If I remember correctly, the names used in Mambo #5 were all the names of women Bill Clinton had affairs with.
Allegedly. Air quotes. Wink, wink.
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LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I was gonna say wasn’t Mumbo number 6 about Bill Clinton, apparently that was Bimbo number 5. I couldn’t remember the lyrics
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SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
This is the only reference I can find to said connection anywhere, so I’d put this squarely in the rumor category.
web.archive.org/web/20000815061133/…/index.html
Tuning out Monica
Lyrics turned out to be a problem in choosing the convention theme song. Convention producers had selected Lou Bega’s “Mambo No. 5” because it was up-tempo and popular, like “The Macarena,” the Democrats’ convention theme in 1996.
But the chorus of “Mambo No. 5” refers to a girl named Monica.
Convention planners initially thought they could just rewrite the lyric, but late on the eve of the convention, they re-thought the whole idea.
“That’s out now,” said Wheeler, whose orchestra rehearsed the song. “That will not be played at all.”
Convention producers are now looking for another song - one just as catchy, but without a catch - that will rally the party faithful, inspire the crowd and get the campaign off on the right note.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 9 hours ago
Holy shit, even in the 90s, Dems were already doing shit like resting their hopes on a catchy theme song being enough to “rally the party faithful, inspire the crowd and get the campaign off on the right note.”
Man, if only Kamala had known that all she had to do was play Despacito at all her rallies, the world today could be a different place… 🙄
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I remember that Flash animation.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
God, America really did Monica Lewinsky dirty with how she was treated in popular culture for decades afterwards.