Inlägg 820Olina Novikova skrev:den 23 oktober 2009 kl. 17:16
Alexander in "Good morning, Russia" 23.10.09

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d2X3-dcKVc

ManHost: It isn’t a morning, it’s a fairy tale, Fairytale, if you like. In that moment all fans of Alexander Rybak – sweet-voiced Belarusian-Norwegian performer - must have winced up.
WomanHost: I’ve been waiting for him for a long.
MH: Not only you. Meet your Rybak.
WH: Today our guest is Alexander Rybak.
*Plays fairytale
WH: Good morning, Sasha! Welcome!
AR: Thank you very much. Good morning.
MH: Good morning or “got morgn” as they say in Norway.
AR: God morgen.
MH: But we will talk in Russian.
AR: Yes, in Russian.
WH: Sasha, we know that you’ve come in Moscow for the very good and important reason – the anniversary of Alexandra Pakhmutova (Russian female-composer who has written many famous Soviet songs, she will be 80 years old in the beginning of November). What are you going to play there?
AR: I’m going to sing “Stariy klen” (“Old maple” the song written by Pakhmutova).
WH: Maybe you could sing a little of it now?
*Sings
WH: Thank you, Sasha.
MH: Sasha, for sure, you life has changed after Eurovision, after your victory, everybody knows you, absolutely, you are the image of Norwegian tourism in Russia, Fairytale sounds from everywhere. But doesn’t it upset you that you are known only by this song?
AR: It is called a HIT!
MH: Yes, absolutely.
AR: It’s the biggest dream of a composer to write a hit.
WH: And of a performer? Your biggest dream has come true, hasn’t it?
AR: Yes. As an artist – yes. I don’t think that there will be more of popularity than it is now.
MH: Actually, Sasha has many beautiful songs. I’ve been listening to your album. Dolphin, Funny little world, 13 horses – they are very nice lyrical songs.
AR: So, you like ballads?
MH: There is one more song that has been discussed in Russia – Abandoned.
AR: Yes, it’s built up upon a Russian song.
MH: Because it is similar with a song from a cult movie…
AR: It’s not a similar with, it’s what it is.
MH: It’s what it is – from “We'll Live Till Monday”. There were attempts to make a scandal out of it in here. Have you got some claims? How has this story got finished?
AR: It’s just a song which is on the cover of a disc… Ah! Here it is! (the original Russian version of Abandoned is playing) It’s written on a cover of the disc in Norway that it’s a Russian song translated into English language.
MH: So, you like the songs from those years – like “Old maple” and this one “Crane’s song”.
AR: Yes, and I hope that it is a pleasure for them (authors, probably).
MH: No, it’s a pleasure for all of us! I’ve been listening to it in my car and thinking – OMG, where does he know this song from - he even was not born then yet?
AR: But I just only know old Russian movies, old songs because I left Belarus when I was 5 years old, in 1991. And the only things I know of Russian culture are those which mama and papa have been showing me when we have been in Norway already.
MH: He left then but he almost came back now.
AR: You can say so, yes.
WH: You come to Moscow so often; don’t you want to buy a house in Russia?
AR: I like hotels.
WH: And to move up here for a while?
MH: Nastya wants you to live here forever.
AR: It’s very pleasant.
WH: Alexander before you came to our studio we caught you having a breakfast. You were eating pelmeni. I’m sorry but we are just in the know.
MH: Well, he likes pelmeni, so what?
WH: We have heard that you order pelmeni every time you come here. Doesn’t your mama cook it there, she probably knows how to.
AR: In Moscow?
WH: No, there where you live, in Norway.
AR: Ah! In Moscow… (laughs) No, in Norway there is another food. And when I’m in Russia I want to eat real Russian pelmeni. And we have almost nothing left of Russian cooking (dishes) there.
WH: And your mama does not cook anything of it?
AR: Sometimes kolduni. But it is a Belarusian dish.
MH: It’s Belarusian.
AR: Yes. I like it very much. And usually we eat taco, pizza – everything Scandinavian.
MH: Nastya wanted to ask you something but she doesn’t dare.
WH: I wanted. Do you realize it how is it for many girls who are really going crazy now? Really going crazy. In every mobile phone… Many have bookmarks with your picture on it in their books. And suddenly they have got to know that you perhaps have got a girlfriend. Is it true? That’s it?
MH: Don’t make girls and Nastya disappointed.
AR: Well, somebody says that I have a girlfriend, somebody says that I don’t. I don’t know whom to trust.
WH: And what do you say?
AR: Well, I have sometimes.
MH: Alexander, that’s unexpected. (laugh)
AR: So, I have a dream to find a girl who is a musician too.
WH: A musician too? Why?
MH: She should not be like the one in “Fairytale” to not fight with her, to be friends.
AR: It’s always better not to fight, but the most important is that we would be able… if to continue this performing life that we could go together on tours.
WH: Sasha, play something, please.
AR: Well, what to play?…
WH: Just imagine that people woke up at 5, 6, 7 in the morning.
MH: Alexander, something of Greeg(?), please. (joking)
AR: (laughs) To play or to sing? To play, yes?
WH: To sing and to play if you…
AR: To sing and to play and to dance… (laughs)
WH: We do not insist. It just how you feel like in this morning. What kind of morning people should have?
AR: Let’s play the Norwegian one then. Ole Bull.
*Plays violin
AR: Well, there are many more couplets there.
MH: And it’s true. This is what suburbs are like in Norway.
MH: Thank you, Alexander. Well, there is nothing to do – we have to let you go. But we don’t want to.
AR: I will come again.
MH: Come. You have promised, then come.
AR: With a pleasure.
MH&WH: Thank you, Sasha. Good luck. Have a nice day.
AR: You too.