Apparently, you have to be Romanian to actually understand the message, or at least know the historical context, Puya is singing here about the loss of the national entity and the imitation of foreign cultures, plus the beginning of detesting its own origins. This song have a dark face, 'we' used to see America as the country of all possibilities, and when we made analogy with the little Romania, many began to hate that country where they were born, especially after the crisis of 2008 (the crisis which in Romania extended until 2012-13), when a lot of Romanians went across the borders of the country to work and bring money into the country for they family. It was a tough time for some of us. That's why a lot of people got into rap, that was their peace, that made them forget about poverty and shortcomings. Paraziții were among them at first, like the Moromeții or the Bucharest Underground (today knowns as BUG Mafia).
@Andrei Toma not only teahers, people who don't wanna end up wasting their life never make it a habbit (unless Young and silly for a period, most of them stop listening when they grow up.) .
The thing that further drives the song’s point across is that he sings in Romanian and uses English words all the time. An equivalent example in English would be “Man, you’re loco” instead of “Man, you’re crazy”, except that American english terminology has found its way into a lot of other countries’ vocabulary. When he’s singing “You’re no longer going to work, you’re going to the job”, he uses the Romanian term for “work”, “muncă” but he literally says “job”. And the song is full of these pairs of words, the “old” Romanian word vs the americanized term.
Dude, the song is 10 years old, so the lyrics back then made much more sense. And let me explain something, a lot of the verses have sense if you are Romanian and know the subtility behind the lyrics. Let me give you just a simple example from the song : WHEN He says that the scientist that discovered something are from America, he makes reference about the discovery of the insulin ( by a Romanian - Nicolae Paunescu - you can check that fact ) but because of the communist context, the paper could not go out, and the americans make the discovery public and so on. And this song is full of examples. PEACE !
It is still true my man, that is the beauty of revisiting his songs, we havent progressed one little bit. In fact we are more Americanised now than ever. And yeah, cant blame him for not understanding the subtlety, the whole song is about switching from Romanian to English which makes it inherently hard to translate and then there is all of the cultural context on top of that. I mean, this dude didn’t even know about Nadia Comaneci (seriously dude, you could have Googled it during filming the video at least) and what manele are at that time, how tf could he be expected to recognise Iliescu s speech at the start or understand just how true the “we have been speaking English since we were born” line is, or the reference to his previous song, or the lines about the IMF/FMI…As for Paulescu (his actual name, how tf did both of you get it wrong), he literally died in 1931, 16 years before the communists got to power so no, that wasn’t the reason, in fact the communists applauded him in their textbooks. The context was WW1, he was drafted in the army
The first verse covers American stuff that Romania was trying to absorb in its daily life, second verse show what Romania was losing through that, somewhat. The song mainly covers how Romania tries to copy American lifestyles without the basic requirements for such, and changes in daily aspects of life, like language and activities. It was released in early 2000s from what I can remember, as it was everywhere in my childhood.
Cedry2k Acelasi Joc please NADIA COMĂNECI (b. November 12, 1961, [1] [2] Onești, Romania) is a Romanian gymnast, the first gymnast in the world to receive a grade of ten in an Olympic gymnastics competition. She is the winner of five Olympic gold medals. She is considered to be one of the best sportswomen of the twentieth century and one of the best gymnasts in the world, of all time, "Goddess of Montreal", the first gymnast of the modern era who took 10 absolutely. He is the first Romanian athlete included in the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame memorial.
Just because you were talking about friends and brothers, I thought I will share something not many foreigners know and might make you think: Brother in hungarian is testvér. The word testvér is actually composed of two words, test=bodey; vér=blood so your Brother is what? Your bodey and your blood. Maybe a knowledgeseeker reading this will be inspired to look forward .
The song is a diss against the new way of life, because the old way used to be more "natural" and true. But it's slightly out of it's time. And somehow still current.
This song must be listen as a parody to all the ''cultural'' imports, majority from USA and the loosing of national identity. The lyrics contain a lot of irony to the imported american values and forgetting of our national values.
