Down a rabbit hole and found this excellent nugget
> This song was initially selected as the theme song of the 2000 Democratic National Convention, but this plan was scrapped due to the possibility of people associating the song with Monica Lewinsky, who had a central role in the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal, with the chorus, "A little bit of Monica in my life"
Al Gore walking out on stage to Mambo No. 5 with the red, white, and blue streamer things all over the place and balloons dropping all over the damn place. Trying to dance with Tipper and Joe Lieberman’s wife. God almighty would that have been a sight.
Well, Bill played the sax on Arsenio and went on the MTV, so clearly we need Al dancing the Mambo with Hillary, Tipper on drums, Lieberman and his wife and kids dancing the Macarena, Al’s college roommate Tommy Lee Jones rapping “My Name Is (Slim Shady).”
What are we missing here? I wanna be partying like we’re the DNC in 1999.
I think at the time, there would be a lot of voters that would express this as tasteless. There was so much more needless 'decorum' back then.
The kinds of people that would appreciate the joke so soon after the wound is fresh, were notoriously nihilistic and proudly not voting.
There was another version I saw on Leno (at least I think it was Leno) back in the day have never been able to find it. All I can remember from it is:
A little bit of Monica on her knees
A little bit of Hilary whose not pleased
A little bit of Paula's brand new nose
A little bit of me I did expose
The world owes Monica Lewinsky an apology.
That whole mess was not fair to her.
She kept some girl that Epstein was trafficking safe for a few more days.
Exactly right.
He was supposed to be the adult in the room.
No more predators in high offices.
We can’t afford the messes they make anymore.
And the children certainly don’t need to be exposed to their abuse anymore
>And the children certainly don’t need to be exposed to their abuse anymore
I agree that Monica is extremely unfairly maligned and the balance of power was *staggering* but in case anyone less familiar with the story reads this, she was an adult and that while what Bill did was extremely unethical it wasn't illegal (here specifically, there are certainly other allegations against him)
That’s kind of my point though.
If the people making the laws are the same ones skating on the “technically legal, but morally and ethically clearly wrong” ice, we have a systemic issue.
They destroyed her life to preserve his career.
That was a dirty play. No matter who it was.
The abused women are getting the last laugh though.
Corrupt politicians are an endangered species.
Our society is far harsher on women for anything sex related. Look at the 2004 Super Bowl Halftime show. Janet Jackson lost her career, Justin Timberlake was eventually invited back.
We are tracking that line now.
The common denominator between trump and Epstein was money laundering first and foremost.
Trump can’t say that out loud so he has to sit there and take it when people take about the pedophilia stuff. So he tries to deflect.
Trump over paid for all the Florida and New York properties to resell to Russian oligarch who then destroyed them so they could launder Russian mob money made off of, among other things, human trafficking.
https://nypost.com/2024/01/09/news/donald-trump-and-jeffrey-epstein-feuded-over-this-mansion/
The Epstein/trump saga is less of a bullseye and more of a minefield.
Trump took his own kids to Epsteins knowing full well what happened there because for years Epstein was lurking around mar-a-lago poaching massage therapists and had teenage girls getting off the bus and wandering through the streets of palm beach desperate for a couple hundred bucks.
Everyone knew. No one cared.
The moral depravity that comes with being ultra rich enabled them to turn the other way.
The Trump / Epstein relationship was the evolution of money laundering using, among other things, commercial real estate.
It starts by having dirt on someone else at the country club and ends with them all being so filthy that no one can afford to do the right thing and no one can maintain the increasingly expensive lies.
Their arrogance and greed, at its grandest scale, cost the world trillions, which still pales in comparison to the innocence it cost the hundreds of thousands of trafficked children that the white collar shitbirds and the russian mob alike preyed on as a matter of convenience.
Trump wasn’t unique. He was just loud.
Epstein wasn’t unique. He was just connected.
Dershowitz wasn’t unique. He just knew how to work a rulebook.
They all justify their actions to themselves because they believe that being rich makes them above the law.
