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bathroomkindle t1_j1ok6ku wrote

Story behind the song : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D99PhzEIWuA&vl=en

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External_Star3376 t1_j1pghan wrote

What a great story and a nice and sweet clip. The subtitles are dutch if you were wondering.

This clip was made for a program called 'top 2000 a gogo'. The Top 2000 is an annual Dutch marathon radio programme, that plays the 2,000 songs voted most popular of all time. The show runs 24 hours a day, starting Christmas and ending on New Year's Eve.The show is hosted by the Dutch national radio station NPO Radio 2. It's the most popular radio program of all year and with many people a tradition to listen to and vote for.

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mooninuranus t1_j1s6c3v wrote

Fun fact - assuming the lowest ranked song gets one vote, the next lowest gets two, etc you need over 20m votes to rank two thousand songs (sum of natural numbers).

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External_Star3376 t1_j1udpf4 wrote

Each person that votes, can vote for a top 35 (used to be 10 I think). It's always a mixture of international and dutch songs and Queen with Bohemian Rapsody is almost every year on first place (it transcends generations now, and because young people heard it on new years eve just before 12 o'clock they vote for it nowadays again as well, as a sort of tradition/nostalgia).

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mooninuranus t1_j1ugqye wrote

Yeah, I read up on how the voting works.

Love the idea of it tbh.

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IntellegentIdiot t1_j1pf2mk wrote

Was going to post this. Top2000agogo and Vice make some really interesting documentaries on pop music. Loved Vices The Story Of Teenage Dirtbag, it still baffles me that song was sabotaged in the US

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ron_swansons_meat t1_j1ppp1b wrote

I love those docs. Watch the one they did on the Thong Song. Sure it's a song I never cared about, but it has a really entertaining story behind it. I have skipped the teenage dirtbag one because i hate that song so much. I should watch it.

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IntellegentIdiot t1_j1qslrv wrote

I love Teenage Dirtbag and it was a huge hit at the time. Part of the documentary is about the "big in Japan" situation they found themselves in and part of it is how they made the song. I think I'd say it was great even if I didn't love the song. Honestly think it's the best one they've done. Also loved the Vanessa Carlton one, especially the producer that finally made the song work.

As for Top2000, I really liked the Plastic Bertrand one. I had no idea that it the person we thought was Betrand was just lip syncing.

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