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- You're watching the official music video for They Might Be Giants - "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" from the album 'Flood' (1990)
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*Fun fact: several odd years ago, this song helped me correctly answer at least 2 questions on a Geography test. And for that, I say... "Sure, They Might Be Giants... but They Might Also Be Tutors. LOL. Thanks guys!"*
@Andy Roid To that I say "the sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace"
Constantinople not Istanbul
Istanbul NOT Constantopal
Man wait till he sees here come the 123s/ABCs
TMBG always seemed to me to be just a bunch of teachers who formed a band.
i love how absolutely chaotic this animation. the weird king kong like policeman, the fights in the street, the car crashing into the building 4 separate times, the little business man running back and forth, and my favorite, the little drum guy bouncing up and down.
It feels like something I would have seen on TV as a kid when zapping through channels at like 1 AM
Reminds me of mtv2 or Cartoon Network in the 90’s.
chaotic
it makes no absolute sense but it does in a weird way
Looks like Schoolhouse Rock on acid.
This song heard frequently at the airport in Istanbul.
Lol please be true
@@enarcmcfly sadly no 😢 unless I remember my Bluetooth speaker ofc
But not Constantinople
@@Bowiiihowdy every song played in constantinople
was played in istanbul not constantinople
so if you've played this song
in constantinople
it was played in istanbul
not possible
I never paid attention to this song but for some reason I absolutely loved it during Five's fight in the donut shop
same
I’m watching it rn and I’m just looking for the song
Same
Same😄Awesome song.. Kids love dancing to this..
@@I-eat-minimum-wage-workers It's at the end of the the first episode.
fun fact: even in turkish it was once called "konstantiniyye" in official documents but known colloquially by the people as "istanbul"
That’s because that’s what it was called by the Greeks. But Turks can’t pronounce “Stanboli,” which means “to the city,” so Turks pronounced it “Istanbul.”
@@ferretyluvold Turkish didn't have stand-alone s or r in the beginning of the words which transformed "ramazan" to "ıramazan", "stampa" to "ıstampa", "stanbul to ıstanbul" etc.
In Hindi, we call the old Byzantine city 'Kunstuntuniya"
@@yesilpaprika The real point here is that it's always been called just "the city" by people who live there and who have business there, in whatever language, and the changing official names have always been a political thing. I think that's cool.
Con(STAN)tino(POL)is
the funnier fact I know about They Might be Giants is that in Terry Pratchett's book "Soul Music" there's a Dwarf band called "They're certainly Dwarfs" and I find it simply amazing.
My dad won't stop playing this song. I'm gonna cry.
Lmao how old are you
@@rommul1389 20 LMAO
@@rommul1389Kosovo je Albania 🇹🇷
I also can't stop playing this song 😂😂😂
@@Italian_Christian NOT YOU TOO 😭😭😭😭
Tiny Toon Adventures was the first time I ever heard this song.
Will always be the 'official' video to me. 😁
Same
Ditto
I thought this version was older than it is. I thought I remembered listening to this when I was little little - like my own personal Mandela effect. This says 1990 which would make me 9. Still a little kid but I thought I heard this as far back as I can remember. However I think what is happening is I am getting this mixed up with Taco's "Putting on the Ritz" . To my ear that song has a similar and was a big deal at the very young age that I have in mind. Both songs are covers from decades prior.
Same... back in EARLY 90s in a blockbuster
1:12 "Dew-dew-dew dew-dew de-dewdewdewdew!"
OHHHHHHHHH AH OHHHHHHHH AH OHHHHHHHHHHH AH OHHHH- Istanbul
Istanbul.... ISTANBUL
Thw umbrella academy brought me here. Season 4 is out today so i thought lets listen to this again. Thank you number five 🙌
As a greek, I can't help imagining what a banger that song would be like 570 years ago.
Baklavaki
Cacıki
Dönerki
İstanbulki
@@komikediares Calm down
You know some of the riffs in this song are from 1600, like these guys really dug into music history to make this song.
they didnt lol, this is a cover of The Four Lads version from 1953
@@user-ng2lk5wv4p the beatles? /j
The silk street lucky four
@@rammingtime LOLLL
@@rammingtimeHe was not referring to the Beatles, he was referring to the English quartet “The Four Lads” who originally made this song, which Tmbg covered
The fiddle/violin at the beginning and end hits a special spot in my ears that releases so much dopamine I’m not even kidding
I found this song due to Tiny Toon Adventures featuring this & Particle Man in an episode and I became a fan ever since.
