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Ushuaia

• Category: Ethics
• Richel's rating: 8/10 (HKM)
• Richel's favorite lyric: 'Een stem, een wereld, een vlag, een bonzend hart'

Ga je mee naar een land waar het elke dag feest is
Wat een mooie droom
Zo een land waar nooit oorlog geweest is [1]
Wat een mooie droom
Een stem [2], een wereld [3], een vlag [4], een bonzend hart [5]
Twee armen open, dit is mijn nieuwe start

[CHORUS]
Ushuaia

Ga je mee naar een land waar de kinderen nog spelen [6]
Wat een mooie droom
Zo een land waar je alles kan delen
Wat een mooie droom
Een stem, een wereld, een vlag, een bonzend hart
Twee armen open, dit is mijn nieuwe start

[CHORUS]

Eender waar je vandaan komt,
ik reik je mijn hand
want we delen zo een mooie droom
en ooit bouwen we samen een wondermooi land
Ushuaia

Een mooie droom
Een liefde binnenin
Twee armen open, dit is mijn nieuw begin

[CHORUS]

Eender waar je vandaan komt,
ik reik je mijn hand
want we delen zo een mooie droom
en ooit bouwen we samen een wondermooi land
Ushuaia

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Richel's review

In this song, K3 describes a fictional country called Ushuaia.

Usually, the first single to introduce a K3 CD has a nonsensical title, like Eyo, Heyah Mama, Kuma He, Loko Le, MaMaSe and Ya Ya Yippee. This song its title, however, is named after a city in South-Argentina (note that this city has a tundra climate, instead of tropical climate, as suggested in the video clip). The title does have the highest density of the vowel u in K3 song titles.

The imagination of 'perfect' countries is not new to their ouvre, the best examples being Sprookjesbos and Lila Liedjesland.

The description of the geopolitical situation of the country is confusing and in disagreement with itself:

• een stem [2] may denote the country has one single language. It is not too rare that a country has one national language (unlike Belgium), on the other hand, enforcing a single spoken language would be against the K3 philosophy. K3 even likes different languages, as they make up their own fictional languages in the songs Kuma He and MaMaSe!
• een wereld [3] may denote that the fictional country would encompass the entire globe. I think this is true to the K3 philosophy in which everyone is assumed equal and welcome, as can be heard is songs like Alle Kleuren, De Wereld Veranderen and Iedereen Is Anders
• een vlag [4]: I think this is a follow-up on [3]. On the other hand, as far as I know, most (every?) countries already have exactly one flag. It is thus not a unique quality of an utopia to have one flag: it is the modus operandi of most current nations
• een bonzend hart [5] may denote that the country has one disproportional big capital, following countries like France, England and Mexico. Would this be the case, I would disagree: I think it is not obligatory for a dream country to have a big capital! Why would small villages break the utopic idea? I think it is more likely that [5] should be interpreted more poeticly: it is the heart of each girl that vividly beats with love in general (as also described in Blankenberge and Vriendschap). Following this hypothesis, [5] is added just because it sounds nice

So, although [2], [3], [4] and [5] are not harmoneous when you think about it, it does make a catchy sentence that stole my heart.

Next to this, I do not understand why this fictional country cannot have had a war in the past [1], I would be perfectly able to imagine an utopia someplace that has had a war a thousand years ago.

Additionally, it is a fictional country where 'the children still play' [6]. As far as I know, playing is an innate property of children and I think in all countries they show this behavior. Sure, there are some child-soldiers in some countries, but countries in which children play are rather common.

What I very much like of this song, is that there is no Africanish jabbertalk. Well done! Instead there is some intrumental bridge with a low-fi/chiptune/retro game music theme. Although I do enjoy chiptune music, it feels to me like in dissonance with K3 'organicness'.

Concluding this review, I think most of the song is about accepting other people, dreaming about and building a utopia. This fits the K3 philophy well. Some parts are confusing and are probably there to make the song rhyme and/or sound catchy. In the end, the lyrics are just fine, perhaps even bordering the uninspired. The melody of the song is fresh enough to keep me interested, but does nowhere blow my mind. With the jabbertalk absent, I can easily listen to this song all day (actually, I listened to this song two full days). Therefore, I grade this song an eight out of ten.

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