Sup man, React to Parazitii - Something to say feat Raekwon, its full in english and is featured by a Wu-Tang Clan member, Raekwon Also, other rap songs half romanian half english are: Parazitii - Cu microfonul deschis feat Killa Kela and Mc Tripp Parazitii - Mereu la subiect feat Shabazz P.S. Try not to react to "manele" songs...
Manele (singular, manea) or manele music is a musical genre, originating from the Roma ethnic communities in Romania. The genre has influences from Armenian, Greek, Turkish, Arabic and Serbian folk music and from Romanian fiddle music; the ability of the genre to incorporate elements from practically all other musical genres accessible to mass culture in Romania (pop, rap or hip-hop music, dance music, jazz techno, rock music or even cult music) is remarkable. Manele music, with a relatively short history (of the order of several decades) has become over time a musical genre appreciated in the space of Romanian speakers. There are a significant number of manele listeners in the country (especially appreciated by young people), with a predilection in rural areas and in the city's poor neighborhoods. However, the phenomenon is also present in Bulgaria (cealga), Serbia (turbo-folk), Albania (alb. Tallava), Greece (gr. Laïká) or in Turkey (arabesk).
Nadia Elena Comăneci is a Romanian gymnast , the first gymnast in the world to receive a grade of ten in an Olympic gymnastics competition. Ion Țiriac is a former professional Romanian tennis player, ice hockey player, and currently an influential businessman in Germany and Romania. Nicolae Ceaușescu was a Romanian dictator, general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party.
He means that Romania in that time was starting to lose the identity, the traditions. We started to get influenced by the western countries, he just got out of communist time and got in European Union, we had to sacrifice our identity for it. “ I can be what I WANT TO BE LOSING MY IDENTITY “. But to this day we lost some of our identity yes, but we keep our traditions, we woke up before it was too late most of us. But at the end we evolve, we was just scared of change.
Just found your channel tonight and I literally watched all your videos, as a born and raised Romanian who lives in UK now, maddddd respect for you !! Oh and manele is “ desi music “ basically. Keep it up, subscribed!!
In the beginning he was just listing s bunch of English terms and names that are now part of people's vocabulary nowadays. No other message there. But then there are some parts with double meaning. The bit about "flow" yes it means what you said but also the point was that we use the word "flow" (the English word) . Like for Spanish, people use Spanglish, now we also have Rongleză 😄
Because you asked about “Manele”, and you already know from other comments that is a lot of controversy around this genre of music, I sugest to react to “Carla's Dreams - Manele (Cover Spike)”… The song is about a part of peoples who listen this genre of music but don’t want to recognize it. For sure you’ll like it because is a cover done by Carla's Dreams (one of the most beloved bands in Romania, Moldova, Rusia who put a lot of accent on their lyrics, sometimes with hidden messages and most interesting part, all the time when they are in the public have their faces painted. This group as same of Subcarpati, Mafia, Parazitii, Vescan…. they have something unique of their own, they think outside the box)
Some of it is lost in translation. Many of the statements refer to the fact us, younger people, use English instead of Romanian words that mean the same thing. Like we aren't calling it „muncă” (Romanian for „job”) anymore, we call it "job".
We say “ rest your self “ like chill out ! We are always in peace ✌️ We are a unique nation to think about this stuff even if is on the moment, but we always think’s for the best in the future !!!!
Nadia Comaneci is a romanian gymnast, the first gymnast to achieve a perfect 10 score in the history of the olympic games. She is super famous in that world.
1:52 " mai de mult ziceai adidas la picioare de porc" bad translation in the past the Romanian used to say adidas to pig legs, used to make a traditional dish called racituri... in no way that means " basic wear" anyways big thumbs up for you diggin the romanian music
Bro react to other puya song, with La Familia, try La Familia - in realitate, La famia Codul bunelor Maniere, La Familia - Curaj. La Familia - Adevarul Gol golut (old song so epic), La Familia - probleme de familie, La Familia feat Marijuana - Tupeu de Borfas. Please man these are so so great songs. They are at the same level of fame in Romania as B. U. G MAFIA.
Bro, check up on Doc - Acum (freestyle). This song is half in romanian and half in english. The Doc have got a lot of skill. Keep going with reactions, you're doin' a great job!
