#denmark 1989

[eurovisionart]

🇩🇰 Birthe Kjær - Vi maler byen rød

[vizreef]

Storno 940 / portable phone (Denmark, 1989)

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Crazy Town - Butterfly 2000

"Butterfly" is a song by American rap-rockband Crazy Town. The song was released in October 2000 as the third single from their debut studio album, The Gift of Game (1999). It gained mainstream popularity after being released physically on February 19, 2001. It is based on a sample of "Pretty Little Ditty" from the Red Hot Chili Peppers' 1989 album Mother's Milk, so band members Anthony Kiedis, Flea, Chad Smith, and John Frusciante are credited as writers.

"Butterfly" peaked at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 for two nonconsecutive weeks in 2001. It topped the charts in seven other countries, including Austria, Denmark, and Norway, and it peaked within the top ten on the charts of several others, including Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the UK.

Vocalist Shifty Shellshock passed away last week, on June 24th.

"Butterfly" received a total of 74,5% yes votes!

[themousefromfantasyland]

Why are people not talking about this:

In the Little Mermaid 2023 remake, they changed the setting of the story.

Despite what many believe, the original 1989 animated movie wasn't set in Denmark. Judging by the architecture of Prince Eric's castle, the animals present during Kiss the Girl, and the landscape of the land itself, the movie is set in the European Mediterranean. Disney all but confirmed this in latter years. There were actual theories about Eric's kingdom being in Italy.

In the remake, Eric's kingdom is an island heavily implied to be on the Caribbean sea.

Eric is adopted and his mother, the Queen is super alive in this, and she is black. Grimsby here is portrayed by a Pakistani-British actor, making him ambiguously brown. Carlotta was replaced by a character named Lashana, and she is portrayed by a Trinidadian actress.

The island population is super diverse, with black and brown people everywhere.

They have a tropical climate and the only trees seen are palm trees.

Instead of waltzing when they visit the kingdom, Ariel and Eric dance Caribbean music.

When Eric shows several maps to Ariel, he suspiciously cites the names of a lot of South America countries, like Venezuela and Colombia, implying that the kingdom is closer to these countries than it is to Europe. He even cites my country, Brazil, referred as the Brazilian Empire, which dates the movie from anywhere between 1822 and 1889, when Brazil was indeed an Empire.

@ariel-seagull-wings @princesssarisa @angelixgutz @amalthea9 @thelittlehansy

[paikothecateater]

Iceland banned beer from 1915 to 1989 (to some extent). This was directed at Denmark in real life and Hetalia.

Iceland: Denmark, you have got to go. I love you to bits, but you gotta go.

Denmark: hah! Make me!

Iceland: I'm banning beer.

Denmark on a flight back to Denmark: that son of a bitch... He did make me...

[usafphantom2]

F-4G Phantom Wild Weasel from the 52nd TFW Spangdahlem Air Base Germany over Denmark in 1989

@perpetuaosombro via X

[royalchildreneurope]

On August 30th 2024, The Danish Royal Court announced that from September 4th 2024, His Royal Highness The Crown Prince will set out for an extended stay in East Africa. There, The Crown Prince will be involved in the daily operation of two farms, which will, among other things, include practical and administrative tasks and also give The Crown Prince insight into local nature protection. The plan is for The Crown Prince to return to Denmark in December.

In The Royal Family, there is a long tradition that the successors to the throne go on extended stays abroad during their youth and have the opportunity to develop and experience the world. Thus, His Majesty The King took part in an expedition to Mongolia in 1986 focused on the nomads and, in 1989, worked for a year at a vineyard in California. Her Majesty Queen Margrethe also went on longer trips to the East and South America in the 1960s.

It is the hope of The King and Queen and The Crown Prince that there will be an understanding that the stay abroad remains a private matter from beginning to end. For this reason, no additional details about the stay will be made public.

📷 : Queen Mary of Denmark/Det Danske Kongehus.

[nicolascageisagoth]

1989, the studio Puk in Denmark where Violator was recorded (most of the album).

