"I get knocked down, but I get up again, you're never going to keep me down" -- ChumbawumbaI remember I liked this song. I was seven, maybe eight years old when this song came out and at that age only understand those words from the song. Heck at that age I don't think I'd understand the meanings of any pop songs. Though the song "Tubthumping" is not technically a pop song in the vein of the Spice Girls and Backstreet Boys but it was one of those songs that got played on those top 40 stations.
So today I decided to give this song a listen and it's been a while since I've heard the song. There are also some things that I've learned about the band Chumbawumba that I never knew about (from what I can gather on wikipedia since I can't find anything on their website):
- The band originally formed back in the 80's and are still around todayand I think the only time they had their time in the international mainstream spotlight was around 1997/1998 when they signed with EMI records, a major record label. I think after that there weren't any new songs played on the radio stations and "Tubthumping" gets tossed around here and there once in a while. Other then that I think their current popularity lies elsewhere.
- Anarchism is one of their influences
The only two songs I remember being popular at the time were "Tubthumping" and "Amnesia". I know I still have the cassette of the album somewhere in my basement but this was something I didn't know as kid. I mean what eight year old girl would know anything about anarchism or any allusions to it? The song "Amnesia" apparently has something to do with the Labour Party a left wing political party in the United Kingdom. - Tubthumping is an actual word
More or less a slang word compared to the band's name Chumbawumba which happens to be gibberish. To tubthump is to argue or promote something vigorously like a political campaign and a person who does such an act is a tubthumper.
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