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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.
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Hmmm. Weird little video.
A Slovenian music group singing in a car with Arizona license plates, and looking at a map of North-Eastern Wisconsin.
My question is why in the world of all the maps to pick from; Why would they pick a map of Wisconsin for their video?!
Like Michael Keaton in the film Multiplicity becomes worse by each clonig the same appears to happen by Atomic Harmonic, even when they clone themselves.
it`s no that atomik harmonik are bad, it`s that atomiks are so much better than their spawns and the spawns are testing the audience for how far can they go, before someone rips their heads off and plays soccer with them.
so far, no head ripping activity has been reported…
this is also hilarious piece from baby twins www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC2jQgmYblM
I usually just turn off the sound and enjoy the view.
BTW: Michael… the video seems a bit too wide to fit in the center column on normal monitors. It displays fine on widescreen monitors.
WHoa, babies made it big! And I knew them when they were still oh so tiny
A few years back I was shooting them for a magazine cover. On the bed and all sorts of sick & twisted poses
Then a year later I found out they distributed those photos to every sick & twisted website without my permission… bi@%#$
Michael: That’s a good observation, and wholly inexplicable. I would guess that coherency is at the bottom of their list of priorities.
Davor: I so should have used that analogy. Damn. Glad someone did, though.
And Jernej: some links would be nice, in case someone wants to investigate said sickness and twistedness.
its like children of the corn…
I just had another look at the video… Despite all the props it was apparently shot in Slovenia (at least the train sported Slovene Railways logo).
BTW: The video now displays fine also on normal monitors
There’s only one Dr Pepper.
Now all that’s missing is Agent Mulder arriving at the scene at the end, and checking out the area, no girls, empty car with weird stains, and some crop circles… etc. ;D
As for “turbo folk” designation - I believe the correct term is pop-folk. There is no “turbo folk” in Slovenia (at least I don’t know of any imitators), as there is no “Chalga” here either. Perhaps the correct term for some of these songs is “alpen-pop” or something (a subset of pop-folk, I presume). :))
Aside from pneumatic considerations, that video really is astonishingly bad. And with a name like ‘Baby Twins’ I had such high expectations.
“Now let us never speak of it again”.
Jodl-dirndl-busen-pop, I think.
Nicely spotted there around 6 seconds. I think they should just stop these shenanigans and finally open a decent “alpine” strip club in Ljubljana or somewhere… Now with euros it might be worth while for the girls. The only problem is, there are no 1 euro banknotes. Tipping a stripper with a coin might present some difficulty, albeit I am sure an suitable slot could be arranged.
Thank God only one of them thinks she can sing!
From what I remember blonde & blonder attended the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Fla. - as to how successful they were - there are various reports
Also there is the thing with the ever changing high school diplomas …
www.dz-rs.si/index.php?id=94&o=430&unid=VPP%7C03CF657917C49D2CC125709E00324991&showdoc=1
And now for something completely different.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFRVgbBvx_U
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-ApyDK0uKM
www.lynnmarie.net
O.
Ithink the two of them really are lost Soviet era MOLES, the map and car are part of the whole attempt to change identity, they were trying to pass for Swedish or Norsky or Danish American girls, but then things go horribly wrong and they start to sing in the Wrong Language for where they are lost, in Children of the Corn country.
I like the idea of a strip club featuring drindle wearing jodeling st1riperi! Never mind the slots, just cover the girls in some kind of clear adhesive and let the apprecietive customers stick the 1 Euro coins on their luscious blonde bodies.
KLONIRANJE.
There’s definitely spots of innovation here and there, but in LJ at least the business plan seems to be: see what someone else is doing and copy it.
Most bars offer the same drinks. One starts to offer Belgian beers. They all do. One pizzeria opens a take-away pizza slice shop. Suddenly there’s ten of them. Same with the now rather empty kebab shops.
When I first arrived it was very small local bars, and hairdressing shops.
Wish LJ could copy MB and get a few more interesting bars in.
yeah, not too many corn fields in Arizona and not to many hot blonds visiting northern Wisconsin.