Bassie en Adriaan Theme Song Challenge

Bassie en Adriaan Theme Song Challenge

Updated Mar 25, 2015 at 08:45PM EDT by Brad.

Added Sep 12, 2014 at 02:38PM EDT by Molly Horan.

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About

Bassie en Adriaan Theme Song Challenge is a YouTube video fad in which a non-Dutch speaker attempts to sing the lyrics to the theme song from the popular 1980s Dutch children's show Bassie en Adriaan. Due to the general difficulty of phonetically mimicking a foreign language, and further compounded by the rapid pace of the song, the challenge has spawned a series of videos showing humorous and poorly-executed renditions of the theme song.

Origin

The TV show Bassie en Adriaan,[1] a children's show featuring the adventures of the titular clown and acrobat, premiered in the Netherlands in 1984. A karaoke version of the theme song was first uploaded to YouTube by YouTuber bassieadriaanchannel[2] on July 9th, 2012. As of September 2014, the video has gained over 110,000 views.



On September 7th, 2014, YouTuber matjz[3] uploaded a video titled "Amerikaan zingt bassie en adriaan" ("American sings Bassie and Adriaan"), which features an American man[4] reading the Dutch lyrics to the Bassie en Adriaan theme song as the background instrumentals play. Within a week the video gained over 140,000 views.



Lyrics

Dutch Lyrics:
Hallo vriendjes en vriendinnetjes.
We komen er weer aan.
Hallo vriendjes en vriendinnetjes.
't is Bassie. En Adriaan.

English Translation:
Hello friends and girlfriends.
Here we come again.
Hello friends and girlfriends.
It's Bassie. And Adriaan.

Spread

On September 9th, YouTuber MNMbe[4] uploaded a video of two radio personalities singing the song, within a week the video had gained over 5,000 views. On September 10th, YouTuber Christian Becker[5] uploaded a video of himself singing the song, within a week the video gained over 5,000 views.



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External References

[1] IMDB – Bassie en Adriaan

[2] YouTube – bassieadriaanchannel

[3] YouTube – matjz

[4] YouTube – MNMbe

[5] YouTube – Christian Becker

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