So, reasonable interest in ‘90s post-Soviet pop has been building up in the west for some time (shoutouts to Kedr & Kate NV) — but one thing people seem to miss is how broad it all was. We fixate on EDM and overblown pop made with cheap synths — yet there’s so much more. Thread!
I’ve just finished some editing work on a book about this subject — and let me stress that this is not some left-field stuff: this is the charts. And just a few years before that the “charts” were all ballads or new wave-lite.
Hi-NRG + MC Hammer, subject: “American” football
Happy hardcore, subject: bees
Leonard Cohen pastiche, subject: preventing the Winter Palace takeover
Shamen/KLF-style Gorbachev parody with strong sexual overtones
Sade via Tariverdiev, subject: the capital of Suriname
German folk music pastiche, subject: adultery and beer
No need to explain, just look at this feast for queer eyes
Some Donbass raggamuffin for you
Eco-conscious witch-adjacent trip-hop, subject: crows, depression
A song about, and I shit you not, eating your passport to avoid getting married, with great crossdressing to match

This is it for now, but I'll go back to this!
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