Chastoty [Frequencies] is the new single from the girls. It is about teenage love, burning with love and filled with hormones. It is a great, bouncy pop song with a lot of energy and a strong beat to dance to, and a catchy chorus that will have you singing along, even if you don’t
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Chayka [Seagull] was originally released by Vladislav Agafonov on his 1994 album Skol’ko Let, Stol’ko Zim [How Many Years, How Many Winters]. It is about being separated from the one you love, wishing you were a seagull so you could fly beyond the sea and be together, but realising that the love may not
Something’s Got a Hold On Me was originally recorded by Etta James for her 1962 album, Etta James, and was also released as a single. It is a song about being in love for the first time. This is a great, rocking solo performance from Alisa Trifonova where she blasts out the song, hitting some
Digidon is the latest video from the kids. It is a great children’s pop song with a delightfully infectious chorus that you will happily be singing for the rest of the day. And the video is a delight to the eye with some really cool effects with blue face paint and flurescent yellow designs,
Mal’chik Iz Pitera [Boy from St. Petersburg] was originally released by Alyona Shvets on her Pokhoronite Menya za Sotsium [Bury Me For Society]. It is a love song to a boy from St. Petersburg where the singer begs him to wait for her and she will run away from her parents. Katya gives an
Landslide was originally released by Fleetwood Mac on their 1975 album Fleetwood Mac. It is about handling changes in life and love, especially when those changes bring everything crashing around you. This is a beautiful version from Alyona where she gives the song her own treatment focusing on the beauty of the vocal melody
Mayachki [Beacons] was originally released by Yulianna Karaulova in 2018 as a single. It is a love song that uses a battleship metaphor, comparing the relationship to being 2 wars trapped in the same love. It is a beautiful song that works well with the 3 singers whose voices blend well together.
Time for some comedy. Alfavit Dlya Malyshey [Alphabet Song] is a popular method of teaching young children the Alphabet. This version uses the Russian Cyrillic alphabet, in order, sung to the tune of the popular US song that is also known as The A.B.C., and has been transported around the World by the
Sweet Child O’ Mine was originally recorded by Guns N’ Roses on their 1988, debut album Appetite for Destruction and as a single. The song was written about Axl Rose‘s then girlfriend but could just as easily be interpreted to be a parent’s feelings towards their child. This is a great rocking version of
Tri Zhelaniya [Three Wishes] is a Russian translation of La Grenouille [The Frog] that was originally released by Francis Lemarque in 1955. It tells the story of a young man who catches a female frog near a pond, the frog then offers 3 wishes if he sets her free; the young man first wishes