@@PaulMichaels2010 First of all he is a man 😉. And I was really happy that Serbia won. The song is powerful, in their own language, she has a great voice and her emotions were real. The song is a real jewel. I'm ukrainian and yes it would be great if we would have won, but Serbia deserved it
I C O N I C Verka is an absolute Eurovision legend. You must've seen her make an appearance at last year's contest. She led an entire minute of crowd dancing. It was cringe turned up to eleven but it was incredible.
Yes, I know. But Verka is a drag persona, and traditionally feminine pronouns are used to refer to the character, like how Conchita Wurst is referred to using "she" and "her." It's part of the act.
Aleksa Janic The character performing is called Conchita and it's a she. If the performer wanted to come as a male, you'd be justified in saying he. But Conchita is a she and there's no reason for your ignorant, (apparently) homophobic ass to keep blabbing "HE, HE, HE" when everyone's calling the performer a she. Fuck right off. It's 2018, people can be whatever the fuck they want to be.
Andriy Danilko - is the legendary Ukrainian comedian. He is a genius. In the post-Soviet space he is a mega popular. Verka Serdyuchka's image has undergone a very large transformation. At first she did not sing. It was a train guide with a monologue.
There are two types of joke entries, the bad ones and the memorable good ones. And this is included among the second type. As many said verka is a legend of Eurovision, she brought the party and craziness to the stage. All the stadium danced with this entry and it was all about fun! I miss this kind of entries, they were more popular in the 2000's
I recall seeing her on home stage, on the open air arena at annual Humor festival in Odessa. I was scared that the construction we're staying on would break and fail apart, people jumped so hard :) Verka always brings her AAA+ energy :)
Here's some tips - Danilko(a straight guy) is a comedian artist, Verka is an act. Comedian act. Apparently someone thought it's gonna be a great idea to send her to compete vocally. Surprisingly enough it got 2nd place that year.
He started as a comedian with this scenic image of Verka and went on with it as a singer. He has a lot of amazing songs, they are especially popular at weddings.
Oh, come on, "straight" Andrey Danilko... google После тебя, his instrumental album and 2 music videos published under his real name. He actually kinda came out with those clips and album in 2004, and there was a bit of a scandal, but everyone prefers to forget about it (people think that Danilko being gay or bisexual ruins Serduchka for some reason). He doesn't discuss his personal life in detail, but he surely drops hints here and there. Don't label people straight if you don't actually know.
This man had a huge conflict with Russia because they thought that he was singing 'Russia goodbye'. Verka is a queeeeen! She appeared in ESC 2017 in small videos and then she danced with the crowd :) And people still remember this act, omg it happened 11 years ago...
His name is Andrei Danilko. He used to be a comic actor for a years, and become popular as a comic actor. He uses different roles, but people most liked him in the role of train stuardess Verka Serduchka. In one of the performances he desided to use a funny song. People liked it. Sinse that Verka became a singer too. So it's just a role)))
In Greece we still play this grazy funny legendary song at clubs!!! So funny days at Eurovision. Nice to have good entries and ballads....but we have missed funny and kits entries!!
This performance and the performer have become legendary 😂 Go to a costume party for Eurovision and someone is sure that be dressed as Verka 😂 I remember being in high school and watching this, laughing that he looked exactly like a female teacher I hated 😂
Verka is a drag Queen ,his real name is Andrew Danylko, Verka finished second in 2007, Andrew is also Melovin' guardian angle and biggest supporter, his Verka is one of the biggest legend in Eurovision history of whole time:) he also said he went to Eurovision just to have fun:D
Tala Garson and the rest of us are so grateful that we now happily dance every year to dancing lasha...an epic performance. Thank you VERKA ❤️ ( fan from Denmark 🇩🇰 )
Eurovision had way better entries back in the day because artists made fun of a lot of different topics and countries weren't afraid to send in crazy stuff like this. Now everything is taken so seriously it gets kinda boring watching Eurovision. (she finished 2nd btw)
Could not disagree more - i share a passion for hating protestsongs in the contest because they don't bring anything constructive to the development of the show - thank god that EBU choose the 2-semifinal-format and brought back the juries, because the overall quality of the music in the contest has only improven ever since..
A lot of people in Ukraine were not supporting Verka and her song! It caused protests and they even burned her scarecrow on the Majdan Square. It were the times with no national selection. When she was at the airport, she said that not once, only few people were there for her, there was nobody else, no fans, nothing! It was because Verka represent country and everyone would think everyone in Ukraine is like that, or at least a lot of people (which is obviously not true). But after the second place everyone loved her, it is an eternal love! And I can say she is not over it. But where is Maria Šerifović? Everyone talks only about Verka! I like him, Andriy Danylko, he is a big talent! I hope he will be doing better soon!
