What time is it? It's Chelsi time!

I know I've posted about Samaya Liubimaya about 300 times,but I found a very recent (actual live) performance of it just now and thought I should share.So,just in case you still haven't heard the greatest Russian pop song of the past...2 years(?),here it is.Not the greatest visual quality ever,and there's some naughty Russian people talking over it at some points,but they're still vocally very good.

And unless I'm very much mistaken,there's a new album coming out this weekend,which is quite exciting.Only heard one song from it so far,and I can't say I like it that much,but I'm sure it'll grow on me.We're still sending telepathic messages to Victor Drobysh too,telling him to do the right thing and send the boys over for the Russian Winter Festival.He'd better be listening!

By the way...

Today is Prohor Shalyapin's birthday,which gives me a (long overdue) excuse to write about him.If you haven't heard of Prohor (which I expect is probably the case),you've been missing out,because he's fabulous :) He was one of my favourite people on last year's Fabrika Zvezd (then again,who wasn't really?),but I've only recently been getting into his music.He did quite well in Fabrika,although from what I've heard,he wasn't exactly the most popular of the housemates.However,as great as Dima is,if the competition had been based purely on who had the best voice,Prohor would have walked it.Although to be honest,he's much more of a theatrical/musical type singer than an all round pop star like Dima and Chelsi are.
There's not too many videos of him on youtube,but this is a very good performance...

I would also advise you very strongly to listen to this song It's called Krugovarot,which,in the context of the chorus means 'life is crazy.' It's a beautiful song,very relaxing and sounds very optimistic too (even though I can't understand any of it,that's the impression I get).
There are many other big ballad type songs on Prohor's website,that seems to be the thing he's best at,but this one is also good.It's called Polyubi Nyeba,and it reminds me of a Balkan Eurovision song.Which is always good.
Then there's this- Vdol Pa Peterskay ,a Russian folk song,which seems to be another genre he quite likes.
Actually,looking at that,he does seem to be quite a versatile artist...I'm not quite sure what he's been up to since Fabrika,but hopefully he's doing well.And I can't say it would be anything other than fabulous if he came to the Russian Winter Festival in January :)

You should have known better than to stay in love with me

Poster Girl mentioned Kjartan Salvesen not so long ago,but I've just come across this fabulous performance of his latest song on the super GMTV-style programme that is must-see viewing for me whenever I'm in Norway- God Morgen Norge.He's been on there before,singing the lovely 'Then Silence'.I don't get why he's not more popular than he actually is in Norway,he's an amazing singer.Anyway,this is 'Leaving Me,' it's a bit melancholy,but don't let that put you off,it's really good.Those Norwegians definitely choose their Idol winners well!


Having said that though,why they got rid of this guy (Marius Barhaugen)in this year's series,I have no idea.

Ok,so I might be slightly biased,seeing as he is ridiculously attractive and he's singing my favourite song in the world ever,but I didn't think he was that bad.Much better than some of the people still in it anyway...

I'm liking Kim Rune Hagen though,he's pretty good...


However,my favourite is Åste Sem.If she doesn't win,it'll be a travesty!

Iga päevaga rohkem mul mõtteid rusub küsimus "Kus oled sa ?

If you love Eurovision as much as me,you must remember Tanel Padar winning for Estonia with the insanely cheerful 'Everybody' (well it was only 6 years ago...)Tanel's great,I remember seeing him on the BBC a few times,once on the Holiday programme when he was showing the lovely Craig Doyle around Tallinn,and also on the fabulous documentary Estonia Dreams of Eurovision,and he seems like a rather cool guy.He was also the first Europop person I ever had a minor obsession with :)
Anyway,he's certainly not bubblegum pop material any more,he's all rock.However,he still managed to fit in this fantastic song before he went off with his band (The Sun) to make angry sounding music with guitars and things.It's called Unistus (Dream),and it's one of the first foreign language songs (apart from Eurovision ones) that I heard.
Although it's quite old now (at least 5 years anyway),this video's only just been put up on youtube.It's not as pop as the version I have,but then again he is singing it with Smilers,a rather famous Estonian rock band.

I won't die without your love

In this awful quality video,Dima appears to be singing a song which is quite clearly Chelsi's new one.Who stole it from who I wonder?Either way,Mr K's looking hot as ever,and from what I've heard,I must say he sings it better than Chelsi.Controversial I know.

Be that someone special

How exactly did I miss this?I've been trawling youtube religiously since the announcement months and months ago that Kurt Nilsen was releasing a new album,but somehow managed to bypass this one.It's called Dance With Me,and I've seen a bad quality live version of it from some concert before.This version is much better though.As much as I love Dima and Chelsi and Aleksander,Kurt is still the King of Good Pop for me,he has the most wonderful voice ever.

Knackered

So the week of Too Much Work is nearly over,I'm so happy.Still haven't quite finished my big Luxembourg essay yet,almost,but I've given up for tonight,I'll have to finish it in the morning.My Russian exam today was slightly better than yesterday's I think.Even if it was a bit weird and was about picking mushrooms...I'm now very much looking forward to the weekend.We're having a night off work tomorrow and are going to eat a lot of chocolate and watch Die Edukators (which is long overdue,seeing as we've been talking about watching it since summer),Mother and Father are visiting on Saturday (bringing lasagne and Russian newspapers),and then I'll probably just sleep for most of Sunday.Mmm,sleep....
Anyway,I've been feeling pretty rough all day,I have an evil sore throat and I'm aching lots.I think there's only one known cure for this,and that is to look at gratuitous pictures of Dima Koldun,such as this:
Ooh he's got such lovely eyes...