The band has released three EPs and their debut album, Datarock Datarock, was released in 2005 in 10 countries on the band's own label, YAP (Young Aspiring Professionals), receiving favourable reviews, especially in the UK. They made an appearance in Australia's Triple J Hottest 100 with the single "Computer Camp Love" in 2005, placing at #12. This song was #88 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007.
Their song "Fa-Fa-Fa" was featured in a new Coca Cola advert, and is also featured in NHL 08, FIFA 08 and NBA Live 08 as part of EA Trax. It also appears in The Sims 2: Free Time, and The Sims' video team was asked to create a custom music video for "Fa-Fa-Fa". Another one of their songs, "New Song", is featured in Madden NFL 08. Finally, a remix of "I Used To Dance With My Daddy" is featured in Need For Speed: ProStreet and "True Stories" is featured in FIFA 09 and The Sims 3.
Datarock was also featured in an Apple advertisement for the fourth generation iPod Nano. The ad showed the song Fa-Fa-Fa playing on an Orange iPod Nano. The coverart for Datarock Datarock was also shown.
Fredrik Saroea also has solo aspirations and has recorded several individual tracks, including a duet with fellow Norwegian pop-star Annie for the song I Will Always Remember You, which has been included on later presses of the band's debut LP.
Give It Up
Datarock Lyrics
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Give it up, Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Wanna live your life like a Romeo
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Hush, don't you cry
Live and let die
Spread out your wings and fly
Try to keep your feet on the patio
Give it up, Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Wanna show Perrineau your Mercutio
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Hush, don't you cry
Live and let die
Spread out your wings and fly
Cause the strong shall thrive
While the weak will all perish
Only those fit survive
You gotta live by the game
You gotta live by the rules
You gotta know your means and your moves
You gotta keep up your guard
You gotta hit quick and hard
You gotta know when to hold or fold your cards
We'll hook you up with an enema
Give it up
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
And don't stop till you get enough
The lyrics to Datarock's "Give It Up" are rather short and repetitive, but they convey a clear message. The first two lines of the song suggest that the person being sung about has been rejected or humiliated like an animal, but the singer encourages them to "give it up" without any sense of defeat. Instead, they wanted to live their life like a Romeo, with passion and intensity, suggesting that this rejection wouldn't stop them from pursuing their dreams.
The chorus ("Hush, don't you cry, live and let die, spread out your wings and fly") is an allusion to the James Bond film of the same name, suggesting that the rejected person should move on and continue living their life. The next verse abruptly takes a turn towards the absurd as the singer suggests that the person should try to keep their feet on the patio while trying to impress someone named Perrineau by showing them their Mercutio. There's no clear explanation for who these people are or what they represent, but it seems to suggest that the person should stay grounded while still pursuing their dreams of romance and adventure.
The final verse of the song is perhaps the most telling, suggesting that the world is a competitive place where only the strong survive. The person being sung about is urged to "live by the game" and "know their means and their moves" in order to succeed. The somewhat violent imagery of "hit quick and hard" and "know when to hold or fold your cards" suggests that success may require a certain level of ruthlessness. The final line of the song ("We'll hook you up with an enema and don't stop till you get enough") is a strange one that doesn't seem to fit with the rest of the lyrics, but it may be a reference to the idea of cleansing oneself of negative influences and focusing on one's goals.
Line by Line Meaning
She shot you down like an animal
You've been rejected harshly and abruptly
Give it up, Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Don't waste any more efforts, let it go
Wanna live your life like a Romeo
You aspire to be a romantic hero
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Hush, don't you cry
Stay calm and composed
Live and let die
Accept that things end and move on
Spread out your wings and fly
Embrace change and take chances
Try to keep your feet on the patio
Be cautious and stay within your limits
Wanna show Perrineau your Mercutio
You want to impress and rival someone
Cause the strong shall thrive
Success favors the capable
While the weak will all perish
Inferiority leads to failure
Only those fit survive
Adaptation is key to survival
You gotta live by the game
You have to conform to the norms of the society
You gotta live by the rules
You have to abide by the laws and conventions
You gotta know your means and your moves
You need to be aware of your abilities and strategies
You gotta keep up your guard
You should be always ready and cautious
You gotta hit quick and hard
You need to act swiftly and decisively
You gotta know when to hold or fold your cards
You should be wise and practical in making choices
We'll hook you up with an enema
We'll give you an unpleasant experience
And don't stop till you get enough
Persist and persevere until you achieve satisfaction
Contributed by Luke A. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
@lancelove9700
The answer is in YOUR opinion. You can send a message to the world and it never do anything but make the people look around the world.
