Monday, October 02, 2006

Pop musica

One very important aspect of euro pop music is for the female vocals to be so electronically tweaked that they basically sound like a child singing. The background music is the standard dance pop beats and laser sounds, and the lyrics are often about love, being great/popular, or 'you' doing something to 'me' that made me feel 'this way.' The videos are colorful and range from ultra sexy to ultra bubblegum cheesy.
Moldova has taken this child voice singing to a whole new level. They actually took a child with a real child voice and turned her into a pop star. She is three years old and as my host father bragged, she is in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the youngest singer to perform a three hour concert.
Americans, I introduce to you, the most infectiously catchy song, as seen on MDTV and heard on the streets of Moldova, 'Ghita' by Cleopatra Stratan.

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