Gogol Bordello Pala Tute (Music Video Review)
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Lady Gaga obviously does not have a monopoly on weird and surrealistic music videos, as Gogol Boredello’s video release for “Pala Tute” showcases the band’s incredible ability to use their artistic license to do whatever the hell they want.
Those not familiar with the music of this Gypsy punk band from the Lower East Side of New York City — who according to their Web site was “banned from the CB/GB, Mercury Lounge, Fez and Bowery Ballroom immediately after first performances for being too over the motherfucking top” — will quickly learn what this energetic band is all about within the first 30-seconds of the video.
Most of the band members are from the Eastern Bloc of Europe and emigrated to the U.S. with an artistic mission to “provoke [the] audience out of post-modern aesthetic swamp onto a neo-optimistic communal movement towards new sources of authentic energy. With acts of music, theatre, chaos and sorcery, Gogol Bordello confronts the jaded and irony-deceased.”
Makes perfect sense.
The song is fun and upbeat, but the lyrics — which are half in English and half in Gibberish — are just nonsense.
“Caravan is leavin’
And her breast is heaving
Lord this kind of love
Cannot be untrue
I’m a little chavo
But I learned one thing
Girls they like kissing
As much as we do.Lela, lela, lela
Lela pala tute
I’m dying, dying
Dying after you”
The video itself opens with the band performing inside of some kind of old-timey, but futuristic, train with television cameras and satellite dishes everywhere. It sort of looks like Doc Brown’s time traveling locomotive from the end of Back to the Future 3. This particular train may in fact be able to time travel because the video takes us back to the time of Adam and Eve — but in clay — with lead singer Eugene Hutz in the role of Adam and backing vocalist Elizabeth Chi-Wei Sun as a noseless Eve.
After Adam stops Eve from eating the forbidden Apple, the scene transforms back to the train — which is now a boat and then becomes a blimp. Two more claymation scenes play out as homage’s to King Kong and Dracula.
The band finishes playing and the video stops. It’s at this point that you realize that while watching the video, you had your wallet stolen from little Gypsy children who have now disappeared.
Music video by Gogol Bordello performing Pala Tute. (C) 2010 AR LLC and Gogol Bordello LLC
UPDATE
To retract our “gibberish” statement above. It’s actually ROMANES as linguists know it [aka Gypsy language], which derives from Sanskrit and it is related to Hindi. It’s impressive how the story is told in the song in a classic folkloric way. One Gypsy caravan meets another, boy falls in love with a girl, that’s the story, what’s the confusion?!
Lela pala tute = take her with you
Jas kana meres = may I die [idiomatic]
Merava pala late = I was dying after her
Posted on 07/20/10
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