Cake & Boys

NEAT STUFF. I liked it. Beats the hell outta rap or R&B or most other genres of contemporary crap over here. And the guys were gorgeous..

I didn’t have a clue what was going on, but the tune was catchy

Haha, typical silliness from Ukraine pop sound wise. Visually I just have to give it 9 out of ten points though.

It’s really hard to give a good translation because of all the double and triple meanings. I will make a feeble attempt to explain some of it. For one they are poking fun at Sergey Zverev. He is a hairdresser that became sort of the Jocelyn Wildenstein-cum(she’s commonly referred to as the Lion Woman in the U.S.) plastic surgery nightmare ikon of Russian culture. Serojya-perojania rhymes so it works out as funny lyrics.
He started out being a beautiful young man and somehow parleyed that into a career in various things he modeled for D&G, Versace and somehow even had music videos on MTV Ru. All the while destroying his own looks in a desperate bid to be more pretty. Before and after pics are readily available, just type Sergey Zverev into the search engine of your choice. How he managed to pull this off in such a homophobic culture I’ll never understand. Unless it is the very Russian love of the travesty/jester sort of thing. How else could you explain stars like Serduchka, and Aziz? He’s particularly known for his lips and a botched nose job, parodied at 1:57. It is him on the girls t-shirt. It’s his “funeral” the boys are attending. Of course rumor has it that he has often seduced boys with promises of stardom. That seems to be the case with almost any and all male stars in Russia in sort of a general way. In his case the rumors went so far as to imply that he even pimped out the boys he seduced to the highest bidder. Thus the bits with the online and in person auctions. I don’t particularly like the fact that they off him with a bat in the end. Somehow that being acceptable by the entire culture is frightening don’t you think? It is done in a lighthearted humorous way, but hate is hate no matter what sort of pretty ribbons and bows you tie on it. According to his bio, he has a son & wife. He pays(I’m making a kvetchy assumption) women to report about what a stud he is to the press. However, the entertainment industries of many countries depended on beards for many many years in the past. Russia is attempting to become a modern state but the sad fact is they’re still stuck in the 1930′s in many ways, particularly human rights. The only places that treat LGBT people worse are Muslim countries that put you to death when it’s discovered that you’re different. When I responded earlier I wasn’t really paying as much attention as I should have been. I’m guilty of hearing the typical ‘bad Russki Pop” sound and turning down the sound and just looking at the hawtboys.

If anyone wanted to have the song, i recorded it with audacity and exported it to a mp3, you can download it off my site here:

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