Hey I think I mentioned it before but the Survivor theme song has some funky origins. So most of you guys will recognize it as this:
But did yuo know that the song was originally a super old (dates back to early 18th century) love song with Russian origins. According to a Reddit post, the song contains a lot of old expressions that are no longer being used in modern Russian and cannot be translated accurately into English. Here's a lady singing it (go to 0:49)
And here's an updated version of the folk song by a Russian composer in 1988. This is seriously legit an amazing song:
I guess this is kinda surprising since the Survivor song sounds super chanty/tribal/islandy. The moar you kno.
Sunday, February 7, 2016
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these are such sick songs, so deep now too haha
now that you've put the russian perspective in it, i can get this almost age of empires, imperialist and northern perspective
DUDE that video and the song is actually amazing.
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