Ok, call me cynical, but his is shameful. One of the videos posted below, only one point for guessing which, is actually an uber cool underground English electro hit, with a degree of street-cred. But, listening to it the other day, after piking it of hype machine, it struck me that there is nothing different between it an the majority of cheesy female fronted Russian pop. (Except perhaps the grasp of English) But really, I'm not sure who is imitating who any more. This is a vaguely upsetting position to be in. Not because she sounds Russian, but because we scorn the Russian rubbish and embrace her. I don't get it.
Just to labour the point. Turning on your standard generic Russian video, with the volume of and playing the English track underneath. It works. Actually, this principle extends to almost all of the videos blogged here!
By the way, one of the groups posted here is called Tutsi. I don't know if they realized just how bad that actually sounds. Oh well.
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