S8-E6: Buđav Lebac / S.A.R.S.

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.

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Vala od sırtza!

Good morning everyone, here is Maki and...

I'm Filip.

Hello Filip, welcome.

Thank you very much.

How are you today?

I'm good. I think this is my first time to do a podcast, so

I'm a little bit nervous.

Normal, that's okay.

Good, welcome. uh philip and i are friends from kuru shavats as this season

um is dedicated to kuru shavats i guess i'm inviting my friends and we

were doing crossfit together there so he was one of the most uh powerful

ones in crossfit and nirma was the after me i chased yes i chased

you so we will be talking about someone new in this season, in this

episode, actually. And Philippa and I were talking about it.

We will be, I will be asking him those five questions and then he

will answer them in Serbian.

And then we will listen to the song quickly, just the chorus part.

And then we will discuss what he wants to say there.

And then we will wrap up with our personal opinions about this group.

Okay. Let's go.

Who is today our pevator?

Today we talk about the group SARS,

which is, I think, is founded in 2009.

Ali ja lično sam ih najviše slušao nakon toga.

But I've been listening to them before.

I koju vrstu pesama on peva? And who is the song that pees?

Pa ja mislim da je to neka vrsta miks, rege, rock, pop muzike, I think that's one of the most important things.

tako da ne mogu da kažem samo da je jedna vrsta.

Da, da, slažem se.

I od kada je popularan?

Pa ja mislim da je popularan u 2008.

ili 2009. Ono što ja mislim, moja prva pesma koju sam čuo od njih

je Buđev lebac, upravo ova.

Nešto, ne mogu da se setim da li su oni ranije bili popularni, ali

za mene lično od tada su i jako popularni.

I dalje je popularan?

Mislim da ne, kao što je bilo tada.

Ja mislim da su one najviše popularni bili tamo 2011, 12, 13.

da kažem u 14.

ja sam bio na njihovom koncertu u 14.

godine, da, da, da.

Gde? U Krušvecu?

Ne, ranije je bilo, slago sam te, ranije je bilo, bilo je 2011.

godine zapravo. Bio sam srednja škola i mi smo tada imali svaki godine, ja

mislim da je i dalje to u toku, ali u Krušvecu je jako popularno

bilo da 1.

aprila za April Fool's Day imamo veliki maskembal kao costume ball i

tada sve srednje škole se maskiraju i svako može da dođe i da predstavi

svoju masku. Na kraju dana svi odlazimo u halu sportova, to je kao velika

arena i tu je izbor za masku i na kraju dana i na kraju

izbora kada se odredi pobednik, bude koncert.

Igrom slučaju je tada stars.

Važno, i da li si pobedio?

Ne, nisam. Nažalost.

Da li smo imali jako interesantnu masku.

Pokazuješ posle mene.

Koja je pesma koja ćemo da pričamo danas?

Danas pričamo o pesmi Buđav Lebec.

Buđav Lebec. Moji omiljeni.

Da, moji omiljeni za mene isto, da.

I o čemu je ta pesma?

Pa, pesma je, ono, direktno i konkretno priča o Buđavom hlebu.

Ali se radi o cijela priča, kako je ta pesma nastala, je zapravo da

je on, pre nego što su oni postali popularni, i dok nije imao para,

generalno pevao o siromaštvu i generalno ekonomskom stanju zemlje Srbije.

I kako je on došao kući sa dva piva i nije imao više para

za bilo šta drugo, imao je jedan buđev hlebac, to je jedan buđev hleb

kući, i to je jednostavno jeo uz dva piva.

Da, ovo je Dragan Kovačević, mislim da.

i Deliye Znaš Deliye

Red Stars fans

Deliye, I heard that they have also a different version of this song for

them did you know that?

I listened to it it's very interesting but I will also add the link

for that I'll have a listen to that, I'm not aware

let's hear what he says and then we talk about these simple but very

deep serbian words all right okay here we go

So, this song was one of the first songs that taught me some phrases,

like Cik pogodi.

I think that's a very useful phrase to learn for Serbian learners.

Cik pogodi, shtai mam za večeru.

Right? Yes. I don't, it's kind of like a tricky word.

Like for us Serbians, it's kind of natural because it's, you know, Cikpogodi, okay.

Yeah. But if you are really to, you know, translate that from Serbian to

English, I mean, yeah, it's guess what, but it's not like the same, right?

Not the same, not the same, definitely.

