why did it only barely make the pops in the US?

errata! the song was not officially released in the US... (from one of Dan's interviews) sorry, sorry...

I think the English version was just not very good...(and you just don't change the version so many people fell in love with on the internet... -- that's always a bad idea but it may have been the price Dan had to pay for getting the song on the US charts and it was there... briefly...) D.

Dan commenting on a gay classmate... (who showed interest)

...not that you can always trust these things but here it is:

Dan Balan: (11: 32 p.m time stamp; third paragraph from bottom): "When I left Israel I had a big party. In the morning when I was going to leave, a friend of mine from Thailand came to me and gave me a ring with a semicircle on it. He had one just like that, and if you would have put them together they formed a circle. I thought that it was the tradition there. After two years I found out that that guy was gay. The next second I didn't want to see the ring again."

Delia