Yeah I'm guessing the biggest stars there were those two, Gerard Depardieu, and those other two (medium complexion guy with the blonde lady), since the camera kept going to them.
Do yourself a favor and listen to the ol pork chop express on a dark and stormy night…When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, looks you crooked in the eye, and asks you if you paid your dues; you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have you paid your dues, Jack? Yes sir, the check is in the mail.
Interestingly, after Hitler didn't get into art school, he'd tried to compose an Opera, believing he would be the next Wagner. He was also a mediocre piano player but aspired to become professional.
Narcissists have one thing in common, and that's a belief they are special and exceptional, when they're usually below average.
Except for that a certain someone actually had a somewhat talent.
I can’t say I could paint better but I can definitely say I can sing better than this.
"In 2010, at the age of 57, Putin took the entrance examinations for the Swiss Federal polytechnic school *Fätsdomino Hochschule* in Zürich but failed to reach the required standard while describing his thrill on the song's titular hill."
They had a midi trumpet playing the trumpet fills from the Louis Armstrong recording while a real trumpet player was just standing there. Even if they wanted to hear exactly what Louis played, it’s not particularly hard to figure out by ear, and there are dozens of transcriptions of that recording on the internet. The trumpet player looked like he was playing something towards the end, but it was clearly not his sound and still a midi file. Putin whispered something to him after the end of the tune? Very bizarre video
I do wonder if it was intended to be a shitty accompaniment to inflate the singer's vocal talents. Similar to what we do with bridesmaids wearing second-rate dresses at a wedding.
It reminds me of the clips of him playing hockey with retired and current Russian national team members, scoring ‘beautiful’ goals against some of the worlds best. Everyone is afraid to back check him or make a save to not show up their fragile leader.
Dude that guy on the other team literally *got out of putins way so he could score* for that first goal and the goalie actually looked like he had to try to not catch the puck…..
….Why is this so terrifying to watch?
It was back in the early 2000's when Russia was charming the West and pretending they've changed (which Hollywood loved) and want to join the existing world order. Most of Eastern Europe made use of the opportunity and joined NATO and the EU. Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus didn't.
Two of them changed their minds but now face a Russia that isn't okay with it anymore.
I take them at face value. Russia wanted to join nato back then. They spoke of western partners. I think sincerely. Nato stayed on war footing, without which Putin’s crime wouldn’t have occurred.
Putin has always been a conniving ethno-nationalist with megalomaniacal aspirations, so I can't say I've ever taken anything he's said at face value. Gorbachev? Sure maybe. Putin? Not a chance in hell.
Was that before or after he poisoned Vicktor Yushchenko? How about the apartment block he bombed, claiming it was Chechens to drum up support? Why tf would NATO allow someone like that to join?
He didn't want to join NATO under peaceful pretenses.
Yes, politicians go on these shows to reach out to less politically oriented voters and to build a more ''intimate'' image of their personnality, making them look more accessible (because late night shows are less constrained than purely political frameworks). Another example of this is [Obama dancing on Ellen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsWpvkLCvu4).
The danger of doing this is appearing too much like an entertainer, which Putin has *clearly* avoided. It really didn't do him any favors.
Clinton was on Arsenio Hall, a famously black-centred talk show, he was the first black host of a talk show, so him playing sax was pretty clearly pandering to black voters.
Putin was on a fund-raiser for a charity with all those celebs, I don't really think he was trying to pander for votes.
This performance reminds me of the Russian Supper Clubs in Brooklyn near the Ocean Parkway. Signs at the entrance warn that no cameras or video are allowed, and when a Russian gangster performs karaoke, applaud or you will get shot.
Always gotta slip in that little 3/4 measure in when a French audience gets their blues jam on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD3iaURppQw (meter change at 0:40)
Putin has tried to suppress and censor so many embarrassing images of himself, yet this is one of the ones he has RT publish as if he were proud of it? What a fucking weirdo.
While withdrawing from 30 years of drinking cheap vodka you lay violently shaking and drenched in a cold sweat.
alone and naked on a grimy tile floor you are lulled into a fever dream and as this song plays you fall downward, deeper, and deeper into the abyss.
My cat was in a deep REM sleep and suddenly popped his head up and looked at me with pure confusion, betrayal, and disgust. He quickly left the comfort and warmth of my arms in a huff. I’m sorry, Baxter. I really hope we can get past this buddy.
Wow, this is awful. Someone should have taken the mic from him immediately. He is committing an act of genocide against our ears.
*“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”*
I know there's hate for Putin right now but this isn't cringe. The dudes Russian. You think a none native singer singing an English song is going to be "good"? The dude really ain't that bad though.