I am really interested of your reaction on Cedry2k. I see many are asking in these comments. Some of us, really think cedry2k is the king of rap music in romania. You should consider reacting to him.
die my mother if I lie you == sa moara mama daca te mint. A more contextual translation would be: if I lie, then my mother should die. It's like a curse you put on yourself to swear that something is true. Also, the part with "if something new gets discovered, then surely it was done by American researchers", the way he said that in Romanian was meant to be ironic, like Romanians are so into everything American that they consider everything good comes from there, which is more and more false since like the beginnings of 2010
Pai ce sunt manelele și ce e muzica flamenco?in primul rand manelele e muzica adusa din Grecia, Turcia, Bulgaria....iar flamenco e muzica doar din Spania și amândouă tipuri de muzică sunt cantate de "țigani" SUNT STILURI DE MUZICA DIFERITE
Oh dear... You have to be romanian for this song... Better listen to Are we there? - Olivia Addams, she is romanian but the song is in english and i love it
manele is a sort of mix between modern and folk music in romania, sang by gypsies. Connect-R is famous for embracing his gypsy heritage, but gypsies are still very hated by 'white' romanians. manele doesnt really help elevate the gypsy community though, the topics are always ultra alpha tbf
This is about the live we have now , we are lossing id if we speack words in american dream, live in romania you fel it .... manele is a other stile of music , try ......florin salam....we speack later......
Apparently, you have to be Romanian to actually understand the message, or at least know the historical context, Puya is singing here about the loss of the national entity and the imitation of foreign cultures, plus the beginning of detesting its own origins. This song have a dark face, 'we' used to see America as the country of all possibilities, and when we made analogy with the little Romania, many began to hate that country where they were born, especially after the crisis of 2008 (the crisis which in Romania extended until 2012-13), when a lot of Romanians went across the borders of the country to work and bring money into the country for they family. It was a tough time for some of us. That's why a lot of people got into rap, that was their peace, that made them forget about poverty and shortcomings. Paraziții were among them at first, like the Moromeții or the Bucharest Underground (today knowns as BUG Mafia).
True
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That is 100 % correct 👍👌
Is 2024 and politics are still wrong.
Nadia was the first gymnast to get a perfect 10 at Olympic games.
And "manele" is a genre of music here in Romania
@Andrei Toma not only teahers, people who don't wanna end up wasting their life never make it a habbit (unless Young and silly for a period, most of them stop listening when they grow up.) .
Most people aren't annoyed by manele, unless people blast it everywhere. At a party some manele are the best songs to vibe, dance and have fun on.
But just the first, but she is the only one who get a 10 til today
This song is about losing the identity and the fact that in Romania we start to use a lot of English to replace our language.
Adevarat boi eu m-am dus in america stau in Utah :) stiu si germana si Spaniola
@@-_jokr_-933 nu ne pasa :))
@@-_jokr_-933boi?😆 Boy nu ?
america🙈 A merica multilingvistul
The thing that further drives the song’s point across is that he sings in Romanian and uses English words all the time. An equivalent example in English would be “Man, you’re loco” instead of “Man, you’re crazy”, except that American english terminology has found its way into a lot of other countries’ vocabulary.
When he’s singing “You’re no longer going to work, you’re going to the job”, he uses the Romanian term for “work”, “muncă” but he literally says “job”. And the song is full of these pairs of words, the “old” Romanian word vs the americanized term.
Dude, the song is 10 years old, so the lyrics back then made much more sense. And let me explain something, a lot of the verses have sense if you are Romanian and know the subtility behind the lyrics. Let me give you just a simple example from the song : WHEN He says that the scientist that discovered something are from America, he makes reference about the discovery of the insulin ( by a Romanian - Nicolae Paunescu - you can check that fact ) but because of the communist context, the paper could not go out, and the americans make the discovery public and so on. And this song is full of examples. PEACE !
