible new English singing and lyrics to this for a January 2008 UK release. It's awful. You can hear it here.

The Norwegian papers have been -really- excited about that, because our most popular porn star is in it. This, I guess, is proof that Norway is in fact a culturally important nation after all! I'm thankful for not having heard this fellow's music.

church burnings, porn and oil money - im applying for citizenship right now

Ditto.

Does Basshunter himself sing the English parts?

Basshunter makes me understand the existence of Gaahl.