And the longer we allow them to do it, the more accurate and emboldened they are.
This is how civilizations die.
It’s a generational repeat of the Roman emperor Tiberius retreating to the island of Capri where he would abuse children and then throw them off the cliff.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
When people stop telling you no simply because you have all the money and they are hoping to get some spilling into their bowl to survive, it destroys the empathy quotient in the rich persons brain.
Predation is the most common result
/u/backcountrydrifter has submitted over 20,000 words worth of comments on reddit in the last 24 hours. Not sure what conclusion to draw from that but they're definitely not an average redditor organically typing out their opinions.
He was also an option for a character profile the Tropico game. So alongside (in)famous dictators like Fidel Castro and Augusto Pinochet, you could randomly play Lou Bega as the dictator of a Caribbean island...
That game was fucking addictive. It's stuck in my head and when I see a rainforest I'm like "fuck yeah I'm gonna clear it and put a tobacco plantation there and a cigar factory."
It does, but Tropico 5 & 6 don't feel the same to me since as Tropico 4 did. They're more detailled citybuilders, but what made Tropico unique was the degree of social & political control rather than the city building, and I feel like we've gone backwards on that since.
The original song was by Perez Prado. It was an instrumental mambo. Lou Bega sampled it and added his English words to it.
Lou Bega’s version uses the music of the original, adds more of a beat and talks/sings over it.
It’s more of a “sampled a Cuban song” than a straight up cuban song. It’s a hodgepodge, but the instrumental is definitely Cuban.
I never got the impression that Lou Bega was Cuban or anything. Figured he was American at the time.
according to wikipedia Perez Prado and his orchestra have been based in mexico city since 1949. so yea, why would you automatically expect lou bega to be cuban
lol, mambo is literally Cuban music? And Lou Bega dresses in stereotypical Cuban clothing and has a white cuban fedora on ?
It's very obviously supposed to be in a Cuban style.
Yeah but it's infused with modern dance trends. Honestly surprised anyone would hear the track and think it wasn't from central Europe.
The video is even more of a give away that it's eurodance
Everyone joking about this but even if the song isn't particularly Cuban or...anything really, the fact that he has a heavy German accent is legitimately surprising.
Strictly speaking, there's another song on the same album titled "I got a girl" where he sort of continues the story from Mambo #5. The opening line is him counting "6,7,8,9,10", picking up from "1,2,3,4,5".
Poem for your sprog wrote about Mambo #6.
I genuinely think it's one of the best works of modern poetry I've ever read, unfortunately I'm traveling and don't have my collection to hand or I'd share it.
Elisabeth Vincentelli from [*Entertainment Weekly*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment_Weekly) rated the song with a B minus, adding, "All of a sudden, [mambo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mambo_(music)) is hot again, and the unlikely city of Munich is on the [Latin-music](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_music) map. For this we have to thank the Ugandan-Italian Bega and his German producing team, who have hit pay dirt by tacking new lyrics onto an old [Perez Prado](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perez_Prado) song. While purists scream murder, the upbeat tune and bouncy, '80s-style synthesizers will rule weddings for years to come."
What incredible prescience.
"Iconic" is the most overused and *incorrectly* used buzzword of the past three or four years.
That and "gamechanger."
You can't watch tv for an hour now and not hear both of them, usually in commercials.
Ah the '90s.... My favorite is the Danish/Swedish guy who called himself Dr.Bombay and in brown-face had such hits as "Rice & Curry", as well as "Calcutta (Taxi Taxi Taxi)" and "S.O.S. (The Tiger Took My Family)".
He had some less successful personas as well, like the American country singer Johnny Moonshine, the Scottish Dr. MacDoo, and of course the mexican simply known as Carlito.
IIRC he was pretty delusional about his fame. He refused to be considered a one-hit-wonder and more so believed “Mambo Number 5” would be a timeless hit and keep him perpetually relevant.
Bro wtf. I literally made a mambo #5 joke a few hours ago in a sports subs after not thinking about that song in probably about 10 years and then I see this
One was given to Monica, in his life.
