Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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Maribor, Slovenia.
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Portoroz, Slovenia.
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The Baby Twins and Ljubezen te udari (Love hits you)
Something very unfortunate happened when the blonde bombshells of Atomik Harmonik made it big: they spawned a whole breed of cheap imitations. Just as Dr. Pepper has to contend with a slew of hastily assembled wannabes, so too are there now knock-off turbo folk groups in Slovenia desperately trying to imitate Atomik’s success. However, as is the case with photocopying, the quality steadily decreases with each new iteration.
Exhibit A is the Turbo Angels, who seemed to have copied everything down to the last detail, except that something just seems slightly odd about them. It’s almost as if they’re the result of inbreeding within Atomik Harmonik. Exhibit B: the Baby Twins, two real-life twins whose video is at the top of this page. The interesting thing about their video is that it’s currently in the top 100 of Google Video Australia, just ahead of the Crazy Frog Christmas video and the “hilarious” video of some fat lady walking on a treadmill, being all fat and stuff. (Lord, if you’re reading this, please strike down the Internet forever. kthxbye!)
The other funny thing about the Baby Twins video is this: at about 26 seconds in, the groovin’ girls (especially the one on the right) seem to struggle to find the rhythm of the song, despite there being a bone-headed beat that sounds like it was taken from The Little Mermaid Electronic Keyboard. But maybe that’s just me seeing things. Sometimes I see things that aren’t there. I think that’s the downside of being insane.