Bulgaria, Yo, Bro!

Novinite Insider » OPINIONS | Author: Desislava Mikova |September 28, 2012, Friday // 22:03
Bulgaria: Bulgaria, Yo, Bro!

Bulgaria has wasted too much public energy on a tasteless, infantile hip-hop song metaphor in the colors of the national flag, misused in a pseudo-political kick-up in the past week.

A literal comparison between the white, green and red on the banner to cocaine, marijuana and a physical process in the female body in the song of three regionally renowned rap singers stirred a row so turbulent as to involve suspicions of political repression and restraint of the freedom of speech.

The lines that were considered offensive to the national symbol and, therefore, are subject to some unconcluded legal action, are the result of mere creative impotence and are only worthy of a short note of their bad taste.

Such inept lyrics express no socio-political criticism whatsoever and cannot even be considered insulting.

The line that reportedly caused the repression on the singers on behalf of the ruling party GERB declares "I believe in the Coat of Arms, and not in GERB", using the homonymic resemblance of the two words.

Strong as it may seem, the political message is drowned in a fruitless effort to criticize a certain reality which actually bears much darker colors.

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Tags: rappers, song, GERB, Boyko Borisov, ruling gerb party, Prime Minister, Sergey Stanishev, Misho Shamara, Big Sha, Serafim Martinov aka Sarafa

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