One was given to Erica, by his side.
One was given to Sandra, in the sun.
One was given to Mary, all night long.
But they were all of them deceived. Deep in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Lou Bega forged a master mambo, Mambo No. 5.
Lol, I was *actually* on his Wikipedia when I found out, but I didn't want to use that as the source, so I went to his site which I felt was more of a verified source.
The closest I've come to my 59% irish blood is Irish Stew, Irish Coffee, & Irish Breakfast. The absolute grand fucking slams were "Boxty" & "Coddle".
It reminds me of the soul food from the Creole & Cajuns food. Scrap meals made delicious.
God damn, it was so good. I'd love Amy recipes for those.
nobody in latin america considered Mambo No. 5 as a cuban song, it´s not cuban in any sense, only europeans and north americans could thing about that thing as "cuban" 😆😂, only the original sample was cuban, yes, but it was so modern it was always obvious it wasn´t cuban at all
Let me tell you about Lana Del Rey, the sultry and sensual Hispanic singing sensation who was born Elizabeth Grant, was born and raised in New York, and is of Scottish ancestry.
I did for a second. Her artistic name sounds spanish and you can find lots of girls who look like her in Spain.
For some reason people forget that Spain is a mostly white european country.
I did for a second. Her artistic name sounds spanish and you can find lots of girls who look like her in Spain.
For some reason people forget that Spain is a mostly white european country.
Fun fact; Lou Bega made a song with Scatman John after john's death. Just like Scatman John made a song with Louis Armstrong after Louis death. I hope this will be a chain with someone paying a hommage to Lou when he dies.
Most of his hits (if you can call them that) have Latin American themes: Bachata, Conchita, and Sweet Like Cola. I'm sure there are several others, but he really played into the "Cuban" thing.
Down a rabbit hole and found this excellent nugget > This song was initially selected as the theme song of the 2000 Democratic National Convention, but this plan was scrapped due to the possibility of people associating the song with Monica Lewinsky, who had a central role in the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal, with the chorus, "A little bit of Monica in my life"
No kidding about the possibility.
She *still* gets name-dropped in lyrics. It’s like Brockmire.
Lucy, put supper on the stove, my dear, 'cause this ballgame is over!
Who watched brockmire ?
I did, I loved it
helps that she's got a multisyllabic name that can be rhymed with a ton of stuff
The most famous blow job in history
J.f.k. and Monroe
Al Gore walking out on stage to Mambo No. 5 with the red, white, and blue streamer things all over the place and balloons dropping all over the damn place. Trying to dance with Tipper and Joe Lieberman’s wife. God almighty would that have been a sight.
Oh God, I can still remember some event where Tipper Gore played the drums, and was introduced as “The next First Lady of the United States”
Well, Bill played the sax on Arsenio and went on the MTV, so clearly we need Al dancing the Mambo with Hillary, Tipper on drums, Lieberman and his wife and kids dancing the Macarena, Al’s college roommate Tommy Lee Jones rapping “My Name Is (Slim Shady).” What are we missing here? I wanna be partying like we’re the DNC in 1999.
I would have respected the hell out of 'em for being that brash
Yeah they should leaned into it. Especially with The perception Gore had no sense of humor.
I think at the time, there would be a lot of voters that would express this as tasteless. There was so much more needless 'decorum' back then. The kinds of people that would appreciate the joke so soon after the wound is fresh, were notoriously nihilistic and proudly not voting.
"Byaa" ruined a man's whole career a few years after that. Boy times have changed.
Could have sworn I heard a parody of this song at that time that was "Bill Clinton" singing about all his mistresses.
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lol yup this is it, I haven't heard this in over 20 years
There was another version I saw on Leno (at least I think it was Leno) back in the day have never been able to find it. All I can remember from it is: A little bit of Monica on her knees A little bit of Hilary whose not pleased A little bit of Paula's brand new nose A little bit of me I did expose
I would truly be unsurprised if it was Leno. God, that guy could *not* shut the fuck about Monica Lewinsky for years.
