So I am back in London. Yeah, the New Year is way bigger in Moldova than Christmas when it comes to non-church stuff from what I have seen (and drank
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Why thank you for the earworm I have now... LOL (from the Boney M song)
Yes, they were on tour a few years ago when the guy died in St. Petersburg. Apparently he hadn't felt well but did the concert anyway. A heart attack later in the evening if I remember right. They had changed some of the female singers over time but he was still the original one that did all the deep voices.
I have a connection to Putin as well. In the before time, he was with the KGB in Dresden. Nobody knew him at the time though. That was only found out later. He still speaks German.
Now everyone is making me regret I did not stay and just ask everyone fly over there for the New Year instead of coming back ).
Yes, I have heard that Putin speaks German and has always had a soft spot for Germany and the Germans and that played a part in his "special relationship" with Angela Merkel apparently which they enjoyed a while back and which is anything but gone now of course.
Yeah, it's quite sad actually. Back in 1990 I really had hoped the world had come to its senses and the Cold War was over. And now there is a new one. How did it come to that?
She also still speaks Russian very well which we all had to learn in school. I think she even studied in Moscow or something.
Yes, except I don't think she would have stood a chance of winning it. Now, this is a studio recording where her voice went through countless machines to make it sound like it is (and it is still not much). I have heard her live concert recordings here and if someone singing like this asked me for advice, "don't give up your day job" would be my best take. Or find a billionaire husband, that would work too
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You have to become at least somewhat known before you get to worry about piracy. And many volunteers from Russia we had here told me that young talent (which I have no doubt Russia of all countries must have a lot) cannot even get a shot at it because all the air time is bought up by the old "mafia" that wouldn't retire and these girls of the oligarchs and the producers with their "sexy" videos that look like they are from the 80s. Piracy is a bitch but you can still make money via live concerts.
What they told me kinda made sense to me and perhaps could explain the absence of Russian bands and singers truly famous globally, which is strange given Russia's size and rich musical history and in stark contrast with the classical music scene where many Russians are true global stars.
You won't believe it from watching these clips but it's a German band actually. Or at least the producer who put them together and composed the songs was.
You didn't know them before? I thought you did since you quoted the Rasputin song.
Sound of my childhood in the Seventies ;) I'm old.
Check youtube, there may be more. These were just the first two I grabbed and I didn't want to spam. But yeah, I can see this being some kind of party! Maybe you can play the songs at your own party at home for your guests LOL
You wouldn't believe it but now everyone here is kicking my ass that I should have stayed and have them fly over there for the New Year instead of coming back.
Amazingly insightful overview. This Russian singer is a mediocre but she has several top hits. The corruption is.... yeah, tremendous everywhere and it is higher where the country is richer, doesn't it? The Putin...yeah, is a super star, everybody likes him even Borat Obama couldn't forget to remind him about himself before to become a history... But it is interesting how the post Soviet countries are living for decades by themself and at the same time together with Russia... like in one boat, with one fate...
Moldovans are an unusual bunch. Culturally they are fully plugged in into both Romania and Russia. So they "get" everything Romanian and it is "ours" to them. And the same goes for the Russian stuff (they also view it as "ours"). However, Russia is something completely foreign for Romanians and Romania is something absolutely foreign for Russians I understand. So Moldovans are truly at the crossroads between the two and fully plugged in into both of these cultures (which themselves see each other as "foreign" though).
I can assure you this could be said about all post Soviet Union countries, seventy years together... is a long term. And even before that was Russia and all these countries were part of it, like Finland... so we have many in common.
I don't think so. I guess all of these countries feel related to Russia but not all of them have their Romania like Moldovans do. They feel at home in both cultures (both of which are not actually their country's) which themselves consider each other foreign and this is unusual I think.
I don't think Finland feels that connected to Russia culturally these days though. I think they are way closer to us in Scandinavia than they are to you guys nowadays.
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Yes, they were on tour a few years ago when the guy died in St. Petersburg. Apparently he hadn't felt well but did the concert anyway. A heart attack later in the evening if I remember right. They had changed some of the female singers over time but he was still the original one that did all the deep voices.
I have a connection to Putin as well. In the before time, he was with the KGB in Dresden. Nobody knew him at the time though. That was only found out later. He still speaks German.
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Yes, I have heard that Putin speaks German and has always had a soft spot for Germany and the Germans and that played a part in his "special relationship" with Angela Merkel apparently which they enjoyed a while back and which is anything but gone now of course.
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She also still speaks Russian very well which we all had to learn in school. I think she even studied in Moscow or something.
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Not this but the piracy, that the owner's rights are not protected.
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Piracy is a bitch but you can still make money via live concerts.
What they told me kinda made sense to me and perhaps could explain the absence of Russian bands and singers truly famous globally, which is strange given Russia's size and rich musical history and in stark contrast with the classical music scene where many Russians are true global stars.
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I mean, just from reading your LJ, I am totally in love with Moldavia! :-)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otna9Pe3jWg
You won't believe it from watching these clips but it's a German band actually. Or at least the producer who put them together and composed the songs was.
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Sound of my childhood in the Seventies ;) I'm old.
Check youtube, there may be more. These were just the first two I grabbed and I didn't want to spam. But yeah, I can see this being some kind of party! Maybe you can play the songs at your own party at home for your guests LOL
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I mean, just from reading your LJ, I am totally in love with Moldavia! :-)
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But it is interesting how the post Soviet countries are living for decades by themself and at the same time together with Russia... like in one boat, with one fate...
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And even before that was Russia and all these countries were part of it, like Finland... so we have many in common.
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I don't think Finland feels that connected to Russia culturally these days though. I think they are way closer to us in Scandinavia than they are to you guys nowadays.
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