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Of perhaps even more interests to pop fans is the fact that Vesna Pisarovic has recently "dropped" her new "record", and it is called "Peti" which means "fifth", thankyou Mind Taker, for that wonderful bit of insight, if you're reading please tell me where your blog has gone, I can't get to it, ANYWAY.
What you need to know about this album:
1. Vesna wrote "In The Disco" for Deen, possibly the gayest Eurovision song ever.
2. She also spiced up 2004 with the lovely "Ti Si Kriv" which is on this album, wonderfully.
3. It's quite good.
My favourite song of it is "Ovo Nije Moje Vrijeme", which I love for its extremely odd palette - a bit EE folk, a bit Turkish sashaying strings, a kind of coastal, a pastoral opening (I imagine this is kind of a Croatian coastal equivalent to those homely English country folk sounds), incongruous bleeps, and a bonkers brass bit in the middle and most of all, and those heavily punctuated Slavic bursts of vocal that I love. I mean, I like all of the other bits that combine to make the song, but I love particularly the way Vesna enunciates the alien consonant combinations.
While not knowing enough about the musical heritage of any of the things I write about, I admire that which takes lots of little bits that are comforting and familiar and mixes them up in an unfamiliar, even bizarre way, even though the cocktail probably seems familiar in Croatia. But yes, I'm awfully fond of it, it's strange and lovely. I hear the mountains, I hear the ocean, I hear.. all sorts of exotic things, pardon me, I am being an annoying, overbearing, ignorant tourist here....
Vesna Pisarovic - Ovo Nije Moje Vrijeme
posted by Edward O @ 12:29 AM
2 Comments:
It's really quite a good song, isn't it?
I love Vesna - it's even more thrilling when you can actually understand the lyrics in the europop.
Just makes things that little bit more special really.
Hvala and thank you on two counts:
For being another eastern-European-showbiz blog I didn't know about. The more, the better!
And also for convincing me to give Vesna's new album another chance after the horrendous mish-mash that was Pjesma mi je sve. (I think Ovo nije moje vrijeme must be the song she recently described as 'a little bit Ceca', which is about the most provocative thing a Croatian starlet can say.)
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