1) Ukraine 2007 was a novelty song that got up all the way to 2nd place, just behind Serbia 2007's Molitva. Delightfully enough, Verka also PERFORMED just after Serbia (the two dudes flanking Verka were wearing 18s on their shirts because they were act number 18, while Molitva was act number 17 in that Final ... this event took place literally less than a minute after the emotional end of Serbia's performance, and it can be fun to watch the two clips back to back to re-create that juxtaposition) 2) The extreme success of Ukraine 2007, as well as the victory of Lordi's Hard Rock Hallelujah in 2006, were a huge factor in the return of The Juries to the scoring process for Eurovision. At this point in time, there was ONLY a popular televote system to determine the winner, and there was an escalating "arms race" of increasingly-zany novelty behavior and increasingly-intense neighbor-voting pervading more and more of the acts, because novelty aspects like Demon-Metal-Group from the Nordic bloc and Silver-Teletubby-Drag-Queen from the Slavic bloc were suddenly consistently topping the contest. Ireland 2008's Irelande Douze Pointe was a deliberately-misspelled, deliberately-trolling novelty-act mock-protest of this trend, while Latvia 2008's Wolves of the Sea was a further continuation of this extreme-novelty-act trend ... both songs saw intensive booing from the audience. The sky-high tensions about acts like Verka and Lordi and those novelty-acts in 2008 led to an even larger jury influence in 2009 and later, eventually giving us the present "Juries Count For Half" system we have now. All of this Jury weighting is there to tamp down the total level of annual novelty-acts to more modest stuff (getting more modest placement) like Moldova's My Lucky Day this year and Romania's Yodel It last year. 3) Verka Serduchka is the incredibly-campy drag queen persona of the male Ukrainian actor/singer/songwriter Andrei Danilko. If you go back to the intro bit of Dancing Lasha Tumbai, you will see that right under the title-and-singer line, the music composer and the lyricist for the song were both listed as Andrei Danilko. That *entire* performance was pretty much a One-Man Novelty Act, and in that novelty act, Verka is not meant to convincingly pass for an actual biological female. You, the viewer, are supposed to figure out that she has to be a drag queen or something. 4) The character of Verka is a tacky, sleazy, self-absorbed, drunken lush of a woman (hence the '69' on the back of her jersey, the gigantic silver star on her head, the constant grabbing of her own bosom, and the smacking of her backup singer's butts), who is usually singing about getting drunk and partying. Hence, in this song, after saying (in German) that she doesn't understand English, she loudly tells the audience "Let's Speak DANCE!" and starts to get down. 5) Above and beyond being a ludicrous roller-coaster of the most upbeat novelty act imaginable, this entire performance is also several different subtle-onion-layers worth of The Most Epic Trolling Ever Allowed Onto The Eurovision Stage: a) Verka officially "does not understand English", and also officially "sometimes performs while inebriated", combining to give Verka's performances occasional "drunken slurrings" where she "accidentally on-purpose" mispronounces several the "official" lyrics written by her songwriter/composer alter ego, Andrei Danilko. b) An obvious and relatively-innocuous example of this "accidental" mispronunciation giving rise to alternate meaning is in the choruses, where there are multiple quartet-repeats of the written line, "I want to see", followed by either "ah-a" or by the title-line "Lasha Tumbai". Verka repeatedly shifts the emphasis and pacing and articulation of those assorted "I want to see" lines, so that different bits will sound like "I want you, see?" and "I want, you see ..." and "I want to see". So far, so fair, just a quirky trick of performance to give added value on repeat listening. c) "According to Verka", the only lyric she sings over and over in the chorus and the title of the song is "Lasha Tumbai", which is supposed to be a Mongolian phrase meaning "to churn butter", being used in an erotic, suggestive manner. In actual reality, "Lasha Tumbai" is a nonsense phrase with no actual meaning in Mongolian or in any other language ... but when Verka "drunkenly slurs" the phrase now and again, while waving to the audience, the whole line can now-and-again sound exactly like "I want, you see (waves) Russia Goodbye" or "I want to see ... Russia Goodbye". Entirely accidental, of course! d) For an even Deeper Cut, there is an "improvisational" call-out to the live audience in the stadium in Helsinki, Finland. Officially, Verka calls out to the audience "Helsinki! Руки, Руки! ну ну ну!", which would officially be pronounced "Ruki Ruki! Nu nu nu!" and which would officially be a cheer line meaning roughly "Hands hands!" (as in "get your hands up!") and "Well well well!" or "Yeah yeah yeah!". But when Verka "drunkenly slurs" the repeat of 'Руки' and cuts each 'ну' short, it can sound a lot like "Ruski! Ruski! No! No! No!" ... Entirely accidental, of course! You'd have to be paranoid to think Verka did that on purpose! The entire live performance is, quite simply, a grade-A-quality novelty act that is also probably the most astoundingly-brazen open trolling of Russia ever to air on a nationwide live broadcast INSIDE Russia, while having 100% official deniability. (As a side effect, this performance killed many aspects of Danilko's touring career inside Russia, afterward.)
