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I would like to visit that guy's world some time.

Maybe take a gun though, just in case.

Love how pleased he seems to be with himself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQZXikshjqQ

such teeth, such hair

he does have a bit of a http://www.pollsb.com/photos/o/20077-lost_highway.jpg look going for him.

The man singing is Edward Hill, also known as Eduard Khil', or, better yet, Эдуард Хиль. According to his Russian Wikipedia page, Hill was born in Smolensk in 1934, and finished his studies at the Leningrad Conservatory in 1960. By 1974 he had been named a People's Artist of the USSR, and in 1981 he was awarded the Order of the Friendship of Peoples. He is best known for his interpretations of the songs of the Soviet composer, Arkadii Ostrovskii. As for the peculiar name, I could find no information, but imagine that he is descended from the English elite that had established itself in western Russian cities by the 17th century. He is not a defector of the Lee Harvey Oswald generation. He is entirely Russian.

The song he is interpreting, "I Am So Happy to Finally Be Back Home," is an Ostrovskii composition, and it is meant to be sung in the vokaliz style, that is to say sung, but without words. I have seen a number of comments online, ever since a flurry of interest in Hill began just a few days ago, to the effect that this routine must have been meant as a critique of Soviet censorship, but in fact vokaliz was a well established genre, one that seems close in certain respects to pantomime.

Recent interest in Hill has to do with the perceived strangeness, the uncanniness, the surreal character of this performance. There is indeed something uncanny about a lip-synch to a song with no words, and his waxed face and hair helmet certainly do not carry over well. But once one does a bit of research, one learns that the number was not conceived out of some desire to cater to the so-bad-it's-good tastes of the Western YouTube generation, but in fact was meant to please --to genuinely please-- Soviet audiences who were capable of placing this routine, this man, and this song into a familiar context. The audiences would recognize, for example, that the same number had been performed by the Azerbaidzhani singer Muslim Magomaev in a film from the early 1960s, The Blue Spark.

awesome

one learns that the number was not conceived out of some desire to cater to the so-bad-it's-good tastes of the Western YouTube generation, but in fact was meant to please --to genuinely please-- Soviet audiences who were capable of placing this routine, this man, and this song into a familiar context.

so in other words it is not "'authentic'/'culturally relevant,'" but merely a Welk-ian crowd-pleaser

learnin'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oavMtUWDBTM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTpfR_Ec9pA

http://news.kremlin.ru/media/events/photos/big/41d2bbbbeb8e90156cbe.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/386651959_b2bcb266f6_o.jpg

Amazing:

Interesting analysis. You mentioned the setting, and his genial wave to the audience, but one of the truly odd things to my mind is how there clearly isn't an actual audience. He's acting as though there is one. Similarly, there aren't real words, but he's presenting the text as though he's saying something.

This contrasts with Magomaev's performance, which is believable in part because we can see other people. Wordless song isn't unheard of, and scatting in nightclubs is pretty recognized.

Hill's performance is a caricature of a performance, accentuating the purely physical, performative aspects of song (melody, gesture, presence), but missing some of the communicative particulars that we might consider integral to the performance of song (lyrics, audience). Individually, these particulars wouldn't be so striking, but combined, they amount to, as you say, a truly uncanny approach.

Oh god I'm dying. I love the bit of random laughter where he's gesturing like there's people there with him.

Uhhhhhhhh . . . holy shit. That is both the funniest and creepiest thing I've seen in a long time.

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this guy and his little song have been popping into my head every so often since i first watched it yesterday. not gonna lie, he makes me kind of happy.

he makes me trolo lol ololololol

ok, i have a qwerstion -- is the "wordless version of a song" an old russian popular song tradition, or was it a soviet thing? as in, non-linguistic, universal, uplifting to all peoples etc etc. well?

i guess i could read that blog analysis huh.

On the train watching this and had to turn it off almost instantly because I was about to pee myself loling. The bit where he looks into the camera head on and does that lalalala bit in a deep voice is chilling.
NGL tho, creeper factor aside, there is a weird charm to this.

It would appear all I have to do in my office is to start singing "trollolololollolol" quietly to myself to drive one of my workmates BATSHIT MAD, hahah AWESOME.

i watched this without sound while listening to the Yoga album, "Megafauna", and man did it creep me out

http://www.gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyAKBuU72p4

The thing that strikes me about this version is that even tho it's the same song, it's like night and day.

One is very good, a far more recognizable context: dude in early 60s nightclub and early 60s clothes scats to a swingin' tune with an exotica/latin jazz beat.

The other is a fuckin' replicant.

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2009/03/eef-beat-manifesto.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8NOxoZ3rZc

still kickin'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuVlhT4-n3A

http://trololololololololololo.com/fraud.png

http://trololololololololololo.com vs http://www.trolololololololololol.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ78IlJs5JQ

http://i47.tinypic.com/2i7xoat.jpg

“I learned it from my grandson. He came to me and said: “Grandpa, you have millions of views on the Internet. Do you remember that song of yours? It is very popular now.” He then told me that the song was very popular in the United States of America. He said it in a very funny way: “The song has many clients in America,” that’s what he said,” Eduard Khil said smiling.

I just watched that video of Leland's dance with the volume off listening to "Spangle" by Seefeel and it was pretty wow

This is one of the best things on the internet right now.

Never before have I wanted to sing "trolololololololololol" so emphatically.

“I learned it from my grandson. He came to me and said: “Grandpa, you have millions of views on the Internet. Do you remember that song of yours? It is very popular now.” He then told me that the song was very popular in the United States of America. He said it in a very funny way: “The song has many clients in America,” that’s what he said,” Eduard Khil said smiling.

― nakhchivan, Friday, March 12, 2010 7:40 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

:D

Eduard addresses the internet, gives thanks, offers a challenge:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRefK6OyvHU

Watching people watch him:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_NrrQLVloo

:D :D :D

what a genius

ps his stuff about the universal positive energy of a melody having meaning for all peoples makes me want to ask this again:

ok, i have a qwerstion -- is the "wordless version of a song" an old russian popular song tradition, or was it a soviet thing? as in, non-linguistic, universal, uplifting to all peoples etc etc. well?

i guess i could read that blog analysis huh.

― goole, Thursday, March 4, 2010 12:11 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

love this guy

How can you tell there's no audience behind camera?

i can't believe this has gotten as big as it has. it's funny, but... ?

It is light diversion in a stressful time. Also he is the new herald of spring, a 21st century swallows of Capistrano.

He's got funny hair and funny teeth and a bizarro funny face/eyebrows wot looks like the evil ventriloquist's doll from that Anthony Hopkins movie.

http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/7167/evilso.jpg

<3 Christopher Waltz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUbGcRJUDu0&feature=player_embedded

http://gizmodo.com/5499982/

new iPhone app!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIR3XFuY4Qs

^ genius

Elsewhere in this shadowy netherworld:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KppaDz6oAYE

pls to explain how I convert YouTubes into ringtones

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

http://gawker.com/5914217/mr-trololo-eduard-khil-fighting-for-his-life-following-stroke

Dammit. I hope he pulls thru! Get better Ed Khil!

What if he can only trolololo from now on

:(