Boom or bust?

Taking our minds off COVID, bankruptcies on the High Street and that fucking shitstorm in America whipped up by the nastiest wannabee-dictator since Pol Pot for a moment - in the Eastern Orthodox church calendar it's actually Xmas today! Festivities are going on in countries including Russia, Macedonia, Serbia, Ethiopia, Egypt, Bulgaria, Georgia, Moldavia...

...and Eastern Europe's home of "tacky music", Ukraine!

By way of a celebration, what could be better than a typically understated number from that country's former Eurovision sensation and Queen of Tackiness herself, Svetlana Loboda?!

Svetlana Loboda - Boom Boom

Class.

We're gonna do the bom bom

So, the sky is clear and the sun is shining - at last, May is doing what it is supposed to, after the grotty and cold snap we've had lately. Unfortunately, all this has come in time for us to return to the delights of the bastard office.

Never mind, eh? We at Dolores Delargo Towers are in full countdown mode to this weekend's Eurovision party, so...

...on this Tacky Music Monday, sod thinking about work, get your skimpiest, most outrageous clobber on, and enjoy the (ahem) talents of Svetlana Loboda!

Svetlana Loboda - Be My Valentine! (Anti-Crisis Girl)

Have a good week, peeps.

One down...

From the BBC:

Ukraine has announced it will not be taking part in next year's Eurovision Song Contest due to limited finances.

"We don't want to do something badly, and we don't have the money to do something well," said Zurab Alasania, of the state broadcaster NTU.

Mr Alasania said the broadcaster had to "optimise" its funds given the unstable financial and political situation caused by the conflict in east Ukraine.

Oh dear. We'll just have to do without such musical campness as these Ukrainian gems...

Ruslana - Wild Dances (which won Eurovision in 2004):

Ruslana - Wild Dances

Last year's entry Mariya Yaremchuk (notable mainly, if not solely, for the presence of the hunky man in the hamster wheel):

Mariya Yaremchuk - Tick-Tock

The country's foremost stripper singer Svetlana Loboda from 2009:

Svetlana Loboda - Be My Valentine! (Anti-Crisis Girl)

...and of course, the irrepressible Verka Serduchka with the wonderful Dancing Lasha Tumbai* (which came second in 2007):

Verka Serduchka - Dancing Lasha Tumbai

There has been no such statement from the aggressors in Russia, unfortunately.

*Incidentally, according to Wikipedia: There have been allegations that the words [Lasha Tumbai] were chosen due to their phonetic resemblance to "Russia Goodbye".

Oh, those Ukrainians

Courtesy (again) of the lovely Teddi, I was introduced to this spectacularly camp diva. With her own particular brand of tackiness, here's Svetlana Loboda!

Svetlana Loboda - Mishka

But why confine yourself to one weird kitsch Ukrainian wannabe diva, when you can have two? Meet Asiya Akhat (with what seems to be an uncredited cameo by Elton John)...

Asiya Akhat - 69