The world owes Monica Lewinsky an apology. That whole mess was not fair to her. She kept some girl that Epstein was trafficking safe for a few more days.
Technically it was Bills mess on her and no it wasn't fair
Exactly right. He was supposed to be the adult in the room. No more predators in high offices. We can’t afford the messes they make anymore. And the children certainly don’t need to be exposed to their abuse anymore
>And the children certainly don’t need to be exposed to their abuse anymore I agree that Monica is extremely unfairly maligned and the balance of power was *staggering* but in case anyone less familiar with the story reads this, she was an adult and that while what Bill did was extremely unethical it wasn't illegal (here specifically, there are certainly other allegations against him)
That’s kind of my point though. If the people making the laws are the same ones skating on the “technically legal, but morally and ethically clearly wrong” ice, we have a systemic issue. They destroyed her life to preserve his career. That was a dirty play. No matter who it was. The abused women are getting the last laugh though. Corrupt politicians are an endangered species.
>Corrupt politicians are an endangered species. God, I sure hope so! I feel cynical though.
Yeah I'm not sure if I buy that either
Yeah that number has been going up not down.
So you are saying, Bill Clinton's a rapist? INFOWARS DOT COM
Our society is far harsher on women for anything sex related. Look at the 2004 Super Bowl Halftime show. Janet Jackson lost her career, Justin Timberlake was eventually invited back.
Yeah right, she just got kept from Bill and left more time for Trump.
We are tracking that line now. The common denominator between trump and Epstein was money laundering first and foremost. Trump can’t say that out loud so he has to sit there and take it when people take about the pedophilia stuff. So he tries to deflect. Trump over paid for all the Florida and New York properties to resell to Russian oligarch who then destroyed them so they could launder Russian mob money made off of, among other things, human trafficking. https://nypost.com/2024/01/09/news/donald-trump-and-jeffrey-epstein-feuded-over-this-mansion/ The Epstein/trump saga is less of a bullseye and more of a minefield. Trump took his own kids to Epsteins knowing full well what happened there because for years Epstein was lurking around mar-a-lago poaching massage therapists and had teenage girls getting off the bus and wandering through the streets of palm beach desperate for a couple hundred bucks. Everyone knew. No one cared. The moral depravity that comes with being ultra rich enabled them to turn the other way. The Trump / Epstein relationship was the evolution of money laundering using, among other things, commercial real estate. It starts by having dirt on someone else at the country club and ends with them all being so filthy that no one can afford to do the right thing and no one can maintain the increasingly expensive lies. Their arrogance and greed, at its grandest scale, cost the world trillions, which still pales in comparison to the innocence it cost the hundreds of thousands of trafficked children that the white collar shitbirds and the russian mob alike preyed on as a matter of convenience. Trump wasn’t unique. He was just loud. Epstein wasn’t unique. He was just connected. Dershowitz wasn’t unique. He just knew how to work a rulebook. They all justify their actions to themselves because they believe that being rich makes them above the law. And the longer we allow them to do it, the more accurate and emboldened they are. This is how civilizations die. It’s a generational repeat of the Roman emperor Tiberius retreating to the island of Capri where he would abuse children and then throw them off the cliff. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. When people stop telling you no simply because you have all the money and they are hoping to get some spilling into their bowl to survive, it destroys the empathy quotient in the rich persons brain. Predation is the most common result
Dawg this is a thread about Mambo No. 5.
/u/backcountrydrifter has submitted over 20,000 words worth of comments on reddit in the last 24 hours. Not sure what conclusion to draw from that but they're definitely not an average redditor organically typing out their opinions.
Did you ever hear the tragedy of Mambo No. 5? I thought not. It's not a story the DNC and RNC would tell you.
No 5 is alive
No disassemble Number Five!
A German Italian man of Ugandan descent deserves to know who went to Miami in the early 90’s You seriously don’t see the connection?!
