"Then I began to yodel behind my Hammond organ," he said. The guitar player played a riff, the drummer played a short solo. Normally, van Leer composed songs behind a piano at home. The lunacy of the song isn't lost on van Leer, who says it was created during an impromptu jam session in the rehearsal studio. It's a combination of musical ideas that seems like they couldn't possibly go together. "When you have a song called 'Hocus Pocus' you're halfway there. "We were hoping to come upon something that feels like a piece of magic," Bernath said.
A former drummer from New York, he just happened to be hanging out with van Leer hoping to jam a little bit, calling the song and the commercial a "serendipitous marriage of pictures and music." The twists and turns in it were perfect for the divergent storylines in the commercial, said Mark Bernath, the co-creative director of the commercial from the advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam.
57, two spots below a Black Eyed Peas song.Ĭlocking in at nearly 7 minutes long, "Hocus Pocus" features van Leer yodeling, playing the organ, singing falsetto, and playing a wicked rock flute. The World Cup exposure led to its re-entrance to the UK charts this month after 37 years. 20 on the British charts, a big achievement for an instrumental song. "The last thing you would expect, you know? The last thing on my mind." "It's coming from heaven," said van Leer, now 62. Instead, it's a 1970s hit by Dutch band Focus, called "Hocus Pocus."įocus lead singer Thijs van Leer (pronounced like "Tice"), reached by phone in the Netherlands, said the commercial was a surprise, approved by the song's publisher and shown to him when it was nearly at a completed state. It seems like the perfect fit for the spot, a composition made to order. The commercial's soundtrack is perhaps the driving force, impossible to shake. The official three-minute-long version on YouTube uploaded by Nike now has nearly 18 million views. Nike's much-ballyhooed "Write the Future" ad, playing throughout the tournament, was directed by Alejandro Inarritu (Babel, 21 Grams). General CommentI think this is a bit closer to the "as sung" lyrics.One of the biggest stars of the World Cup hasn't been a player, but a commercial. This leads us to the conclusion that The holy grail is most definitely in Ireland. 26 is the number of words that the word "grail" can be rearranged into. The term "Bom" is used within the song 26 times. The final clue is in plain sight, and one of the most convincing pieces of evidence of the location of the holy grail. This proves Focus is in fact a band of wise wizards. Drummer Pierre van der Linden walked right up to the door and whispered "humpelilly-luptodoro". The door was made of Hawthorne, and upon the door in gold letters were the words "What's da password?" Focus, upon hearing of this mysterious door, traveled to Beverly Hills to help. I know you are thinking "So what? What makes that a reliable source of information?" In July 1999, Anthropologist Edward Tylor discovered a locked door in the back of his closet of his Beverly Hills home. The lyrics "Yodeadodoyodeadodoyodeadodoyodeadodo" roughly translates to "Jesus turned the grail into a portkey, it is hidden in the Irish Country side." This is the first important Clue Thijs van Leer slyly slips into "Hocus Pocus". This is interesting to note because it has been rumored that Jesus had 5 fingers. They divided Ireland in to 5 provinces, to perform a grid-like search for the Grail. Ard-RÃs, not allowed any imperfections, were avid believers in the myth of the Holy grail, and sought after it to ensure their state of perfection, believing that if they found the grail, they would become a being of true perfection, like Jesus.
Its first line "Yodeadodoyodeadodoyodeadodoyodeadodo" is obviously an allusion to the great "Ard-RÃ" (high king) of Ireland. Focus gives us important clues of the grail's true meaning within it's famous, and seemingly innocent song "Hocus Pocus."
Nobel Prize winners Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman disproved this theory in 1987. There have been arguments that the grail represents the Christian God's son, Jesus' blood line. Song MeaningContrary to popular belief, Hocus Pocus is not simply jibberish, but the greatest clue humanity has towards the discovery of the Holy Grail.Īs I'm sure you know, the holy grail is a sacred symbol that has been disputed and sought after for centuries.
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