#Croatian music>>>>>>

[tamaruaart]

"EJJJJ DUŠO 'KO NAM BRANI?!"

"DAAAA BUDE SVE KO LANI"

"NAAA MOJU DUŠU STANI, "

"IIIII OSTANIIIIIII"

Translation:

"Oh, honey, what's preventing (us)?"

"from everything being like last year,"

"Stand on my soul,"

"And stay there some more."

(forgive I tried to make it rhyme but this is literally the lyrics translated safbabanaof)

[just-a-pollicle]

just found out the 2016 uk/international tour also went to zagreb and i am desperate for even a smidge of croatia cats so heres photos from it! (ik it was in english but pls let me live my dream lol)

[luciawithoutj]

Ah yeah Nace. Fame really changed him ngl.

[cosmogyros]

Any time I'm feeling blue and need some cheering up, I just watch this video. I think it's time for me to admit this to the world, and share with you the beauty that is this song.

(You don't need to understand the lyrics, trust me. The whole song is literally just repeating how hot this girl Nadalina is, no matter what she does. The words are unimportant. Let them wash over you. It's about the Experience. It's about the cheesiness. It's about the unadorned, unapologetically silly fun. It's about these dancing dads in their average outfits. It's about the days when singers didn't have to be model-hot and have professionally choreographed dance moves for every performance. It's about getting drunk in a bar at 2 a.m. and somebody puts this song on and you're all belting along on the chorus with messy passion to make up for the fact that those are way too many tongue-twistery verses to ever remember.)

The two best dad-dance moments, in my opinion, are the sweet moves at 2:15 and the little hip swivel at 4:06 <3

[zimt-deathnote]

Hi, I love your art so much 😭💕 it's really lovely in that it gives the characters human qualities and it makes it way more realistic, it's like a refresher from idealistic portrayals of these characters (which I don't have a problem with at all but you get my point) I just love how human and real you make them seem and also your style is so so cute you have my heart pls marry me

Anyways

I was wondering what you think the wammy boys' relationship with music is? Like do you think they can sing, play instruments etc. Sorry if u already did something like this and I just frogot

HHH THANK YOU, I APPRECIATE YOU SO MUCH 💛💛💛😭

I can‘t imagine anyone of them playing an instrument or being good at singing. Near probably has no particular interest in music in general, so there's not much to tell about him. Matt and Mello are both terrible singers but that doesn‘t stop them from bawling songs at the top of their voices. I think they often sing in the car together to whatever is in the radio.

I also headcanon Mello and Matt listening to Linkin Park a lot. Meteora and Hybrid theory were running for weeks at a time at their place as background music for a while. And listen - they were 100% at a one of their concerts once.

At March 4th 2008, Linkin Park was on their "Minutes to Midnight World Tour“ and playing in Los Angeles at the staples center. Rather spontaneously, they decided to sneak their way in (of course, you don‘t really believe they do anything the legal way, do you...) while the concert was already at full swing but got caught. Out of spite, they spent the rest of the evening at a nearby KFC when they see the band walk in and Matt completely loses his shit. He even goes up to them and asks for an autograph and he comes back with his vest (THE VEST, the nasty one, you know which one) full of names and goes "I‘m never gonna wash this ever again!“ and Mello shouts through the whole diner "OH COME ON NOW REALLY?!“

[y2k-2day]

Madonna - The Power of Goodbye (1998)

[iamlisteningto]

Croatian Amor’s The World

[balkanradfem]

I was trying to explain to my friend how all music from our country that is made by m*n is sexist, and was deconstructing the lyrics of some beloved, popular songs from the 90s. She told me I was the only person who would ever find fault in those songs, and acted like I was, in fact, a lunatic for dissecting every little thing to find offense in it. So I thought, you know what, I will bring this to my blog. Let the tumblrinas decide if I'm right.

So I will translate for you, some of our very beloved songs, in order to tell you what I think is wrong with them. If you're croatian, this will be funny, and you are allowed to correct my translation. I don't even hate these, they're incredibly catchy, but the lyrics are driving me insane.

Mary and Kate (youtube link) (1st verse) I thought the life was restaurants and dreams Friends, pretty women, for love to guide me And wherever I went, I didn't care I loved, never asked, through the world I drifted (chorus) Mary and Kate Where are they, to come back? My beautiful little Anne Who did you sleep with tonight? (2nd) I talked a lot, drank a lot, and laughed a lot I did this and that, everything, and always what I wanted And while I drifted, a crazy fool Pretty girls were all snatched by effortless cretins (chorus) (3rd) Where was I, what I was doing, who did I love? I was having fun, never lost my head I am still the same, I am the real one Real m*n goes, gives, never gets spoilt.

I no longer understand These young girls I am real for them They are not the real ones. I no longer understand What do they want? If only women were what they once were. (chorus) Mary and Kate Where are they, to come back? My beautiful little Anne Who did you sleep with tonight?