Martin Gore and Alan Wilder are at work wearing their typical studio uniform

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 3.21 (after 1940)

1943 – Wehrmacht officer Rudolf von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through; von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion. 1945 – World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma. 1945 – World War II: Operation Carthage: Royal Air Force planes bomb Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. They also accidentally hit a school, killing 125 civilians. 1945 – World War II: Bulgaria and the Soviet Union successfully complete their defense of the north bank of the Drava River as the Battle of the Transdanubian Hills concludes. 1946 – The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in professional American football since 1933. 1952 – Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio. 1960 – Apartheid: Sharpeville massacre, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180. 1963 – Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary closes. 1965 – Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of uncrewed lunar space probes. 1965 – Martin Luther King Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. 1968 – Battle of Karameh in Jordan between the Israel Defense Forces and the combined forces of the Jordanian Armed Forces and PLO. 1970 – The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco. 1970 – San Diego Comic-Con, the largest pop and culture festival in the world, hosts its inaugural event. 1980 – Cold War: American President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet–Afghan War. 1983 – The first cases of the 1983 West Bank fainting epidemic begin; Israelis and Palestinians accuse each other of poison gas, but the cause is later determined mostly to be psychosomatic. 1986 – Debi Thomas became the first African American to win the World Figure Skating Championships 1989 – Transbrasil Flight 801 crashes into a slum near São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport, killing 25 people. 1990 – Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule. 1994 – The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change enters into force. 1999 – Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon. 2000 – Pope John Paul II makes his first ever pontifical visit to Israel. 2006 – The social media site Twitter (now officially named X) is founded. 2019 – The 2019 Xiangshui chemical plant explosion occurs, killing at least 47 people and injuring 640 others. 2022 – China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 crashes in Guangxi, China, killing 132 people.

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Snow - Informer 1992

"Informer" is a song by Canadian reggae musician Snow, released in December 1992 as the first single from his debut album, 12 Inches of Snow (1993). "Informer" was a chart-topping hit, spending seven consecutive weeks at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100. It peaked at number one on the singles chart in Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland, as well as on the Eurochart Hot 100. It entered the top 10 in Austria, France, Greece, Iceland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and the UK, where the single peaked at number two during its third week at the UK Singles Chart. Outside Europe, it reached number one in Australia, New Zealand, Zimbabwe, and on the US Billboard Hot 100. In Snow's native Canada, "Informer" topped The Record's singles chart and was a top-10 radio hit, peaking at number nine on the RPM 100 Hit Tracks chart. "Informer" was awarded with a gold record in Austria and the Netherlands, a silver record in the UK, and a platinum record in Germany, New Zealand and the US. In Australia, it received a double-platinum record.

As he was growing up in Toronto, Canada, Snow had a strong interest in rock music, but in 1983 there was an influx of Jamaican immigrants to the neighbourhood and his interest turned to reggae music and he became adept at the use of the Jamaican dialect, or Jamaican Patois. He developed his own style of music, by blending dancehall and reggae with rock and pop music.

Snow served an eight-month sentence in Toronto for assault when "Informer" began getting radio and MuchMusic airplay. The song is based on a separate 1989 incident when Snow was charged with two counts of attempted murder. At the time, he was detained for a year in Toronto before the charges were reduced to aggravated assault, and he was eventually acquitted and freed.

"Informer" won a Juno Award for Best Reggae Recording in 1994. It has been recorded twice in the Guinness Book of World Records as the best-selling reggae single in US history, as well as the highest charting reggae single in history. In Japan, Snow received the Recording Industry Association of Japan's 1994 Japan Gold Disc Award for New Artist of the Year.

In 2019, Puerto Rican singer, songwriter, and rapper Daddy Yankee released a new version of "Informer" as "Con Calma" together with Snow, who recorded new parts. The Spanish-language remake topped the charts of 20 countries and reached the top 10 of 10 others. In 2020, Snow won four awards Song of the Year with Daddy Yankee for "Con Calma" at Premio Lo Nuestro Awards, the Pop Music Award from SOCAN, and they won the Top Latin Song of the Year at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards. "Con Calma" won big at the Latin Billboard Music Awards 2020, taking home six awards.

"Informer" received a total of 68,5% yes votes!

