When it comes to arts, the left have the belief they have it all made. But what happens when ‘The State’ starts to control the art and calls the shots? Look no further then Soviet Era poster boy ‘La La’ Eduard Khil, this You Tube has to be seen to be believed.
Craig Edwards
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Say what you will about the melody….the lyrics were catchy.
I don’t what would’ve been worse, watching this on a black and white flicking Ekran TV or wiping my buttock with year old copies of Pravda.
OK the reason for the La La La’s?
This song originally had words and was an ordinary song. The song itself was a narrative about a cowboy riding a horse to his farm.
But the Soviet Artistic Council censored almost all of the song text due to its unsoviet nature. Cowboy and farm were especially criticized. The word cowboy brought to mind associations with saloons and showdowns, and the word farm was controversial because all private, incollective forms of agriculture were prohibited in the Soviet Union. The Commission’s verdict was to rewrite the entire song. This created several problems. First, it would take a significant amount of time to rewrite the text and have it approved. There was another problem: other singers were pretending to be the first performers of the song. With no time to spare, Khil suggested singing the song without words, instead vocalizing tro-lo-lo and tra-la-la. This seemed like a good idea as there was nothing controversial or punishable for such a performance.
So once again, Socialism not only sucked the life out of arts, it also forced censorship upon it…