Some university students in Germany thought it would be funny to take the winning song from the German winner of Eurovision and make it into an unofficial World Cup anthem. After posting their video on YouTube, it became an overnight success, bringing in over half a million views in under a week. EMI, the company that owns the rights to the original composition, ordered the video be taken down, but that only created more publicity. That is when Universal Music expressed interest in recording the song and the rights were cleared with EMI, and now the boys who made the parody received a recording contract. Pretty crazy!
Spiegel Online has a great write up on the entire story here and below is the YouTube video that caused it all…
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