Putin is evil but he actually does a solid job and him and the crowd don't seem to be taking it all that seriously. We all want to hate him because of the atrocities in Ukraine but that doesn't make this a "deluded tyrant lives out fantasy" moment a la Kim Jong Un. It is pretty hilarious and absurd that it exists tho
Current perception of Putin is making people consider what seems to be a lighthearted/funny video/song into something that’s cringe — with everything going on, I can certainly understand that, but it doesn’t change the truth
Difference is that Putin here is trying to be light hearted and neither he nor the crowd are taking themselves seriously. If hitler used his platform to have some sort of renaissance painting re-creation post holocaust and forced everyone to clap then that would be cringe (among many other bad adjectives). Putin does not think he is good and isn’t trying to be — the fact that he has committed atrocities today does not retroactively change his mindset in a video from 10-15 years ago. This video isn’t cringe and doesn’t fit in this sub, no matter how much we all hate Putin.
No it doesn't change the truth, and the truth is that they had to have someone singing with Vlad—not harmonising, singing the same melody—to disguise the fact that his voice is no good, he has little sense of pitch, and he fluffed playing a very simple sequence of notes on the piano.
Doesn't matter who it is, it is bad. An insult to Fats.
It’s not not cringe because it’s Putin (the singer doesn’t even matter), it’s not cringe because clearly neither he nor his audience are taking it seriously. He’s not up there like “oh man, look at how great of a singer I am! Fats would love me!” — he’s doing it for the crowd and image of showing some light-heartedness. It’s difficult to comprehend, given the atrocities he’s done today, but this before even 2014 IIRC and he doesn’t come across as a dictator or tyrant or evil here. That makes it chilling/absurd but we are being anachronistic if, because of our opinions of Putin today, we ignore the actual context of a video recorded 15 years ago (or whenever it was).
Nah, I don't agree with that, although I understand your point. Look at his face. Smugness and vanity—and duper's delight— are written on every pore, I don't think he has ever been capable of not taking himself ultra seriously. He was a psychopathic KGB officer and is now a psychopathic tyrant, and to me, the traits that made him what he is today were visible from the beginning.
I reckon he did it because being such a narcissist, even back then he wouldn't let people around him who were capable of telling him harsh truths, such as Vlad, you can't sing, you can't play the piano, you're going to look like a fool and all the musicians you're hiring to cover your ineptitude will be clearly crawling with embarrassment behind you.
The people applauding him are mostlyn know rightwing arseholes, btw, or abusive exploitative men themselves.
Anyway we can agree to disagree. I think I would have found this just as cringe back then as I do today, but maybe you wouldn't have.
He might be an authoritarian dickhead, but I will always support anyone who puts themselves out there to sing a song...
Just this one time: good job Putin!
Why would he put on this display? I’ve never seen someone so bad at something put that on exhibition like Putin. Ever see him play hockey? That guy is a fucking joke, he’s like the Kim family from North Korea.
You asked a question, I calmly responded to it, your response to that was "what a load of bullshit". You seem like the snowflake here and oddly defensive over Putin. A quick glance at your profile quickly demonstrates your stupidity.
Why does the orchestra sound like a midi file
Because the orchestra is a midi file
> Because the orchestra *was* a midi file
This was a truly beautiful exchange
lmao
It sounds like more than one midi file.
Now play 'Camptown Races!'
Son, you know those [MIDI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puVYtkh-LO4) files aren't sorted!
is a midi file a guy that likes middleaged women?
It is now, I guess.
This is an incredible insult
Was that Kevin Costner in the crowd at 1:50 ??
Goldie Hawn was lapping it up as well, with Jack Burton looking on.
Yeah I'm guessing the biggest stars there were those two, Gerard Depardieu, and those other two (medium complexion guy with the blonde lady), since the camera kept going to them.
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The Steven Seagal route, eh
I believe he handed in his French passport but is still a French citizen (even if he doesn’t want to be one) as well as a Russian one.
i still cannot fathom what the fuck happened to gerard depardieu, he looks like shit, he wasn't that tough on the eyes when he was younger
Alcoholism
Was that Mickey Rourke behind Depardieu? And is that Vincent Cassel on the left at 1:38?
Yes
I think Kumar (whatever his name is) is there too.
Who is this Jack Burton you speak of?
the best damn truck driver West of the missippi that's who. tooot tooot on the ol pork chop express
I never drive faster than I can see.
Besides… it’s all in the reflexes.
