https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ8oA9-OQrg Not one to let Shnur have all the [disaster fun](https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/%D0%BE-%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B9-%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BA%D0%B8-%D0%B8-%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE-6/#card-11351), Vorobiev's "I love You" manages to close off the "Crazy" troika with a bang. For memory, the excellent start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d8EH2Ozlss and somewhat weaker bridge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtOOsjN3bjg ---- ## Bearsploitation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roC7jwsos3A ... is yet another [Revva](https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/%D0%BE-%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B9-%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BA%D0%B8-%D0%B8-%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE-7/11475/) parody/homage. Thanks to the shoutout changing "Afonya" to "iPhone-ia", I was able to track down the 0riginal scene, ca. [0:23](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9HATyYkZLs&t=1384): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9HATyYkZLs&t=1384 In comparison, the parody is a bit more Boogie Nights or Kill Bill than [Sweetheart Roller Rink]( https://www.sweetheartrollerskatingrink.com/Fall-1972---Spring-1973/1/caption)... ---- Yet more [twang](https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/о-русской-музыки-и-кино-4/10803/), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rruj57s-uL0 albeit reminiscent of "norteños y rancheras" in this performance. For those who prefer finger picking arrangements, there's this 1980 interpretation by [Bichevskaya](https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/embalmed-ones/11917/): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcQWPA-idlA and the prairie sound (low lonesome?) comes through strong (implying this genre, in Russian, would be both kinds of music: "Country [*and*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSZfUnCK5qk) Eastern"?) even in possibly the earliest interpretation I've found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJp1O6rSMFU Reference to [ru.wikipedia.org](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/По_диким_степям_Забайкалья) says the song itself goes back to the late XIX. ---- continuing the [retro quotation](https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/о-русской-музыки-и-кино-5/10890/) habit, compare this camera work (starting at 1:26) from 2016's "The Very Best Day": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p1Ga8rAeXw&t=1m26s with a sequence (from 2:10) in 1964's "I'm Cuba": https://youtu.be/eOLVm_9UcRw?t=2m10s (we've also seen both this, and another, Gaynor [cover](https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/о-русской-музыки-и-кино/10342/) earlier) ---- ## In Soviet Russia... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo9PHbxOiMc the (fictional) jailhouse concerts seem to have ...differed... from those in The Land of the Free... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjqlWbl69G8 but I'm not quite sure what the US song paired to "Magadan" might be (even if the gulls and Pacific *are* reminiscent of islands in the SF bay): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvoM7cotb1c Any suggestions?