Saturday Flashback: Kristina – Viem Lebo Viem

Let’s head to Slovakia!

Tom: An anonymous reader dropped a whole load of Slovakian songs into our suggestion box last week, and this was the standout, for me at least. Let’s head to Slovakia!

Tim: Skvelý!

Tom: And isn’t that nice?

Tim: That right there is someone who know hows to use an unexpected dance beat, and knows it very well.

Tom: It starts by summing up the last few lazy days of summer, complete with happy lyrics and harmonica, and then somehow turns it into a dance track that could have come out of the good parts of the nineties.

Tim: Oddly, both parts of this are great – the first acoustic bit never really puts a foot wrong, and the dance section could easily have been stretched out to be a big summer beach party track. Combined…

Tom: “Viem lebo viem” translates as “I know because I know”, and even an automated translation of the lyrics provides a rather poetic phrase: “I can read you perfectly, you’re ‘momentary’ / What you’re looking for is just few moments of fun”

Tim: Well how right it is that’s she’s provided a few moments of fun. Poďme tancovať!