Courageously undaunted by her colossally embarrassing Internet sex-video scandal, Croatian sensation Severina Vuckovic performs here in the coolest turbofolk video I've ever seen. And I've seen plenty.
Check out the way "Seve" is cybernetically trampling the streets of Zagreb on some kind of Google-mapped, satellite-
imagery, hypermediated scale. Man, the semiotics of this piece are something else. Where is Mark Dery when you need him?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf0Z_JiGrWc
(From the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 :: official Croatian entry,
"Moja Stikla" by Severina.)
My High Heels (((a rather free translation)))
The grass doesn't grow
where my high heels step.
Go go go go, hop hop hop hop, come on, darling.
Tick-tock – around half past two
You'll pinch me where no one will see.
I know guys like you pretty well.
The devils are your godfathers.
Ring, ring, you'll ask for my number.
Knock, knock – go knock on some other girl's door.
Girlie, go put on your little socks,
For the grass doesn't grow
Where my high heels step.
Oy da da oy da oy da da da
Oy da da oy da!
My high heels!
Whose, whose? Whose, Otto? Whose, Nove?
Mine, baby! My high heels!
S, s, s, sex!
Tick-tock, around half past two
You'll bite me where no one will see.
A golden ring, a thin mustache,
I know all about guys like you.
Ring, ring, you'll ask for my number.
Get lost, go run off to some other girl
Girlie, go put on your little socks.
For the grass doesn't grow
Where my high heels step.
Oy da da oy da oy da da da
Oy da da oy da!
My high heels!
Zoom, zoomba! Hay! Straw! Cheese! Salami! Beets! Africa, paprika!
Whose, whose? Mine, mine! Come on!
Original Croatian lyrics:
Jer jos trava nije nikla
Tamo gdje je stala moja stikla
Tika taka, oko pola tri
Stipnut ces me da se ne vidi
Znam ja dobro takve kao ti
Zhavoli su tvoji kumovi
Zvrc, zvrc, trazit c'es moj broj
Kuc, kuc, kucaj nekoj drugoj
Sojcice divojcice
Daj obuci carapice
Jer jos trava nije nikla
Tamo gdje je stala moja stikla
Oi-da da, oi-da da, da,
Oi-da da, oi-da da, da,
Moja, moja stikla
S, s, s, sex
Tika taka, oko pola tri
Gricnut ces me da se ne vidi
Zlatan prsten, tanki brcici
Ma znam ja dobro takve kao ti
Zvrc, zvrc, trazit ces moj broj
Sic, sic, bjezi ajde drugoj
Sojcice divojcice
Daj obuci carapice
Jer jos trava nije nikla
Tamo gdje je stala moja stikla
Oi-da da, oi-da da, da,
Oi-da da, oi-da da, da,
Moja, moja stikla
Zumba, zumba, zumba, zumba
Sijeno, slama, sir, salama
Rizi bizi, teca veca
Cikla bikla, cikla bikla
Afrika, paprika
Cija? Sette, Cija? Otto, Cija? Nove, Cija? Moja!
Cija, Cija? Moja, moja
Ajde!
Special bonus for especially persistent fans of global pop culture:
"Suspicious Minds," Severina's Elvis impression, from 2006, performed in English, singing in Elvis's key and wearing his Las Vegas TV leather!
