(Radu Sirbu; Dan Balan) RadU is RadU no more...

MORE: his new project
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his last song (Daun-daha; 6:00 time stamp) as "RadU"...

Delia

P.S. bad blood between Dan and Radu (Radu was hurt and considers unfounded Dan's assertion to the Romanian media-- HappyHour, same tv show (.48 time mark) -- that Ozone could not have gone much further because his fellow band members just couldn't go through the growth process necessarily to continue to be successful as a band... "something like that"...) D.

and so is Radu...

MORE: this is part of an album (Mr. & Ms.) he is said to launch internationally (starting with Russia) this April, different in style and everything from his 2006 album called "Alone," which was meant for the Romanian market
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Love is not a reason to cry D.

RadU Sirbu: the slow songs

e.g. Leave me alone, Fly remind me of the style of some Italian singers that were popular in Romaina

80s Toto Cutugno: L'Italiano, Serenata

(much older although still around0: Adriano Celentano: Azzuro (for a much faster rhythm: La Dolce Vita)

Dan Balan: why nothing in Russian?

seems like a missed opportunity...

Delia

P.S. looks like Radu released Russian versions for at least some of his songs (e.g. You loved/Doi Straini)

P.P.S. an older song in Russian (appearently very sad, I don't understand Russian...) D.

why??? Dan sings "the Ma Ya Hi song" aka "Dragostea din tei" with Lucas Prata

live at Whitehouse in NY, in the Hamptons

bad idea! it would never match the original version... (Arsenie and Radu DID bring a lot to the interpretation -- they both have very unusual voices and the Romanian version was just so much better to boot....)

Delia

I suppose it makes for a more perfect rhyme

Radu seems to have maxed out this idea, by using successive repetition: Tu nu/You don't...

Delia

P.S. among the three of them, they probably tried all the permutations by now...

among the clouds

MORE: similar theme, it's just that it's the Sea this time, long long standing popular Romanian song
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basic idea: my love, let's get away from this flawed world: let's go up in the sky and build our own world up there, among the clouds, so we can have the perfect love that we deserve (a very alien idea for Westerners, I would think...) D.

Radu's last name

MORE: for those who need more details on this: aside from the "i" you find in most Latin based languages, Romanian has a variation of it which has a sign that looks like the roof of a house on top instead of the normal little dot; the letter "a" also has such a variation (the "roof top" instead of the dot). To make things even more confusing, what is considered correct spelling (spelled with "i" and roof top versus "a" and "roof top") has changed -- back and forth -- for arbitrary reasons in the past. Romanians are more like the French this way (they don't just allow the language to naturally change and go with it...: there is an Academia Romana -- you can see the "roof-top-a"-spelling on that page -- like there is an Academie Francaise)
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He says it's "Sirbu" (means nothing in Romanian). A lot of people (including me) were confused and though it must have been "Sarbu" (which means "the Serb") and may well still be the truth...ultimately... not that Radu is lying -- I'm pretty sure the name in his documents is spelled "Sirbu" but... it's not at all uncommon for mistakes to change one's name in time; actually many of the differences in spelling of words in the different Latin-based languages, for instance, were just that: mistakes that became the norm in a particular part of the world...

Delia

RandomXBoredom: "Its WAY diferent (and better in my opinion) from the crap we get here in the states...

...this is a real fun-sounding fast-paced song and I LOVE IT!!! none of the singers over here sound like this and its very unique to my ears." (9th comment) D.

language trouble for Radu...

Perfect body

... again, to bring them to Western cultural standards, the lyrics need a lot of work but the bigger problem here is that the poor fan (thestupidcarrie) seems to get disgusted by something that Radu is very likely completely unaware of..."let me feel you tonight..." --> say, what? :(... yeah, that's the normal reaction: how rude! how gross! how horrible..."nasty song," to quote Carrie above: it's just that that phrase never means those things in Romanian and Radu appears to have simply translated from Romanian into English without being aware of such differences...

and it goes both ways: e.g. calling a woman a bitch (in Romanian) is really asking for trouble... (the word means whore in that context, although it means the same thing as in English when talking about dogs)

Delia

P.S. Word for word is really a terrible way of translating things (I actually failed a translation test once, because the dummies wanted a word for word translation and I refused to come up with that sort of nonsense... those people should have known better, they were supposed to use that stuff for analysis purposes -- couldn't possibly understand even basic things the way the wanted to go about it...) D.

Radu and Arsenie, togehter, seem to have a better chance...

at recapturing "the numa numa thing": they have the easy going happiness going for them...