[eucanthos]

Per Kirkeby (Denmark, Kopenhagen, 1938 - 2018 Kopenhagen)

Edition - 5 black and white etchings, 1989/90

Untitled, 1989/90 Etching Paper size 235 x 129 cm Plate size 200 x cm

https://www.sabineknust.com/artists/per-kirkeby/5-black-and-white-etchings-198990

[alessandro55]

House of Finn Juhl

Brand Catalogue

One Collection, Ringkøbing

Published on Nov 22, Narayama Press, Denmark 2017, 28 pages, 21x29cm

euro 20,00

email if you want to buy booksinprogressmilano@yahoo.it

Finn Juhl (1912- 1989) architetto e designer d’interni e industriale, è considerato uno dei padri del design danese. Nel 1931 iniziò i suoi studi di architettura alla Royal Danish Accademy of Fine Arts. Aprì il suo studio nel 1945 a Copenhagen dove cominciò a progettare i suoi primi arredi d’interni utilizzando materiali pregiati come il legno e il cuoio. Finn Juhl, lontano dal design danese purista dell’epoca, si ispirò a un design moderno e funzionale e alle culture di paesi lontani per cui aveva una grande pasione, come quella africana o egizia. Complice nella realizzazione dei suoi progetti fu l’ebanista Niels Vodder che tradusse i disegni di Juhl in prodotti dalle forme complesse e ricercate. Tra le realizzazioni più celebri ricordiamo la seduta Grasshopper, la poltrona Pelican e l’iconica Chieftain Chair.

20/07/24

[pagesinmylife]

I’ve been thinking a lot about fairy tales and folk tales recently partially due to my own interest in the subject and partially due to the influx in live action remakes by Disney. And I’m torn between believing folk tales are integral parts of a culture and believing that they should be universal. These stories can be recast in different settings with different cultures in ways that cut the story from its original context. But this is part of the storytelling process in history because folk tales were past down orally for centuries and as a result, the exact same story was never told twice.

So I definitely see why changing races and cultures doesn’t matter. But I also think that European fairytales are considered the default when they are not. This allows them to be stripped of context and culture and reapplied in other settings (again- I don’t think this is inherently a bad thing. I see it as part of the larger tradition of storytelling. Stories have always changed to fit the audience who is listening). When European stories are considered the default, any non-European story is considered an outlier and is scrutinized differently. When it comes to Cinderella, similar stories appear in cultures around the world and while Europeans often depict her as blonde with blue eyes, her appearance is flexible so long as she’s seen as beautiful when she goes to the ball. Cinderella-esque stories are found in German, French, Greek, and Chinese cultures.

But Snow White feels kind of different as her story isn’t as universal and is very much rooted in the Brothers Grimm telling of a German tale. As far as I can tell, there really aren’t any Snow White stories from other cultures. Her appearance is important to the story, particularly her coloring. Skin white as snow and lips red as blood. Personally, I’d be inclined to leave the story as inherently German and preserve the appearances of the characters as they are described.

The Little Mermaid is also another story that comes to mind, as it’s roots are very firmly in Denmark and the nation seems to be pretty proud of the story. At the same time, mermaids aren’t real and Anderson wrote this story himself; he didn’t record an oral tradition the way the Brothers Grimm did. I haven’t watched the remake, but people seem to like it and while it strays from the original, the 1989 movie is also drastically different from the Anderson telling.

Now, I’m generally against the live action remakes because I think they’re unoriginal cash grabs that lack heart. It doesn’t matter to me who is cast in the role of a princess because I’m not going to watch the movie anyway. And even if I strongly disagree with a casting choice, I’m just not invested enough to bitch online. I just find it fascinating how people decide when a story can be separated from its roots and when it cannot. I’m curious to see what other people think

[haveyoureadthispoll]

Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think of life before the war. It's now 1943 and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi soldiers marching through town. When the Jews of Denmark are "relocated," Ellen moves in with the Johansens and pretends to be one of the family. Soon Annemarie is asked to go on a dangerous mission to save Ellen's life.

[sophie-st-2002]

Roundtable I: The Little Mermaid (1989)

In what ways does the film’s score situate the story with its narrative context?

The Little Mermaid (1989) utilizes its score to immerse viewers in the enchanting and fantastic underwater world of Atlantica while also underscoring key emotional beats and developments. In “Part of Your World”, bright, shimmery strings and uplifting major chords accompany Ariel’s longing exploration of all things human. This evokes a sense of wonder and possibility for somewhere beyond her underwater world. Additionally, whimsical woodwinds and bouncy brass instruments enliven the vibrant world of Atlantica, particularly in numbers like “Under the Sea”, immersing viewers in the magical realm.

How do songs use character performance to push cultural authenticity in the film’s diegesis?

The Little Mermaid (1989) has a weak cultural identity as it is not based in a real culture or experience. The source material that the film is very loosely based on, The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen, is theorized to take place near Denmark and that influence is not present in the film. Prince Eric’s Kingdom is vaguely Mediterranean and lacks any distinct traits outside of white and coastal. There is the inclusion of a French-styled musical number in the form of Les Poissons but its inclusion has little to do with the world of the story and more with the stereotype of the neurotic French chef.

