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VIA Gra - L.M.L (Luchik moy lyubimyy)

I am liking VIA Gra more and more! Their new video has just hit TV screens in Russia and it is quite fabulous. The girls writhe around on a spinning sofa on some other world, there is a black horse, a lamp, a black cloak, a feathered hat, an umbrella, a chair, and a creepy army of boy clones singing along with the VIA Gra slags. And yes, you guessed it, the lineup has changed once again! One of them has left and Liv Tyler lookalikey Olya has taken her place.

The video for the English version of the song was recorded along with the Russian, and is likely to emerge around the time of the release of the girls' second English album in Israel in the autumn.


Download the video to VIA Gra's L.M.L.
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Shiny happy people

Sniff our bumsВНИМАНИЕ! The About section of the site is finally up and running. You can get to it by clicking on the button on the top menu bar. Also the Artist list is up and running! It is a list of all the acts featured on RusskiPop, with links to the posts on them.

Blestyashchiye, which roughly translates as “Shining girls”, are one of Russia’s most popular and longest running slut girl groups. Formed in 1995 during the young Russian Federations darkest days and when t.A.T.u. hadn’t even started high school, the group even pre-dates the Spice Girls. Like many Russian pop acts, Blestyashchiye has an ever changing lineup. The band originally consisted of Ol’ga Orlova, Polina Iodis and Varvara Koroleva, with the latter leaving shortly after the release of their debut album There, only there. She was replaced by Zhanna Friske and Irina Lukyanova, turning the trio into a quartet. Two years later however, in 1999, Polina said goodbye, and Kseniya Novikova was drafted in to take her place.

The biggest blow to the band was when front-girl, songwriter, and last remaining founding member Ol’ga fell pregnant and left. She was replaced by Yulia Kovalchuk. In 2003 Irina also had a baby put inside her and hung up her microphone. The band continued as a trio for a short time, until figure-skating champion Anna Semenovich joined the band. In 2003 Zhanna went solo, and is now a huge solo star in Russia. Two years ago she was replaced me Nadya Ruchka. Did you catch all that?

The girls have released eight albums in total, the most recent being Eastern story. For the title track they teamed up with Arash, a Swedish singer popular in Russia (his pronunciation of Russian is quite bad). It is one of my favourite songs at the moment, and is a great listen on a hot, sunny day. The lyrics are also quite amusing: Arash sings "I have three wives, and the fourth will be you", to which the Blestyashchiye girls reply "I already have 5 husbands, I love them all, but you, if you want, will be the sixth."

Download Blestyashchiye & Arash's Eastern story
Download Blestyashchiye's Ya vse letala

p.s., another group on Blestyashchiye's record label is called Bounty. I wonder how they got that name...



Happy Birthday!

RusskiPop is one year old today! And to celebrate I transfered the site to its own proper domain name. Thank you all for reading.

Robbing the Dead



Hey, hey, go wild dancers energy!

In March 2006, two award-winning Ukrainian authors Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko , released a book called Wild Energy (Dyka enerhiya). The novel's main character, Lana, has to survive in a futuristic city facing an energy crisis, and is based on Ukrainian singer Ruslana. The winner of the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest, who is now also a member of the Ukrainian parliament for president Yushchenko's Our Ukraine party, is also recording an album of the same title. The title track of the album has just hit the net and is rather good. It is very Ruslana but also very new; some werskepticalal that the project were greatly differ from Wild Dances. The song has an ethnic sound, but instead of the folk instruments of the Wild Dances album, Wild Energy sounds much more electronic. And there is not a single 'Hey!' in the whole song!

The video is also floating around and is AMAZING! It apparently has broken records for use of technology in its production, and looks like a scene from a Hollywood movie. Ruslana'appearancece is also very different, as you shall see. The video is a screen version of part of the novel, and forthcoming videos from the album are expected to continue the story.

Download the Wild Energy video
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It's Tymoshenko time

Hey bitches, it’s Yulia Tymoshenko here, Ukraine’s first ever female prime minister and the world’s sexiest ever politician. So, as you may be aware, me and poisonface Yushchenko (he’s the president) and some guy from the Socialist party whose name I’ve forgotten have formed a new coalition in the Ukrainian parliament, and I got my old prime ministerial job back! (poisonface sacked me last year, the bastard). So, Ukraine’s first lady is back! And when I say ‘first lady’ I am talking about yours truly, not president poisonface’s wife, the fat American bitch. Last year I had to suffer a weekend at the Yushchenkos’ holiday villa in the Crimea, and the fat slag was being really bitchy to me and accused me of being corrupt! Anyway, I pissed in their swimming pool.

So, let’s get down to business with the music. I have been given some songs to review, so here with go:

Zhanna Friske – Gde-to letom

Zhanna thinks she’s the Russian Britney Spears, but she’s old enough to be Britney’s cousin. Her hair is not fabulous like mine and she is no where near as rich as me. I like the song though, it is very summery. Unfortunately it is in Russian, which is a horrible sounding language. Ukrainian sounds so much nicer! When I become president of Ukraine (it’s inevitable), I am going to extradite her to Kyiv and make her sing it for me in Ukrainian.

VIA Gra – Stop, Stop, Stop

VIA Gra are stupid little whores. They are form Ukraine but only sing in Russian. When I become president this will be a criminal offence, punishable by deportation to Belarus (the horror!). They are known for their revealing outfits and catchy tunes. I must say that they are very attractive women – of course they are, they are from Ukraine, we have the most beautiful women, that’s why we need me - a beautiful woman president! But they could be even more beautiful. All they need are some power suits and a rap around pony-tail. The song is about girls telling their man to “stop” when he is trying to stick it in them. I can relate to this song; being so beautiful all men (even the gays) want to poke me. When we won the presidential election re-run in 2004, poisonface hugged me and I felt it sticking in my leg, the dirty old perve!

Vanilla Ninja – Dangerzone

I like Vanilla Ninja because they are Estonian, and Estonians hate Russia. Also they make the best pop-with-guitars! Cool Vibes, the song with which the girls represented Switzerland at the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest (which was held in Ukraine, I must add), was brilliant! It should have come won, no, come second, after Ukraine. Ukraine came near the bottom because the song was dire. OK, it was pro Orange revolution, and in Ukrainian, but the guys who sung it were ugly mofos. Anyway, I think the UK came near the bottom as well. I don’t remember their song much, I just recall it was shit and it was sung by a transsexual with a chocolate face. Am I allowed to say that? I don’t know what is politically correct and what is not in English… Maybe I can say she was coloured? No? In Ukraine we don’t have black people yet. I love all people and am all for a multicultural Ukraine. I have been listening to the black folk-music troupe “G Unit”, and it seems black people like ghettos. They’ll love Ukraine! - We’ve still got some ghettos that the Jews aren’t using anymore. But when I visited America the people there were not at all helpful when I asked them where I could buy some black people. Americans are so rude!

UPDATE: Oh my hair! I just got a phone call from someone in my party with the worst news ever! I shall tell you in my next post, but it looks like I won't be the new prime minister!!! FUСКING HELL!!!



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