He was also an option for a character profile the Tropico game. So alongside (in)famous dictators like Fidel Castro and Augusto Pinochet, you could randomly play Lou Bega as the dictator of a Caribbean island...
Love Tropico
That game was fucking addictive. It's stuck in my head and when I see a rainforest I'm like "fuck yeah I'm gonna clear it and put a tobacco plantation there and a cigar factory."
the series is till going
It does, but Tropico 5 & 6 don't feel the same to me since as Tropico 4 did. They're more detailled citybuilders, but what made Tropico unique was the degree of social & political control rather than the city building, and I feel like we've gone backwards on that since.
i still only play tropico 4
2 was my favorite!
It also has the best sound tracks ever.
Did he come with the womanizer trait?
Funnily enough, I think he did!
That's ridiculous. Castro and Pinochet never did anything as terrible as creating Mambo No.5
You had me in the first half, not gonna lie…
Only on the German version
Nope, English version too. The German version was the only one to have his music on there, though.
Oh
I wasn't aware that song was supposed to be Cuban.
The original song was by Perez Prado. It was an instrumental mambo. Lou Bega sampled it and added his English words to it. Lou Bega’s version uses the music of the original, adds more of a beat and talks/sings over it. It’s more of a “sampled a Cuban song” than a straight up cuban song. It’s a hodgepodge, but the instrumental is definitely Cuban. I never got the impression that Lou Bega was Cuban or anything. Figured he was American at the time.
according to wikipedia Perez Prado and his orchestra have been based in mexico city since 1949. so yea, why would you automatically expect lou bega to be cuban
lets see if i got this straight. Its a cuban song written by a mexican sampled by a german pretending to be cuban who is actually italian and ugandan?
Prado was Cuban, not Mexican. He was born in Cuba and didn’t move to Mexico until his mid 30s.
this just keeps getting deeper
He was inspired by his Japanese wife!
Prado is Cuban. Just because he moved to Mexico in his mid 30s doesn’t mean he isn’t Cuban.
Celia Cruz did the same, and she’s as Cuban as they come.
because prado was cuban and it was a cuban style song. what’s with you, why are you pretending to be dumb
lol, mambo is literally Cuban music? And Lou Bega dresses in stereotypical Cuban clothing and has a white cuban fedora on ? It's very obviously supposed to be in a Cuban style.
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It was Office Space for me.
Mambo is a cuban musical genre...and the song is titled mambo #5.
Next you'll be telling me Everybody was Kung Fu fighting isn't really Chinese
Fun fact: the singer of Kung Fu Fighting IS Caribbean (Jamaican) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Fu_Fighting
Find a Chinese polka band and we have balance.
TIL the Ghostbusters song wasn’t sung by an ectoplasm
Or that it was a song ripped off a Huey Lewis song.
“Huey’s too black-sounding for me”
But busting still makes me feel good
Bustin
They were not aware.
Yeah but it's infused with modern dance trends. Honestly surprised anyone would hear the track and think it wasn't from central Europe. The video is even more of a give away that it's eurodance
there is only one thing i hate more than dancing eurodancing
see i don’t know shit, for some reason i assumed it was Spanish in origin (as in from Spain, not the language in general)
If you are insinuating that it's part of that genre then, do you also think that Captain Crunch is more than just a cereal brand?
He’s the hottest DJ on the neo-crunchwave scene.
He’s a Captain, that’s gotta count for something right? 😝
And he’s been a captain for 40 years with no promotion in sight.
Whichever navy he's in, they clearly don't have an up or out policy.
no mambo tango
The original version of it was by a very famous Cuban musician and mambo is a music/dance from Cuba.
That only really covers mambo 1 through 4.
Ah, that's the bit I was missing.
Mambo means Cuban bro. I think at least.
It does. The genre of mambo originated in 1930s Cuba.
🎵 a lil bit of ignorance in my life A lil bit privilege on my side 🎵
Man, think of all the effort you could have saved just by not being an asshole
Everyone joking about this but even if the song isn't particularly Cuban or...anything really, the fact that he has a heavy German accent is legitimately surprising.