“And so they lived happily ever after : the end”
“can you pleaaasee tell me another story”
“goodbye and thank you for watching the umbrella academy”
- Narrator of the umbrella academy
As a Turkish this song is so good🇹🇷♥️🇺🇸
haklısın bacım
@@tanemsoyalan1839bacım ne alaka
Amerikayı skim. Natoda olmamıza rağmen bir savaş durumunda yunanistanı bize karşı destekleyecek bir ülkeyi neden ssevdiğinizi anlayamıyorum.
As an Earthling, I tend to agree with you.
No it’s not
This band is strangely deep but smothered in absurdity. Everything ends.
For anyone wondering, Istanbul means "In the city", while Constantinople means "Constantine's City" which is not Constantine's city anymore.
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks
@@AndrewTBP I am a Turk
However as long as Emperor Constantine founded it, it will always be his city as Alexandria founded by Alexander the Great, etc. Turks renamed the city which was not theirs
@@memmori1 actually Constantine did not found Constantinople. It had already been renamed several times by then ranging from Byzantion to Secunda Roma to Nova Roma and on and on before Constantine even showed up to rename it.
Also cities belong to the people who live in them, so it truly is the business of the Turks.
It doesn't mean "in the city" as in being in the city, It means "to The city" or "towards The city" or even "at the city" as in dative. In Turkish, "şehre doğru", yönelme anlamı. Also if it's written as poli, it means a city but if its written as Poli then it means Istanbul.
This song has been stuck in my head for years
THIS IS LITERALLY STUCK IN MY HEAD!!!!!!
This song is covered in enough hooks to empty the ocean
Fun fact: Istanbul (Not Constantinople) is a 1990 swing-style song by They Might Be Giants. It was featured in a music video in the Tiny Toon Adventures episode Tiny Toon Music Television.
Other fact: It was a cover of a 1953 song recorded by The Four Lads.
I only knew the instrumental version of this classic song, then I discovered this one with lyrics 😂👌
Sang this song in my head so I would not cry when I left my family as a kid to go meet my ship in Guam to go support Operation Desert Storm.
F your service you grunt and lackey
_Wow. You cried later, right? Seriously, it's not healthy to suppress those emotions. And BTW, thanks for fighting for the USA._
👍🏼🇺🇸
@@andyroid5028 I did the first night on my ship but not after that.
I heard this song first in ,, The Umbrella Academy " and I love it
Same lol
I like this video a lot, but I feel like a lot of people in the comments don't know this is a cover of a song from 1953.
It was a cover?
@@Tony_Baloney_69420 Yes, originally performed by The Four Lads.
the four lads were IT
@Neo Crusader Steve Funny
A lot slower
Tiny Toons introduced me to This group and I'm forever grateful.
This Song is great something about how the rhythm changes and the irony of the lyrics
Funny thing... San Francisco was originally Yerba Buena, which translates to 'Good Herb'...
In hindsight, the original name was appropriate...
Hey TMBG fans, you'll enjoy this info. Mark Marek (not to be confused with the same guy who was a total creep), later known for his work on the Henry and June segments of Nickelodeon's KaBlam!, created the stop-motion characters and set for this video. Mark had worked with the band before on their cover and label art for the EP (She Was A) Hotel Detective and later animated the music video for "Underwater Woman" for 2015's iteration of the Dial-A-Song project.
Now now..
Constantinople was the greatest city in the history of the world before it fell and was sacked by the Venetians and their other Latin allies in 1203 during the 4th (so-called) Crusade. Before that, it had been unconquered for 900 years since being established as the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire (and became known as the Greek Byzantine Empire). Constantinople was legendary. It eventually regained its independence from the Latins, but it was thereafter a hollow shell of its former glory and easily fell to the Turks in 1453. Credit to the Turks for winning the Battle of Manzikert in 1071, which resulted in the loss of the Anatolian heartland of Byzantium and as it turned out fatally weakened the empire.
