"[T]he minibus blasted a song I heard in every Eastern European country in 2004: O-Zone's tune 'Dragostea din tei,' which most of the world knows as 'Numa Numa.' It hit number one on the charts throughout Europe and was number three in the UK. YouTube amateur lip-synching video versions of the song have gotten over one billion views. ... Eastern Europeans consistently told me that they were a Romanian pop group. However, they originated out of Moldova. Sadly, Moldova rarely gets credit for the most famous song it ever produced."
source of quote: The Hidden Europe: what Eastern Europeans can teach us by Francis Tapon
That's the nice thing about the internet, it can provide the audio-visual dimension to what otherwise is flat text.
As long as I'm posting one goofy overplayed pop song, why not one more? Kent and I finally caught up with "Gangnam Style" by PSY, the most popular South Korean pop song ever:
Oh, why stop with two? Let's go on to Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe." Could it be the most popular Canadian pop song ever? We'll see.
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Now I have no excuse for not knowing any of these songs.
I know my readers come to DIR to avoid the latest ubiquitous pop sparkle and settle in for timeless tidbits from esoteric texts, so, for messing that up, I gotta apologize.
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