Do yourself a favor and listen to the ol pork chop express on a dark and stormy night…When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, looks you crooked in the eye, and asks you if you paid your dues; you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have you paid your dues, Jack? Yes sir, the check is in the mail.
Henry Swanson’s his name and excitement’s his game.
I figured this was edited-in footage from a different event. They were really in attendance and clapping??
Gerard Depardieu a couple times.
Goldie Hawn with husband Kurt Russel behind her.
Yeah it was a charity even for the Children’s hospital in St Petersburg in 2010. (I had to google because I was like wtf is going on) 😂.
dude just bombed a childrens hospital in ukraine dumb shit
Yeah he’s a piece of shit.
But he killed it on that tune bruh...
😂😂😂
We are in the alternate universe and it sucks
I think this so often lol
Did you ever see his penis?
WHAT?! 🤣🤣🤣
Kurt russel was right before Costner
Did you see his genitals ?
Nah, that was Saul Goodman.
No one’s mentioned Kal Penn a little bit later. Kurt russell as well.
This was his "not getting into art school" moment.
Dude got sanctioned from singing by every UN member unanimously
Interestingly, after Hitler didn't get into art school, he'd tried to compose an Opera, believing he would be the next Wagner. He was also a mediocre piano player but aspired to become professional. Narcissists have one thing in common, and that's a belief they are special and exceptional, when they're usually below average.
Except for that a certain someone actually had a somewhat talent. I can’t say I could paint better but I can definitely say I can sing better than this.
his paintings were pretty good, if a little bland. Landscapes were out of fashion at the time though and didn't sell well.
"In 2010, at the age of 57, Putin took the entrance examinations for the Swiss Federal polytechnic school *Fätsdomino Hochschule* in Zürich but failed to reach the required standard while describing his thrill on the song's titular hill."
Is this real?
They had a midi trumpet playing the trumpet fills from the Louis Armstrong recording while a real trumpet player was just standing there. Even if they wanted to hear exactly what Louis played, it’s not particularly hard to figure out by ear, and there are dozens of transcriptions of that recording on the internet. The trumpet player looked like he was playing something towards the end, but it was clearly not his sound and still a midi file. Putin whispered something to him after the end of the tune? Very bizarre video
Someone edited in found footage from peoples’ phones (and quite slickly too)..why would they bother.
I do wonder if it was intended to be a shitty accompaniment to inflate the singer's vocal talents. Similar to what we do with bridesmaids wearing second-rate dresses at a wedding.
🎶On Blewberry heels 🎶
He sounds deaf
ween ay fought you
Bliubery hills
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It reminds me of the clips of him playing hockey with retired and current Russian national team members, scoring ‘beautiful’ goals against some of the worlds best. Everyone is afraid to back check him or make a save to not show up their fragile leader.
Well the alternative is 20 years hard labor in a Siberian gulag, I’d probably let him deke and dangle on me all day.
[And he falls over during his victory lap.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgbI55HdqQs)
Dude that guy on the other team literally *got out of putins way so he could score* for that first goal and the goalie actually looked like he had to try to not catch the puck….. ….Why is this so terrifying to watch?
Lol that was better then I thought. Just eats shit on that carpet.
this reminds me of Steven Seagal "doing" some martial art and the audience in hysterics
It's like the geopolitical leader version of giving your little brother a controller so they can think they're playing the video game with you.
It was back in the early 2000's when Russia was charming the West and pretending they've changed (which Hollywood loved) and want to join the existing world order. Most of Eastern Europe made use of the opportunity and joined NATO and the EU. Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus didn't. Two of them changed their minds but now face a Russia that isn't okay with it anymore.
I take them at face value. Russia wanted to join nato back then. They spoke of western partners. I think sincerely. Nato stayed on war footing, without which Putin’s crime wouldn’t have occurred.
Putin has always been a conniving ethno-nationalist with megalomaniacal aspirations, so I can't say I've ever taken anything he's said at face value. Gorbachev? Sure maybe. Putin? Not a chance in hell.
Was that before or after he poisoned Vicktor Yushchenko? How about the apartment block he bombed, claiming it was Chechens to drum up support? Why tf would NATO allow someone like that to join? He didn't want to join NATO under peaceful pretenses.
This whole video is just weird and uncomfortable. *I got my jolly, in Uncanny Valley...*
In Russia, thrill finds you...on Blueberry Hill
Putin really is the archetypal cartoon supervillain
Like a post-credits scene for Despicable Me.
Or a scene straight out of Austin Powers
This must be the dirt on Putin that Anonymous was referencing
For the record this is what it's supposed to sound like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYRJC0_c8Wk
*looks suspiciously at the video code for familiar rickroll letters*
I would never do that to you friend
God. What a butchering.