And Bucavle, Bac Bucavle, I know that in Serbia, bread is hleb right yeah

but he prefers to use lebats here yes it's kind of like a it's

kind of like an old word for for bread i i think so like

we don't usually use that that word like lebats i mean you can make

jokes of it like i mean people are using some like bad words like

swearing and stuff like that but in um in like the regular daily use

no not don't use it as much not on the menus or like not

on in the bakery list no actually i was like searching for how did

he come up with lebats here but you still have that in your phrases

like idioms or swearing like bad words sometimes so probably because of that okay

and this yum yum yum is um the sound that you make when you

find something delicious no actually i mean me personally what

would you say if something is delicious

yeah i mean maybe it's just me personally but it's like i i didn't

heard like recently from the people say like njam njam njam they usually say

like this is delicious or that's

true and uh i'm in it i'm

in it also something like he continues with i'm a mene I'm a mini

yoy. Yoy is something that we like we hear a lot in Serbia.

Yoy, ouch. Yeah, that's true.

But I'm a mini yoy, like this is also a bit oldish, right?

would you say yeah and they usually use this kind of thing uh I'm

a mene it's it's funny thing that I cannot translate that in English but

in people in the southern part of the country use this more it's like

oh my it's not like oh my god but it's also not like oh

my it's kind of like I

oh something like that it has this what a pity meaning in it i

guess yeah for example if you uh if something bad happens to you or

to somebody else you may say i'm a manny oh my god and

it's quite common in the southern part of the of the country yeah so

this song is very simple look at the lyrics everything is like guess what

i have all the bread i wish it continues like i wish i had

jam but of course i don't have a jam any jam to put it

on and but this became such a hit right sports people from serbia listen

to this song before their competitions and i i saw some tennis players were

welcomed at the airport or in the center of belgrade after they win you

know some trophies people were singing this so i culturally how do you find

that relation like what makes them feel connected to this song it's probably because

all the problems that this country has and and uh you know people are

relating to to the to that and i i don't know if that's true

but probably like if they're welcoming the people with the sports teams

if they want something it's probably like you know this is us and we

have won this despite all the difficulties that we are facing right now here

in this country and this kind of might be reflecting onto onto this song

but i'm not sure if that my assumption is true it sounds very probable

i think it makes sense because where we are coming from but we are

you know we are hopeful we only had a budge of levats to to

you know work with and here we are probably i can be uh you

know thing related to that definitely yeah yeah and when you were young you

said you listened to them when you were like like middle school high school

right it was like middle school to high school when i listened to them

a lot and like i listened to like almost all the songs but there's

like a couple of them that that stuck to my mind that i like

for example uh lutka that's the the latest one that i can remember yes

it was really nice to be honest that song is it's it has a

special place in in my car exactly Exactly.

Or Eka Fano, for example, Eka Fano, their song, the video clip.

I love that video clip a lot.

It shows all the atmosphere and how people drink rakia in Eka Fano.

It's a very culturally important, I think, video clip for Serbians and for

Serbian learners, I would say.

Yeah. Yeah, well, they can also learn a lot of cultural things besides the

language. exactly because i believe when you're learning the language you're also learning the

culture of the of that part of that country actually exactly yeah and have

you heard of rakia speaking of the kafana and everything the song rakia yeah

yeah i think i did i must have heard but i don't remember how

it sounded is it also good yeah it is great actually and it starts

with And like, you probably heard Alicia Keys' I Keep On Falling.

Yeah. I keep on falling.

And they have like the same thing in their beginning.

It's like, and it's funny.

That's so great.

I should listen to that too.

And also their name was also like intriguing for me.

What is SARS?

It doesn't mean anything.

It must, of course, it stands for something.

And then I checked.

Can you tell the Serbian version?

It's funny, actually.

I mean, it's an abbreviation from Sveža Amputirana Ruka Satyjaniya, which means freshly amputated

arm, which doesn't make sense to us.

But, you know, it's funny because what I found online previously is basically how

they came up with this name is they actually went to the concert of

the Joe Satriani, which is the American guitar player, songwriter, and many more things.

And they're also like the big fans of him.

And it was like an internal joke that they had, and they just decided

to use that as a name for the group.

Yeah, this shows like a lot about the mentality, like our sense of humor

of Serbia. to me like not just the you know it's like recently so

they are that they are starting new right and they can't be as good

as him they are accepting this from the beginning they are just the arm

of the arm but enough you know to be something exactly exactly so

nice okay So you answered those questions that I was going to ask you

in English, but that's great.

So that's it from me for now.

I'm so happy that you shared all this about SARS and Bujavla Bats.

And I really, really recommend listening to SARS for all the Serbian learners.

That's because it's easy, catchy, and it shares a lot about the culture, right?

Yeah. Yeah, definitely.

Definitely. Thank you very much, Filip.

See you. Bye.

Bye.

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