My friend Frédèric, EU member for a longtime now :-)- but with cosmopolitan views and interests- is pointing out to me a very recent BBC article on the media culture of the two new EU members (officially, in a few hours now).
The BBC article starts by shortly describing 'popular' Bulgarian and respectively Romanian music, hence a (indirect) link with my previous posts about Diskoteka Boom and Magyarorszag. Instead of the 30 seconds clips linked via the article, I link here the full YouTube clips -and much more than those (once again, I think YouTube is the internet innovation of 2006!). Thus:
- Azis with 'Kato Skitnica' and Rumaneca & Enchev with 'Shatrata' for our Bulgarian neighbours (Azis has a clear comparative advantage over all our songs inspired by (a) the Turkish-Arab leitmotiv (chalga, here, as Bulgarian version)- and he is far from being the only one- so much for our Adi Wunderkind de Vito, Guta & the rest; Rumaneca and Enchev are a mistake in there, but that is a matter of de gustibus and I am not going to fight over yoghurt brands with my Bulgarian friends...plus, they are still much much better than our 'manelists' :-) ). Other Bulgarian artists mentioned: Mariana Popova, Grafa, Epizod (from these arbitrary clips, Epizod seems pretty interesting- the others are again 'common'- reminds me of our Phoenix, unexpectedly missing from the Romanian artists mentioned in the sequel).
- Cleopatra Stratan with 'Ghita' and Holograf with 'Asa frumoasa' as the 'Romanian representatives' ('runners-up' mentioned as well in the article are Voltaj, DJ Project, Akcent, Morandi, which are 'sort of okay' for such a 'popular' top; there is however far too much credit- who on Earth was the Romanian source of Osborn?!- given to Marius Moga, aka the 'Little Mozart' -LOL!). Moreover, Vama Veche (and many others, better than most those mentioned) are surprinsingly omitted.
Overall: For my Romanian part, it could have been much worse (nevertheless, it would be wonderful if BBC's 'popularity' criteria would not be farfetched and thus the top would indeed remain devoid of 'manele'!). Cleopatra is a phenomenon, but I would have liked her father, Pavel Stratan, in the top , she's still got a lot of time to reach true fame... Also, personally I am not such a great fan of Holograf, but this piece above is not so bad. All in all, I think we're breaking even with the Bulgarians at the 'pop' music chapter (well, as seen/heard by the BBC...).
But unfortunately we can't party as yet: we lose badly in terms of the TV programmes given as representative, in the remainder of the BBC article on media culture (fortunately our EU friends who do not understand Romanian will never be fully exposed to such nonsense, brain-washing, shows as 'Iarta-ma' & the like...).
But unfortunately we can't party as yet: we lose badly in terms of the TV programmes given as representative, in the remainder of the BBC article on media culture (fortunately our EU friends who do not understand Romanian will never be fully exposed to such nonsense, brain-washing, shows as 'Iarta-ma' & the like...).
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