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LMFAO's 'Party Rock Anthem' Just Got The Meme Treatment

  • LMFAO's 'Party Rock Anthem' Just Got The Meme Treatment

    POSTED Oct 10 2018

    By Cool Accidents

    We love when social media delivers a great meme that takes off in extraordinary style. 

    A guy on Twitter has discovered that LMFAO's Party Rock Anthem shares the same BPM (130 BPM) as anime series Evangelion, and he's chucked the theme song over the song's famous dance routine.

    Party Rock Anthem has the same BPM as the Evangelion Opening and I hate it pic.twitter.com/UC2WzNF3zN

    — Joseju (@Josejusejo) September 18, 2018

    And now a bunch of people have realised that heaps of songs are at 130 BPM, and the result is this hilarity...

    What's your fave?

    Party Rock Anthem has the same bpm as Dropkick Murphys' "I'm Shipping Up to Boston. " #lmfao #BPM pic.twitter.com/yldYIqlNsn

    — Taylor (@blueboxufo) October 5, 2018

    Hey guys did you know @depechemode 's "Personal Jesus" has the same bpm as Party Rock Anthem? pic.twitter.com/SfwTC7yIF9

    — Slimey Snails (@Bag_of_Snails) October 5, 2018

    Party Rock Anthem’s choreography but with Whitney Houston’s I Wanna Dance With Somebody in the background pic.twitter.com/ziEEKiP6WR

    — Annie Wamsley (@Annie305Wamsley) September 29, 2018

    OMG can't believe that Party Rocking by LMFAO has the exact same BPM as Sarah McLachlan's 'I Will Remember You!" Can't stop watching this!!!! #lmfao #bpm #sarahmchlachlan pic.twitter.com/UutzHeZiKQ

    — The Gregory Brothers, but scary (@gregorybrothers) October 8, 2018

    Baby shark and party rock anthem have the same bpm so yeah pic. twitter.com/I9ZeSTFPxP

    — Haley (@mthoughtsrablog) October 5, 2018

    Party Rock Anthem has the same bpm as Cotten Eyed Joe I'm screaming pic.twitter.com/S3IgGsBk8C

    — Mike-O-Lantern (@MCBDatGuy) October 7, 2018

    I‘m gonna be (500 miles) - The Proclaimers pic.twitter.com/SaI1a6uGnW

    — Party Rock Anthem has the same bpm as (@PRAdancingto) October 6, 2018

    idk abt u but uh thats what you get by paramore has the same bpm as party rock anthem. anthems colliding! pic.twitter.com/gSZEbZ1Dmd

    — mayla (@ASGARDIYORK) October 6, 2018

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We love when social media delivers a great meme that takes off in extraordinary style. 

A guy on Twitter has discovered that LMFAO's Party Rock Anthem shares the same BPM (130 BPM) as anime series Evangelion, and he's chucked the theme song over the song's famous dance routine.

Party Rock Anthem has the same BPM as the Evangelion Opening and I hate it pic.twitter.com/UC2WzNF3zN

— Joseju (@Josejusejo) September 18, 2018

And now a bunch of people have realised that heaps of songs are at 130 BPM, and the result is this hilarity. ..

What's your fave?

Party Rock Anthem has the same bpm as Dropkick Murphys' "I'm Shipping Up to Boston." #lmfao #BPM pic.twitter.com/yldYIqlNsn

— Taylor (@blueboxufo) October 5, 2018

Hey guys did you know @depechemode 's "Personal Jesus" has the same bpm as Party Rock Anthem? pic.twitter.com/SfwTC7yIF9

— Slimey Snails (@Bag_of_Snails) October 5, 2018

Party Rock Anthem’s choreography but with Whitney Houston’s I Wanna Dance With Somebody in the background pic.twitter.com/ziEEKiP6WR

— Annie Wamsley (@Annie305Wamsley) September 29, 2018

OMG can't believe that Party Rocking by LMFAO has the exact same BPM as Sarah McLachlan's 'I Will Remember You!" Can't stop watching this!!!! #lmfao #bpm #sarahmchlachlan pic. twitter.com/UutzHeZiKQ

— The Gregory Brothers, but scary (@gregorybrothers) October 8, 2018

Baby shark and party rock anthem have the same bpm so yeah pic.twitter.com/I9ZeSTFPxP

