Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2007 August 10

= August 10 =

Trying to ID a song
I heard a song on some kind of amateur dance video several years ago (at least four or five, maybe more) and I'm trying to identify the song. It is sung by a female vocalist with a well, dance, oriented kind of beat. Strong, but not pounding, bass line. I've tried Googling various bits of the lyrics, but with no success. Here's what I recall of the lyrics, but they're probably not in the right order after all these years. I would assume that "Yeah Yeah Girl" is the title since it's repeated often in the song, but I don't turn up any hits, and the spelling might even be off (Ya-Ya, Yah-Yah, Yea-Yea, et.)


 * Back in France in the sixties
 * It was all so wonderful
 * We all had groovy shoes
 * Fantastic hairdo's
 * Super-sexy dresses
 * And fancy clothes
 * (spoken)It was great. It was great.  It was great
 * I was yeah-yeah girl

Anyway, any help appreciated. Matt Deres 00:17, 10 August 2007 (UTC)


 * You didn't google hard enough :) I found the lyrics eventually on a Russian site. It looks like it was called "I was a Ye-ye girl", by Doing Time + In-Grid. The lyrics - in English - are here. Googling on that extra info gets you more links, including some which look like they have downloads. Grutness...wha?  01:27, 10 August 2007 (UTC)


 * You are a Google God! That's it; many thanks! Matt Deres 01:36, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Naruto
Which naruto (including naruo Shippuden) episodes and mangas is gaara's student, Matsuda, in.

Madonna Video
I would like to know at the end of the video for Madonna's song "Frozen" she turns her hand over to reveal her palm..which has a symbol on it....what does that symbol mean and in what language is it? . Allhallowseveone 04:31, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't know the video - could it be a Henna tattoo? Corvus cornix 17:35, 10 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes. See Frozen (song). --jh51681 19:03, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

stones "satisfaction" remix
this has been bugging me for a couple of years; since that time period, the radio stations have been playing what is apparently a remix of the original Stones recording of Satisfaction, with the fuzz guitar buried way down and the acoustic pulled up. ruins the point of the song, for me. Anybody know the story behind this version, so i can be sure to avoid it when I get around to buying a CD with the song on it? Gzuckier 15:37, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Actors in 300
I finally watched that movie 300 last night. I am wondering why all the Spartan characters are depicted as having perfectly hairless torsos?.... King Leonidas is depicted as the manliest of men, complete with a full beard, but his skin didn't seem to go through puberty from the neck down. I realize that the movie is incredibly sytlized and I could just as easily ask the questions about other, more bizarre costume/make-up choices from the film, but let's stick to the body hair issue for now.--The Fat Man Who Never Came Back 19:27, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Wow, upon further investigation it appears that, historically, this is a common interpretation. The painter David saw Leonidas as hairless (and pantsless) too.  See Image:Jacques-Louis_David_004.jpg.  Still doesn't makes sense to me.--The Fat Man Who Never Came Back 19:31, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Visible body hair is not a universal trait (although it did seem to be with the Italian kids I knew in high school). I would imagine that the lack of body hair was probably an aesthetic ideal. Throw in the fact that people like David were looking back through the lens of what classical art survived including statues on which it wasn't really feasible to depict body hair and that probably goes a long way. For a definitive answer about 300, though, you'd have to ask Frank Miller. Donald Hosek 23:02, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
 * The better to display the manly Spartan physique? Clarityfiend 23:24, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I may not be the manliest of men, but I too have a full beard and next to no visible body-hair. —Tamfang 05:48, 2 September 2007 (UTC)