#preved

[pukicho]

WIP. Pretty sure I invented a new music genre today so I get to name it. I am calling it yarble-core. It yarbles. To make yarble-core you need to make it yarble.

[cytobi]

Lyrics, Languages & Luck

October 31, 2023

The Search

So a couple days ago I came across a nightcore song called How Do You Do. It might have been on tumblr, simply through my Spotify feed or maybe on TikTok, i don’t remember. Anyways, I listened to it on Spotify and the specific version on there is by Nightcore Fanatics. It’s different from most other versions that show up on Google & YouTube in one major way: it has a non-english part somewhere in the middle, sort of like a second chorus. The original song (well sort of, we’ll get into that) doesn’t have a part in another language. So i started looking for the lyrics.

First the obvious, the lyrics button in Spotify itself. Turns out the lyrics aren’t synced to the song and a major part, the part that I’m looking for, is missing and just represented with an ellipsis (…). Similar to how it still is here (as of October 31, 2023 ).

To Google we go, where I made a couple discoveries: - there’s a ton of different versions, both nightcore and not - it’s hard to find stuff because How Do You Do! - Roxette also exists - the two major non-nightcore versions are by Boom! and BeFour - neither has the non-english section - there’s lots of websites claiming to have the correct lyrics but they either have the standard english-only lyrics or the spotify-version with the ellipsis

The Surrender

At this point a was feeling like just leaving it be even though I had the song on repeat and really wanted to know what it says, but I decided to look a bit more. In the Wikipedia article about the BeFour song it said that the actual original song is a Russian song called Kanikuly by Bum, so I thought maybe it’s from that song. But no, it sounds completely different.

On Spotify it credits Kim Peter Göran Johansson Karlsson as the songwriter, which is an extremely Swedish name. Additionally it also sounded kind of Scandinavian to me (that’s probably just my bias due to the languages I’ve been exposed too and Caramelldansen) which led me to believe I was on the right track. However, my limited Swedish skills in conjunction with various translation and automatic speech recognition tools as well as conversations with multiple LLMs didn’t get me anywhere.

The credited record label is 1702219 Records DK which I thought might be Danish but it turns out DK just stands for DistroKid, a music distribution service. So no luck there.

I also found this version on SoundCloud which said it was Russian but I assumed that was wrong and probably just due to the original song mentioned earlier. It did not sound like Russian to me at all, probably because I’d never heard Russian in that high pitched nightcore voice.

So then I gave up.

The Resolution

Just today, three days after first looking into this I told a friend (who coincidentally knows a little Russian) about my search over lunch. He went on Spotify to listen to the song a few hours later and then sent me a text á la “Hey, it’s Russian, the lyrics are right here on Spotify”. At first I didn’t believe that because Spotify was obviously the first place I’d looked but it turns out they updated the lyrics very recently and they in fact now have the full (russian) lyrics. So know I present:

The Russian Lyrics to How Do You Do - Nightcore Fanatics

Превед медвед, Мы не виделись сто лет, Я везде тебя найду, How do you do you do

For those who can’t read Cyrillic:

Preved medved, My ne videlis' sto let, Ya vezde tebya naydu, How do you do you do

And in English:

Hello bear, We haven’t seen each other for a hundred years, I’ll find you everywhere, How do you do you do

The Backstory

The lyrics being updated exactly now sounds like a massive coincidence and a ton of luck for me of course but I’m not sure it is. I obviously somehow got to this song exactly now for some reason and i think that reason is an algorithm, maybe the Spotify recommendation system, maybe TikTok, maybe tumblr, maybe even YouTube, maybe multiple of them together. I’m pretty sure that song is going a bit viral somewhere right now and I’m just part of that wave which is why Spotify was getting much more traffic on that song and decided to prioritize the lyrics. Another example for how marvelous the internet really is.

I also found a reddit thread about exactly this today where the guy transcribing the lyrics asks for help which is kind of funny.

Finally, what does Hello bear actually mean? Well, it stems from a big Russian meme about a peculiar picture. In this slang words are purposefully misspelled (”Preved” instead of “Privet”) which then leads to the according to the “cringe af” lyrics. This is a good starting point if you want to read more.

[christinakroft]

Preveli, Crete

[henk-heijmans]

Preveli, Crete, 1911 - by Frédéric Boissonnas (1858 - 1946), Swiss

[bugsbenefit]

why do my gorgeous mutuals reblog from me with tags and tumblr refuses to show them to me, this is so fucked up, i just have to stumble over their reblogs on my dash to read the comments 😭 come on man (tumblr), what's wrong with you this time

[edwinisms]

my specialty here on dbda tumblr is making long rambling tags on posts that I forget the point of halfway through writing and having other dbda enjoyers see them and go insane right along with me

[lalalaugenbrot]

the thing about Adam and Leo is that they both top but at the same time both think the other one tops

[oannnes]

Preveli palm beach, Crete

[lounesdarbois]

Pour les Français qui aiment la France et pour nos amis Italiens.

[gemsofgreece]

I was today years old when I found out there are two beach palm forests in Crete and not one like I thought.

One is the Vai palm forest which is located far east, in the north of Lasithi.

The other one is the palm forest of Préveli which is in the south of Rethymno.

All this time I thought Preveli was the region and Vai was the name of the palm forest in this region. And I was looking for information for the blog and all pages were like Vai is in Lasithi and Preveli is in Rethymno and it was hurting my brain so much 🤦‍♀️😂😂

That means I might have also tagged some old posts wrong oh myyyy

PS: There’s another one. The palm forest of Ayios Nikitas. And this is in Heraklion! Bitch what 🫠🫠🫠

[that-was-anticlimactic]

like a ghost that won't wash off your skin

Now, though, there was no one left to heal.

Other than the few people left guarding Tengen, Shoko was alone on the grounds.

But Shoko wasn’t alone, not really. She had Kugisaki’s comatose body, the severed limbs that once were Inumaki’s left arm and Todo’s left hand.

Besides, she was never actually alone, not when she was constantly haunted by the ghosts of every body that’s laid on her table.

[or, shoko was one of the only ones who came back from shibuya, and she hates it]

✧3,091 words | shoko-centric✧

dedicated to @urostakako & @wlwjujutsu <3

[caluski]

blog called screenshots of love and joy and it's all just screenshots of my mutuals laughing at my jokes and prevving me

[basiltonpitch]

i followed bc we were mutuals in law (saw sara @willelfanpage ‘s blog title and decided to follow) and we have things in common and love to prev each other so im here to stay

mutuals in law!!!! whats that one post about nepo mutuals. thats us. i love u!!!

tell me why u follow me on anon

[christinakroft]

Exotic Crete

[da-riya]

[ireonic]

i want a chain of getting preved and then when you dig through the 17 different prev reblogs it's something like "worble this, bitch"

I think that'd be fun