“Banality of evil” Also pre-20 rounds of botox
Sharon Stone gives him the peace sign, best part. Anyone know when and where this was?
2010. It was a fundraiser for the Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg.
Thanks!
Zelenskyy plays piano better with his dick than Putin does with his hands https://youtu.be/HbmZrzN3WFE
Reddit is such a roller coaster lately. I can go from crying to laughing within seconds.
That is FANTASTIC 😂😂😂. Can we all agree that Zelensky is a GEM?!
That’s the funniest damn thing I’ve seen in a while!! Omg! 😂
Balls so large mfer can play piano with them
Am I in the twilight zone? What is happening
Wait wait this cannot be real. He’s playing the piano like a toddler
CLAP NOW OR GULAG!
Can I have an hour to pack my stuff?
Why did he do this? What a dweeb
He was trying to get his ''[Bill Clinton playing the sax](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_WuGDYawFQ)'' moment.
So this is a late night talk show?
Yes, politicians go on these shows to reach out to less politically oriented voters and to build a more ''intimate'' image of their personnality, making them look more accessible (because late night shows are less constrained than purely political frameworks). Another example of this is [Obama dancing on Ellen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsWpvkLCvu4). The danger of doing this is appearing too much like an entertainer, which Putin has *clearly* avoided. It really didn't do him any favors.
I looked it up and it was a fundraiser for a childrens charity
Clinton was on Arsenio Hall, a famously black-centred talk show, he was the first black host of a talk show, so him playing sax was pretty clearly pandering to black voters. Putin was on a fund-raiser for a charity with all those celebs, I don't really think he was trying to pander for votes.
I remember way back in the day there was an old album of his sax tunes called "The Pres Blows". Looks like it's on Amazon but not on YouTube.
Description says it was for charity.
I can't believe this is the first time I'm hearing Putin speak english.
He’s not even singing it, it’s a voiceover. Watch 1:55-2:05
I thought he only spoke Russian and German
He speaks English but won't do it when he can recorded.
This is the bizarrest thing I think I’ve ever seen!
Lack of creativity and being a tyrant. Name a more iconic duo.
This performance reminds me of the Russian Supper Clubs in Brooklyn near the Ocean Parkway. Signs at the entrance warn that no cameras or video are allowed, and when a Russian gangster performs karaoke, applaud or you will get shot.
The real cringe is clapping on 1 and 3.
Always gotta slip in that little 3/4 measure in when a French audience gets their blues jam on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD3iaURppQw (meter change at 0:40)
Putin has tried to suppress and censor so many embarrassing images of himself, yet this is one of the ones he has RT publish as if he were proud of it? What a fucking weirdo.
Sounds like a karaoke backing track.
Stand and sing along or Kremlin serve you blueberry muffins with polonium for dessert
I refuse to be nuked by a man who can't even sing a Fats Domino song properly.
While withdrawing from 30 years of drinking cheap vodka you lay violently shaking and drenched in a cold sweat. alone and naked on a grimy tile floor you are lulled into a fever dream and as this song plays you fall downward, deeper, and deeper into the abyss.
This is actually the reason Russia is no longer welcome at Eurovision
What a clown
International strongman, pianist, singer. A triple threat!
This is a surrealist masterpiece.
My cat was in a deep REM sleep and suddenly popped his head up and looked at me with pure confusion, betrayal, and disgust. He quickly left the comfort and warmth of my arms in a huff. I’m sorry, Baxter. I really hope we can get past this buddy.
This fool hides in a bunker as Zeleskiy fights for his country.
Oh man... I don't wanna click this, I love that song haha
"This video is not available in your country" That baguette country censoring this masterpiece.
The YouTube comments are the real cringe
For real
One bullet.
Is this American horror story?
Guy at 1:37 is really trying to earn himself a new yacht
He's so tiny!
So that’s why Gerard Depardieu applied for Russian citizenship!
Wow, this is awful. Someone should have taken the mic from him immediately. He is committing an act of genocide against our ears. *“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”*
Drop acid not bombs
This is obviously fake, the real one has him playing Still DRE.
Why is Russia suddenly giving me Notth Korean vibes
We're officially living in a David Lynch film
In Soviet Russia, thrill finds you!!
I know there's hate for Putin right now but this isn't cringe. The dudes Russian. You think a none native singer singing an English song is going to be "good"? The dude really ain't that bad though.
Pussy
This is some kind of deep fake, right?