Jake, you just made my day!!! I came back home tired after work, opened youtube and your video pumped up first. Thank you for reacting at verka Serdyuchka FINALLY! Sending you a hug! :)
Telling the truth , i thought you would not do it. Now you start understanding Eurovision and what people want to see: Verka got 2nd place, Netta 1st place. Just think....
OK 👌 Happy end 🤣 Verka is a big troll of Eurovision. I mean that performance had actually all you are expecting to see on Eurovision stage: glitter, crazy dancing, mysterious 69 (is it a message? Lol), a simple verse to sing along, and - in case one didn’t notice - there is a big Star ⭐️
Verka is a symbol of Eurovision for most eurofans. Every year there are lots of people dressed like Verka, they're waiting to see her again. And omg i still watch in 2018 :-)
He started as a stand up comedian reading monologues in that character, he is an actor playing this character, the song finished 2nd and BBC made a report about them
Yes another video! Thanks so much x. It finished 2nd and that guy (yes he is a guy) is a very funny comedien that we learned when Eurovision was hosted in his country 1 year ago is very famous in his country. He made some very funny sketches in the semi finals and the final last year during Eurovision 2017 so you can find that here on RU-vid if you look at the semi final shows and final show of Eurovision 2017. He even performed this song again.
Verka is an absolute Eurovision legend. We all love this song. Some were even speculating he says 'I want to see Russia goodbye'. Not sure if in the end it was true but it does sound like he says it?
Сердючка - це чоловік, перевдітий в жіночий одяг. Це його сценічний образ для Сердючки. Насправді він ще й вокаліст гурту «Бумбокс» і зараз військовий в Україні. І цю пісню він офіційно переіменував на «Russia Goodbye»
Verka Serduchka (simply read as it's written))) is a Ukrainian pop singer, was enormous popular in 2000th))) It's biologically a man who dresses up as a woman only on stage)) You looked so funny as you were trying to find sense in the lyrics of the song))) Don't look for any sense, just have fun!))) It's probably a motto of his shows))) He's a comedian, a talented comedian)) You know, it's really bizarre, that silver dress and star on the head, but the thing is one starts to dance and to laugh or to sing along and enjoys the funny moment, and all the bizarre things don't matter anymore))) Like u so much ;) With love from Ukraine :)
Verka is a drag persona. Have you seen the 2015 movie "Spy", starring Melissa McCarthy? Verka has a cameo in it where she sings Dancing Lasha Tumbai, and it's AMAZING. She also does the end credits song...or something like that.
Verka Serduchka (Andriy Danylko) very popular in our country. He start like comedy actor and his sketches was very good and people still like it. After that he start to sing funny songs like this one. His music we like to use on ukrainian wedding)) And Verka still popular in Europe. She is Eurovision queen:)) I think this performance showing that Ukraine can be very different:)Thanks for your reaction))) Greetings from Ukraine! P.S. In 2007 winner was Maria Sherifovich from Serbia with song "Molitva". Verka get second place.
Thanks. Now you can see, that Eurovision contest is not just vocally but its comedian too.:D Danilko had done a good party. Trully, here were a lot of disputes on this song because "lasha tumbai" was heard like "Russia Goodbye". But for us it was like a beam of good energy from that guy.
Verka serdoyuchka - the image of Andrei Danilka. He is not gay or trans. He took such an image that would ridicule stereotypes about women. And just to ridicule women's vices. In our country in Ukraine it is popular so far. Since this is not an image of a gay man, but a kind parody of a woman. By the way, his songs in the majority were hits in us and throughout the post-Soviet space. Thank you for the video! I like your reviews!
