These babushkas have taken Russia by storm, singing Beatles and classic Russian songs to dominate Russia’s Got Talent (or as they call it there, You Sing We Don’t Shoot).
Oh man. This is EXACTLY like my family Passover Seder. My parents invite my Russian childhood friend and his family. This family also includes a 65 year old Babushka. Looks just like one of these babushkas; barely speaks English.
One year we even asked Babushka to sing us a song. She recited by memory a song that she learned from the Commies in the USSR. She sang it for 10 minutes straight. Something out of Virgil’s Aeneid. It was the most unique musical experience my hipster ears have ever heard. I love old people.
And this is how I know that America’s prime has passed us by. Not because of our corporate-loving economy. Or our bleak education. Or even our insecure borders. But because 85 year old Russian grandmothers, whose husbands died decades ago from alcohol poisoning, who didn’t experience capitalism until the 1990s, know more about the Beatles than our current generation of nitwits and robotized youth.
These Russian gals should totally play an ironic show I’m trying to set up in a loft in Brooklyn.
(npr)
