On a cliff hit field. We listen to the finalists of “Latvian Heart Songs” / Article

My whole childhood is one single “Bypass”. My cousin interpreted the complicated song for the then freshly released song “Strawberries” as “pē-dē -ēdē-dojo once”, inserting one extra “eat” in the middle, because the authors had not calculated that the long “eat” in a child’s lungs could be a challenge. In turn, the song “Dandelions” connects me with the day when we tried to learn the lyrics with the same cousin, as a result of which I missed the last bus home and also the opportunity to visit the cousin more often.

Outside of “Bypass”, there were other hit musicians in my childhood sounds.

For example, she danced like at the age of six at Viktor Zemgals’ “Flower of Magnolia”, which someone ordered almost every week in the program “Congratulations!”, I have never lived again.

Unfortunately, I no longer find a clip in the internet labyrinths with beautiful dancers in red (probably flamenco) dresses.

However, my favorite memory related to hit music is a trip in late autumn from the candlelight evening to Varakļāni cemetery, when a gloomy mood was cut with a knife by a song played on the radio. Among other things, it asked a question that doesn’t bother me after living in Riga for ten years – “Where does the smell of shit stay when a farmer drives in Riga?” (quoted from memory).

To avoid misunderstandings and accusations that I have been in a warm relationship with the hit only as a child and due to other people’s tastes and influences, then my guilty pleasure list still includes such musical achievements as

Raimondas Vazdika’s “Promise Me Nothing”, whose ornamental scream “aāāāāāāāāāāāāāāā” resonates exactly with my adult life experiences.

Last weekend, a friend and I were walking through the central streets of Riga singing the “Chicago Five” song “Our Love”, and he remembered how

already in his light teenage years, he was encouraged every morning on the radio waves by the group’s “but bet” call – “Come on! Let it come! May a hard day come! ”

Not only me and my friends like to pawn on this direction of music, but also rapper Armand from the association “STA”, creating the legendary parody “Always You”, which at least I took and still take too seriously and deeply personally.

About the finalists of “Latvian Heart Songs”

Only superficially looking at the list of finalists of this year’s survey of the program “Latvian Heart Songs”, among whom, unfortunately, I do not find my already mentioned personal favorite performers of hit music, I made some conclusions:

• strong white dominance in the names – “White Jasmine”, “White Flowers” ​​(which is probably about the same jasmine shrub) and “Clouds white and roses”;
• the legendary “Zeļļi”, “Lauku muzikanti” and “Kantoris 04” for life (like “Līvi”);
• Sabine Berezina’s musical to-do list leaves only a tick in the box next to the commitment to try her voice death metal genre;
• Aigariņš, whose most famous composition is “It is very good to have hands”, turns out to be not a single hit miracle and is currently focusing on the world of people’s feelings.

A short summary of song themes: