Time flies, so do the years, you’re a boomer and you don’t even know how it happened

It worked out incredibly well for us today, we are shooting the interview on St. Valentine’s Day and it will be released exactly on the day of your important life anniversary, are you looking forward to it?

It’s confirmed that I’m a boomer tut because today, as you listen to this podcast, is my …th birthday (could not be understood, editor’s note). We were born in 1963, and in her youth she thought that I could not live to that age. When I was twenty, anyone in their forties was dead to me. And I told myself that I don’t want to live to see it and that when it gets close, I’ll drive my car into the wall like Jason Pollock. It seemed to me that it would be an awfully long time.

You see, time goes by, so do the years, you’re a boomer and you don’t even know how it came. It came quietly, suddenly, and the funny thing is that I don’t feel that age at all. My daughters always remind me of this when I behave or dress inappropriately. It’s just there and you can’t do anything about it.

Did it occur to you that, unlike in the past, age is not the end for many people these days? Have you thought about it?

I thought about it and I’m glad that I live in this time and that I’m a generation that has it differently. My grandmother, already in her fifties, was simply a grandmother, a corpulent old lady who wore a polka dot nylon apron and a headscarf. And when she was sixty, she really was an old woman. So I’m very happy that times have changed, we live differently and we have conveniences and options to not grow old prematurely and stupidly. And I think that when a person is healthy, he cannot wish for more. It only depends on you, how you live, what you do, how you feel, what your life philosophy is or who and what you surround yourself with.

I have a lot of young people around me and I have always maintained a good relationship with my daughters, I consider them as kindred spirits and I am also friends with their friends. And now I have new friends, and they are my son’s classmates, they are absolutely perfect, they tickle me and I sometimes fool around with them. Although I’m probably the oldest mother in their class, I can relate to their interests and troubles. It’s about what you do and how you live.

We have the feast of St. Valentine’s Day, which some completely hate, and some the opposite. How are you doing with holidays of this type?

I have a very tolerant attitude towards them. It didn’t concern me, it wasn’t for us. I’m not saying that we were better and I try to avoid such stupid sentences, every old person says them. And it’s logical, times change, people develop, and yet we won’t be the same as before. But I definitely try to avoid judging something or claiming that what we lived was better. It was just different. I respect and tolerate Valentine’s Day, Halloween and all kinds of holidays. That’s just the way it is and let the young people enjoy it.

Let’s go to the topic of social networks. It is said that even in our little show business it cannot be done without them. What do you think about it?

I don’t think it would have been possible without it. It’s a personal approach of everyone and how they set it up – they can work with them or ignore them. I’m coming to this with a terrible delay, a year and a half ago I had a push-button Nokia and it had no networks. I was under pressure from my creative team, so a new phone came in, which I thought was a good thing because it allows me to do a lot of cool things.

But I am not stuck on it, how many times I have it in my bag and I have no idea who wrote or called. I take it that it is very nice to have absolutely everything in it, including emails, which is practical. I started a network and forced myself to somehow work with them and make some contributions there, but I have to say that I don’t enjoy it at all.

Baron, believe me, you are in the right place here and there is no danger of me influencing you in this. Let’s take it as such that for the current generation moving in the artistic environment, social networks are a bit of a necessity in terms of communication.

You’re absolutely right. With the younger generation, it is a matter of course, they know how to work with them very well, and new professions like influencers have even emerged. Some make a regular living from it. I only got to it at a later age and the time spent on the networks does nothing for me and I am no longer interested in what other people are doing and where they were for dinner.

I still love to read and books are my number one pastime. That is, if we are not paired with girlfriends or daughters. It goes around me, but I understand that young people take it as an integral part of their lives. I dare say that I’m in show business for some Friday and that I don’t have to introduce myself anymore, so it doesn’t count that I have networks and I’m active on them.

I probably already know the answer, but I’ll ask as a practice question: If you had to choose between a nice weekend and a new iPhone?

There is nothing to solve, the iPhone is completely next to me.

I found photos from your early days and realized that guys went not only for your singing, but also for your legs and the way you looked. Did you realize that at the time?

I realized it only after it started to be solved. I’ve known since I was young that my legs and ass are prettier than my face. And it still looks good. I instinctively felt that it would be good to sell it on stage. I enjoyed drawing attention to myself – I wore bold costumes and was very provocative.

Which at that time was times two at least.

We lived in a “turner” and it’s a shame that today’s young people don’t know what it was about. You can talk about it, but if you don’t experience it, you don’t know the context or the atmosphere. I think in the eighties I was brave in that respect. And when the reactions came, I thought, why not enjoy it and not be an exhibitionist.

What positive thing did you take from the past? Although it was not an easy period.

Probably friendship, communication with people – we got together more and were together, we went to pubs, talked and people were connected. If someone had a video player at home, forty people gathered at his place on Fridays, drank, talked and watched movies. We enjoyed it and experienced it at the same time.

They went to concerts, read samizdat editions of banned books, and the human connection worked. Today people do not communicate with each other, I see a family come to a restaurant, sit down at the table and instead of talking to each other, they take out their mobile phones. And it remained in me that a person is there for others, it is beautiful to have friends and share experiences with them and to be close to you when you are sad or have problems.

Do you envy the current generation?

Travel, absolute freedom and freedom. Not the absolute one, when they can buy, literally, whatever they want, because then it is difficult for them to be brought up to modesty and humility. And I have to use the awkward phrase again that it was completely different for us, because we had an absolute ball. So when my mom brought me a package of Tuzex chewing gum, it was a ritual, I chewed the gum for about half a year and put the piece of paper on display in the display case.

We appreciated everything, but I can’t force it on the children. I tried to raise them to appreciate things and not take everything for granted. I envy today’s generation the absolute freedom, the opportunity to study and travel all over the world.

Today’s podcast will be published on your round birthday. Are you planning any tours or concerts on this occasion?

No. I’m not good at this and never have been. The best party for me will be a party with my girls. There is a surprise coming, yesterday we received a text saying that I should get out of bed and that the car will be parked in front of the barracks at 17:30. I don’t know where I’m going and what’s going to happen, but it’s definitely going to be crazy fun. We give each other crazy gifts connected to some experience. We’re looking forward to it and we’ll be kicking ass.

Of course, I will also make a family dinner “seriously”, but I have never thought of celebrating my birthday in public. I like my profession, I appreciate being a singer, but there are more important things in life for me. I have concerts all year round.

It’s fun. And the older I get, the more I realize the fact that my life’s dream has come true, because I wanted to become a singer since I was five years old. I always played Helena Vondráčková or Marta Kubišová at home, put a rag like long hair on my head, a stick in my hand and sang it with them, lived in it and longed for it.

It’s unbelievable that it really happened, which I realize, for example, during the thanksgiving at concerts. I appreciate it because it’s not just like that and I’m terribly grateful that it happened and that I can do this profession. And I would like to do some more Fridays for her as long as the voice is working.

And when it comes, what are your next plans?

I want to devote myself to children and I look forward to my daughters having children, because children are the most beautiful and important thing that I could experience in my life. I regret not having more, but thank God for these three. I’m looking forward to the girls having boobs and me being a grandma.

I will write because writing accompanies me – I published books last year and the year before, and I take it as a form of self-realization.

What were her beginnings in the bands Precedens and Stromboli? How were concert costumes created during totalitarianism? How important was performing in musicals to her? And how did her children react to her fame? Listen to the podcast at the beginning of the article.