Music Structure and Composition
"Blue (Da Ba Dee)" is an uptempo dance-pop song, described by the band as "europop", hence the title of their debut album Europop, which the song comes from. The song carries a rather melodic sound with a bubblegum-pop influenced hook. The song is written in the key of G minor and is set in Common time with a moderate tempo of 128 beats per minute.
The song's lyrics tell a story about a man who lives in a "blue world". It is also stated he is "blue inside and outside," which, along with the lyric "himself and everybody around 'cause he ain't got nobody to listen", may indicate that the term blue represents his emotional state. The song also states that a vast variety of what he owns is also blue, including his house and his car; various blue-colored objects are also depicted on the single's cover. The song's hook is the sentence "I'm blue", followed by a repetition of the words "da ba dee da ba di", which the hook is based around.
The song's distorted vocals were composed using a pitch shifter/harmonizer effect. There has also been a noted similarity between the distorted vocals of "Blue (Da Ba Dee)", and those from "Believe" by Cher, which were achieved with Auto-Tune.
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