S8-E2: Oči boje meda / EKV

In each episode, I'll be hosting a Serbian friend to introduce one of the

most popular Serbian singers and their well-known songs.

We'll be speaking both in Serbian and English.

We hope you enjoy it.

Thanks for joining us.

Vala od sırtza!

Hello everyone, I am Maki and I have a friend now with

me.

Hello. Good morning, Sergeant.

Thank you. How are you today?

Good morning.

Where are you, Sergeant?

In Krušovica. In Kruševsko and the whole place is?

The Great Lomrica.

And the place is?

Beautiful. What do you call this place?

My place. Yes.

House Silvani. Yes, my favorite place in Kruševac.

Bravo. Thank you.

Okay. So, Srdjan and I will talk about someone very famous, I mean some

people, some band from Belgrade.

And we will talk about one of their songs and then most of the

time we will be speaking, hopefully, in Serbian today.

Right? Yeah.

Okay. Who is our singer today, Srdjan?

Our singer today is Milan.

Mladenovic. EKV, yes.

EKV means what?

Ekaterina Velika. Ekaterina Velika.

Yes. So in English that would be, Catherine the greatest,

I guess. Yes, yes.

The greatest Catherine.

Something like that.

Okay. What kind of songs do they sing and sing?

Rock. Yugoslav rock.

Yes.

Yugoslav rock. Yes.

And when were you popular?

I started in 1982.

I was in the question.

I started in 1986.

And what is the song that we will say today?

Oči Yes,

it depends on how they experience the song.

At that time, Milan had a girl in

May.

Hi, Devoj Kamaju.

Yes, and he is very loved.

And someone says that the song is dedicated to her.

Okay, love.

Yes, but there are other people who,

for example, Yes, I think that's the time.

Vreme su pratili je Katarinu, ali kroz kritičke

oči. Znači, kritikovali su ih, zato što jednostavno u to vreme je bilo dosta

droge.

i, na primer, EKVP je jedna na

listi, znači, tih grupa koja je u bivšoj Jugoslavi koristila droge svih vrsta.

Da, da. I ljudi su se kritički odnosili prema tome, čak

sve im je povezano sa drogom.

ko zna šta su oni govorili kroz pesmu.

Znači, tako da jednostavno

zavisi kako ko tumači i doživljava pesmu.

Međutim, ono što je ona lepša strana, to je da je pesma posećena jednoj

maji i znači njegovoj najvećoj ljubavi do kraja.

Super, super. Emocijalno.

Da. Da.

Let's listen to the main part of the song.

And then we talk about what it says.

Okay. Yeah. Let's listen to it.

Sputit ću kap svoje vode, sputit ću glas iz krla.

Znači, uvek kada čujem pesmu, tako emotivno je

doživljavam, jakom. Jakom, da.

Jake emocije, znači čak se čovek naježi.

Da.

Da, i glas je super.

Da, i glas, naravno.

Mila Mladenović je inače po meni isto jako,

jako inteligentna osoba.

Njegove pesme zaista treba slušati i jednostavno svuda ćete se pronaći.

Znači svako će se pronaći u nečem.

Inače, protivnik sistema u to vreme i danas da je živ,

bio bi protivnik sistema.

Da, isto je, isto priča.

Da, znači nikada nije volao ratove, uvek se borio, znači kao neki

naš Robin Hood.

Da. U jednom smislu reči.

Znači kao Robin Hood, upravo to.

Da. Znači, ono što je tragično, to je da je danas je napustio u

36. godini života.

Znači, imao je kancer.

Znam, pankreasa. Da, pankreasa i jednostavno završio je svoj

ovozajmaljski život. Da, znam.

Nažalost. Da, a i dan danas mnogi ljudi ga slušaju,

obožavaju njegove presme i dan danas.

Da. I jednostavno svuda po bivšoj Jugoslavi ljudi mu odaju

počast praveći mu spomenik.

Spomenik? Gde? Da, na primer u Zagrebu.

u Zagrebu, pošto je on rođen u Zagrebu.

Milan Mladenović je inače rođen u Zagrebu.

Zagreb u Beogradu je studenski trg, na studenskom trgu.

Znači čitav plato nosi naziva Milan Mladenović.

Moram da vidim.

Mladine, da, da.

Ok. Tako da jednostavno i mnogo, mnogo više je zaslužio od

svega. Mislim, eto.

Da, da. Po meni.

To je subjektivno.

Da, naravno. Da.

I kaže šta kaže to.

Voda pada, da, to je waterfalls.

Voda pada iz oči?

Voda pada iz negde?

Njegova voda pada.

U njene oči boje meda.

Priča o Maji.

U njene oči boje meda.

Ja sam dečak iz vode.

Imam trag pod levom miškom.

On opisuje sebe.

Mila Mladinović opisuje sebe.

Na tvoje usne boje mesa priča o Maji, o njenim usnama.

Pustit ću glas iz grla, svoj glas,

Yes. A own voice.

Yes.

i reći ću naravno šta imam A voice from the throat. And I'll say, of course, what I have.

Yes. With the guests.

Yes. I like something.

Exactly. Exactly. it doesn't put us into the song.

Yes.

Oči boja meda means honey colored eyes.

So, hazel eyes, I guess.

Like Oči boja meda.

Yes.

So beautiful. I realize my voice from my throat.

Yeah. So he is full of energy for her.

So he wants to...

Yes. Like explode.

He wants to show everything he has.

Yes. This is...

He is a poeta.

Yes. I think he likes her eyes the best.

Like he really wants to go into her eyes.

Yes. Yes. Okay, I have a couple of more questions for you.

Have you ever been at a concert?

No. No? No, but we were, as a

clinic,

we had a room where we only listened to Katarina Velik.

i Katarinu Veliku.

Oh, super. O, super. Nije uživo?

It's not in the live.

Ne, ne, uživo, već se kasete.

It's not in the live, but with the cassette.

Već se kasete, okej.

Super.

Moramo da radimo to zajedno.

Da, da, da.

To je takva energija da ne može reći ima da se opiše to.

Da, da. Znači kad se sluša to uživo.

Da, slažem se.

I koga voliš najviše u ekavu?

Naravno, Margitu. Margitu.

Margiritu, what is her name?

Margita. Margita. No, Margiritu.

Margiritu is a pizza.

So it's like cocktail or pizza, yes.

Yes. So she's Margi, right?

Yes, she's Maggi.

Maggi. She's a beautiful girl.

She's a beautiful.

Svi klinci, kada smo bili klinci, svi smo bili zaljubljeni u Megi.

Naravno.

Prelepa je, da, naravno.

I još jedan.

Koja pesma je najbolja za tebe?

Oči boje meda i s vetrom uz lice.

S vetrom uz lice.

Da, samo par godina za nas, isto ok.

isto ok, ja, ja volim to mnogo I love it a lot.

I love it a lot.

And that's for me today.

I will switch to English here because this band is something

that everyone who wants to learn Serbian, I think, should listen to understand the

rock culture in Serbia.

right yes that this band is a different band because

he have a some strange energy

yes strange energy and listen the a cover yes

that's the message listen to it yes listen from Serbia and feel Serbia the

best yes yes yes

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