— Haley (@mthoughtsrablog) October 5, 2018

Party Rock Anthem has the same bpm as Cotten Eyed Joe I'm screaming pic.twitter.com/S3IgGsBk8C

— Mike-O-Lantern (@MCBDatGuy) October 7, 2018

I‘m gonna be (500 miles) - The Proclaimers pic.twitter.com/SaI1a6uGnW

— Party Rock Anthem has the same bpm as (@PRAdancingto) October 6, 2018

idk abt u but uh thats what you get by paramore has the same bpm as party rock anthem. anthems colliding! pic.twitter.com/gSZEbZ1Dmd

— mayla (@ASGARDIYORK) October 6, 2018

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LMFAO's 'Party Rock Anthem' Has The Same BPMs As A Bunch Of Dumb Songs, Here Are All Of Them

Remember 2011? Trump wasn’t yet in office, Prince was still alive, and the band LMFAO had a chart-topping single called “Party Rock Anthem.” Now, seven years later, the internet has become obsessed with setting all songs with 129 beats per minute to the dancing in the video for “Party Rock Anthem.”

It apparently all began when Twitter user @Josejusejo realized that “Party Rock Anthem” synced up perfectly with the theme song from anime Evangelion.

Party Rock Anthem has the same BPM as the Evangelion Opening and I hate it pic. twitter.com/UC2WzNF3zN

— ?? Spooky Joseju ?? (@Josejusejo) September 18, 2018

Other Twitter users began to get on board, tweeting songs with 129 bpm matched up with the dancing from “Party Rock Anthem.” Like, for example, Jimmy Buffet’s “Margaritaville.”

Margaritaville and Party Rock Anthem have the same BPM.
So I made this: pic.twitter.com/YGPwC2BYal

— Dylan Whitehead (@Dylanin3D) September 18, 2018

And the Dropkick Murphy’s “I’m Shipping Up To Boston.”

Party Rock Anthem has the same bpm as Dropkick Murphys’ “I’m Shipping Up to Boston.” #lmfao #BPM pic.twitter.com/yldYIqlNsn

— Taylor ? (@blueboxufo) October 5, 2018

And Dead or Alive’s “You Spin Me Round (Like A Record).”

This is hot. Party Rock Anthem and Spin Me Right Round are made to be together pic. twitter.com/5hdF8bbIq5

— cuppycup (@cuppycup) October 4, 2018

Oh, and how about Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline“?

why yes, I have been putting anything at 129 bpm to Party Rock Anthem’s dance scene thanks to @StanLewis_ … just when you thought Sweet Caroline couldn’t be funkier pic.twitter.com/w74HsoAcFC

— cuppycup (@cuppycup) October 4, 2018

And Depeche Mode’s “Personal Jesus.”

Hey guys did you know @depechemode ‘s “Personal Jesus” has the same bpm as Party Rock Anthem? pic.twitter.com/SfwTC7yIF9

— Slimey Snails ??? (@Bag_of_Snails) October 5, 2018

The Cantina Band song from Star Wars.

turns out party rock anthem also has the same BPM as cantina band pic.twitter.com/QotTPg538Q

— Rebel Scum Finn (@realtraitorfinn) September 19, 2018

As well as the Rednex “Cotton Eye Joe.

Party Rock Anthem has the same bpm as Cotten Eyed Joe I’m screaming pic.twitter.com/S3IgGsBk8C

— ? Mike-O-Lantern ? (@MCBDatGuy) October 7, 2018

And Paramore’s “That’s What You Get.”

idk abt u but uh thats what you get by paramore has the same bpm as party rock anthem. anthems colliding! pic.twitter.com/gSZEbZ1Dmd

— mayla (@ASGARDIYORK) October 6, 2018

And the classic Proclaimers song, “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles).”

I‘m gonna be (500 miles) – The Proclaimers pic.twitter.com/SaI1a6uGnW

— Party Rock Anthem has the same bpm as (@PRAdancingto) October 6, 2018

And Katy Perry’s “Hot n Cold.”

party rock anthem has the same bpm as katy perry’s hot n cold and so i jumped on the bandwagon and made this pic. twitter.com/a4Y9ldq40j

— ?Jack O’ Lantern? (@JackOrange8) September 30, 2018

And Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used To Know.”

did you guys know party rock anthem and somebody I used to know have the same bpm?? because they do pic.twitter.com/B6DhOhyEDa

— jill-o-lantern ¨̮ (@JillMencke) September 20, 2018

Annnnnd the Santana/Rob Thomas hit, “Smooth.”

did you also know Party Rock Anthem has the same bpm as Smooth by Santana featuring Rob Thomas? pic.twitter.com/Q0JOIRw6Bp

— cuppycup (@cuppycup) October 4, 2018

Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody.”

