Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! etc.
We all know Ruslana Lyzhychko ( Ukr. Руслана Лижичко, Rus. Руслана Лыжичко) as the crazy shouty, stompy, bangey woman who won Eurovision for Ukraine in 2004. Her 2003 album Wild Dances (Ukr. Дикі танці – Dyki tantsi) was the first ever album to be certified platinum in Ukraine, selling over 100,000 copies. Interestingly this is probably also the number of times Ruslana shouts ‘hey!’ on the album. Talking of ‘hey’, Ukrainians seem to enjoy it so much so there is even a verb heykaty ‘to shout hey’ and a noun heykannya ‘the crying out of hey’. Also, ‘hey’ (гей) in Russian is pronounced and means ‘gay’ (the letter Г is G in Russian, but H in Ukrainian), which lead to some confusion when I was reading through the lyrics of the album and wondering why Ruslana was shouting ‘gay!’ in every song. She does love the gays though A fierce Ukrainian nationalist, Ruslana refuses to sing in Russian, and was one of the most high profile supporters of pro-Western Viktor Yushchenko (the one with the face) in the ‘Orange Revolution’ of 2004. Currently she is possibly the most famous woman in Ukraine after intrinsically haired ex-premiere Yuliya Tymoshenko.
Since winning Eurovision she has succeeded in butchering the Wild Dances album by translating it into English and making it more palatable to the Western audience. While t.A.T.u.’s accent has made their English music interesting and given it edge, Ruslana’s (admittedly stronger) accent seems to detract from hers.
www.ruslana.com.ua
LEFT Click to Download Proshchannya z dysko
LEFT Click to Download Wild Dances
LEFT Click to Download Znayu ya
More Ruslana songs
They is limited speculation that Ruslana (who is married) may be a closet lesbian, but there is a Ukrainian singer who’s sexuality is indisputable. That is Andriy Danylko ( Ukr. Андрій Данилко, Rus. Андрей Данилко – Andryey Danilko) who, as his alter ego Verka Serdyuchka (Верка Сердючка), is Ukraine and Russia’s most famous drag act. He sings in Russian and Ukrainian, but mostly in a mixture of both, known as Surzhyk. More flamboyant than Boy George and camper than Graham Norton, it is suprising that Danilko has never openly admitted to being gay and has even denied it.
http://v-serduchka.com/
LEFT CLick to Download Kha-ra-sho (in Russian)
LEFT Click to Download A ya u hay khodyla (in Ukrainian)
More Verka Serdyuchka songs
Don’t worry! I will get back to Russian music soon!
4 Comments:
Argh, the links don't work. Which is a pity because the server they're on is choc-ful of Ukrainian music!
Could you YSI them, perchance?
Yeah, its a shame, keep the good work, i really like this blog, i linked to you on my blog
The link take you higher up the directory.
If you go into the folder labeled "!!!Ukrainian Music!!" you can find a bazillion MP3s in various folders. It's done by artist name so pretty straight forward. When you find a song you have to left click! Right clicks don't work.
Curses to that person. The files won't work for me, even as left clickies. Oh well. No dancing around my bedroom pretending to be Ruslana with a blowtorch for me then.
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