Celebrating Russian Pop-Music

Donald Trump's boy Donald is beingness harassed for having met an attractive Russian woman someone lawyer. I am amazed past times this hysteria together with detect it every bit wild together with overblown every bit Russia's FM Lavrov. What's incorrect nigh coming together a Russian lawyer, particularly if she could bring possessed some useful information on the opponent of the elbow grease that y'all direct? Is a Russian lawyer worse than a Japanese, Spanish, or Mexican one? These efforts to outlaw the really meetings with people who are Russian are precisely on par with the Nazis' anti-Semitism together with if y'all mean value that you're whatsoever better, Yankees, y'all bring only blinded yourself. This criminalization of meetings with the Russians corresponds to the province of affairs of the Jews inwards FRG some 1937.

While Czech Republic belongs to the Western civilization together with has been culturally closer to FRG than to Russian Federation for some 1,000 years, it's only impossible for me non to empathise this Russophobia personally because of our Slavic roots – together with because of the fact that most Americans are hence immensely ignorant nigh the European geography together with history that they don't fifty-fifty empathise that e.g. Czechoslovakia has ever been an independent country, from the USSR, where people spoke their linguistic communication together with didn't follow the Russian civilization most of the time, with other things.



Today, Czech media informed us that Tamara Miansarova died of pneumonia complications at the historic menses of 86. She was the master copy vocaliser of "Пусть всегда будет солнце" ("Let There Be Sunshine") inwards the 1960s. This vocal was apparently a utilization of the propaganda inwards the communist bloc together with that's why nosotros were served it but I yet detect this vocal extremely touching, fantabulous musically, together with to state the least, it is the best vocal promoting peace that I know.




Quite generally, I only can't imagine why someone would consider Russians to locomote something else than another, culturally European, nation. There are differences betwixt nations but to believe inwards some metaphysical divergence that turns Russians into eternal enemies seems similar a consummate collapse of someone's rational thinking.




In particular, Russian Federation has been a source of many things that nosotros associate with the West – similar popular music. In 1999, the artificial Russian duet Tatu was created. I mean value that their genesis together with guess genre makes them completely analogous e.g. to the Spice Girls. But because they're Russian, they're presented really differently.

If you've never heard a vocal past times Tatu, y'all should examine I Love a Robot (a clear metaphor for homosexuality – the duet was designed to pretend that they were lesbian), A Gay Boy, Half an Hour, together with They Won't Catch Up With Us ("Nás ně dogoňat").

I've been to Russian Federation twice (2 weeks inwards each case) – inwards July 1988, inwards our twin metropolis Yekaterinburg (then Sverdlovsk) where nosotros lived inwards Russian families; together with inwards July 1992, inwards Moscow (the International Mathematical Olympiad). I believe that it was already inwards Sverdlovsk when their radios were playing "Милый, мне очень грустно было" ("My darling, I was feeling sad") all the time. The vocal continues "I was calling y'all together with I spent the whole level at home".

The chorus sung past times the adult woman (Elena Spiridonova) is hence catchy partly because I empathise it – together with tin reproduce it – perfectly.



It's my belief that I've tried to search for the vocal on the Internet for many years but today, it was the starting fourth dimension time when I succeeded – subsequently almost xxx years. ;-) The transliteration only hasn't helped inwards the past. Today's success is mostly due to my determination to write the lyrics that I remembered good inwards the Cyrillic script. In that way, it industrial plant immediately.

So it seems to me that I was never aware of the fact that it's Mr Igor Kornelyuk's vocal that starting fourth dimension appeared inwards a 1989 album – but unless I am wrong, I was already listening to it inwards Summer 1988. It sounds really catchy but I needed almost xxx years to reconstruct the experience. ;-)

Another vocal that I would hear all the fourth dimension during at to the lowest degree ane see of Russian Federation was Тяжёлый день (A Hard Day), a remake of In The Army Now past times Status Quo. But I was already able to detect this remake on the Internet a decade ago.

Check top Russian songs of July 2016 for a fresher perspective on their Western-like music scene.

My principal indicate is that with their similar mix of classical, choir, together with popular music, with other genres, it only seems utterly irrational to consider Russians to locomote some other species.