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Novy God 2021

Read More Steklovata I caught a brief glimpse at "Новый год" (New Year) on Rocketboom and was so amused by this Russian boy-band, that I had to find out more information on them. …

I know it’s 2021, but I’m revisiting some good viral music from days of yore.

Somehow, one way or another, YouTube’s been recommending me Steklovata (Стеклоvата ). You might remember that I first discover this Russian orphan boy band in March 2008… mostly amused by their video for “Новый год” (or “Novy God”… translated to “New Year”). I posted the original video (in 2008)… which is now long gone from YouTube. Fortunately, other fans have reposted the video (with typo “Novi God”) and over the years … reposted in 2011 with over 4 million views. Many new fans were inspired by “Novi God” that they’ve done their own renditions of it…

Sure, I know some were amused by the awkwardness of the original four Russian boys… but it does take some effort to study and lip-sync, dance, or made up their own lyrics. The original Steklovata doesn’t take offense to it… they seemed honored that their music have brought so much joy and happiness to people, that as recent as Jan 2020, the band (three of them) reformed to redo “Novy God” for 2020.

It’s easy to brush them off as meme, but if you take the time to listen to the song, it’s actually quite good. Personally speaking, it’s probably better than anything on modern radio.

According to user Dereks:

You know, in general they are nothing special at all. The band is just another example of "Ласковый Май" (Laskoviy May / Gentle May) trend that exploded at the down of the USSR era. Laskoviy May was purely commercial project. One producer created a band of orphan boys with very tearful luscious glossy lyrics. In general, it was a normal success of another pop-band. But since all the boys were of pre-pubertal age, all of them had almost similar high voices. You just needed another boy under the age of 12 with basic musical skills and he would sound indistinguishable from the original "Laskoviy Maj". Thus by the end of the 80's there were literally dozens of same bands of orphan boys performing all over Russia. Sometimes they even went under the same names.

So Steklovata is part of that "orphan-band" movement, which still sometimes emerges in small province cities. But their feature, that turned them into a meme is their name. Steklovata in Russian means "glass wool". As you see, it's nothing sweet and glossy in that title…

Also they are using some elements of low-class language, criminal slang, which also promoted them to their success (in terms of becoming a meme, of course).

With that said, I hope you have a wonderful novy novy novy novy god for 2021.

Katches Kids Recreates Novy God	Novy God (Koplo Version)
Новый Год (Стекловата 2021)	Metal Cover
Gourmet-salute! to Steklovata	STEKLOHATA-NOVY GOD
МАЛЬЧИШКИ - НОВЫЙ ГОД 2020	Polish parody No. 1
Russian Snow Boys - Happy New Year (Hardbass)	German Tribute
Latvian parody	Steklovata: Novy God 2020

Steklovata: “Novy God” (the original)

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W♥M Updates (March 2008)

Hey, I have to extend the Win Brett Dennen's DVD/CD and T-Shirt because I got a few late entries. The final cut-off date is now 3/15/2008 and your chances of winning are basically 1 out of 14. These odds are really good. Much better than the state's lottery.

Also, I love Dereks' comment about Russian orphan boys so much that I've decided to mention it here, since many of you probably missed it the first time around. They were in response to Steklovata.

Dereks wrote: Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 6:31 AM

Ласковый Май - Белые розы Стекловата

[this is good] Oh-ho-ho-ho))))))

Well, since I Russian is literally my second native language (Ukraine is fully bilingual), I can tell you a lot.

Basically, I don't know who exactly discovered them, but on the Runet, they became something like a big meme. Like Tay Zonday's Chocolate Rain.

You know, in general they are nothing special at all. They band is just another example of "Ласковый Май" (Laskoviy May / Gentle May) trend that exploded at the down of the USSR era. Laskoviy May was purely commercial project. One producer created a band of orphan boys with very tearful luscious glossy lyrics. In general it was a normal success of another pop-band. But since all the boys were of pre-pubertal age, all of them had almost similar high voices. You just needed another boy under the age of 12 with basic musical skills and he would sound indistinguishable from the original "Laskoviy Maj". Thus by the end of the 80's there were literally dozens of same bands of orphan boys performing all over Russia. Sometimes they even went under the same names.

So Steklovata is part of that "orphan-band" movement, which still sometimes emerges in small province cities. But their feature, that turned them into a meme is their name. Steklovata in Russian means "glass wool". As you see, it's nothing sweet and glossy in that title. Moreover, they have a song, which goes under the same title. The lyrics in translation are something like that:

It's all your own fault, you're thorny like glass wool, glass wool, glass wool, our love turned to be evil, 'cause you're like glass wool.

Also they are using some elements of low-class language, criminal slang, which also promoted them to their success (in terms of becoming a meme, of course).

I love reading about music that I know nothing about - so this is the kind of stuff I really love hearing about.

