Dragostea Din Tei

In a previous post, I included a clip of the Syncsta boys camping it up to O-Zone's "Dragostea Din Tei", otherwise known as the "Numa Numa" song.

I first heard it when I went skiing in Andorra a few years ago. It was a sunny afternoon on the slopes of Soldeu about 2 weeks before Easter and as my ex and I were having lunch at an outdoor cafe halfway up the mountain. We were rather puzzled when a group of the waitresses at the cafe got on top of the tables and when the song started playing, started dancing to the music. It was very amusing to watch to say the least. The dancing wasn't great but I couldn't get the song out of my head of days afterwards.

The Syncsta boys aren't the only ones getting into the act as there's quite a few video clips on YouTube showing various groups of people doing their version of it as well.

First up, here's O-Zone's original:

Here's a live version:



Here's the US Navy doing it their way (supposedly some of the crew from the USS Enterprise). Interesting - there only seem to be enlisted men in the clip - no officers to be seen at all. I wonder what their CO would have made of this - have them all keel-hauled perhaps? Then again, it's not surprising given that the average age of a crewman on a USN ship is about 23 and boys just want to have fun!



Even the denizens of Azeroth in the World of Warcraft seem to be dancing to it, except that some of the dance movements suggest that some of the characters are dancing to the Macarena rather than Dragostea Din Tei. Have a look at the clip and decide for yourself:



Here's a group of Japanese lolitas (if that sort of thing does it for you) doing it as part of a medley:



This one's got some cute, shirtless French boys doing it:



Here's how a sock puppet does it - a reincarnation of Shari Lewis' Lambchops perhaps?



Here's the American Idle version:



which is a send-up of this:



Hope you enjoyed them (all). Admittedly some were more amusing than others but that's what you get on YouTube.