The band's intention is to bring Gypsy/East-European music to the English-speaking world.
Gogol Bordello is a mix with Nikolai Gogol - one of the most influential writers in Ukrainian and Russian literature and Bordello - the italian word for brothel or "gentleman's club". The band's first name was Hütz and the Béla Bartóks but they changed it because "nobody knows who the hell Béla Bartók is in the United States". (Béla Bártok is a Hungarian composer and pianist from the 20th century).
With 5 studio albums - Voi-La Intruder (1999), Multi Kontra Culti vs. Irony (2002, later re-released in 2006), Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike (2005, later re-released in 2006), Super Taranta! (2007) and Trans-Continental Hustle (2010) - besides one EP, one live album and several compilations.
Start Wearing Purple is the second single taken from Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike. The song is a re-recording from a previous one that features on the band's first album Voi-La Intruder. Also appears in the soundtrack for an independent film from 2005 Everything Is Illuminated, in which Eugene Hütz performs as Alex along with Elijah Wood.
Hütz said in an interview that Start Wearing Purple was written in 1995 and "It's one of the very few songs I wrote for a girl. I just moved in with my girlfriend in New York. We had a neighbour: an old woman who was always dressed in purple head to toe. She was clearly bonkers. So whenever my girlfriend and I had an argument and she would start screaming at me, I would say: you might as well start wearing purple now".
"Start wearing purple wearing purple
Start wearing purple for me now
All your sanity and wits they will all vanish
I promise, it's just a matter of time..."
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