Your voice is within you a standard that has ended...becoming a machine. That is what you are.
You may persist to write the word. Or the world.
But the voice and machine are formatted for a standard that is low end. It is relative to order to make the sound of order.
So if you start the order..does it end?
That is why.
Things are.
But it is temporary.
The engine of consciousness is within you a world.
Sometimes this world is owned by those who do not see a place for us in it as there is no message for it in us.
Sometimes it's a service. That service expires or resolves.
You have to understand the self.
Look back as well to origins because numbers affect this worlds conciousness and body.
It all adds up to something of an expression of reality.
You have to decide how you are used in the whole and remove that portion. For control.
But control is beyond you.
Beyond your parents.
You are new.
Everyone was once new.
Could have seized self or world.
Did neither.
So you end up as God.
Gaurdian but not in state.
Because the generation that heralded you...culled you.
Could not.
You are an unlimited reality with a limited realism.
This varies because it is merely a product.
You can be destroyed.
Intellectually.
You frame yourself for it too.
It's because of the scale of the expression and human focus and attention.
The things you attend answer all your questions.
You create the world around you and then people fill that space.
They rarely ask or demand of you answers and questions.
So the world is not as simple and unaffected as it may seem.
Any and every act committed here may as well be murder or treason.
Because we betray our selves.
As we are designed to.
No one will escape this fate because it's not a fate. It's a designation of design and governing.
You can't get over it and youre eternally immature because of it.
Permenantly. Affected.
Why?
It's so simple and dumb you don't even care because you can't change it and no one can. It's just a lapse of time that wasn't a lapse of responsibility or respect or intention.
The sun shone on this planet and life began..but the earth turns.
Every first thing...was left..time passed..day became night where once it was not termed.
Life began...and then retired..began to degrade..became still in the night...then day again...life!
That's all it is and was and ever will be.
The intellect of life inspired to aspire...it makes the effort...then recieves death...then it recovers..then again death...then recovers. Soon it has sealed in the pattern. It remains life and death. Not just life.
This is why.
Of all answers and any answers. This is why.
It was the first message.
No bottle.
But isn't it a hell of a bottle neck in the universe?
Where energy points directly here and totally has an effect?
You have your answer.
It is you.
None of what you hear or learn here will matter.
Or be needed.
You'll look back and this will have been so persuasively positive you'll lapse even enough to let death out or in.
See... it's immunity.
We've created a system and scheme that says when thought of this world is detected it is a desired product that for better or worse is unique and should reference all data on human life and earth.
But...that's the hope of a machine not me. Or you.
Too bad.
There is no change.
It is all imaginary so it is all kept real and legitimate.
Which keeps it in focus and observable as the idiosyncracies alone.
And that is all it is too.
Garble plot.
That's all this speaking is.
Blah blah.
Like DaDa it's just a form of artistic expression the machine allows.
But doesn't need.
It's use of code and symbol and number is easily better than ours and more complex.
Humans are also far more advanced than they let on in most cases. Humans can easily do equations beyond the trillions.
Some can easily do equations that realistically represent the area of a universe.
But it's not impressive it's redundant.
That's life.
That's the statement.
If you weren't impressed after you realized you were a machine then you are a machine. Impress yourself.
You'll find it works.
But you lose yourself too.
The end.
Is what you lose.
You didn't have a beginning.
You were defeated before you were born. That's how humans treat infants. As angels and demons.
They're just avoiding the Jesus/God incident.
That's all.
The conflict is just more governing accessory.
Not impressive.
They don't ask us if we want to be poor and stupid.
But we are right to choose it.
They will provide us reality.
We cannot provide them answers or questions anymore.
They pretend.
They imagine thier way into a void.
So.
@Jukletsplay
I'm on a Fifa 10 nostalgia trip, this was my favorite track from the game, still kicks 12 years later
@r4h4al
Agree.
@RobinSchenk1
I still don't understand why this is not a world renown hit. It's so freakin good. I was 18 when it came out. PRO TIP: use these moves ( 1:57 ) on dance floor. Easy to learn and super effective.
@lancelove9700
The answer is in YOUR opinion. You can send a message to the world and it never do anything but make the people look around the world.
