Putin puttin' his pants on
One leg at a time
You mean he's just like a regular fella, huh?
He ain't nothing like a regular fella
Putin puttin' his hat on
Hat size number nine
“You sayin' Putin's gettin' big headed?”
Putin's head's just fine
He can drive his giant tractor
Across the Trans-Siberian plain
He can power a nuclear reactor
With the left side of his brain
And when he takes his shirt off
He drives the ladies crazy
When he takes his shirt off
Makes me wanna be a lady
It's the Putin Girls!
[Putin Girls:]
Putin if you put it when you
Put it where you put it
Putin if you put it
Will you put it next to me?
Putin if you put it when you
Put it where you put it
Putin if you put it
Will you put it next to me?
Now Putin hates the Putin girls
'Cause he hates vulgarity
And he loves his mother country
And he loves his family
He and his ex-wife Lyudmila
Are riding along the shore
Of the beautiful new Russian Black Sea
Let's listen in
A great man is speaking
We fought a war for this?
I'm almost ashamed
The Mediterranean
Now there's a resort worth fighting for
If only the Greeks or the Turks
Would start to sniff around
I'd bring the hammer down
So quick their woolly heads would spin
Woolly head, woolly head, woolly head
Or, wait a minute
Even better
What if the Kurds got in the way?
Hey! Kurds and way, curds and whey!
Sometimes a people is greater than their leader
Germany, Kentucky, France
Sometimes a leader towers over his country
One shot at glory, they don't get a second chance
I dragged these peasants kicking and screaming
Into the 21st century
I thought they'd make it
I must have been dreaming
These chicken farmers and file clerks gonna be the death of me
I can't do it
[PG:] Sure, you can
I can't do it
[PG:] Yeah, you can
What makes you say that girls?
[PG:] Tell you why. 'Cause you're the Putin man
Who whipped Napoleon?
[PG:] We did!
Who won World War II?
[PG:] The Americans!
That's a good one ladies
It's our turn to sit in the comfy chair
[PG:] And you're the man gonna get us there!
I don't know, Lenin couldn't do it
I don't know, Stalin couldn't do it
They couldn't do it
Why you think I can?
[PG:] You're gonna lead our people to the Promised Land You're right, 'cause, Goddamn, I'm the Putin Man
One leg at a time
You mean he's just like a regular fella, huh?
He ain't nothing like a regular fella
Putin puttin' his hat on
Hat size number nine
“You sayin' Putin's gettin' big headed?”
Putin's head's just fine
He can drive his giant tractor
Across the Trans-Siberian plain
He can power a nuclear reactor
With the left side of his brain
And when he takes his shirt off
He drives the ladies crazy
When he takes his shirt off
Makes me wanna be a lady
It's the Putin Girls!
[Putin Girls:]
Putin if you put it when you
Put it where you put it
Putin if you put it
Will you put it next to me?
Putin if you put it when you
Put it where you put it
Putin if you put it
Will you put it next to me?
Now Putin hates the Putin girls
'Cause he hates vulgarity
And he loves his mother country
And he loves his family
He and his ex-wife Lyudmila
Are riding along the shore
Of the beautiful new Russian Black Sea
Let's listen in
A great man is speaking
We fought a war for this?
I'm almost ashamed
The Mediterranean
Now there's a resort worth fighting for
If only the Greeks or the Turks
Would start to sniff around
I'd bring the hammer down
So quick their woolly heads would spin
Woolly head, woolly head, woolly head
Or, wait a minute
Even better
What if the Kurds got in the way?
Hey! Kurds and way, curds and whey!
Sometimes a people is greater than their leader
Germany, Kentucky, France
Sometimes a leader towers over his country
One shot at glory, they don't get a second chance
I dragged these peasants kicking and screaming
Into the 21st century
I thought they'd make it
I must have been dreaming
These chicken farmers and file clerks gonna be the death of me
I can't do it
[PG:] Sure, you can
I can't do it
[PG:] Yeah, you can
What makes you say that girls?
[PG:] Tell you why. 'Cause you're the Putin man
Who whipped Napoleon?