So you all can probably tell why this pisses me off, the chorus itself is giving me rage, but then the last bit just goes into full misogyny rant about women. It is obvious that this is a bullshit sicko man! He fancies himself as a 'vagabond' who just drifts around, drinks and has sex with women, and while he was young, it was working out for him and he could get young women to sleep with him, and then some time later, women obviously caught on onto the fact that he is a worthless drunk who doesn't do anything but party and bed women, incapable of being faithful or useful to anyone, and they've settled for males who, I would hope, are at least having a job and don't cheat or do alcohol all day. So as a response to that, he has to go and say 'wow women today are not real anymore, what do they want?? I am the real male obviously, m*n can never go bad, but all these women, they are unreal for not wanting me,' and then he proceeds to try and guilt trip MULTIPLE WOMEN AT ONCE for being on a location he doesn't know of, asking who they slept with! It's literally none of his business! He's literally not invested in any of these and will not contribute to their life in any manner except to give them a horrible time and to then proceed to look for his next victim, but they're being depicted as wrong and unreasonable. It's very obvious why no woman would look at him!

It makes me even more concerned that by the end of the song, he's no longer saying 'women', he's saying 'girls', indicating that now that he's older, he's interested in younger female demographic, but then also a verse later he had the GALL to call them 'not real women', if they're also not interested in him. In the end he even goes 'if only women were what they once were', by which he probably means, without any rights to reject him, without legal protection, only that way he could get whatever he would want from them.

My friend told me I'm supposed to just 'not listen to the lyrics' but m*n are listening to these lyrics! And agreeing! And if we're also acting uncritically, they're taking it as a sign that we also agree! A m*n wrote these!! It got mega popular!! And the song itself is so damn catchy it's been playing in my head all damn day. Someone needs to say something!!!!

The second one I want to criticize is considered one of the most beautiful, most romantic songs in our language, and I too will sing it sometimes because the imagery gets to me, but once I fully analyzed the lyrics I could see that something unsavory and messed up is going on in here and I am going to talk about it.

Empress (youtube link) (1st verse) Golden threads of the summer dawn came to her castle to wake up my love. Light shall kiss her face, beautiful as in an empress, while I can't kiss her. Golden net of her body has captured my soul only to throw it back into the sea. Every morning, before dawn I come to her castle, white castle of my penance. (chorus) All of my life, all I wanted was her. To find the way to her heart. All of my life, my body is without her Like flowers without water.

These are all of the lyrics, and on the first glance, it sounds beautiful, he's describing her as royalty, and without any derogatory terms as well, which is not common, thus the romantic notion. But. If you paid attention, there are clues that tell us that this woman is not even remotely interested in him, and he's depicting himself as this deeply pained, suffering man, and he's suffering because of her appearance.

He's depicting an image of a woman who is hidden from him, by a castle, and he can't get close to her – this is probably because she is unwilling to face him, or to come close to him, she's behind a wall for a reason. He even implies he's jealous of the light kissing her face, which is in the area of insane obsessed stalker, and when you read further on, he mentions he actually comes to her castle, BEFORE DAWN, which means she probably doesn't know he's doing it, he is in fact, stalking this woman. He describes her castle as a white castle where his punishment happens – he is punished by what? Her existing?

The only description of this woman we get is the perceived beauty of her, there's never any insight in who she is, anything she does or says that would imply interest, but he feels deeply victimized. 'Golden net of her body has captured my sol', he imagines that her appearance was a trap to capture him, by which we can assume the poor woman never even said anything to him, he just saw her and decided that she is responsible for his feeling, because he likes appearance and feels he should have her. And here also we can see that she doesn't want him, because she 'threw his soul back into the sea', meaning she did not show any interest in him. He goes on to cry about how his body is 'like flowers without water', implying he is withering at the foot of her castle, because she is not showing any interest in sleeping with him, oh the horrors.

This is clearly a stalker song! She probably never even spoke to this man and he doesn't seem to know anything about her, he never ever mentions anything except for her beauty, we don't know what this woman is like, or what she wants, this is not a love song! The only agency this woman is showing is that she's staying hidden in her castle PROBABLY FOR A GOOD REASON, and he keeps stalking her and claiming she's causing him pain. I would freaking move castles.

The only saving grace of this song is that I do hope he withers completely without ever getting a glimpse of her, and that she never even finds out, which I feel is the correct way for him to go, without bothering her.

These are not the only songs I find issue with, I am actually continually mad about many other songs but I will leave it at this for now. Thank you for coming to my music corner where we point things out.

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Dora Pejačević

Dora Pejačević was born in 1885 in Budapest, Hungary. Pejačević is considered the founder of modern Croatian chamber and orchestral music. She began composing at age twelve, and there are over 50 pieces credited to her. Pejačević was forgotten soon after her death, but her work was rediscovered by a researcher in the 1980s.

Dora Pejačević died in 1923.

[babylasagnafanph]

Happy 1st anniversary to BL's 1st ever song, "IG BOY"! 🎉

How time flies so quickly...🔥

📸: Screenshot from "Baby Lasagna - IG BOY (Official Video)" [via YouTube]

[snowyavis]

『 Diplar 』

Double whistle player from the Dalmatian Hinterland

[heritage-harmony-records]

NEW ALBUM STREAMING NOW!!!

Tales from Beyond the Firmament is the new album by Rijeka, Croatia based psychedelic/stoner/space rock act The Freak Folk of Mangrovia, released June 28, 2024 on No Profit Recordings.

Listen to the full album now:

[lesser-known-composers]

Dora Pejačević (1885-1923) - Phantasie concertante in D Minor, Op. 48

Volker Banfield, piano

Orchestra: Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Conductor: Ari Rasilainen

[etrangersvoyageant]

Croatian Amor - So Long Morningstar

To my own surprise and dismay did I not post anything off one of my favourite albums in the recent years. Croatian Amor's Remember Rainbow Bridge is a stellar piece of work, which can be listened to any time of the day.