Thursday, August 03, 2006

"Coup de Boule" or 'Head Butt': Parody Pokes Fun at Zidane - Hits Top Spot in France- World Wide Phenom

The ANNOTICO Report

 

A song parodying Zinedine Zidane's head butt in the World Cup final has rocketed to the top of the French music charts.

Two French producers from La Plage Records composed the song in 30 minutes after watching Zidane's outburst from their studio. Nine days later, the record had sold 60,000 copies in France.

Warner is working on an English-language version. Spanish and Italian versions of the song already exist.

As a cell phone ring, the "Head Butt" song has been downloaded 110,000 times online and is wildly popular in Japan.

 

Original Version:    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWAJhUNj8Xg       Repetitive but Catchy

  

I take no Responsibility for the following "loose" Translations that I retrieved from the You Tube Blog.

They sort of Agree, but there are wide variations!!!!! :) :) :)

 

#1  TRANSLATION:

 

Look out ! It's the headbutt's song ! Headbutt ! Headbutt ! Headbutt on the right ! Headbutt on the left ! Go "Les Bleus"! The wop hurted, Zidane hit him. The Italian guy doesn't feel well. The referee saw it on TV. We missed the Cup, but we laughed a lot .Trezeguet didn't play, When he played, he missed. He ruined everything, we missed the Cup. Barthez didn't stop anything, yet it isn't so complicated ! All the sponsors are angry, but Chirac spoke well. And now the penalties... Look out !

 

[Notice "Wop". In some version's it's translated as " Rital" ??]

 

#2 TRANSLATION:

 

Attention! It's the headbutt dance!  Headbutt to the right, left, front, back, And now, Penalty!  Look out, he's going to shoot, 1, 2, 3, It's a miss!!!!

Trezeguet did not play , When he played we failed, He messed everything up, We failed to win the cup, We had a great laugh anyway, Barthez did not catch anything It's not that complicated though, The sponsors are all mad,  But Chirac gave a great speech.

 

'HEAD BUTT" TOPS FRENCH CHARTS

 

A song parody of soccer star Zinedine Zidane's World Cup head butt proves popular with French music fans.


Los Angeles Times

From the Associated Press

August 2, 2006

A song parodying Zinedine Zidane's head butt in the World Cup final has rocketed to the top of the French music charts.

"Coup de Boule," or the "Head Butt," pokes fun at Zidane for ramming his head into the chest of Italy defender Marco Materazzi during the July 9 match. Italy won on penalty kicks.

Lyrics warn listeners to "Watch out: it's the head-butt dance," while a chorus of "Zidane, he hit him" plays repetitively over an upbeat African tune.

"We lost the World Cup but we still laughed a lot," the song says. "Trezeguet didn't play. Barthez didn't stop anything. The sponsors are all upset."

David Trezeguet missed a penalty in the shootout, and Fabien Barthez was the goalkeeper who didn't stop any of Italy's penalties.

Two French producers from La Plage Records composed the song in 30 minutes after watching Zidane's outburst from their studio. Nine days later, the record! had sold 60,000 copies in France and reached the top spot in the French music charts, according to Warner Music spokesman Guillaume Crisafulli.

Warner is working on an English-language version. Spanish and Italian versions of the song already exist.

As a cell phone ring, the "Head Butt" song has been downloaded 110,000 times online and is wildly popular in Japan, Crisafulli said.

The World Cup incident marked a brutal end to Zidane's soccer career. But it also quickly became the butt of Internet jokes, online games and parody videos.

 

 

 

FRENCH ADORE ZIDANE HEADBUTT SONG

 

Zinedine Zidane's infamous World Cup headbutt has inspired a song that, thanks to the internet,

has rocketed to the top of the French pop charts.

 

BBC News

August 1, 2006

 

Coup de Boule

 

Zidane, il l'a frappi, la Coupe, on l'a rat ee
(Zidane hit him, the Cup - we missed it)

Just hours after the song's producers had e-mailed it to friends they got a flood of calls from the music industry and mobile phone companies.

The hit was written as a "joke... to entertain our friends," said Sebastien Lipszyc of La Plage Records in Paris.

The small studio e-mailed the song the day after France lost to Italy.

The French star, affectionately known as "Zizou" in France, was banned for three games and fined #3,260 for head-butting Italy's Marco Materazzi during the World Cup final.

Fifa also suspended Materazzi for two games and fined him #2,170 for provoking Zidane, who was playing in the last game of his career.

Overnight success

Mr Lipszyc, whose company composes advertising jingles and sound-effects, said Coup de Boule  (Headbutt) was written "in half an hour" and e-mailed to about 50 friends. That evening, he and his two colleagues heard it on Skyrock, a popular French radio network

"The next day, the major players rang us," said Mr Lipszyc, quoted by the French newspaper Le Figaro.

He said Warner made the best offer to distribute the song - an advance of 45,000 euros for the clip, percentages on the sales and a guarantee that La Plage Records would retain authorship.

The hit was distributed to 20 countries and a video clip was made at the Charlety stadium in Paris.

According to Warner Music France president Thierry Chassagne, "all this took two weeks - that's unprecedented in our industry".

The African-style song has become a tube de l'iti (summer hit) in France, booming out at beaches, campsites and bars.

Zidane, il l'a frappi, la Coupe, on l'a rat ee (Zidane hit him, the Cup - we missed it), the song goes.


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