This something the ultra nationalist always forget about when the turks took it was a shell of former self because of the latins and the turks truly revived it back to its former glory
Even turkic nationalists don’t mention this probably because ultra nationalists are always dumb
The city was the sword
The city was the lance
The city was the golden gate
The city was the key
The city was the heavenly gate to all of rome
Inside Hagia Sofia we shall meet again
There's an Ant crawling up your back in the nighttime...
dont cry mate you wıll never take it back
Konstantinos, Dragazis, Paleologos....
@@olekcholewa8171 I like it when the doggy pees
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Istanbul is the unique, wonderful, great city of all time ❤🇹🇷
IT'S CONSTANTINOPLE 😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬
@@1Tuxedo_Cat1 no 😊 calm down greek
@@Tayselkenaleesshud lmao Im joking istanbul is turkish 😹
@@1Tuxedo_Cat1 we have no problem 💖
omg turk and greek debate that ended positively? 🤯
I grew up with this song as my grandparents were from Constantinople/Instanbul.
I first heard this song on MTV in '91 as I am from Earth and despite what many may believe in their heart of hearts, TMBGs popularity is STILL limited to Earth.
Enormous hit in San Francisco on Live 105!
I just noticed how strange this song is. I LOVE IT!
Sure but the bird is the word.
i first heard this song in a Simpson's episode and now this song is playing on repeat in my head
The Simpsons did it too? I saw it on Tiny Toons.
@@EmpressLizard81 yep it was in the credits of the episode called Mobile Homer
@@pikachuthebananasplit9061 oh cool, thanks!
My first hearing of this song was an episode of Muppets Tonight.
I heard on a tiktok edit 😔
My dad listens to this song.
la wallah
😂
Why is this song so fire though?
It’s too good!
idk where i got the nostalgia for this song, I just have it
Animaniacs if you're GenX.
@@mcginnisjason4600 Tiny Toons. Along with Particle Man.
This is another one of those songs that used to start, or continue, a weekend long drug fuelled binge.
It'll always be Constantinople for us. Rave on John!
@ekiphub7037 yep
istanbul means "to the city" in Greek but made to sound Turkish. So its a Greek name either way lol
@@LKonstantina915 but it's a Turkish city after all lol
Byzantiboos stay mad
@@dementor3333 ottobots go back into praying💀💀💀
I remember this song for many years ago. It used to play on the radio my mother had in the kitchen needed to hear something cheery today
💫Hi!! Oh,yes,what amazing song and impressive video!! Thank you so much for everything!!✨
I can say this song helped me on two history tests I forgot to study for.
legend has it it’s still istanbul (not constantinople) to this day
My English teacher(I think he was) showed us this song in my middle school years and I never forgot about it ever since. This song is a banger and will remain one of the best songs made❤
i love how funky the animation and song is
This song fits their vibe very well.
Bro this has been my fave just dance song since I was a toddler
Can we all take a moment to salute the drums in this song?
hi to turkiye from Mexico 🇲🇽❤ 🇹🇷
Teacher played this for the class in 6th grade still remember it going to freshman year college
the absolute madness of early animated music videos where paying for animation was expected to maximize the value..
With this song, they ARE giants !!!!
one of my fav songs in the worlld!! love this band !1 twisiin a nother fav!!
I haven't heard this in over a decade.
Greatest Thanksgiving song ever.
I'm listening to this in Istanbul not Constantinople
I’m listening to it in my house
Me too! 😂
Ha
Somehow, you are in Constantinople, not in that fake name.
@@juanantonio3487stay mad broski, it is very much istanbul :3
Grate song only discoverd it yesterday in a TH-cam channel called The Why Files
Same! I cannot get it of my head like hecklefish said. I watched it like day after it was released tho, only bothered searching for it now.
I always loved this crazy song 😊 My youngest son is currently going to college with a girl who is from Istanbul. I just played this song for him for the first time. He seemed to enjoy it 😊
They Might Be Giants has helped me with multiple factoids over the years as a college student.
Here's a common misconception: "Factoid" refers to something thought to be a fact, but is actually incorrect. That's what the "oid" suffix means.
@@scottcharney1091 that’s a fun factoid lol
@@KaiLucasZachary Womp-womp.
