Word: macarena
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Like its even more egregious older sister Macarena, The Ketchup Song started as a holiday hit. (Europeans travel to Ibiza and return to their soggy homes with a sunny, exotic tune stuck in their heads.) The genius of Ketchup is that its bouncy chorus--"Asereje ja de je de jebe tu de jebere seibunouva/Majavi an de buguni an de buididipi"--means the same thing in Spanish as in English: nothing. The words are a gibberish homage to the opening line of the first rap song, Sugar Hill Gang's 1979 hit Rapper's Delight. America's familiarity with the original...
Marla Blakney's fifth-grade classroom is the front line in the nation's largest experiment in privately run public schools. And on a muggy fall morning in Room 308 at Harrity Elementary School, the troops are doing the Macarena. Arms crossing, hips swiveling, 24 Philadelphia schoolchildren are shouting a mantra--"Wisdom! Justice! Courage!..."--that is supposed to create the lively but respectful classroom environment that can elude even good teachers. And to their skeptical teacher's amusement, it seems to be working. "When Edison taught us this, I thought, 'This is so corny. My kids...
...improvises, and much of the song is written in "a kind of universal language." Universal, in that nobody has any idea what it means. That doesn't seem to bother the millions who bought the single and learned the moves to what has become this year's Macarena. Asereje is No. 1 in France, Germany and at least six other countries. In Spain, it's still at No. 3 in its 19th week on the charts. Las Ketchup's album, Hijas del Tomate - Asereje plus "nine other songs just to fill up the CD," says...
...momentum from this movie night and the highly successful Springfest, Summers should now plan a karaoke night on Harvard Yard and enlist some of our favorite professors to perform. At the very least, Quincy House Master Robert P. Kirshner ’70 could lead us all in the Macarena...
...Paul Saints, owned by Veeck's son Mike, gave out inflatable bats, sponsored by the maker of Viagra, to every man over 21. In Nashville, Tenn., 15 nuns opened a game with the national anthem and came back during the 7th-inning stretch to perform the Macarena...