Are you romanian?
No?
No?
No?
How not! 🙁
Now being serious.
Manele.
What the ****?
Basicaly, we romanians have this musical genre, with reggaeton lyrics (women, money, alcohol, parties etc, and there are some that go beyond the rule such as romantic, depressive, etc. but not many that I know of), but with a generally Balkan rhythm and instruments.
You could ask any Romanian, some will tell you that they don’t like it. But I’ll tell you a secret.
You’re not Romanian if you don’t like at least one.
As much as they deny it. Believe me there is one that they like, actually, at least one.
This musical genre is often associated with the gypsies.
We have many in our country.
The myth says that they are beggars, robbers, partiers and cheats.
On dates like Christmas, New Year, Easter, etc, you can generally see gypsy women, going to beg, with their small children to convince people (a great majority are really poor people but there are also rich people who dress as poor to earn money and That’s why half of the myth is based.
The other half of the myth is based on the domination of the gypsies over the genre. There are many, but actually they are not all gypsies.
There are too many people from other countryes who believe that all Romanians are gypsy beggars, just because many go to beg in other countries.
There are Romanians who are not gypsyes and there are gypsyes who are not Romanians.
Not all Romanians are gypsies, just as not all gypsies are Romanians.
Let’s go back.
As the most popular singers, we have Nicolae Guţă, Florin Salam, Denisa (unfortunately she died a few years ago), Adrian Minune AKA Adrian Copilul Minune, Sandu Ciorbă, Adi De La Vâlcea, Jador (this one has many collaborations with some people from other musical genres), Tzanca Uraganu, Liviu Guţă (I don’t know if he is Nicolae’s brother), Florin Peşte….OK can we change? It already hurts my brain to collect them, there are more but they don’t come to my mind.
Most are men, although we still have women.
I just got blocked, I don’t know what I was going to say.
Let’s leave it here.
Chicken, kitchen…now about romanian stuff
I know all about this manele music genre, started listening to it like 2 or 3 weeks ago.
There is a genre called pop-folk or chalga in Bulgarian, which is about women and imoral stuff etc. I coincidentally came across one in 2017, and I listeened to many of them and have liked some of them. I don’t know Bulgarian, but their melody and instruments made me want to dance.
As our family has immigrated from Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, we have many songs from the Balkans at our weddings that are called folk songs of Rumelia. They are fun songs and are easy to dance.
Also, we have a melancolic style of songs which are called arabesk, which they talk about drinking and failed love experiences, often sang by men. Arabesk is thought to have originated from Arabic countries and I don’t like Arabesk, because it’s so slow and melancolic, it’s lyrics are often depressive.
OK, we have a Russian chanson here, and 80% of it is either about Prison, or about love, or about friends with whom alcohol and the like often goes. There is even a radio station that broadcasts in most major cities and has only this genre in its playlists. An interesting thing, but many countries have musical genres that are not interesting to anyone outside of them, but are quite popular among its residents.
I know only the extremely basic of Arabic. I cann’t say anything
Well I know Arabic but am not sure either. So it is obviously derived from "shariba (to drink/drank)", and should have a meaning like something drunk.
I don’t even know what it means in the first place XD
A little note: Ciorba we call çorba in Turkish, and the word is actually borrowed from Arabic, possibly with a change in its meaning.
Actually his last name is a synonym of soup. We play generaly the song on partyes or at most of them xd
Sandu Ciorba is great, dzika dzika bomba XD
We love that song in Poland
Probably not the original way of writing it, but in Polish it sounds hilarious.
A wild, wild bomb.
This can be put into various contexts, a good source of memes.