Party Rock Anthem’s choreography but with Whitney Houston’s I Wanna Dance With Somebody in the background pic.twitter.com/ziEEKiP6WR

— Annie Wamsley (@Annie305Wamsley) September 29, 2018

And let’s not forget Billy Joel’s “Uptown Girl.

Party Rock Anthem has the same bpm as Uptown Girl pic.twitter.com/vt7B1mQIqA

— Stan Lewis (@StanLewis_) October 4, 2018

This is truly what the internet was made for. Well, this and gifs of kittens being ridiculously cute.

We dance with “style”. Stilyagi. How it was

Dancing in style

Stylish youth not only listened to jazz and rock and roll, but also loved to dance to it. There were not too many opportunities for this: parties with the lucky ones who lived, albeit with their parents, but in separate apartments, and not communal apartments and barracks, and semi-legal dance parties organized at schools, universities, and even research institutes. At “official” parties, such music was practically not played.

They danced to jazz in “style”, imitating movements seen in Western films, or inventing their own, which seemed to fit this music.

Aleksey Kozlov wrote in his memoirs about three names of “styles”: “atomic”, “Canadian” and “triple Hamburg”: “the first two differed little from each other and, as it turned out thirty years later, remotely resembled in the days of rock and roll, dances such as jitter bug, lindy hop and boogie woogie. And the “triple Hamburger” was a slow dance with special movements of the body, with a special shaking of the head, and, most importantly, the partner and the partner closely pressed against each other.

Separately, it is worth mentioning "boogie-woogie" - one of the most popular dances of the jazz era. Boogie Woogie originally referred to a style of piano playing (synonyms for "Barrelhouse" and "Honky Tonk" are bars where this style was first practiced in the 1870s by black Texas pianists).

Much later, in 1927, Albert Emmons' classic "boogie" recording of "Honky Tonk Train Blues" was released, and the "official" appearance of the Boogie Woogie style was December 29, 1928, the day Clarence Smith's "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" was released. By the way, in slang 19In the 1920s, the word "boogie" denoted blacks, but a decade later, several new meanings appeared - "dance", "have fun, have fun", "do something quickly."

In the thirties, Boogie Woogie began to refer to any swing dance performed at a fast pace. During the Second World War, American soldiers brought to Europe the so-called "East Coast Swing" - "East Coast Swing", which was extremely popular in the forties and early fifties. It is believed that dudes in the USSR also danced something similar to East Coast Swing.

Alexander Petrov:

An old music collector told me that in the thirties it was forbidden to dance tango at dances. And when people started dancing it, they would come up and break up the couples: dance the waltz, more modest dances, but by no means sentimental and erotic tango.

Valery Popov:

Now they don't dance like that, now discos are kind of non-contact. And then it was necessary to press it - and with attacks, break the lady to the floor. I remember Khavsky was like that - he showed how beautiful it was to dance. He had a slick wig, some kind of shabby tailcoat and the Order of the Red Star.

There was an interesting ideology then: boogie-woogie was called a youth dance. Rock and roll was disguised as a "sports dance". And so Khavsky - he was probably ninety years old, his wife was seventy or eighty - they depicted how to dance rock and roll correctly, showed that he can be beautiful, that he should not be erotic and criminal. And they are so small, thin ... And then the Komsomol members closed the clubs.

I remember once I ended up in a youth camp near Sochi and somehow went bankrupt there, skipped everything and entered jazz - I worked part-time on maracas. For a whole month he lived in some kind of hut with jazz players. It was wonderful summer. And there were Poles, Hungarians, Czechs, Germans... There were such freemen of morals... Freedom and democracy were victorious. But that was in the sixties.

