Not sure where they're at but badgers are just finding their absence relaxing
Found myself lovestruck with this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHlep4JWPfo I discovered through... it's a bit of a rabbit hole, if anyone is curious at all it starts with trying to learn how to clean my computer. Decade-old tutorial video uses music named in the description as Oua-oua! A humoristic nonsensical song by two artists from the 1930s which I immediately loved. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X_h7Y-pDHg Looking into this song's origins apparently nobody knows it, wikipedia notes it's gibberish with random english words in the middle.

What I can find however from the youtube comments under the version linked there, is a bunch of mysterious quotes such as “ye, tis ports” and “did I die?” Turns out a gaming youtuber made a video about a game called Yetisports... and it uses a penis music variant of this song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgqJPmNDo8U That's step two, and it leads us way off the 1930s when the song I started with was released, into the 2000s and cursed 3D graphics... What is the exact link between the two? How the Hell did it land in Antarctica 70 years later? Did a yeti really bring it there? I have no idea. Apparently the first one – Oua oua! Is traditionally used at some car racing festival in Belgium and got inexplicably popular in Austria in the early 2000s. Source? Youtube comments. I am not a researcher. I thought that was the end of it; it certainly was a sort of brainrotten dead end.

No worries. Fast-forward a year, the magick of youtube algorithm comes to my rescue. I thought I was in a fever dream when I recognized it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QAtRZVGyHw Fascinating... now we're back to the 1930s... and I have a genuine Hawaiian title to go with. Turns out the original song was written in the mid 19th century by a prince, of king Kamehameha's lineage no less... there might be more to this – older versions could probably be found, if this song was well-known enough to be adapted in Jazz music (I absolutely love the topic of adaptations of songs in other genres, too, so that's a godsend; reminds me of my first musical rabbithole with a tear in my eye, it was Seiji Tanaka's rendition of Kariboshi Kiriuta which is how I discovered Beautiful Sunday by Danny Boone, which Seiji also adapted and which I completely latched on to, if you know you know). Plus it's an interesting song, the lyrics sound chill as it gets if the translation I found is accurate, but the subtitle is “War chant”. Although that's fair enough as well, some military songs I know tell you about onions or very nice Burgundian wine more than they mention war.

This is the end of my journey for sure. Except I'm looking for a gift for my father's birthday and maybe he would find this music interesting. I find a seller for the album – in Switzerland of all places. I listen to it a few times on my way to and from work, to make sure it's not slop. I am not sure he'll like it but I don't really have another idea; on the other hand I'm completely lovestruck with in particular one of the songs at the tail end of the album (also honorable mention to this tune https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23JMhTISp8M tell me the riff at the start doesn't sound like Rock n roll... it was recorded in 1928). It's not the end. I'm somewhere deep into the rabbit hole except it's now a rabbit-free zone because I have this vision in my head now of badgers chilling for some damn reason. Malihini Mele... Mele... Meles? Maybe? Who knows. I'm going insane or just very lonely. I mean look at this rambling.