Europop

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Europop is the debut studio album by Italian electronic group Eiffel 65. It was released in late 1999 as under Bliss Corporation and Universal Records and Republic Music. The album's most notable for the group's two biggest hits: "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" and "Move Your Body" which topped charts worldwide in 2000. All the songs on this album are sung in English. The title of Europop describes its genre, following a deep house template featuring pitch-corrected vocals, Euro disco beats, synthesizer hooks, and "nursery rhyme choruses," with occasional deviations from it into string-orchestrated hip-hop ("Living in a Bubble") and "trippy" house stylings ("Now is Forever" and "Europop"). Elements of 1980s synthpop dominate with reviews making comparisons to Depeche Mode (especially towards "Your Clown"), Erasure, A-ha, and Duran Duran. Although some of its tracks are self-indulgent and facile, Europop generally incorporates social commentary on deceptions and connections between humans. Explained lead singer Jeffrey Jey, "We like to speak of how things affect human beings without saying 'This is bad' or 'We want to drown everyone who does that.'" "Living in a Bubble"'s message is making sure what's real in "a place of lies and hype"; specifically, according to Jey, it is about how celebrities have people they encounter be unusually "friendly and openhearted right away" when popular, only for that to change when their fame decreases. The subject of "Silicon World" dreams of "a silicon girl with silicon lips and silicon hair" he'll never meet. "Too Much of Heaven" critiques societies' fixation on wealth and its effects on morality, while "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" is about someone where "everything is blue for him" due to a need to be heard. The album features references to consumer technology. In "Hyperlink (Deep Down)", the subject displays lust through computer terminology like "a sexual browser" and "a hyperlink to go inside you," and a tribute to the PlayStation, "My Console," that references games such as Resident Evil, Gran Turismo, Tekken 3 and Bloody Roar. There are also songs about love and relationships, including the aforementioned "Silicon World" and "Hyperlink (Deep Down)" as well as "Your Clown," which depicts the subject trying to get out of an abusive love triangle caused by his girlfriend.

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