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Degrees of Little Romanian Girls
Sometimes I like to amuse myself by clicking sort of randomly around in You Tube. One thing I have noticed is that if my starting point is Central/Eastern/Southern European dance music, sooner or later I will end up with the litle Romanian girl, Cleopatra, at the top of the queue. I know I've mentioned this before.
As of tonight I am going to keep score whenever this happens. How many random jumps until I am faced with a toddler in a Marilyn Monroe outfit wandering around bus and train stations with a suitcase as big as she is, singing about how Ghita is not there?
Well, tonight it was eleven hops. Now that seems like a lot to me, since I started out looking for a song that basically means "Romanian Girl," that is, "Made in Romania." (the title is in Romanian and is not a cognate to the English words it looks like). Some other time I will find out if it takes more if I start with a Serbian dance song, or whatever. Maybe I should also make some rules about hopping, instead of just going to whatever looks interesting.
I didn't find the song I was looking for but I fiound a lot of other weird stuff. Mostly Romanian music videos with comically incompetent rural swains and their improbably decked-out paramours. (that first one has the same tune as "Levan Polkka," the infamous Finnish song that goes with the anime leek-spinner Loituma Girl)
The music videos look a lot like Sabado Gigante routines, actually.
As of tonight I am going to keep score whenever this happens. How many random jumps until I am faced with a toddler in a Marilyn Monroe outfit wandering around bus and train stations with a suitcase as big as she is, singing about how Ghita is not there?
Well, tonight it was eleven hops. Now that seems like a lot to me, since I started out looking for a song that basically means "Romanian Girl," that is, "Made in Romania." (the title is in Romanian and is not a cognate to the English words it looks like). Some other time I will find out if it takes more if I start with a Serbian dance song, or whatever. Maybe I should also make some rules about hopping, instead of just going to whatever looks interesting.
I didn't find the song I was looking for but I fiound a lot of other weird stuff. Mostly Romanian music videos with comically incompetent rural swains and their improbably decked-out paramours. (that first one has the same tune as "Levan Polkka," the infamous Finnish song that goes with the anime leek-spinner Loituma Girl)
The music videos look a lot like Sabado Gigante routines, actually.