That guy is really talented he writes songs and composes music both funny and serious music and he is comedian and btw if you watched ukrainian national eurovision contest HE WAS IN JURY
This song is the best trolling of Russia, "I want to see you (europe), racha goodbye." Europe has rated it 2nd place this song has taken. After that, the Russian Federation has banned Vera Serdyuchka's journey and shows her songs at them on the territory. After 7 years after, the Russian Federation has introduced troops into Ukraine in order to occupy it, the war is still taking place, Russian troops are hostage to two cities with one million population each
Verca is ICONIC and Always so funny....as soon as the Music starts in every Eurovision, everybody is dancing lasha....the fun part is I want to see RUSSIA GOODBYE....Verka came in second after Russia....
He became famous as a comedian first of all, Verka was one if his stage images among others (policeman, mother...) Then Verka took over, she /he started singing and became very famous in the former USSR. All his songs are funny actually. In this particular song there's no lyrics, words randomly drawn from different languages or just thought up.
Oh my god! I've now watched like all of your videos and still can't figure out who you remind me of! Anyways I really love your reactions and keep the good vibes going :)
Вот и вся воспитанность русского гражданина. Но ты не бойся,я не буду опускаться до твоего уровня. Я украинец,а фамилия досталась от моего деда,он был русским, "Нормальным русским".
Какая грязь? Russia goodbye переводиться как прощай Россия,где тут грязь? Это даже не матюки. А про угнетение ты ещё мне тут поговори,где тут переписана история,или ты хочеш сказать,что голодомор Америка устроила? Теперь про Крым. Ты говориш вы забрали своё, но это противоречит международному праву. После распада СССР все границы были оффициально признаны как миром,так и Россией,даже сам путин говорил,что Москва «давно признала границы сегодняшней Украины». Он говорил, что Крым не является «спорной территорией». Вот ссылка на интервью ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1__EPqhMrFQ.html. Тогда если вы признали границы,зачем тогда забрали уже получаеться Украинский Крым,почему вы тогда сразу не сказали,что мы с границами не согласны отдайте нам Крым?
Ненависть к русским появилась после анексии Крыма. В 2003 году Россия хотела отжать о.Тузла,но не смогла. Но под шумок майдана ей удалось захвать не только Тузлу,но и Крым. Про фашистов полный бред. Просто докажи,что в Украине они есть,я здесь живу и ни одного фашиста не видел,тебе твое СМИ всё что попало накручивает,а ты ведёшся. А про распятого мальчика и двох рабов,это вобще ахинея полная,ну вот пусть покажут видео где вся эта херня есть,тогда и поговорим.
Adina Suciu Well, I'm from Northern Europe and we have a little thing called Google which tells us things we ask it. The lyrics doesn't say Russia Goodbye, but it sounds like it. That's why I wrote so in my comment.
At the beginning of his stand up comedy career Danilko acted some different charakters like firefighter, soldiers, train attendant (Verka ) ...Man characters as well as woman ones. And Verka the train attendant occured to be the most popular.
Marija Serefovic from Serbia was the winner of that year... And yes he plays the character of Verka Serduchka which is not a woman as a character even and he is the funniest being in Ukraine and he's so so famous..... He is a judge for the national jury of Ukraine for the selection to Eurovision... And he finished second in the contest of that year with a small difference away from the winning song
I am from Russia and I remember how our TV news said that Verka was singing Russia Goodbye, it was the beginning of difficulties between Ukraine and Russia. Off top: it’s really sad that our countries still can’t live in peace. Ukraine I love u
His name is Andrey Danilko, but he got really famous as Verka. I kinda stopped watching Russian TV as they stopped inviting him after his entry in Eurovision. Verka was just pure fun
In real life he's a very serious man:)) that's his stage costume. He started out in the 90's as a comedy show in that funny lady costume. And later he started singing. All his songs are in that joke style and good for going crazy at discos:))) And he actually finished in 2nd place on that eurovision 0_0
Finally you saw it😂 Verka is the most popular participant of ESC. If she only would say that she would take part in competition next year, she would have won even without a song😂 It's really difficult to evaluate she only on the performance, Verka first of all a comedian whose task is to give people joy. And after all, a few people remembered that Marija Serifovic has won, but everyone remember and love Verka) Greetings from Ukraine🙌
It was interesting to see how American would react on one of the icons of Ukrainian stage. And I don't know, what I enjoyed more: this performance or your reaction ☺ Both were funny 😄 Meaning of this song? None. That was just for us to smile, laugh and have some fun. Verka did it perfectly, and that is why Ukraine took the 2nd place on ESC 2007.
I'm Russian, and Verka Serduchka is a male, who is an actor/singer who dresses up as a woman to sing, just because it's funny. He's also amazing at joking around, so the fake lady look fits him well! He got 2nd place in 2007.