Păulescu îl cheamă
It is still true my man, that is the beauty of revisiting his songs, we havent progressed one little bit. In fact we are more Americanised now than ever. And yeah, cant blame him for not understanding the subtlety, the whole song is about switching from Romanian to English which makes it inherently hard to translate and then there is all of the cultural context on top of that. I mean, this dude didn’t even know about Nadia Comaneci (seriously dude, you could have Googled it during filming the video at least) and what manele are at that time, how tf could he be expected to recognise Iliescu s speech at the start or understand just how true the “we have been speaking English since we were born” line is, or the reference to his previous song, or the lines about the IMF/FMI…As for Paulescu (his actual name, how tf did both of you get it wrong), he literally died in 1931, 16 years before the communists got to power so no, that wasn’t the reason, in fact the communists applauded him in their textbooks. The context was WW1, he was drafted in the army
Nadia comăneci- the first "10" from olimpic games
The first verse covers American stuff that Romania was trying to absorb in its daily life, second verse show what Romania was losing through that, somewhat. The song mainly covers how Romania tries to copy American lifestyles without the basic requirements for such, and changes in daily aspects of life, like language and activities.
It was released in early 2000s from what I can remember, as it was everywhere in my childhood.
the text is ironic, it shows how we lose our roots and westernize
Cedry2k Acelasi Joc please
NADIA COMĂNECI (b. November 12, 1961, [1] [2] Onești, Romania) is a Romanian gymnast, the first gymnast in the world to receive a grade of ten in an Olympic gymnastics competition. She is the winner of five Olympic gold medals. She is considered to be one of the best sportswomen of the twentieth century and one of the best gymnasts in the world, of all time, "Goddess of Montreal", the first gymnast of the modern era who took 10 absolutely. He is the first Romanian athlete included in the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame memorial.
Cedry2k super dip..... I like
Just because you were talking about friends and brothers, I thought I will share something not many foreigners know and might make you think: Brother in hungarian is testvér. The word testvér is actually composed of two words, test=bodey; vér=blood so your Brother is what? Your bodey and your blood.
Maybe a knowledgeseeker reading this will be inspired to look forward .
The song is a diss against the new way of life, because the old way used to be more "natural" and true. But it's slightly out of it's time. And somehow still current.
This song must be listen as a parody to all the ''cultural'' imports, majority from USA and the loosing of national identity. The lyrics contain a lot of irony to the imported american values and forgetting of our national values.
Perfecta zi...nota 10!
Ce-a mai buna explicatie!
Sup man, React to Parazitii - Something to say feat Raekwon, its full in english and is featured by a Wu-Tang Clan member, Raekwon
Also, other rap songs half romanian half english are:
Parazitii - Cu microfonul deschis feat Killa Kela and Mc Tripp
Parazitii - Mereu la subiect feat Shabazz
P.S. Try not to react to "manele" songs...
Manele (singular, manea) or manele music is a musical genre, originating from the Roma ethnic communities in Romania. The genre has influences from Armenian, Greek, Turkish, Arabic and Serbian folk music and from Romanian fiddle music; the ability of the genre to incorporate elements from practically all other musical genres accessible to mass culture in Romania (pop, rap or hip-hop music, dance music, jazz techno, rock music or even cult music) is remarkable. Manele music, with a relatively short history (of the order of several decades) has become over time a musical genre appreciated in the space of Romanian speakers. There are a significant number of manele listeners in the country (especially appreciated by young people), with a predilection in rural areas and in the city's poor neighborhoods. However, the phenomenon is also present in Bulgaria (cealga), Serbia (turbo-folk), Albania (alb. Tallava), Greece (gr. Laïká) or in Turkey (arabesk).
It’s a branch of Arabian traditional music
Just saying, I was 8 years old when this song released, I'm 18 now and I'm still listening to it.
Thanks for doing translation! Respect!
Nadia Elena Comăneci is a Romanian gymnast , the first gymnast in the world to receive a grade of ten in an Olympic gymnastics competition. Ion Țiriac is a former professional Romanian tennis player, ice hockey player, and currently an influential businessman in Germany and Romania. Nicolae Ceaușescu was a Romanian dictator, general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party.
He means that Romania in that time was starting to lose the identity, the traditions. We started to get influenced by the western countries, he just got out of communist time and got in European Union, we had to sacrifice our identity for it. “ I can be what I WANT TO BE LOSING MY IDENTITY “. But to this day we lost some of our identity yes, but we keep our traditions, we woke up before it was too late most of us. But at the end we evolve, we was just scared of change.
