Otters in Lithuania

January 22, 2008 3:41 PM

The best/worst in Lithuanian music: the catchy Otter in Love, DJ Dago's rave music, Suopis ir Rambynas' folk music and Mr Valdas Karklelis and his creepy and [NSFW] pervy writhing .

All these videos are linked by one company (who had something to do with Karkelis' new website). I think maybe this is parody except maybe it's not. I can't tell. Valdas Karklelis seems real - his Geocities page and odd TV appearance make me believe in him. Can any Lithuanians explain what is going on?

posted by meech (11 comments total)

So which is the best and which is the worst? I can't tell. And do they have any musical instruments other than drum machines and synthesizers in Lithuania? I saw guitars with strings, but didn't hear any being played.
posted by tommyD at 4:09 PM on January 22, 2008

Watching the first link makes me ask myself, which is better: to be the coolest guy in Lithuania, or the 2,738th coolest guy in, say, Miami?
posted by Faze at 4:21 PM on January 22, 2008 [1 favorite has favorites]

I like this YouTube exchange from the first Valdas link:

666RunToTheHills666
damn i wish i knew what you people are saying =(

KadTaviGriausmas
all we are saying, is that this... creature in videoclip is a dumbass, fucker, bitch and so on and so on xD
posted by meech at 5:02 PM on January 22, 2008

WHAT.
THE.
FUCK.
VALDAS?
posted by dersins at 5:09 PM on January 22, 2008

My eyes!

Here's some ancient Lithuanian folk music by a Romuva (Baltic pagan) group that I enjoy, Kulgrinda.

An instrument often found in Lithuanian folk music is the kankles, known in Finland as a kantele and in Latvia as a kokle.
posted by medeine at 5:50 PM on January 22, 2008

I can't believe you forgot LT United, Lithuania's 2006 entry in the Eurovision contest.
posted by remo at 6:55 PM on January 22, 2008

Obtest, a Lithuanian black metal band with a penchant for teh wacky.
posted by The Straightener at 7:27 PM on January 22, 2008

Uncyclopedia to the rescue.

I'm surprised that Suopis & Rambynas are not qualifying for ESC 2008.
posted by ikalliom at 1:39 AM on January 23, 2008

Ah, the mother tongue. Unfortunately (or not) my pop didn't teach me the language.

Those videos go a long way to explain that my own personal weirdness might be ancestral.
posted by SteveInMaine at 4:03 AM on January 23, 2008

I can't believe you forgot LT United, Lithuania's 2006 entry in the Eurovision contest.

Utterly forgettable. I actually know a couple of these guys, and they are huge talents. They should be ashamed at what they came up with (and incidentally, they didn't win Eurovision).


Those videos go a long way to explain that my own personal weirdness might be ancestral.

Definitely a possibility, but we are weird in good ways :-)
posted by WaterSprite at 10:11 AM on January 23, 2008

Hi, I'm Valdas.

I'm doing a video.

Want to dress scantily, shake your butt at me, and writhe all over me?

Cool.
posted by Samizdata at 2:37 PM on January 23, 2008