There were many such points - I go through them with excitement. On Bolshaya Morskaya, where I live, there was a House of Culture for communications workers. “DK random connections” we called it. And there, too, there was such a “nest of depravity”. There, a ball under the ceiling was spinning from mirror pieces, the lights were turned off - and such snowflakes were spinning around the hall. Semi-dark atmosphere. Now discos cannot be compared with the old dances: somehow everyone there wobbles one by one and disperses one by one - as they come, they disperse. And then it was necessary to pick up someone, drag them somewhere, into some entrance, stand for a long time, not let the companion out of the tenacious embrace, then she would break free, run away to the hostel or to her mother. Life was extremely dense, I would say viscous. I waited all week - to Saturday, and to the dance. Damn, interesting. In my opinion, now life is smoother and there is no such thing.

There was an orchestra conducted by Atlas and an orchestra by Lundstrem - they portrayed all these boogies as satire and accompanied them with “revealing” texts, but everyone was dancing. "Maybe he's sick, poor fellow, maybe he's just a dude." Such a satirical text, but the real boogie-woogie. The song was very groovy, and everyone knew that as soon as the intro starts, you need to grab the young lady and act like a boogie in the center of the hall. In the middle, as a rule, a circle and four pairs of virtuosos were formed. Alik Fischer was like that - later a great scientist - he was an amazing rock and roll player. Girls flew just like dolls - almost to the ceiling. He threw them, and everything came together - amazing acrobatics: throw, catch, twist again. His lady walked around on a wheel, made suns, somersaults, and Alik managed to catch her. Excitement is such that we walk, ours took. All these evenings were absolutely magical.

Valery Safonov:

Both rock and twist danced, one might say, all staff members. And all the styles. Unfortunately, I couldn't - I probably didn't have the data for dancing. Here's the twist I learned - it's simpler. Rock and roll dance was not forbidden. But rarely anyone knew how to beautifully, truly, dance rock and roll.

The dance is quite complicated after all.

Oleg Yatskevich:

At the dance once - and banned jazz music. Dance the pas de quatre, pas d'espan. Such ballroom dances - I never knew them before. Dance the polka. All young people gathered in the Marble Hall of the Kirov House of Culture on Vasilyevsky Island. Announced: slow dance. It was tango. And here it was already necessary to be smart about girls and other things.

There were also “night lights” where dudes gathered as well. In school auditoriums. The 206th school on the Fontanka was very famous for these “night lights”. The orchestra was there. Saxophonist Kondat, former Utyosov. He was already an elderly uncle then, hacking. Trombonist David, who looked like two peas in a pod, looked like Glenn Miller, only, perhaps, he was smaller. Kolya Nosov - trumpeter. To get to this "night light" was like an appointment with Putin.

The Marble Hall of the House of Culture named after SM Kirov consisted of three parts conditionally separated by columns. In the central part, the citywide young animals gathered - from any district. There was also a variety orchestra that could perform, if allowed, any foxtrot or tango. The left part of the hall "belonged" to the cadets, mostly naval. And Vasilievsky Island was going to be in the right hall. The punks were there. Here it was necessary to understand, so that the face would not be stuffed if you took the wrong girl. Mostly girls danced, and when slow and fast dances were played at the end, everyone was already included. Some sort of breather. They will give you a little “breathe”, and out! There were also young men who went through the war. Well, relatively young - thirty or forty years old.

A former tanker worked with me, he had a burnt face. He was single and constantly traveled to Marble. In the morning at work he asks: “Were you in Marble yesterday?” “Yes, there was.” - "And what do you think?" And I look at him, and from my twenty-year-old point of view - this is an elderly man, and he runs to the same dances and glues someone there and takes him to him.

After the war there was a catastrophic shortage of men - after all, twenty million were laid in four years. Young women worked with me, whose potential husbands died on the fields of war.

Anatoly Kalvarsky:

If my memory serves me, during the dance evening one could perform one fast foxtrot and two slow dances. Everything else is polka, schmolki, krakowiak and some invented nonsense like pas de gras. Terrible names. And left-wing orchestras played either slow foxtrots or fast foxtrots. And no ballroom dancing. Ballroom dancing - only, perhaps, for the sake of formality, in the first part.

Dancing in style. Stilyagi

Dancing in style

Stylish youth not only listened to jazz and rock and roll, but also loved to dance to it. There were not too many opportunities for this - parties for those few lucky people who lived - albeit with their parents - but in separate apartments, and not communal apartments and barracks, and semi-legal dance parties organized in schools, universities, and even scientifically. - research institutes. At "official" parties, such music was practically not played.

