{"id":1688,"date":"2016-09-08T11:49:09","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T15:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2016-09-08T11:49:09","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T15:49:09","slug":"hate-proof-midi-maxi-eftis-bad-bad-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/hate-proof-midi-maxi-eftis-bad-bad-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"Hate Proof: Midi Maxi &#038; Efti&#8217;s &#8220;Bad Bad Boys&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You used to hear a lot about refugees on the news. Typically, refugees are not assimilated to the host culture, which allows politicians with agendas to exploit them. There is literally no one to defend or look out for them. They have\u00a0<em>taken refuge<\/em> from their country of origin, often because of a dictatorship or carpet-bombing.<\/p>\n<p>The reason of exodus is irrelevant. Media spotlights refugees because of their skin color.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Midi, Maxi &amp; Efti<\/strong> was a\u00a0<strong>Swedish pop group.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2412\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/midimaxi.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2412\" data-attachment-id=\"2412\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/hate-proof-midi-maxi-eftis-bad-bad-boys\/midimaxi\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/midimaxi.jpg?fit=400%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"400,400\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"midimaxi\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Just goddamn SCREAMING HOT. &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/midimaxi.jpg?fit=400%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2412\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/midimaxi.jpg?resize=400%2C400\" alt=\"Just goddamn SCREAMING HOT. \" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/midimaxi.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/midimaxi.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/midimaxi.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2412\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just goddamn SCREAMING HOT.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In 1976, the twin sisters Midi and Maxi Berhanu were born in Ethiopia, and Freweyni &#8220;Efti&#8221; Teclehaimanot\u00a0was born in a migrant camp in Eritrea. All three arrived in Sweden in 1985, and met in the Stockholm suburb of Akalla. They released their self-titled album in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>Hence, the fleeting glimpses of the trio in their videos; they weren&#8217;t really legal age. This is news to me. I now have a new shame to nurse in the dead of night. It&#8217;s not my fault. Minors are\u00a0<em>not supposed to be that hot.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2413\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/midimaxi2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2413\" data-attachment-id=\"2413\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/hate-proof-midi-maxi-eftis-bad-bad-boys\/midimaxi2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/midimaxi2.jpg?fit=350%2C263&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"350,263\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"midimaxi2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;COME ON!!!&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/midimaxi2.jpg?fit=350%2C263&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2413\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/midimaxi2.jpg?resize=350%2C263\" alt=\"COME ON!!!\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/midimaxi2.jpg?w=350&amp;ssl=1 350w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/midimaxi2.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2413\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">COME ON!!!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Does that look like three teeny-boppers to you? To me, they look like roughly 44% of the sexual fantasies I&#8217;ve had since 1990. Efti&#8217;s resemblance to the twins is a total coincidence. A beautiful, incontrovertibly arousing coincidence. Cold shower time.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any doubt that these women are in the 9-10 range, it should be erased by their biggest hit, &#8220;Bad Bad Boys&#8221;. I have never heard a better example of what I like to refer to as &#8220;hot girl noise&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3mfXNIfcLaU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Their voices are pancake-flat. The backbeat is infested with tinny synth. It&#8217;s not a good song, even by 1990 standards.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s a great song.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All the corny elements combine to form a perfect whole. You can play this song &#8220;ironically&#8221;, and it&#8217;ll win you over by the chorus. Just\u00a0<em>try<\/em> and hate this song. You will only feel like a bitter asshole.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from their stunning good looks, the girls only contributed lyrics. The heavy lifting for their debut album was actually handled by\u00a0 Alexander Bard, Anders Wollbeck and Per Adebratt, from\u00a0Army of Lovers. Swedes under the names of E-Type and Stakka Bo assisted, and &#8220;styling&#8221; was the work of\u00a0Jean-Pierre Barda and Camilla Thulin. That&#8217;s who provided the African elements. Swedes.<\/p>\n<p>After the opening chorus, Efti chimes in with this passage:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Hi it&#8217;s me, if you know what I mean<br \/>\nI said it&#8217;s me, my name is Efti and I want you to see<br \/>\nThat positive people live longer<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t be negative (negative)<br \/>\nJust be positive (positive)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For a hot girl, that is pretty deep shit. It&#8217;s like their Desiderata.<\/p>\n<p>Another truthism appears following the next chorus (I&#8217;m not sure who specifically sings it):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>You keep on asking me<br \/>\nWhy can&#8217;t we be together<br \/>\nI thought we had forever<br \/>\nI thought we love each other<br \/>\nSome other day strong, now I feel alone<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll know some way and I&#8217;ll know someday<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do you know who Adriana Lima is? Probably one of the finest Victoria&#8217;s Secret models ever born? All I can think of is her flouncing around on silk sheets, in a petulant frenzy, hair mussed, reciting those lines without a trace of self-awareness. Broken English from a cab driver is a nuisance. From beautiful girls, it&#8217;s an asset.<\/p>\n<p>Before the final chorus, which is almost identical to the preceding ones, we receive a final nugget of wisdom from these three young women.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>I like it like it is<br \/>\nAnd I like it like it was<br \/>\nBut I&#8217;m not so sure anymore, anymore<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t even know what that means. It doesn&#8217;t matter. Music was pretty goddamn bad in the early 90s. This makes it much easier to appreciate Midi, Maxi and Efti.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah; uh-huh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You used to hear a lot about refugees on the news. Typically, refugees are not assimilated to the host culture, which allows politicians with agendas to exploit them. There is literally no one to defend or look out for them. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/hate-proof-midi-maxi-eftis-bad-bad-boys\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,5,6,7,8,10,46],"tags":[629,38,171,2059,2056,2061,2057,2054,2055,2053,14,2060,2058,515,1328],"class_list":["post-1688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-influences","category-dont-care","category-faint-signals","category-girls-of-biul","category-idiots-delight","category-nostalgic-obsessions","category-thousand-listen-club","tag-629","tag-1990s","tag-171","tag-adriana-lima","tag-army-of-lovers","tag-dance-music","tag-e-type","tag-eritrea","tag-ethiopia","tag-midi-maxi-efti","tag-music","tag-refugees","tag-stakka-bo","tag-sweden","tag-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p53HmY-re","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3745,"url":"https:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/scatterbrain\/","url_meta":{"origin":1688,"position":0},"title":"Scatterbrain","author":"MattyBoy","date":"12\/04\/2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Ugly Kid Joe\u00a0sucked.\u00a0They\u00a0sucked. 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