The Song
It is known in many language versions:
- German version as "Da da da, ich lieb' dich nicht du liebst mich nicht aha aha aha" (or simply "Da Da Da")
- English version as "Da Da Da I don't love you you don't love me"
- French version as "Da Da Da je t'aime pas tu m'aimes pas"
- Dutch version as "Bla Bla Bla"
The song "Da Da Da" is a song that has become popular while being extremely repetitive. It was a product of the Neue Deutsche Welle (or NDW). However, Trio preferred the name Neue Deutsche Fröhlichkeit, which means "New German Cheerfulness", to describe their music. At that time, popular songs were based on extremely simple structures that were ornately produced. Trio's main principle was to remove almost all the ornamentation and polish from their songs, and to use the simplest practical structures (most of their songs were three-chord songs). For this reason, many of their songs are restricted to drums, guitar, vocals, and just one or maybe two other instruments, if any at all. Bass was used very infrequently until their later songs, and live shows often saw Remmler playing some simple preprogrammed rhythms and melodies on his small Casio VL-1 keyboard while Behrens played his drums single-handedly while eating an apple.
Trio was made up of:
- Stephan Remmler - Vocals, occasional keyboards
- Gert Krawinkel - guitar
- Peter Behrens - drums
It had another three top ten hits in Germany until the end of 1983, then disbanded the following year.
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