[PG:] We did!
Who won World War II?
[PG:] The Americans!
That's a good one ladies
It's our turn to sit in the comfy chair
[PG:] And you're the man gonna get us there!
I don't know, Lenin couldn't do it
I don't know, Stalin couldn't do it
They couldn't do it
Why you think I can?
[PG:] You're gonna lead our people to the Promised Land You're right, 'cause, Goddamn, I'm the Putin Man
Contributed by Pluck - 2022/7/25 - 19:18
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… facendoci ridere di gusto, anche se già allora c’era poco (o niente) da ridere
a Rockol
Di Davide Poliani
Non è una novità che Vladimir Putin, da ormai due mesi isolato alla comunità internazionale occidentale in seguito all’invasione militare dell’Ucraina, prima dello scoppio delle ostilità con il governo di Kiev riscuotesse più di una simpatia presso figure politiche di spicco europee e nordamericane. Senza andare troppo indietro nel tempo, nel 2019 l’attuale numero uno del Cremlino - che, per inciso, in tandem con Dmitrij Medvedev il Cremlino lo controlla dal 1999 - veniva definito dall’allora Ministro dell’Interno e Vicepresidente del Consiglio italiano “un grande presidente” e “uno dei migliori uomini di governo che ci siano ora sulla faccia della terra”. Che l’ex funzionario del KGB avesse una concezione della gestione del dissenso interno per lo meno sui generis se ne erano accorti in diversi - tra gli altri e le altre, Anna Politkovskaja, firma di punta della Novaja Gazeta assassinata nel 2006 a Mosca in circostanza mai chiarite dalle autorità locali - ma probabilmente i rapporti diplomatici e commerciali tra potenze richiedevano cautela e distacco, visto che - proprio a partire dal 2006 - allo stesso Putin sono state conferite oltre una dozzina di onorificenze ufficiali da paesi come Francia, Principato di Monaco ed Emirati Arabi Uniti.
Il mondo dell’intrattenimento, però, viaggiava su binari diversi. Nel 2017 veniva pubblicato “Dark Matter”, undicesimo album in studio di Randy Newman, cantautore e compositore di colonne sonore vincitore di due premi Oscar, sette Grammy Awards e diversi altri riconoscimenti americani e non. Nel disco era presente un brano, intitolato appunto “Putin”, che oggi pare più che mai attuale.
Al di là dei giochi di parole intraducibili - chi conosce l’inglese può trovare a questo indirizzo il testo originale - i versi del brano descrivono l’uomo dell’”operazione militare speciale” come “uno capace di alimentare una centrale nucleare con la parte sinistra del cervello” e che “fa impazzire le donne [più precisamente, le “Putin girls”] quando si toglie la maglietta”. “Lui e la sua ex moglie Lyudmila stanno percorrendo le rive del bellissimo nuovo Mar Nero russo”, canta Newman di Putin, uno “che sembra un tizio normale, ma...”, e che ama “la sua patria e la sua famiglia”.
Ben prima dell’attuale presidente della Federazione Russa l’ironia di Newman aveva preso di mira - undici anni prima, sempre nel 2006 - il quarantatreesimo presidente degli Stati Uniti George Bush, all’epoca impegnato con la sua amministrazione nei conflitti in Iraq e Afganistan:
In “A Few Words in Defense of Our Country” Newman sostanzialmente osservava come Bush, sebbene non fosse esattamente il migliore presidente che gli Stati Uniti potessero avere, era comunque meglio di altri leader come Hitler o Stalin. L’ironia di Newman, tuttavia, sarebbe stata sorpassata dal tempo. “Avevo scritto questa canzone perché pensavo che l'amministrazione Bush sarebbe stata una delle peggiori della mia vita, forse la peggiore che avremmo mai avuto”, confessò l’artista all’edizione americana di Rolling Stone nel 2017, all’indomani dell’ingresso di Donald Trump alla Casa Bianca: “Non potevo immaginare che Trump lo avrebbe fatto assomigliare a Winston Churchill. Chi avrebbe potuto essere preparato per questo?”.