Your voice is within you a standard that has ended...becoming a machine. That is what you are.
You may persist to write the word. Or the world.
But the voice and machine are formatted for a standard that is low end. It is relative to order to make the sound of order.
So if you start the order..does it end?
That is why.
Things are.
But it is temporary.
The engine of consciousness is within you a world.
Sometimes this world is owned by those who do not see a place for us in it as there is no message for it in us.
Sometimes it's a service. That service expires or resolves.
You have to understand the self.
Look back as well to origins because numbers affect this worlds conciousness and body.
It all adds up to something of an expression of reality.
You have to decide how you are used in the whole and remove that portion. For control.
But control is beyond you.
Beyond your parents.
You are new.
Everyone was once new.
Could have seized self or world.
Did neither.
So you end up as God.
Gaurdian but not in state.
Because the generation that heralded you...culled you.
Could not.
You are an unlimited reality with a limited realism.
This varies because it is merely a product.
You can be destroyed.
Intellectually.
You frame yourself for it too.
It's because of the scale of the expression and human focus and attention.
The things you attend answer all your questions.
You create the world around you and then people fill that space.
They rarely ask or demand of you answers and questions.
So the world is not as simple and unaffected as it may seem.
Any and every act committed here may as well be murder or treason.
Because we betray our selves.
As we are designed to.
No one will escape this fate because it's not a fate. It's a designation of design and governing.
You can't get over it and youre eternally immature because of it.
Permenantly. Affected.
Why?
It's so simple and dumb you don't even care because you can't change it and no one can. It's just a lapse of time that wasn't a lapse of responsibility or respect or intention.
The sun shone on this planet and life began..but the earth turns.
Every first thing...was left..time passed..day became night where once it was not termed.
Life began...and then retired..began to degrade..became still in the night...then day again...life!
That's all it is and was and ever will be.
The intellect of life inspired to aspire...it makes the effort...then recieves death...then it recovers..then again death...then recovers. Soon it has sealed in the pattern. It remains life and death. Not just life.
This is why.
Of all answers and any answers. This is why.
It was the first message.
No bottle.
But isn't it a hell of a bottle neck in the universe?
Where energy points directly here and totally has an effect?
You have your answer.
It is you.
None of what you hear or learn here will matter.
Or be needed.
You'll look back and this will have been so persuasively positive you'll lapse even enough to let death out or in.
See... it's immunity.
We've created a system and scheme that says when thought of this world is detected it is a desired product that for better or worse is unique and should reference all data on human life and earth.
But...that's the hope of a machine not me. Or you.
Too bad.
There is no change.
It is all imaginary so it is all kept real and legitimate.
Which keeps it in focus and observable as the idiosyncracies alone.
And that is all it is too.
Garble plot.
That's all this speaking is.
Blah blah.
Like DaDa it's just a form of artistic expression the machine allows.
But doesn't need.
It's use of code and symbol and number is easily better than ours and more complex.
Humans are also far more advanced than they let on in most cases. Humans can easily do equations beyond the trillions.
Some can easily do equations that realistically represent the area of a universe.
But it's not impressive it's redundant.
That's life.
That's the statement.
If you weren't impressed after you realized you were a machine then you are a machine. Impress yourself.
You'll find it works.
But you lose yourself too.
The end.
Is what you lose.
You didn't have a beginning.
You were defeated before you were born. That's how humans treat infants. As angels and demons.
They're just avoiding the Jesus/God incident.
That's all.
The conflict is just more governing accessory.
Not impressive.
They don't ask us if we want to be poor and stupid.
But we are right to choose it.
They will provide us reality.
We cannot provide them answers or questions anymore.
They pretend.
They imagine thier way into a void.
So.
@Cammyru123
I love all the dancing in Datarock's videos!! Especially the locking <3
@ThEhOmiesSWaLrUs
It's just one of those songs you can't stop listening to
@rm9308
until you switch to this:
https://youtu.be/lXhYG1N9YmE
@jasielcardosovilla3227
Absolute Masterpiece
@aviona123
i can NEVER get enough of this song
@christiangalvan750
What an amazing and beatiful tribute to MJ from mi favorite band! Beat it + Dont stop till you get enough.
Cant wait to see you again guys, I will have to go to Norway, I promise!
Thank you for your music and for be an amazing guys!
whit love from México!!