A shot of Prince Eric's kingdom.

In The Little Mermaid (1989), while songs like “Under the Sea” and “Kiss the Girl” incorporate elements of Calypso music, a common music style across the Caribbean, with the inclusion of steel drums, call and response, and syncopated rhythms, the film does not distinctly portray Caribbean culture or locations. Instead, it focuses on creating a general oceanic, island feel for its aquatic settings. This approach overlooks the cultural heritage and origins of Calypso music, attributing the style to a generic “island” vibe rather than specifically acknowledging its Caribbean roots.

The film may have chosen to avoid specific cultural references in order to create a fantastical, universal story to appeal to the masses as Disney usually does. However, this approach leads to usage of Caribbean music and culture as an aesthetic rather than a genuine cultural representation.

Additionally, while Sebastien the Crab is voiced with a Jamaican accent, he is portrayed by an African-American actor, making it more of a character choice than a cultural one. This reinforces the film's lack of authentic use of Caribbean music culture.

In what ways does the film use musical “framing” to structure the score within familiarized styles?

In “Under the Sea”, Calypso elements and the familiarized classical Broadway/Disney style intertwine, serving as an example of musical “framing”. The song’s lively instrumentation, including steel drums and percussion, along with  syncopated rhythms and call-and-response vocals, show the incorporation of Calypso elements into the film’s score. However, “Under the Sea” uses familiar Western elements to make the less common Calypso style more familiar to wider audiences. The elements are blended in a pretty harmonious way which leads to a fun and catchy song but the framing of the Calypso elements may diminish the authenticity of its influence by prioritizing accessibility to mainstream audiences. 

Moreover, “Under the Sea” also incorporates elements that are typical in Broadway and classical Disney musicals, made very obvious by the presence of Alan Menken on the soundtrack. Some of the elements are the upbeat tempo,whimsical lyrics, brass, woodwinds, and string. The arrangement of the piece also follows a structured and melodic format commonly seen in Broadway and Disney musical numbers, with distinct verses, choruses, and instrumental interludes.

The elements of Calypso music are mixed with elements of Menken’s formula to create a distinctly Disney piece of music. The inclusion of the Calypso style is little more than window dressing.

[darkmaga-returns]

On Monday, Ireland joined an international group of hundreds of politicians, medical experts, and other professionals who wrote to the heads of state of 10 other European countries “calling for a suspension of modified mRNA vaccines citing serious health concerns,” according to a press release from NORTH Group.

“Ireland joined this initiative today, with support from experts including Professor Francis Boyle, author of the U.S. ‘Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorist Act of 1989,’” the announcement reads.

NORTH Group’s letter of concern is “co-signed by physicians, scientists, politicians, and other qualified professionals” from around the world.

The countries listed now include: Ireland, Greenland, Iceland, the U.K., Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania.

The missive calls for the “immediate suspension of COVID-19 modified mRNA vaccines and an investigation into the presence of excessive levels of residual DNA in multiple vials, which is a serious, unquantified risk to human health,” according to a summary document.

“As an international group of politicians and qualified professionals, we are gravely concerned about the effects of COVID-19 modified mRNA vaccines on our populations and call for their immediate suspension,” the letter reads.

The letter cites the following reasons for the suspension:

“COVID-19 vaccines were never tested for their ability to block viral transmission. Hence, medical product regulators, as well as governments and governmental bodies, misled people in order to coerce them into accepting these products.”

“COVID-19 vaccines resulted in an unprecedented level of reported side effects, including deaths. Reproducible analyses of public data show that it was a lottery as to which batch a person received and the side effects that they may have experienced.”

“Analyses by multiple, independent scientists evidence variable and excessive levels of residual plasmid DNA in vials of Pfizer and Moderna’s products – this foreign DNA is a by-product of the manufacturing processes and should never have made it into commercial vials.”

The group therefore demands:

“An immediate halt to the use of COVID-19 modified mRNA vaccines and a product recall.”

“An independent and transparent investigation into their approval and use.”

Scientific evidence documenting that there is absolutely no risk of damage to human DNA.”

The signatories emphasize the “scientifically supported threat to current human health and that of future generations, we have identified the risk.”

They ask authorities to “act in the interest of your country’s citizens, upon which you were elected.”