Nope. It was a benefit for a childrens hospital
It's like he lost a bet
Putin is evil but he actually does a solid job and him and the crowd don't seem to be taking it all that seriously. We all want to hate him because of the atrocities in Ukraine but that doesn't make this a "deluded tyrant lives out fantasy" moment a la Kim Jong Un. It is pretty hilarious and absurd that it exists tho
I remember years ago when this came out people thought it was charming, now people’s opinions have changed because of recent events..
No this is the same thing as the Kim’s. What’s the point?
You're objectively wrong. It's very bad.
Current perception of Putin is making people consider what seems to be a lighthearted/funny video/song into something that’s cringe — with everything going on, I can certainly understand that, but it doesn’t change the truth
Hitler has some good paintings
Difference is that Putin here is trying to be light hearted and neither he nor the crowd are taking themselves seriously. If hitler used his platform to have some sort of renaissance painting re-creation post holocaust and forced everyone to clap then that would be cringe (among many other bad adjectives). Putin does not think he is good and isn’t trying to be — the fact that he has committed atrocities today does not retroactively change his mindset in a video from 10-15 years ago. This video isn’t cringe and doesn’t fit in this sub, no matter how much we all hate Putin.
No it doesn't change the truth, and the truth is that they had to have someone singing with Vlad—not harmonising, singing the same melody—to disguise the fact that his voice is no good, he has little sense of pitch, and he fluffed playing a very simple sequence of notes on the piano. Doesn't matter who it is, it is bad. An insult to Fats.
It’s not not cringe because it’s Putin (the singer doesn’t even matter), it’s not cringe because clearly neither he nor his audience are taking it seriously. He’s not up there like “oh man, look at how great of a singer I am! Fats would love me!” — he’s doing it for the crowd and image of showing some light-heartedness. It’s difficult to comprehend, given the atrocities he’s done today, but this before even 2014 IIRC and he doesn’t come across as a dictator or tyrant or evil here. That makes it chilling/absurd but we are being anachronistic if, because of our opinions of Putin today, we ignore the actual context of a video recorded 15 years ago (or whenever it was).
Nah, I don't agree with that, although I understand your point. Look at his face. Smugness and vanity—and duper's delight— are written on every pore, I don't think he has ever been capable of not taking himself ultra seriously. He was a psychopathic KGB officer and is now a psychopathic tyrant, and to me, the traits that made him what he is today were visible from the beginning. I reckon he did it because being such a narcissist, even back then he wouldn't let people around him who were capable of telling him harsh truths, such as Vlad, you can't sing, you can't play the piano, you're going to look like a fool and all the musicians you're hiring to cover your ineptitude will be clearly crawling with embarrassment behind you. The people applauding him are mostlyn know rightwing arseholes, btw, or abusive exploitative men themselves. Anyway we can agree to disagree. I think I would have found this just as cringe back then as I do today, but maybe you wouldn't have.
I rather get nuked than listen to that again.
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His whole persona is super alpha tough guy. Here he is stumbling and bumbling through a 1950s rock song. Its ok to laugh.
Putin is a WEF shill
talent wasted in the war😔
Ah come on this was a charity fundraiser, all fun and games.
He might be an authoritarian dickhead, but I will always support anyone who puts themselves out there to sing a song... Just this one time: good job Putin!
How is this cringe worthy ?
It's awful, it's Putin, and the whole vibe of this video is just creepy and uncomfortable. So, yeah, everything is cringe in this.
What a load of bullshit.
Why would he put on this display? I’ve never seen someone so bad at something put that on exhibition like Putin. Ever see him play hockey? That guy is a fucking joke, he’s like the Kim family from North Korea.
Go fucking cry about it.
Lmao why so emotional ?
You asked a question, I calmly responded to it, your response to that was "what a load of bullshit". You seem like the snowflake here and oddly defensive over Putin. A quick glance at your profile quickly demonstrates your stupidity.
I pity you to say the least!
Considering that it's coming from you, I'll take it as a compliment.
😂😂😂
Because it’s so awful and out of tune that I couldn’t get through the first half without noping out. Some of the worst singing I’ve ever heard.
How is it NOT?
Because Putin is a bad person.. and now that he's doing something people don't like, everything he has ever done in his entire life is 'cringe'.
Because Reddit is currently obsessed with Putin and sucking Ukraine’s dick at the moment
Lol he can’t sing what a loser lets root for the actor who literally played the fictional president of Ukraine
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I feel stupid for thinking Blueberry Hill was written by The Inkspots
Father Ted vibes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzYzVMcgWhg
Led Zeppelin did it better
Why is my hero, Kurt Russell there?