īut after the initial wave of unironic popularity, it mostly stuck-at least in pop culture terms-as a punch line. MTV played the music video on rotation, both the single and video were nominated for Grammys, and the song became a bona fide phenomenon. 1 hit in the U.K., and a few months later it charted in the U.S. (It was the lead single off her proper debut album, Watermark, which dropped a few weeks earlier.) The song became a no.
His entrance music? Naturally, that ethereal chorus: “Sail away, sail away, sail away!”Įnya sailed into the culture’s consciousness on October 15, 1988, when “Orinoco Flow” first crested British airwaves. when Jake theatrically bursts into court.
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Cut to a full courtroom, and the judge impatiently asking where detective Peralta is. Jake (Andy Samberg) and Rosa (Stephanie Beatriz) were awaiting the fateful hearing in a trial for a crime they didn’t commit the outlook was grim, and so, sitting in a parked car about to leave for the courthouse, a gloomy Jake makes a special request: “Just put on anything by Enya.” He corrects himself: “No, not anything-‘Orinoco Flow.’ On repeat.” Then, a witness suddenly appears and offers to testify and save the day. There I was, minding my own business, catching up on Season 4 of Brooklyn Nine-Nine.