Just found your channel tonight and I literally watched all your videos, as a born and raised Romanian who lives in UK now, maddddd respect for you !! Oh and manele is “ desi music “ basically. Keep it up, subscribed!!
This song was like 10 years ago you have to think about those times
Manele is a genre of music in Romania very popular but not agreated by everyone
I am one from lot others who do not agree with manele ! ... I am from Roumania .
Da.. dar dansați amandoi pe ele ;)))
In the beginning he was just listing s bunch of English terms and names that are now part of people's vocabulary nowadays. No other message there.
But then there are some parts with double meaning. The bit about "flow" yes it means what you said but also the point was that we use the word "flow" (the English word) . Like for Spanish, people use Spanglish, now we also have Rongleză 😄
maneles are a very common style of oriental music in Romania, you will like it because it is something different
This is how I speak with my brother’s English and Romanian
Yooo amazing
React to Puya Undeva in Balcani next!!!!!
Because you asked about “Manele”, and you already know from other comments that is a lot of controversy around this genre of music, I sugest to react to “Carla's Dreams - Manele (Cover Spike)”… The song is about a part of peoples who listen this genre of music but don’t want to recognize it. For sure you’ll like it because is a cover done by Carla's Dreams (one of the most beloved bands in Romania, Moldova, Rusia who put a lot of accent on their lyrics, sometimes with hidden messages and most interesting part, all the time when they are in the public have their faces painted. This group as same of Subcarpati, Mafia, Parazitii, Vescan…. they have something unique of their own, they think outside the box)
Some of it is lost in translation.
Many of the statements refer to the fact us, younger people, use English instead of Romanian words that mean the same thing.
Like we aren't calling it „muncă” (Romanian for „job”) anymore, we call it "job".
We say “ rest your self “ like chill out !
We are always in peace ✌️
We are a unique nation to think about this stuff even if is on the moment, but we always think’s for the best in the future !!!!
Always peace ✌ to die my mother if I lie 😅
@@alecunicolae6959 yepp me to @@@
Nadia Comaneci is a romanian gymnast, the first gymnast to achieve a perfect 10 score in the history of the olympic games. She is super famous in that world.
Hey! Nice video, you can try "Guess Who - Onoare" also has a google translation in English and has a nice message.
brrrrroooo ,genial parodyyyyyyy :)
react to IRINA RIMES | URBANIST SESSIONS
please la familia, adevarul gol golut
Respect ! 🙏 🤔 🤝👍
Manele is a folk music genre with arabic influential
Is all about how the americans influence the small countries including the language...
react to Irina Rimes- urbanist reaction
Nadia Comăneci is the first woman in the world that had a 10 straw in a gimnast competition
Dude this song ist a legend.. that all true.
1:52 " mai de mult ziceai adidas la picioare de porc" bad translation in the past the Romanian used to say adidas to pig legs, used to make a traditional dish called racituri... in no way that means " basic wear" anyways big thumbs up for you diggin the romanian music
Ha. I was looking for someone explaining Adidas 😆
Bro!!!! Se referă la faptul ca românii obișnuiau sa poarte "opinci" care se făceau din piele de porc. De asta referință la adidas 🙄
Cedry2k actiune de noapte
Nice dog behind you “bro”
If you are not Romanian, you cannot understand this song!
Another English guy who listens to Romanian music. Check La Familia - Codul Bunelor Maniere, or Parazitii - Toate Lumea Fumeaza
NANE - MI-E DOR (video/ mixtape "DE-ALE MELE"/ 2008)
Hello Romania it s here boy
Check out, "Nadia Comaneci - 1976 All Seven Perfect 10's" ;) She was the first one in the world to get a perfect 10
You need to listen to F.Charm - Animale de prada, the guys is very talented
Guess - Onoare ✅✅
Manele is the type of songs of the romanians gypsyes
Try Connect-R Liviu Teodorescu Cedry2k - Inapoi La Zero
React to Radio Killer-Be free. It’s fire🔥
Bro react to other puya song, with La Familia, try La Familia - in realitate, La famia Codul bunelor Maniere, La Familia - Curaj. La Familia - Adevarul Gol golut (old song so epic), La Familia - probleme de familie, La Familia feat Marijuana - Tupeu de Borfas. Please man these are so so great songs. They are at the same level of fame in Romania as B. U. G MAFIA.
he's also mockin' consumerism culture
Bro, check up on Doc - Acum (freestyle). This song is half in romanian and half in english. The Doc have got a lot of skill. Keep going with reactions, you're doin' a great job!