They danced to jazz in "style", imitating movements seen in Western films or inventing their own, which seemed to fit this music.

Aleksey Kozlov wrote in his memoirs about three names of “styles”: “atomic”, “Canadian” and “triple Hamburg”: in pre-rock and roll times, dances such as jitter bug, lindy hop and boogie woogie. And the “triple Hamburger” was a slow dance with special movements of the body, with a special shaking of the head, and, most importantly, the partner and partner closely pressed against each other.

Separately, it is worth mentioning "boogie-woogie" - one of the most popular dances of the jazz era. Initially, the term Boogie Woogie was a style of piano playing (synonyms Barrelhouse and Honky Tonk - after the names of the bars in which this style was first practiced in the 1870s by black Texas pianists)

Much later, in 1927, the classical " boogie” – Albert Emmons’ recording of “Honky Tonk Train Blues”, and the “official” appearance of the Boogie Woogie style on December 29, 1928th, Clarence Smith's Pinetop's Boogie Woogie Release Day. By the way, in the slang of the 20s, the word "boogie" denoted blacks, but a decade later, several new meanings appeared - "dance", "have fun, have fun", "do something quickly."

In the thirties, Boogie Woogie began to refer to any swing dance performed at a fast pace. During the Second World War, American soldiers brought to Europe the so-called "East Coast Swing" - "East Coast Swing", which was extremely popular in the forties and early fifties. It is believed that dudes in the USSR also danced something similar to East Coast Swing.

Alexander Petrov:

An old music collector told me that in the thirties it was forbidden to dance tango at dances. And when people started dancing it, they would come up and break up the couples: dance the waltz, more modest dances, but by no means sentimental and erotic tango.

Valery Popov:

Now they don't dance like that, now there are some contactless discos. And then it was necessary to press it - and with attacks, break it to the floor. I remember Khavsky was like that - he showed how beautiful it was to dance. He had a slick wig, some kind of shabby tailcoat and the Order of the Red Star.

Then there was such an interesting ideology: it was not called boogie-woogie, but a youth dance. Somehow the Soviet government adapted to this. Or - "sport dance". Rock and roll was called "sport dance". And now Khavsky - he was probably ninety years old, his wife was seventy or eighty years old - and they portrayed how to dance rock and roll correctly, showed that he can be beautiful, that he should not be erotic and criminal. And they are two small, thin ... And then the Komsomol members closed the clubs, tried to seize them.

I remember once I ended up in a youth camp near Sochi, and somehow went bankrupt, skipped everything and entered jazz - and there on maracas. For a whole month he lived in some kind of hut with jazz players. It was wonderful summer. And there were Poles, Hungarians, Czechs, Germans... There were such freemen of morals. .. Freedom and democracy were victorious. But that was in the sixties.

There were many such points - I go through them with excitement. On Bolshaya Morskaya, where I live, there was a house of culture for communication workers. "DK random connections" we called it. And there, too, there was such a "nest of debauchery." There, a ball under the ceiling was spinning from mirror pieces, the lights were turned off - and such snowflakes were spinning around the hall. Such was the atmosphere of semi-darkness. Now discos can not be compared - somehow they wobble there one by one and disperse one by one - as they came, they disperse. And then it was necessary to pick up someone, drag them somewhere, into some entrance, stand there for a long time, not let her out of the tenacious embrace, then she would break free, run away to the hostel or to her mother. That is, life was extremely aggressive and dense, I would say, viscous. All the time I thought - to Saturday, and to the dances. Damn, interesting. In my opinion, now life is smoother, and there is no such thing.

There was an orchestra conducted by Atlas and [orchestra] Lundstrem also - they depicted all these boogies as satire and accompanied them with "revealing" texts, but everyone danced, meanwhile - what was needed. "Maybe he's sick, poor guy, maybe he's just a dude." Such a satirical text, but it was the real boogie-woogie. But the content is ideologically sustained. The song was very groovy, and everyone knew that as soon as the intro starts, you need to grab the young lady and portray the boogie in the center of the hall. We all tried, and in the middle - a circle, and four pairs of virtuosos. Alik Fisher was like that - later a great scientist - he was an amazing rock and roll player. His girls flew just like dolls - almost to the ceiling. He threw them, and everything converged - such acrobatics was amazing: throw, catch, twist again. She walked with him on a wheel, made suns, somersaults, and Alik managed to catch her. Excitement was such that we are walking, ours took. All these evenings were absolutely magical.

