KARAOKE
DVD / 15 min. / 2001
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The performance of karaoke of ABBA` “Money Money Money”
as performed by the volunteers acting as employers of the LTB,
The Lithuanian Savings Bank*
I work all night, I work all day, to pay the bills I have to pay
Ain’t it sad
And still there never seems to be a single penny left for me
That’s too bad
In my dreams I have a plan
If I got me a wealthy man
I wouldn’t have to work at all,
I’d fool around and have a ball…
Money, money, money
Must be funny
In the rich man’s world
Money, money, money
Always sunny
In the rich man’s world
Aha-ahaaa
All the things I could do
If I had a little money
It’s a rich man’s world
A man like that is hard to find but I can’t get him off my mind
Ain’t it sad
And if he happens to be free I bet he wouldn’t fancy me
That’s too bad
So I must leave, I’ll have to go
To Las Vegas or Monaco
And win a fortune in a game,
my life will never be the same…
Money, money, money
Must be funny
In the rich man’s world
Money, money, money
Always sunny
In the rich man’s world
Aha-ahaaa
All the things I could do
If I had a little money
It’s a rich man’s world
It’s a rich man’s world
It’s all about singing. Independence as the aim of „Singing revolution” has brought us capitalism with „post-colonialism” as a paradoxical consequence of political freedom. The capitalism, which replaced the socialism, involves wild privatisation, and therefore features of oppression, is stoically persisted as a free will by frightened citizens to disappoint our Western tutors**. How come, that grandpa’s Marx’s lessons were so easily forgotten. Or maybe just Marxism as well as Leninism had a bad connotation in Lithuanians mind due to well-known reasons. Capitalism had a positive reception, because of seductive mundane welfare of the market: chewing gum, bananas, jeans, sex, money and… ABBA. Even without understanding the text***, therefore the lyrics [often the essence of the song], inhabitants of the big state have penetrated theirs bodies with rhythms and melodies of a new utopia. The new utopia of the market became a fetish accepted what was imposed on them as originating in their ‘nature’. The power of Karaoke [DIY] enabled people of replay of something that has happen before – they become even no longer aware of their subordination, so the lessons of dialectic and historic materialism were easily forgotten.
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* LTB was the last state owned bank, which was privatised by the foreign
investors**** on the next day after the performance
**Slavoj Zizek: Lenin, Lukacs, Stalin; The Leninist Freedom.
***The veterans of WW2 could speak basic German, although English was
not common, cause most of the people believed after the world revolution
all will speak Russian anyway. Otherwise there was no use to learn proper
foreign languages, cause the territory of those were well protected.
****Estonia’s Hansabank, the largest bank in the Baltic states, controlled by
Sweden’s Swedbank.