#98

The Top 100 Songs You've (Probably) Never Heard – 2009

#98
We Don't Wanna Put In
Stephane & 3G
Georgia

It’s not the greatest song and disco has been dead for decades, but, as we all know, controversy sells and this song has it in spades. “We Don’t Wanna Put In” was chosen to be the Georgian entry at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow, but 2 months before the contest, the song was declared unsuitable to compete due to its political nature. You see, “We don’t wanna put in” sounds a lot like “We don’t want a Putin” (Russia’s controversial prime minister; remember, this was 6 months after the outbreak of the South Ossetia War). The controversy soon became an international news story (even in the US) and the group would have gone on to sell millions of singles, if only they had released the song abroad.