

PopMatters reviewer Chris Massey, in his review of Europop, described his initial reaction to the song as being "really, really bad." However, he later stated in the review that after many repeated listenings of the song he "loved it." AllMusic editor Jose F. He also noted that "the key is the use of the voice synthesizer". The Daily Vault's Christopher Thelen described it as a "quirky little hit" with a "bouncy chorus". Scottish newspaper Daily Record said it is the "strangest-sounding Euro-club hit of the summer". Chuck Taylor from Billboard wrote that "the hook here, with its dancy but curiously compelling singsongy rhythm and lyric, is destined to react instantly with listeners far and wide." He also noted that it has a "euro sound", and "it's creative, it will affect listeners on both ends of the demographic spectrum, and it's anthemic." A reviewer from Entertainment Weekly positively reviewed the song, calling the song "a fleeting, feel-good foot-tapper" and gave the song a rating of B−. The song received mixed reviews from critics. The song's lyrics tell a story about a man who lives in a "blue world." It also explains that he is "blue inside and outside," which, alongside the lyric "himself and everybody around 'cause he ain't got nobody to listen," and "blue are the feelings that live inside me" may indicate that the term blue represents his emotional state however, the song also explains that a vast variety of what he owns is also blue, including his house and his car ("a blue Corvette"): different blue-coloured objects are also depicted on the single's cover. "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" is written in the key of G minor, with the vocal range spanning from C 3 to E ♭ 4, and is set in common time with a moderate tempo of 128 beats per minute. Problems playing this file? See media help. Ī 30-second sample of Jeffrey Jey's vocals on "Blue (Da Ba Dee)." The song was one of the first ever popular tracks to use pitch correction. The song also received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Dance Recording at the 2001 Grammy Awards. In the United Kingdom, the song initially entered the top 40 purely on import sales it was only the third single to do this. The song is the group's most popular single, reaching number one in at least 18 countries, charting at number two in Italy, and peaking at number six on the US Billboard Hot 100 in January 2000. It is the lead single of their 1999 debut album, Europop. It was first released in October 1998 in Italy by Skooby Records and became internationally successful the following year. The New York Posted reported that Underwood, the NFL, and NBC hadn't yet responded to requests for comment on the case." Blue (Da Ba Dee)" is a song by Italian music group Eiffel 65. However, the lawsuit says that Underwood's song "Game On" for the 2018 season of "Sunday Night Football" features a similar refrain and melody to the song Merrill and her team pitched Underwood previously - but doesn't credit them. Lawyers for Merrill and her team say that they pitched their version of "Game On" to Underwood in August of 2017, but that the singer ultimately turned it down. The lawsuit says that singer Heidi Merrill and her team of songwriters wrote a version of "Game On" in 2016, and posted a music video to YouTube after the song was included on a 2017 CBS broadcast of "Inside College Basketball." Carrie Underwood won "American Idol" in 2005.Ĭountry singer Carrie Underwood, the NFL, and NBC are being sued by a singer and a group of songwriters for allegedly plagiarizing "Game On," the theme song for NBC's "Sunday Night Football" program, the New York Post reported.
