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Once again, it is naptime.
Jan. 28th, 2008 02:15 pm
Well, I was browsing Wikipedia, and you know how it is, you start off trying to find some information on hats and such, but before you know it, you're reading about popular songs of Communist youth organizations.
Which is how I got here, and I wasn't exactly surprised to read that it has retained its popularity after the fall of Communism in its countries, nor that it used to be sung by preschoolers. I mean, if the translation is at all accurate, it's a song about a little kid drawing a picture and being all saccharine about it! What's not to love and be nostalgic about? And once communism fell, those preschool teachers still had to sing songs and teach, right? Why not keep the ones the kids already knew, at least the ones that didn't explicitly go out and go "Yeah! Communism totally rocks!"?
Well, you know, kids songs are an abiding interest (not a passion, just an interest) of mine, so I wanted to know the melody. Surprisingly, it's not that hard to find recordings of the chorus in English, but I really can't settle for that. So I've spent the past half an hour diligently searching, until (finally) coming across the Youtube recording of some schoolkids singing this song. Apparently, schools everywhere* are the same as the ones in the US in some very important ways.
Anyway, now that I've found it, I can hopefully put this entire incident out of my mind.
This has been your daily update into What Connie Does When Bored.
*I've been singing Finlandia a lot lately, and yes, that echos the lyrics. Don't ask me why. Once I went through six months accidentally finding myself humming Dixie at the worst possible times. It wasn't stuck in my head (thank goodness), it'd just come out my mouth once in a while. Drove me batty.
Which is how I got here, and I wasn't exactly surprised to read that it has retained its popularity after the fall of Communism in its countries, nor that it used to be sung by preschoolers. I mean, if the translation is at all accurate, it's a song about a little kid drawing a picture and being all saccharine about it! What's not to love and be nostalgic about? And once communism fell, those preschool teachers still had to sing songs and teach, right? Why not keep the ones the kids already knew, at least the ones that didn't explicitly go out and go "Yeah! Communism totally rocks!"?
Well, you know, kids songs are an abiding interest (not a passion, just an interest) of mine, so I wanted to know the melody. Surprisingly, it's not that hard to find recordings of the chorus in English, but I really can't settle for that. So I've spent the past half an hour diligently searching, until (finally) coming across the Youtube recording of some schoolkids singing this song. Apparently, schools everywhere* are the same as the ones in the US in some very important ways.
Anyway, now that I've found it, I can hopefully put this entire incident out of my mind.
This has been your daily update into What Connie Does When Bored.
*I've been singing Finlandia a lot lately, and yes, that echos the lyrics. Don't ask me why. Once I went through six months accidentally finding myself humming Dixie at the worst possible times. It wasn't stuck in my head (thank goodness), it'd just come out my mouth once in a while. Drove me batty.
