Noise du Jour’s Guilty Pleasures: “Ya Soshla S Uma” by T.A.t.U.
Posted by E. G. Gauger
Gentlemen, I am outraged.
Your gross negligence in assuming I am ashamed of any of my musical predilections is noted, and will be revenged. There is absolutely no reason to assume, self-righteous pricks that you are, that the carmine creeping up my collar is anything other than stoic pride, a touch of the ol’ toxoplasma gondii, and perhaps a brief spike in my everyday, baseline feelings of discomfort.
Listen you, I was enjoying the Ruski pop nymphets way back, before any hoity-toity English remixes got loose, much less actual American album releases. This shit was edgy and inaccessible. Hell, it still is! I would get home from my live-action Vampire the Masquerade roleplaying session at the local college campus (back when I was a ginger-curled nymphet myself), maybe boot up a game of Fallout 2, invite my BFF Steve over, and we’d watch these videos, on repeat, in silent awe. Why, I thought to myself, did I not have a dark pixie of a partner, an eternal semi-succubus, someone to cling to during the long nights of crippling self-doubt, someone to share my pants and lipgloss, someone to hold my hair while I purged, someone with whom to ghost ride the whip? I mean, someone besides Steve?
Now, emerald-haired, naked in a wooden trunk, chugging Red Bull and typing on a keyboard for which I cannot see the screen, I ask myself: if I had found her, this dark unicorn, would things have turned out better?
But then I think: how could they?
Categories: Decadence, Eliza's Muffed Sense of Equilibrium, Ephemera, Exploitation, Fetish, Ghost Riding the Whip, Guilty Pleasures, Gurls Gurls Gurls, Handmaidens of the Tentacle, Homoeroticism, Homosexuals, Internet Outrage, Kill Me, Kissing, Lesbians, Lolitas, Naked Schoolgirls, Noise du Jour, Nymphs, Russia, Small Children
Posted at 3:42 pm on March 14, 2008
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I remember genuinely offending my brother once when I referred to some band or another as a guilty pleasure of mine. He got all, “Fuck that, if you like something just listen to it and fuck what anyone else thinks!”
I’ve forgotten the point of my story, other than that my brother is too tightly wound up about some things.
Comment by Mike — March 14, 2008 @ 5:28 pm
I am delighted that this post is reliably calling in a Google advertisement touting “Fitness for Gay Men.” I thought only the words ‘Qais Fulton’ in the byline would bring us the coveted homosexual revenue stream.
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I’ve always preferred the English version of this song, though the video’s just a terrible, schizophrenic dicing of the Ya Soshla S Uma video.
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Finally, you know how some old hippies talk about the first time they heard Jimi Hendrix as if a beam of etheral light shone down on them from heaven, in which swam rainbow motes of synaesthetic music? That’s the way I felt when I found out there was a band entirely formed around the concept of Angry Russian Catholic School Girl Lesbians shouting, breast fondling and french kissing on stage.
Comment by John Brownlee — March 14, 2008 @ 5:52 pm
erm im kind of frightened of the gay porn advertised here
not that i eh urh lets euh
Comment by ITHIDET — March 14, 2008 @ 8:44 pm
This is slowly & steadily becoming my favorite cerebral nutrition on all of the interwebs.
Comment by otep — March 14, 2008 @ 9:54 pm
…and now this song is blaring out my windows and down onto Haight Street.
Look at what you’ve done.
Comment by Bax — March 14, 2008 @ 11:11 pm
Being apparently possessed of more luck than you, I was fortunate enough to find my purge-assisting nymphet of a lip-gloss thieving friend.
Together we will surf the desolate frozen highways of Russia, sliding precariously on the backs of runaway rigs.
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Don’t listen to Brownlee, he’s just jealous the boys all think I’m prettier.
Comment by Qais Fulton — March 14, 2008 @ 11:29 pm
I used to own their American release. I used to own alot of things.
Comment by racerabbit — March 14, 2008 @ 11:47 pm
You should feel proud, this is the ONLY website I have ever disabled Adblock Plus on (and clicked the ad links).
Hope you guys become rich and infect the world.
Comment by Kingdom of Sir Duke — March 15, 2008 @ 3:55 pm
Never heard of them until now…I had to watch this like 4 times, and then I had to come back here minutes later and watch it 2 more times. Never knew I could be left breathless by music before.
Comment by sefer — June 17, 2009 @ 8:10 am