The fight for diverse and conscious voices

Today's music special has a surprise ending. I hope you'll play along because it's just that kind of awesome.

Step 1: the set-up
http://www.mashup-industries.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=321&Itemid=27
We begin by checking in at Mashup Industries, as I do a couple times a week. They don't post as often as they used to, but it's the place to go to hear the newest stuff from people like Clive$ter here. His latest offering "We No Speak Chica" is a strongly latin-influenced fast-paced pop dance tune. I like it and since I don't know either of the component parts I go off to listen to them so I can backtrack what the DJ has done to produce this mash.

Step 2: the players
In this case, we have Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP doing "We No Speak Americano" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wavpWRK6IX8). Yolanda are a couple of Euro DJs who have teamed up with DCUP, an Australian producer. Being an American I had no idea that "We No Speak Americano" had topped several European charts already this year. The song samples a 1956 hit "Tu vuò fà l'americano" (You want to be American) by Italian singer Renato Carosone (or so says Wikipedia). Cool.

The second part is Dan Balan's "Chica Bomb" and my first search for that turns up the official video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWxnI8-5LEg. Go ahead and watch that, at least long enough to get an idea of what's going on. Keep in mind this is the official video for the song.

Step 3: the video
I watched about 45 seconds of the video before my jaw bounced off the floor long enough for me to send the link to MizA who promptly responds with "Boobies!" And "it was nice of her to invite her gay friend into her video."

No, sorry, that's his video. What, exactly, is he adding here? A bit of freak and three words, repeated, assuming you think "oooh" is a word. I'm still unclear on who the female singer is - she's got a decent voice and I'm pretty sure she's not the "jiggly sweaty tits" so succinctly described in Nick Levine's pithy snark (http://www.digitalspy.com/music/singlesreviews/a234883/dan-balan-chica-bomb.html).

Step 4: who is Dan Balan anyway?
Right, so if he's not the moving force on this bit of electro-house, who is he? Well, like lots of musicians he has a MySpace page. To which I will direct you in a moment, but it auto-plays and you need some background first.

He's Moldovan and he's done Eurovision entries as part of a band called O-Zone. If that's familiar to you, then you know what's coming and props to you. I was sitting there thinking "Hmm, where do I know that from..." when I went to his MySpace page.

Step 5: the reveal
( Just in case you were skimming and don't want spoilers quite yet )
I can not make this stuff up. Life is just way weirder than you ever expect.