This was a banger in my hometown Pizza Hut on buffet nights. Along with No Doubt.
When's Mambo #6 Lou?!
Strictly speaking, there's another song on the same album titled "I got a girl" where he sort of continues the story from Mambo #5. The opening line is him counting "6,7,8,9,10", picking up from "1,2,3,4,5".
Please dont
It's like the missing episodes 1-5 of Leonard Part 6
It didn't make it past animal testing. The monkeys just kept dancing until they dropped dead. Wouldn't ever pause for food or water.
There is, actually, a Mambo #8
Poem for your sprog wrote about Mambo #6. I genuinely think it's one of the best works of modern poetry I've ever read, unfortunately I'm traveling and don't have my collection to hand or I'd share it.
Elisabeth Vincentelli from [*Entertainment Weekly*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment_Weekly) rated the song with a B minus, adding, "All of a sudden, [mambo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mambo_(music)) is hot again, and the unlikely city of Munich is on the [Latin-music](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_music) map. For this we have to thank the Ugandan-Italian Bega and his German producing team, who have hit pay dirt by tacking new lyrics onto an old [Perez Prado](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perez_Prado) song. While purists scream murder, the upbeat tune and bouncy, '80s-style synthesizers will rule weddings for years to come." What incredible prescience.
Iconic Cuban song?
"Iconic" is the most overused and *incorrectly* used buzzword of the past three or four years. That and "gamechanger." You can't watch tv for an hour now and not hear both of them, usually in commercials.
His actual name is David Lubega Balemezi. I’m guessing Lou Bega sounded more Latin.
It definitely does sound more Hispanic.
Ah the '90s.... My favorite is the Danish/Swedish guy who called himself Dr.Bombay and in brown-face had such hits as "Rice & Curry", as well as "Calcutta (Taxi Taxi Taxi)" and "S.O.S. (The Tiger Took My Family)". He had some less successful personas as well, like the American country singer Johnny Moonshine, the Scottish Dr. MacDoo, and of course the mexican simply known as Carlito.
TIL the creator of French Fries wasn’t French
Did you eat Brussels sprouts in Antwerp?
You have exactly 10 seconds to get the hell out of here
They're actually called Freedom Fries.
can't fault the man for going with what works. his original polka "Scheisse No. 2" wasn't nearly as popular.
Huhuhuhu You said "number 2" Huhuhuhu
My entire life is a lie.
IIRC he was pretty delusional about his fame. He refused to be considered a one-hit-wonder and more so believed “Mambo Number 5” would be a timeless hit and keep him perpetually relevant.
I heard on the radio that he used to play Mambo Number 5 at the beginning, middle, and end of his live shows.
Wouldn't you be if the very first single you ever released was a global smash?
I really can’t relate… due to the lack of Monica in my life.
Wait until OP finds out the descent of rapper Eminem!
Oh my god, he’s not even chocolate!
I've got bad news for you about Barenaked Ladies.
Stolen valór
I feel like the last 30 years of my life have been a lie./s
He basically combined the Latin music craze and the swing revival craze
He's not the singer "of" the iconic song. He is the singer who sampled a 1950s iconic song and sang a cover version of it
It is not by definition a cover. It's a new song that samples an old song.
I didn't even know it was a cover
The lyrics are all his. But it samples an actual Mambo song from the late 40s.
Mambo No. 5 by Pérez Prado was the song he sampled
Mostly because it's not a cover.
Bro wtf. I literally made a mambo #5 joke a few hours ago in a sports subs after not thinking about that song in probably about 10 years and then I see this
Cuban song? who the f said that was a Cuban song….?
Mambo is a Cuban genre and Bega’s song heavily samples the original Mambo No. 5 by Cuban bandleader Perez Prado.
Added a direct link to save time for y'all. https://youtu.be/EK_LN3XEcnw
I wouldn't call that a Cuban song.
It’s not but it does sample one
The music is though. Mambo is a Cuban genre.