China Forbes - Everybody Needs Somebody China Forbes Tour Dates 04/08/08 Great American Music SF, CA 04/10/08 The Aladdin Portland, Oregon 04/11/08 The Triple Door Seattle, WA 04/13/08 The Paradise Boston, MA 04/14/08 Bowery Ballroom New York 04/16/08 World Cafe Live Philadelphia,PA 04/18/08 The Birchmere Washington DC

I was also recently invited to join IODA. I think the website is private or invite-only currently because it's still in Beta, but it should be interesting to see this takes off.

The idea behind this seems to be for promoting music to influential webmasters and bloggers. They have the usual artist biography and some of them offer 1 or 2 MP3 for download.

Unfortunately, discovering new music is hard for me because there are a lot of artists to shift through. Plus, not all the bands offers sample music, so you literally have no idea what they sound like. Fortunately, there is a check box that will only display artists with sample music (but you do limit your selections of bands).

They do have some "featured" artists that seems to be popular with all the members using the website. Such as Bauhaus (did you know they were still around? and not dead?) and Robots in Disguise.

Anyway, one of the artists I was told to check out is a pretty young woman called China Forbes. The only song that was available was "Everybody Needs Somebody", which actually pretty good. It sort of has that country twang, but that's not a reason to not check out this catchy song.

Upon checking her out some more, I found out that she's the singer of Pink Martini, who recently put out Hey Eugene! and appeared on the Jools Holland show in 2007.

'78 is her second solo album, and judging from that one song, I think her album is going to do very well with her core Pink Martini audience.

You can find out more about her on myspace and her official website.

PS, my new theme for album reviews will be bands on tour. I'm working on the other three artists, but you can head over to ♫ew music for the latest three.

 03/08/2008 23:30:34  vu my♥posts www.weheartmusic.com

Стеклоvата (Steklovata)

Стекловата Стекловата (Steklovata) Discography [2001] Льдинкой по стеклу (Glass Scrape Ice) [2002] Осторожно - хрупкое (Caution - Brittle) [2005] Спецшкола (Special Education)

I caught a brief glimpse at "Новый год" (New Year) on Rocketboom and was so amused by this Russian boy-band, that I had to find out more information on them.

First of all, the band is called Стеклоvата (Steklovata), and they are from Estonia, not Russia (but they speak and sings in Russian).

All of their music is available for download on (their official?) the website gosdetstvo.ru. Since I don't speak Russian (and none of the websites out there that had any information were written in English) it was kind of difficult to figure out who they were.

Here are some facts I was able to gather: they were the project of mastermind composer/creator Sergei Kuznetsov (Сергей Кузнецов). At first he only had one singer, Dienis Bielikin (Денис Беликин), but added Artur Jeriemiejew (Артур Еремеев) to the team.  I believe both boys were aged 13.

They released three albums between 2001 to 2005, and ultimately are no longer together... but I suspect they are still making music under different groups and projects.

What's interesting about "Новый год" is that video features two additional singers, I believe one of them is called Siergiej Diadiun (Сергей Дядюн) and the other is not known to me. It is definitely not Kuznetsov, as he appears on one of their album cover and he appears to be over the age of 40.

I would really appreciate if any readers could provide me with additional information on this Eurodisco boy-band.

 

 

 03/01/2008 10:02:04  vu my♥posts gosdetstvo.ru/steklovata

Dereks wrote: Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 6:31 AM

Ласковый Май - Белые розы Laskoviy May "Chocolate Rain" Original Song by Tay Zonday

[this is good] Oh-ho-ho-ho))))))

Well, since I Russian is literally my second native language (Ukraine is fully bilingual), I can tell you a lot.

Basically, I don't know who exactly discovered them, but on the Runet, they became something like a big meme. Like Tay Zonday's Chocolate Rain.

You know, in general they are nothing special at all. They band is just another example of "Ласковый Май" (Laskoviy May / Gentle May) trend that exploded at the down of the USSR era. Laskoviy May was purely commercial project. One producer created a band of orphan boys with very tearful luscious glossy lyrics. In general it was a normal success of another pop-band. But since all the boys were of pre-pubertal age, all of them had almost similar high voices. You just needed another boy under the age of 12 with basic musical skills and he would sound indistinguishable from the original "Laskoviy Maj". Thus by the end of the 80's there were literally dozens of same bands of orphan boys performing all over Russia. Sometimes they even went under the same names.

So Steklovata is part of that "orphan-band" movement, which still sometimes emerges in small province cities. But their feature, that turned them into a meme is their name. Steklovata in Russian means "glass wool". As you see, it's nothing sweet and glossy in that title. Moreover, they have a song, which goes under the same title. The lyrics in translation are something like that:

It's all your own fault, you're thorny like glass wool, glass wool, glass wool, our love turned to be evil, 'cause you're like glass wool.

Also they are using some elements of low-class language, criminal slang, which also promoted them to their success (in terms of becoming a meme, of course).