Favorite Tunes

For those with teenagers from Ukraine, here is some of the music our tween says is "terrrrrific!"

(We also added in a few of her favorite America tunes as of this week).

Anything by Dema Belan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO0kH8hf_wc

Anything by Ranetki: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uY-goxZ-tc

Anything by Potap & Nastia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pC5Pb68Od0

Anything by Max Barskih: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPSU8aa2yNo

Anything by MaxSym: http://www.youtube.com/user/maksim?blend=1&ob=5

Katy Perry - ET

Train - Soul Sister

Black-eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow

Jennifer Lopez - Hit the Floor (kinda, so so )

And another popular America song that we do not know the name of it but plays on the radio a lot.


The thing that I worry about as a parent is, what these videos teach girls about relationships with men: too much drama, tragedy, and violence (throwing and breaking things). In Ukraine, girls are often sex-pistols and guys have lots of machismo. Reversing these beliefs and creating an understanding of loving, equal partnerships between men and women and how men and women communicate attraction to each other is challenging. There is too much "girl-chasing/boy-chasing" or trolling-type of behaviors that kids pick up on, and as a parent, that bothers me. Just a personal thought.

Anyway, tunes in one's native language helps to ease the over-Englished-world that sometimes gets our kids down until they can navigate English better.