{"id":3286,"date":"2012-09-29T08:43:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T06:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/?p=3286"},"modified":"2012-09-29T08:43:34","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T06:43:34","slug":"welcome-to-the-weekend-gigi-dagostino-bla-bla-bl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/welcome-to-the-weekend-gigi-dagostino-bla-bla-bl\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Weekend! Gigi D’Agostino: Bla Bla Bla"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gigi D’Agostino<\/a> is an Italian DJ, mixer and record producer. Born in Turin in 1967, D’Agostino spent his childhood dreaming of becoming someone in the disco industry. As a young adult he worked as a stonemason and fitter, fulfilling his fantasy of being a DJ over the weekends, when he organized parties in nightclubs. From 1993 – 1998 he was a resident DJ at an Italian disco named Ultimo Impero.<\/p>\n

In 1999,\u00a0D’Agostino released a single called “Bla bla bla<\/a>“. It was an instant success and became a chart topper across much of Europe. He described the song as\u00a0“a piece I wrote thinking of all the people who talk and talk without saying anything”. The voice and nonsensical lyrics that play throughout the song are taken from\u00a0UK band\u00a0Stretch<\/a>‘s song\u00a0“Why Did You Do It”<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The style of the\u00a0Bla Bla Bla\u00a0<\/em>music video is based on\u00a0La Linea<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>an animated TV series by Italian cartoonist Osvaldo Cavadoli. Episodes of La Linea\u00a0<\/em>are quite short, about 2 or 3 minutes in length, which meant that the cartoons were often used as interstitial programs – short videos that were played between longer shows and adverts. The style of La Linea<\/em> was simple – at the bottom of the screen was a line, from which grew a man caled “Mr. Linea”. As the character moved across the screen, other props were introduced, usually attached to the line in the same manner as Mr. Linea. \u00a0La Linea<\/em>\u00a0was popular with both children and adults, so when the music video for\u00a0Bla Bla Bla<\/em> was released, the song was enjoyed by people of all ages. The linear character moves in rhythm to the music, creating a jivey animated music video that was enjoyed on MTV and on night club screens. The German internet magazine Dagbladet released videos of the\u00a0La Linea<\/em> animations – you can click on this link<\/a> to view them. Enjoy the weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gigi D’Agostino is an Italian DJ, mixer and record producer. Born in Turin in 1967, D’Agostino spent his childhood dreaming of becoming someone in the disco industry. As a young adult he worked as a stonemason and fitter, fulfilling his fantasy of being a DJ over the weekends, when he organized parties in nightclubs. From […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[17,49,55,119,129,180,184,202,216,362,375,388,430,438,500,501,610,748,792],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayhemandmuse.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}