Games Without Frontiers, released in 1980, is an interesting song. It begins with words that sound like, “She’s so popular,” but songfacts states that those words are actually, “Jeux Sans Frontières,” which is French for “Games Without Frontiers.” This information comes from Wikipedia: “The song’s title refers to Jeux Sans Frontières, a long-running TV show broadcast in several European countries, in which teams of residents representing a town in one of the participating countries would compete in games of skill while frequently dressed in bizarre costumes. The British version was titled It’s a Knockout, which Gabriel references in the lyrics. The lyrics themselves are an allegory of the childish antics of adults.”
Here’s the video on YouTube:
