Those Russian/Soviet clips were all wonderful, thanks. Also just plain good pop songs.
Re:Is Spotify Killing the Top 40?
by dredmorbius on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @05:56AM
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The theme goes way back:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Song%20of%20Sol...
(By no means the earliest.)
Re:Is Spotify Killing the Top 40?
by 082349872349872 on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @07:01AM
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Hmm...
Do not gaze at me because I am dark,
because the sun has looked upon me.
My mother's sons were angry with me;
they made me keeper of the vineyards,
Там смуглянка-молдаванка
Собирала виноград.
there's a dark-skinned moldavian girl
harvesting the grapes
(The violinist's earrings don't contradict my white/red theory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24382154 )
(peasants with little to no agricultural surplus aren't interested in freemartins, neither four- nor two-legged. Compare "we also have a ‘big’ cycle of generations" in https://acoup.blog/2020/07/24/collections-bread-how-did-they... )
I'm not intending to watch WAP until I must in order to understand a parody. There's certainly no shortage of other musical sublimation, such as the pin-up pastiche of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpuemnGD-44 .
Bonus clip (with gentlemen, it's "ladies first"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDcixye_0Jo
[1] is there any popular genre that lacks in innuendo? Those highly-censored soviets produced https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tDZl_wj8Fo , which raises a pose estimation question: how could the eponymous girl's tears possibly fall directly on such long spears? Was she standing on a ladder?
Even the Taliban, I believe, allow arguably amorous lyrics, as long as (a) they're not accompanied by instrumentals, and (b) the surface meaning of "beloved" is the divine.