"Blue" was recently featured in Iron Man 3. It's a way of saying with my filter I have a blue house, a blue window etc. They all reflect that color, it's incredible that everyone has that. So the things they buy, the houses they buy, the people they want to see, the places they live, the cars they have. I think that everyone has their own color you know? They filter their entire lives with that colour. It speaks of something I believe in a lot. The last two digits of the phone number were six and five so the graphic artist thought we put that in our name afterwards so it was a really curious way to get to that.
Then what happened was we had the label copy on our producer’s desk and he was writing a phone number that went over the paper he was using and ended up on the label copy. We made a database on Excel that we were fetching from time to time and when "Blue" came out we fetched Eiffel from the list and that was it. We were producing a lot back in those days and we noticed that we were wasting a lot of time trying to find names for the new projects so what we did was we took a week or so to create as many new possible names as we could. It wouldn’t surprise me if the next generation of historians discovers that this was actually a documentary of the band’s early success, captured with primitive film cameras and devoid of digital manipulation.How did you come up with the name Eiffel 65? No spoiler alert here but let’s just say the last 30 seconds of the video have done more to cement my trust in intergalactic cooperation than anything George Lucas ever did. But a quick glance back at the planet generates a severe case of Stockholm syndrome in the band members’ bleached guido souls: The keyboardists fight their way to the stage and recapture their frontman, escaping the throng and setting coordinates back to Italy. By this time, Jey has been beamed down to a stage and made to perform for a sea (get it?) of obsessed extraterrestrial fans, bobbing and weaving their webbed hands in unison to their favorite Terran anthem.
#EIFFEL 65 BLUE 10 HOURS SERIES#
Unclear of the captors’ intentions, keyboardists Maurizio Lobina and Gabry Ponte board their own spaceship and give chase, eventually docking with their craft and using a series of Street Fighter II-derived missile and extended-limb attacks to fight off waves of foot soldiers (guess what color they are!!?). Three stunningly goateed Italians use the opening stanza to introduce themselves to the world, rotating incoherently through space on robot-arm-mounted cathode ray tubes, before Jey is beamed up by a duo of body snatchers, his shuffling tearaways and bucket hat frozen mid-stride in the hull of a ship. But I was able to look past the poorly rendered polygons on my fourth viewing and discover a fish-out-of-water tale that Tim Burton would be proud to direct.
I don’t know if it’s just me but I was so transfixed by the rough-hewn scenery of the “Blue” video that I had no idea what the fuck was going on the first three times I watched it. Three stunningly goateed Italians use the opening stanza to introduce themselves to the world
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