Valery Safonov:

Both rock and twist - one might say, all staff members danced. And all the styles. I could not, unfortunately - probably I did not have the data for dancing. Here's the twist I learned - it's simpler. But rarely anyone knew how to beautifully, truly, dance rock and roll.

Rock-n-roll dance was not a problem. I don't remember it being banned anywhere. But they rarely danced rock and roll, because rarely anyone knew how. The dance is pretty hard though.

Oleg Yatskevich:

And as always with us: we wanted the best, but it turned out as always. At the dances once - and jazz music was banned. Dance the pas de quatre, pas d'espan. Such ballroom dances - I never knew them before. Dance the polka. And at the end of the evening, which twice a week in the marble hall of the Kirov Palace of Culture on Vasilyevsky Island, all the young people gathered there all the time, they only announced: a slow dance. It was tango. And here it was already necessary to be quick - girls and everything else.

There were also "night lights" where dudes gathered, among other things. This is more abruptly, everything is mysterious. In the assembly halls of schools - two hundred and sixth on the Fontanka was very famous for these "night lights". The orchestra was there. Saxophonist Kondat, former Utyosov. He was already an elderly uncle then, hacking. Trombonist David, who outwardly resembles Glenn Miller like two peas in a pod, only, perhaps, a sprout is smaller. Kolya Nosov - trumpeter. And so on and so forth. And they came, and to get on this night light was like an appointment with Putin. It was almost illegal. I don’t know exactly why these “night lights” appeared, and not only in schools. At the Khudozhestvenny cinema, as I remember now. They were called "nightlights". In fact, they ended at one or two, but all the same, they did not start at seven, but at ten. Well, there, of course, there was a walk-leg.

"Marble" is a dance hall of the House of Culture named after S. M. Kirov. It consisted of three parts, conditionally divided by columns. In the central part, the citywide young animals gathered - from any district. A variety orchestra was also sitting here, which, if allowed, could perform any foxtrot or tango, but ... But pas de quatre, pas d'espane, Krakowiak and polka dominated the program. The left side of the hall "belonged" to the cadets, mostly naval. And Vasilievsky Island was going to be in the right hall. The punks were there. Here it was necessary to understand, so that the face would not be stuffed if you took the wrong girl. Basically, girls danced, and when at the end they played a slow and fast dance, everyone was already included. Some sort of breather. They will give you a little “breathe”, and out! There were also young men who went through the war. Well, relatively young, - thirty, - forty years old.

A former tanker worked with me, he had a burnt face. He was single and constantly went to the Marble. In the morning at work he asks: “Were you at the Marble yesterday?” - "Yes, it was." - "And what do you think?" And I look at him, and from my twenty-year-old point of view - this is an elderly man, and he runs to the same dances and glues someone there and takes him to him.

After the war there was a catastrophic shortage of men - after all, twenty million were laid in four years. I worked with young women, whose potential husbands died on the fields of war.

Anatoly Kalvarsky:

There were several people who organized parties. Basically, it was at the Polytechnic Institute. It was there very often. Or in the school premises - I don’t remember the number, opposite the Stieglitz school. Then - in the two hundred and sixth school on the Fontanka. And some other colleges. Because in palaces or houses of culture such things could not be done. Under the guise of Komsomol parties, they came up with some kind of background. These were all leftist hacks, of course. I don't remember how we got some small money. Apparently, the organizers were selling some tickets. All this was very cheap, and we also earned some ridiculous money. But it was not about money, we wanted to play jazz, and those who listened to us, to have fun and dance. It couldn't be completely underground, because [among those who came] there were a lot of informants who talked about it. But, apparently, somehow they didn’t reach their hands, they didn’t consider all this serious. But then - we did not play overtly American music. We played dance music. It's just, maybe we played a little bit better than all those terrible orchestras that worked in the "musical ensemble department". There was such a system of the "Department of Musical Ensembles" at the Lengosestrade. It was a whole department, which was located in the house of culture of communication workers. They had their own staff of orchestras that worked in houses of culture or dance floors.


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