This song helped me when my friend asked me to point to Istanbul
As a greek I'll tell you my opinion on the name. Istanbul, is a good compromise, in greek it sounds like (to the city) and it keeps the peace. Istanbul will always be Constantinople to the Greeks, but let's face it the bloodshed and war crimes on both sides if it ever comes to war is not worth it not even for a city like Constantinople. We Greeks are lucky to have what we have now.
My family was genocided out of Smyrna I'd be rich now if it wasn't for Turkish war cimes they never admitted to. But I don't hate Turks, in fact I'd love to marry a Turkish woman and live in Istanbul, and I wouldn't hold it against a Turkish man if he married a Greek woman and lived in Athens either.
The name Istanbul actually comes from Greek
us turks love you greeks too. sorry for beın natıonalıst, but ıf greeks dont says bad things about us, we dont say bad things about you too!
@@SODAAAAAAA. but I mean you literally kicked them out of their home
@@witerunguard1737 Just like what happened to the Turks living in the Balkans or Greece.
@@windmacky you did it first
I first saw this on MTV's "Liquid Television" back in the 80s. I never forgot it. Just finding out it was an actual music video. LOL
I remember seeing this on Liquid Television
I was just thinking about that show the other day
And also Umbrella Academy
this whole music video is a fever dream
My favorite part is the scream!
Bro this music video is a fever dream lmao
Thanks for this masterpiece
Love from Turkey 🇹🇷✨
It's From Just Dance 4 I used To dance To that when I was a kid 😊😊😊
Other Verses:
Even old Thailand was once known as Siam.
And Eswatini was once called Swaziland.
I remember dancing to this song with the rest of my Elementary School P.E. class in Just Dance. good times
Love this song 💖
This video inspired at least one or two Psychonauts levels, or at least they were both responding to the same things, and it's beautiful.
is it bad that I'm Greek but love this song?
No same here.....
Its fine though as the turks are getting theirs....
Having cats socially acceptable around important people is the first sign.......
Ask Egypt 😅 greeks n Latins will prevail in the end as always.
You know it's falling when people start talking about vlad the impaler not as an evil vampire but a Christian who fought the turks n sultan.
Turks had a pretty good smear campaign.
I have no actual problems with turkey just to be clear.
M
Nope because same here
Same 💀
Wtf is this bro talkin about 💀💀@@juliadwiggins-jo3fo
@@juliadwiggins-jo3fomy friend history doesn’t repeat for the foreseeable future the turks will keep Istanbul
1953 song by The Four Lads. I first heard this when They Might Be Giants released it in 1990.
Need a metal version
I can explain why they changed new amsterdam to new york, because new amsterdam was originally a netherlands colony namrd sfter the city amsterdam, while new york was named after the british city "york" when it became a british colony
History teachers should use this
I love this song so much🗺
The animation is amazing
Love the middle eastern feel in this.
It would have been the most popular song in 1453
It was still referred as Constantinople for a while after 1453
My social studies teacher played this in class and I kinda liked liked it
Unironic banger
This is great, but needs more Plucky Duck and Hamton Pig.
Damn right.
The fact a song from the 1990's is now popular in the mapping community is just wild. But considering it's the internet, anything can happen.
The original song is from 1953.
Why this hit so hard???
that's an earworm for sure
"All dreams have meaning"
My dreams:
Çok sakin ve huzur dolu bir vibe veriyor.
no
yeah@@user-rg7uz8of9r
@@user-rg7uz8of9rdo you understand her?
Evet
müzik zevkin güzelmiş
@@turkishMurderdrones_fan.
Very talented folks back in the day at Colossal Pictures.,
I'm not ashamed to admit that I only know about this song through Tiny Toons.
Merhaba!
merhaba
Merhaba
Γειά σου
This song helped me solve a puzzle in the video game Lingo
As a Turk, I can confirm it’s nobody’s business but the Turks: Is-tan-buuuulll…!
Music doesn’t take chances like this anymore.
Who's here after umbrella academy
Thats exactly why im here lmfao this is more catchy than any meme or anything out there... to me at least.
apparently one of this band's co founders's dad designed my high school (and is rumored in our school to have also designed prisons and committed suicide, both of which i'm just learning is false). thank you internet rabbit hole for bringing me to this masterpiece
This song inspired an entire universe I made.
That violin part is crazy