Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Wonderland Wednesday: Ukrainian Alice in Wonderland Music Videos


So today's post is going to be a little different. This blog post was written to be a companion to today's video on my YouTube channel. As most of you know, my longest running YouTube series is Wonderland Wednesday, and today's video (which is my season finale) is all about a series of strange music videos that I found while browsing YouTube one night. I don't have a whole lot of context for them, except that they are from a Ukrainian musical, and information about that musical is extremely scarce, at least in English. I used Google translate and copy/paste searched a bunch of Russian(Ukrainian?) text and found some info, but not nearly as much as I'd have liked. I really wanted to find the movie itself, but that search turned up nothing. I did find the trailer though, so if you're interested, here's that.



So this blog post is basically a compiled resource for my followers on YouTube to come to watch the music videos themselves. You probably won't understand anything in them, I know I don't, but I still enjoyed watching them, and the music was pretty catchy. If you did not come here from the video, and would like to watch it, I will have that included here as well.



Basically all I know about these videos is that they are from a Ukrainian, made-for-TV Christmas/New Years Alice in Wonderland musical. I have not been able to watch the movie itself, so I am simply guessing what order these should be in, based on  my knowledge of the book, and the content of the videos. Which I don't understand. So it's entirely possible that I'm completely wrong. Oh well. I enjoyed these anyway. If you know me, you know I love a lot of music from all over the world, so this was just right up my alley. The music in these videos are all extremely catchy, and they have a surprisingly high production value, so even if you don't speak Russian, or Ukrainian, or whatever language it turns out that they are using, you should still enjoy at least a few of these.

In case you're interested, the artists and title translations came from this page.
http://www.kievpostproduction.com/en/2015/02/5631

Irina Bilyk - "I Got Involved up to my Ears"



Alexandr Krivoshapko - "I am Your Chebuvashka"



Svetlana Tarabarova - "World of Wonders"



Jamala - "Simple and Easy"



Dima Kolyadenko - "Aphrodisiac"



Potap & Nastya, Alexandr Krivoshapko - "It's Like Beating on a Drum"



Sergey Pisarenko & Evgeniy Nikishin - "Oh Mamochki!"



Anastasiya Stotskaya - "My Knave"



Vitaliy Kozlovskiy - "Not Mine"



Anastasiya Stotskaya - "You are Only Mine!"



Vitaliy Kozlovskiy & Svetlana Tarabarova - "You and I"



Laima Vaikule - "Make the Wish"



Cast - "Welcome New Year!"



Edit 11/30/2017: Holy cow! It took less than 24 hours before one of my subscribers was able to track down the full movie for me! I am shocked! Thank you, Matthew Darby! I will link you to the page with the movie below, in case any of you want to watch it! I think I'll have to review the full movie now!

http://alisa.kanalukraina.tv/ru/episode/myuzikl-alisa-v-strane-chudes

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