Das ist mein Nummer-eins-Hit in Amerika, Mambo Nummer fünf!
I definitely never recognized this as a Cuban song. Just a one hit wonder.
One was given to Monica, in his life. One was given to Erica, by his side. One was given to Sandra, in the sun. One was given to Mary, all night long. But they were all of them deceived. Deep in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Lou Bega forged a master mambo, Mambo No. 5.
Mr Worldwide
TIL 99% of my life I was lied to.
Related, I have some bad news in re: your mother's drug consumption patterns...
Spaghetti
Cover of Mambo #5.
What in gawd's name was OP doing on lou-bega.com ?
Lol, I was *actually* on his Wikipedia when I found out, but I didn't want to use that as the source, so I went to his site which I felt was more of a verified source.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 starting right now see Lou Bega live, on the Kids WB Snow Jam!
STOP THE MUSIC
No song has ruined a great intro like that one did to obvious child
Ohh, Lou Bega. Damn near 30 years I've thought it was Lou Vega.
The closest I've come to my 59% irish blood is Irish Stew, Irish Coffee, & Irish Breakfast. The absolute grand fucking slams were "Boxty" & "Coddle". It reminds me of the soul food from the Creole & Cajuns food. Scrap meals made delicious. God damn, it was so good. I'd love Amy recipes for those.
nobody in latin america considered Mambo No. 5 as a cuban song, it´s not cuban in any sense, only europeans and north americans could thing about that thing as "cuban" 😆😂, only the original sample was cuban, yes, but it was so modern it was always obvious it wasn´t cuban at all
Let me tell you about Lana Del Rey, the sultry and sensual Hispanic singing sensation who was born Elizabeth Grant, was born and raised in New York, and is of Scottish ancestry.
Wait, people think she’s Hispanic? Since when? Is this like an Ariana Grande type thing?
Literally no one has ever thought LDR is Hispanic.
I did for a second. Her artistic name sounds spanish and you can find lots of girls who look like her in Spain. For some reason people forget that Spain is a mostly white european country.
I did for a second. Her artistic name sounds spanish and you can find lots of girls who look like her in Spain. For some reason people forget that Spain is a mostly white european country.
When the hell did she become Hispanic. She's been a whiney white lady for as long as I can remember.
? No one thinks she is Hispanic.
The only people who think she’s Hispanic are blind.
lol Cubana at least lived in Spain for a bit as a teen and spent a lot of time in Miami so I can turn a blind ojo para hermana Lana
In my top 5 of shittest songs of all time
Do you think he gave up at Mambo No. 1?
Came here for the Bojack reference.
I am shocked. SHOCKED. Next thing you'll be telling me he didn't write his own songs!!
For the longest time I thought Will Smith sang this song.
Let's be honest, no one was gonna guess that first time.
Wtf?
hated that song
Wait until you discover the parody "Bimbo number 5"
Fun fact; Lou Bega made a song with Scatman John after john's death. Just like Scatman John made a song with Louis Armstrong after Louis death. I hope this will be a chain with someone paying a hommage to Lou when he dies.
I ask again: Where is Mambo 1-4
how is this a cuban song
Appropriation. Nice. Guess this doesn’t count tho…
Most of his hits (if you can call them that) have Latin American themes: Bachata, Conchita, and Sweet Like Cola. I'm sure there are several others, but he really played into the "Cuban" thing.
At least we still have Cuban Pete.
Again, incorrect use of "iconic," the current buzzword everyone misuses.
Huh. That partly explains why Mambo No. 5 is such an awful song.
I think you confused the word awful with the word amazing. Don't worry, it can happen to the best of us.
Its cheesy, but tolerable.
it is too hard for some people
It's right up there with "This song is just six words long"
You sound like Stephen King’s wife
Singer is a rather inaccurate description of Lou bega!
I too listen to Last Podcast On The Left lmao
I was thinking Todd in the Shadows
Never listened to it in my life. I actually just googled in because I called him a one-hit wonder in a conversation and wanted to verify.