just ran across the party band Volga-Volga; most of their repertoire is a pastiche of russian pop, but some of it shades into western standards as well, eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN-8O5CM5qc#t=86 the lyrics may be Maxime's « Знаешь ли ты », the style balkanized, but the music is clearly a western "[classic](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHWiN_vFtdY)", or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITN3zB5fPk0 (a well celebrated "Hava Nagila"), or their punked out extended dance version of "Titanic": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XATvPOJtXM OK, that last was pretty weak. They do much better when covering eastern european party tunes such as "[American Boy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcUI-4C4zZg)" ... but that's unlikely to mean much unless one is familiar with both the early 90's [original](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7hAo28NCXc) (by a group we've seen here [before](https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/о-русской-музыки-и-кино/10405), Комбинатция) and its various extant [pastiches](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuSBy_cMDJc)... ---- « Звери - До скорой встречи » tells a charming story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF6W1XD25Dc (don't know about you all; this tube reminded me of ["uptown girl"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCuMWrfXG4E) ... but in comparison, I hope Poe's Law applies to the latter!) ---- ## we can't rewind we've gone too far Interesting contrast between the traditional (set ca. 1979*): О чем ты думаешь https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pilzEKhNCgs and the spacy/disco-y setting of what WP says has a decent claim to being the first soviet music video, from the film "Soul", in 1981: За тех, кто в море https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJAKUTMwUMk#t=4708 and, hey, as long as we're watching something chock full of mylar, here's something (a bit less retro-cheesy) from Roscosmos about how to recover cosmonauts without a splashdown: Как готовится посадка спускаемого аппарата https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRUtod1ffQE * the scene (here at 0:36) where the male lead gives the female lead his scarf, is, in the series, followed by her dance troupe colleague's fingering the scarf, finishing with an identification: « Pierre Cardin ! » ---- ...revisiting (in a concert context) various themes we've seen before: whether [electrifying folk](https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/о-русской-музыки-и-кино/10318/) (or cf [also](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiddPr_uAYw)) Старики https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG882TGu92w or [cross dressing](https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/о-русской-музыки-и-кино/10342/), but in the [opposite](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Am5AEPHd6k) [direction](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3Ad-c7FM0c) as [previously](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb5SCg1f0cI): Самба белого мотылька https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvx4kEBP70w or simply (if it's difficult to top [songs](https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/о-русской-музыки-и-кино/10460/) involving [black horses](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrlnYs2VAyI)), performing as a duet: Ой, да не вечер https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1TzJm1BD2I * we've also heard another [equine song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk8Bpxrs0rY) which can be compared with the interpretation by this [duet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vwZE_ClKo4) ---- True, she's no longer an ingénue, but Натали - Шахерезада https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECXz9qgTyyM#t=26 has some fairly disingenuous lyrics: the chorus is > I'm not [Sheherazade: my stories](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights) aren't told in words; there is no greater treasure than love. and while we might believe France Gall when she sings on Eurovision that she's a [wax doll who has no clue](https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/russian/10167/) what her lyrics mean, it's a bit more difficult to buy the bimbo impression when —as with a rook who pretends to attack a pawn ... but, should it attempt to move, also [menaces the king](https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/о-русской-музыки-и-кино/10484/) lined up behind it— the same line that claims illiteracy is making a literary reference. It's *especially* difficult upon seeing that both music and lyrics are credited to a certain « Н. Рудина ». * bonus track, if more dutch than russian: "Stars on 45" was apparently so big back in the day that our [comrades in leg warmers](https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/о-русской-музыки-и-кино/10324/) were also listening to it, although Melodia titled their release « [Звезды Дискотек](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JhC13TxhBo) »