Wadde hadde dudde da?

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"Wer Liebe lebt" (2001) ►

"Wadde hadde dudde da?" (German pronunciation:

La vita cos'è?". At the close of voting, it had received 96 points, placing fifth in a field of 24.[1]

The idea of the song could have come from Raab's show TV total, where a short snippet from another TV-show shows a woman with her dog, which carries something in its mouth to her. In a childish cutesy dialect she asks the dog what he has there (in its mouth), hence the "Wadde hadde dudde da?".

Raab had previously written and composed Guildo Horn's "Guildo hat euch lieb!" for the 1998 contest, and "Wadde hadde dudde da?" is in a similar vein. The song opens with a monologue delivered in English and German in which Raab is described as "the sensational super sack of German television". Another voice explains in German that Raab had gone to America and promised, "if I make it there / I'm never coming back to Germany again".

Raab's appearance consists of a rapid-fire

German word order
). It is never revealed what Raab has there, but the final line "oh my God", implies that it is something surprising or obscene.

The performance at the Contest was flamboyant, with Raab and his guitarists dressed in cowboy hats, and the six-person ensemble all wearing bright yellow clothing. An excerpt of the performance appeared in a montage of "Unforgettable Performances" at the

Congratulations
special in late 2005.

It was succeeded as German representative at the

Wer Liebe lebt
".

Charts

Chart (2000) Peak
position
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[2] 34
Germany (Official German Charts)[3] 2
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[4] 33

Year-end charts

Chart (2000) Position
Germany (Official German Charts)[5] 77

References

  1. ^ Participants at the Eurovision Song Contest 2000. eurovision.tv. Accessed 30 March 2010.
  2. ^ "Stefan Raab – Wadde hadde dudde da?" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
  3. ^ "Stefan Raab – Wadde hadde dudde da?" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
  4. ^ "Stefan Raab – Wadde hadde dudde da?". Swiss Singles Chart. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
  5. GfK Entertainment
    . Retrieved January 25, 2020.
Preceded by
"
Reise nach Jerusalem – Kudüs'e seyahat"
by Sürpriz
Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest
2000
Succeeded by
"
Wer Liebe lebt"
by Michelle