Comments on: Listen to Father! http://belarus.blogsome.com/2006/03/09/listen-to-father/ Media, blogs and my personal thoughts about Belarus' elections in 2006 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:23:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Rosie http://belarus.blogsome.com/2006/03/09/listen-to-father/#comment-954 Sat, 28 Apr 2007 16:47:11 +0100 http://belarus.blogsome.com/2006/03/09/listen-to-father/#comment-954 These comments have been invaluable to me as is this whole site. I thank you for your comment. These comments have been invaluable to me as is this whole site. I thank you for your comment.

]]> by: Barra ó hAonghusa http://belarus.blogsome.com/2006/03/09/listen-to-father/#comment-369 Wed, 03 May 2006 22:27:10 +0100 http://belarus.blogsome.com/2006/03/09/listen-to-father/#comment-369 Hey guys - does anyone have the lyrics to this in Belarussian? Hey guys - does anyone have the lyrics to this in Belarussian?

]]> by: Everything Clashes http://belarus.blogsome.com/2006/03/09/listen-to-father/#comment-64 Fri, 24 Mar 2006 02:30:16 +0000 http://belarus.blogsome.com/2006/03/09/listen-to-father/#comment-64 <strong>Some are more equal than others...</strong> Id never heard of this country until today, but the Belarus elections are under way and one of the candidates had a pop band sing a song about him. Look ... Some are more equal than others…

Id never heard of this country until today, but the Belarus elections are under way and one of the candidates had a pop band sing a song about him. Look …

]]> by: idioscosmos http://belarus.blogsome.com/2006/03/09/listen-to-father/#comment-62 Thu, 23 Mar 2006 20:04:57 +0000 http://belarus.blogsome.com/2006/03/09/listen-to-father/#comment-62 That was so...what I would think a pop band would look like if it was designed by a group of middle aged men who didn't listen to pop music when they were young. Sounded like it too. No offense, but what was with the creepy older guy who'd bust out a base line or two now and again through out the song? Why was the lead singer dressed in a kind of pixie outfit while the rest of the band were running with this "Reservoir Dogs" meets "The Bee Gees" theme? <i>lukashenko in a few years… “wir musten der democratie und seine Begleiterscheinungen aus Belarus auszurotten” off course not in german… i hope Comment by mutz — March 23, 2006</i> I don't think Lukashenkos going to get too rowdy...he has to be aware Putin could have him killed any afternoon he chooses to. Belarus is condemned to play the role as Belgium to Russias Germany except without France on the other side of them to lean on. That was so…what I would think a pop band would look like if it was designed by a group of middle aged men who didn’t listen to pop music when they were young.

Sounded like it too. No offense, but what was with the creepy older guy who’d bust out a base line or two now and again through out the song? Why was the lead singer dressed in a kind of pixie outfit while the rest of the band were running with this “Reservoir Dogs” meets “The Bee Gees” theme?

lukashenko in a few years…
“wir musten der democratie und seine Begleiterscheinungen aus Belarus auszurotten”
off course not in german… i hope

Comment by mutz — March 23, 2006

I don’t think Lukashenkos going to get too rowdy…he has to be aware Putin could have him killed any afternoon he chooses to. Belarus is condemned to play the role as Belgium to Russias Germany except without France on the other side of them to lean on.

]]> by: mutz http://belarus.blogsome.com/2006/03/09/listen-to-father/#comment-61 Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:04:07 +0000 http://belarus.blogsome.com/2006/03/09/listen-to-father/#comment-61 lukashenko in a few years... "wir musten der democratie und seine Begleiterscheinungen aus Belarus auszurotten" off course not in german... i hope lukashenko in a few years…
“wir musten der democratie und seine Begleiterscheinungen aus Belarus auszurotten”
off course not in german… i hope

]]> by: A.R.Yngve http://belarus.blogsome.com/2006/03/09/listen-to-father/#comment-59 Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:12:44 +0000 http://belarus.blogsome.com/2006/03/09/listen-to-father/#comment-59 Yeah, it struck me how overtly patriarchal the lyrics are: the oppressed people is being indoctrinated to think of the dictator as their "Father" -- a stern-but-always-right paternal figure. Which is of course utterly pathological and perverse. If he's every Belarussian's "Daddy", then what is his wife (or his mistresses)? Sick, sick, sick. Yeah, it struck me how overtly patriarchal the lyrics are: the oppressed people is being indoctrinated to think of the dictator as their “Father” — a stern-but-always-right paternal figure.

Which is of course utterly pathological and perverse. If he’s every Belarussian’s “Daddy”, then what is his wife (or his mistresses)?

Sick, sick, sick.

]]> by: Steven Kruyswijk http://belarus.blogsome.com/2006/03/09/listen-to-father/#comment-58 Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:13:12 +0000 http://belarus.blogsome.com/2006/03/09/listen-to-father/#comment-58 I bet Alan Watts would have an interesting thing or two to say about this too :-) (check out his podcast on iTunes!) Could mistaking the parent-child relationship as basically political really be the loophole that makes Orwellianism work? I bet Alan Watts would have an interesting thing or two to say about this too :-) (check out his podcast on iTunes!)

Could mistaking the parent-child relationship as basically political really be the loophole that makes Orwellianism work?

]]> by: A.R.Yngve http://belarus.blogsome.com/2006/03/09/listen-to-father/#comment-57 Thu, 23 Mar 2006 10:33:54 +0000 http://belarus.blogsome.com/2006/03/09/listen-to-father/#comment-57 WONDERFUL lyrics. Now try and sing the tune with these alternate lyrics: Ugly and grim A teacher of evil Shenka loves goats Shenka blows goats -- everyone knows it He loves goats He is out of his mind He just enters the farmhouse – and you see Who is the animal lover in the house Chorus: Na-na-na-na-na-na-na Shenka blows goats! In the morning, day, and night... He's not my Daddy! If you feel bad You've been listening to Shenka! If you are ok Shenka will stop it!!! WONDERFUL lyrics.
Now try and sing the tune with these alternate lyrics:

Ugly and grim
A teacher of evil
Shenka loves goats
Shenka blows goats — everyone knows it

He loves goats
He is out of his mind
He just enters the farmhouse – and you see
Who is the animal lover in the house

Chorus:

Na-na-na-na-na-na-na
Shenka blows goats!
In the morning, day, and night…
He’s not my Daddy!
If you feel bad
You’ve been listening to Shenka!
If you are ok
Shenka will stop it!!!

]]> by: Boing Boing http://belarus.blogsome.com/2006/03/09/listen-to-father/#comment-54 Thu, 23 Mar 2006 05:50:14 +0000 http://belarus.blogsome.com/2006/03/09/listen-to-father/#comment-54 <strong>Pop song in praise of Belarus's dictator</strong> Lukashenka, the corrupt dictator of Belarus, has a bad pop band campaigning for him in his crooked election. They sing a hilarious song praising him to the skies (and don't miss the video)... Well-set and slim He won't teach you evil Father can bridl... Pop song in praise of Belarus’s dictator

Lukashenka, the corrupt dictator of Belarus, has a bad pop band campaigning for him in his crooked election. They sing a hilarious song praising him to the skies (and don’t miss the video)… Well-set and slim He won’t teach you evil Father can bridl…

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