Manele is a different type of genre in Romania for example florin Salam or Adrian minune who sing manele
Born and grown in Salajan😇🥰
Reacts to: Undeva în Balcani , it's released in 2011, it's a fire song 🤪🔥🤑
React to "sub chiuveta" pls! It's old but gold
guess who-onoare !
please !!!!
Some of the lyrics are just ironic like that one with the scientists come from America 😀
Manele is Florin salam
Have you listed "bug mafia dupa blocuri" very old and very popular 😀
React to Grasu xxl-turbofin :)
Can you make a video for Parazitii-toate-s la fel?
I am really interested of your reaction on Cedry2k. I see many are asking in these comments. Some of us, really think cedry2k is the king of rap music in romania. You should consider reacting to him.
React to Deliric-Independent D9. Imo the beat is the best from romanian songs until now.
SUBCARPATI-MARCEL TEMELIE!!! MUST WATCH
ROMAN†A
Just romanians cand understand this song
Pls react to Puya-Vestul Sălbatic
A rlly good song
die my mother if I lie you == sa moara mama daca te mint. A more contextual translation would be: if I lie, then my mother should die. It's like a curse you put on yourself to swear that something is true. Also, the part with "if something new gets discovered, then surely it was done by American researchers", the way he said that in Romanian was meant to be ironic, like Romanians are so into everything American that they consider everything good comes from there, which is more and more false since like the beginnings of 2010
React at cedri2ck
Manele in Romania is like flamenco in Spain 😂
Nu-i tot aia 😉
@@ccatalin6445 Dar cum e?
Pai ce sunt manelele și ce e muzica flamenco?in primul rand manelele e muzica adusa din Grecia, Turcia, Bulgaria....iar flamenco e muzica doar din Spania și amândouă tipuri de muzică sunt cantate de "țigani" SUNT STILURI DE MUZICA DIFERITE
@@ccatalin6445 da fratele meu, și eu am făcut o comparație, nu am zis k sunt același lucru.
Mai degrabă ar fi muzica țigănească cu flamenco 😅
React to "La familia - realitate"
La familia and B.U.G. Mafia had a beef in the past .
ps : same with the lyrics translated
Manele is a type of music popular in balcans region.
Please react to "Klandestin (Dolar Bill)"
React at Puya-change
React to BUG Mafia - Olimpiada
Please react to PUYA-UNDEVA ÎN BALCANI
Dope reaction bruh🔥🔥 you should react to Baboi - Asta e Romania
Puya Undeva-n balcani 😭😭😭
Oh dear... You have to be romanian for this song... Better listen to Are we there? - Olivia Addams, she is romanian but the song is in english and i love it
The whole song is in a sarcastic way bro
Hey u should react to BUG MAFIA - napoi in Vitor and manele is a different type of Romania preformed my the gypsy and it’s really good
manele is a sort of mix between modern and folk music in romania, sang by gypsies. Connect-R is famous for embracing his gypsy heritage, but gypsies are still very hated by 'white' romanians. manele doesnt really help elevate the gypsy community though, the topics are always ultra alpha tbf
Hey actually the song was a pamflet at the time. The translation should be more a pamflet.
Please react to Akcent - Dragoste de inchiriat (there s an english version of the song: Akcent - Kylie)
React to Dan Balan= numa numa 2
react to "doc - multumesc"
React to boonika bate toba esc 2005
Play manele Tzanca Uraganu /Florin salam
This is about the live we have now , we are lossing id if we speack words in american dream, live in romania you fel it .... manele is a other stile of music , try ......florin salam....we speack later......
React to Haarp Cord- Cam asta e strada
B.U.G. Mafia - N-ai fost acolo !!!!!!
Bro react to șatra benz șatră se intoarce din nou is hoot❤
reract to puia with yeu yeu yeu
og song
Reacto to: Parazitii Mesaj pentru europa pls