Showing posts with label Olya Polyakova. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Olya Polyakova. Show all posts

Tuesday, 24 October 2023

Euterpean mood

Tuesday ennui?

Time for a little selection of "newer" music that has caught my ear of late, methinks...

First up, the return of a Welsh electrodance fave - with a sublimely camp video that's most appropriate for this spooky time of year:

Forty-two years down the line since the girls released their first single, Keren and Sara are back again - with a corker!

OMG! It's OMD!

Speaking of "welcome returns", it's been a long while since we've heard anything from the Aussie combo with the best dressing-up box in the world...

Even the Guardian could hardly believe that a world-class diva of the calibre of Miss Chaka Khan would ever agree to pair up with a vaguely-successful indie rock band from Crouch End (just down the road from Dolores Delargo Towers) - but the result is rather good:!

And finally...

...the team-up we never realised we so desperately wanted! One of our all-time favourite divinely decadent bands, together with Ukraine's home-grown gay icon [see more here]? Oh, YES!!

[Thanks, John-John! Let's hope the official video is released soon...]

As ever, dear reader, let me know your thoughts...

Tuesday, 24 August 2021

Koroleva nochi!

Happy 30th birthday today to...

...Ukraine!

By way of a celebration, let's have a "kitsch-fest" [a musical style with which this nation is not unfamiliar], courtesy of a lady I "discovered" way back in 2013 - the singer, TV presenter and comedian known as "Super Blonde", Miss Olya Polyakova!

She's a bit of a Ukrainian gay icon. Can't imagine why...

She likes the seaside - and carrots...

....and finally... this sort of thing always happens to me when I'm shopping in the market:

Love her!

[Koroleva nochi (Королева Ночи) = "Queen of the Night" in English]

Tuesday, 29 October 2013

Oh, those Ukrainians - no 439 in a series



Oh. My. Word.

We at Dolores Delargo Towers always love discovering a new, and especially camp, wannabee diva from foreign climes!

And here's another one from that eternal melting-pot of pop-kitsch (think Svetlana Loboda, Asiya Akhat, Kamaliya (also here) or indeed the marvellous Kazaky) - the Ukraine.

She's blonde, she's brassy, she's completely and utterly bonkers - laydeez'n'gentlemen, here's Miss Olya Polyakova!!

In Russian Style, she gets her boys to show us how to keep warm in mid-winter - with lots of baby oil...


For some reason she was not picked to represent the Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2012 with Petal. Heaven knows why not...


She takes cartoon life to a level not seen since the heady days of Aqua with Shlepki:


And here is her newest single, Lioli, Lioli:


Which you must agree is classy.

Well, maybe not - but Miss Polyakova knocks loads of the other attitude-laden pop trash that haunts our charts into a cocked hat, as far as I am concerned!

Her country may have a terrible gay rights record (that Mr Elton John spoke out against) almost as bad as its neighbour Russia, but it seems the Ukraine is unbeatable for tackiness at the moment.

Olya Polyakova on Wikipedia (translated badly into English by Google).

[Thanks again to the lovely Henry at Barbarella's Galaxy. Of course!]