Alex Britti’s “La Vasca” Music Video

On our first trip to Italy in 2001, the husband and I really enjoyed one song that our friends played for us. At the time, I had only had one term of Italian, and the husband hadn’t studied it at all - so we were responding completely to the melody of the song rather than the lyrics. All we knew was that it was catchy, and we wanted to get a copy for ourselves. We managed to get the CD the next year - it was Alex Britti singing “La Vasca”, or “The Bathtub.”

Today I found the video for the song, which I’d never seen before, and which makes me like the song even more than I did already. That video has since disappeared from YouTube, but the song itself is still there:

An English translation of the song is here (an archived copy of Deirdré Straughan’s old page), and the lyrics are totally fun. Read the translation first, and then maybe you’ll learn the dance that goes with it. Looks like hours of bathtime play.

As a side note, while hunting YouTube for the video so I could put it here, I also found a video someone in Italy uploaded… Apparently this guy’s cat was a follower of Alex Britti’s hang-out-in-the-bathtub religion. That clip is gone now too, sadly.

Dang, that’s cute. Though I’m still not quite understanding the bathtub in the middle of the living room, though. Those Italians, so cutting-edge with their design…