They came to prominence once with the release of their hit single ' Ți-am promis'. The climax of the group's career was the international release of their breakthrough single 'Kylie', the English version of their internal hit ' Dragoste de inchiriat' ('Love for rent'). The song reached the peak position in many European charts and fared well enough in countries such as the Netherlands and France.

The band participated in the Selecția Națională, with hopes of representing Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest. They united with pop singer Nicoleta Matei and entered the song 'Jockero', which failed to win. Think of disco polo in terms of a cross between disco and folk music, just not a very good cross.Īn ear-bleeding mixture of simplistic melodies and lovey-dovey lyrics, disco polo has become a fixture at parties across Poland and a source of sizeable fortunes for its biggest stars.Nevertheless, it became one of their number-one singles on the Romanian Top 100. While it continues to mystify musicologists and remains a symbol of bad taste for many, disco polo happily defies all the odds with its earwormy melodic line and remains many a Pole’s guilty pleasure.

When it’s not melodramatic lines about unrequited love, the lyrics feature the sort of locker-room language that doesn’t really lend itself to quoting here. This hasn’t, however, prevented disco polo from becoming a crowd favourite at wedding parties all across Poland, with popular hits typically sung by the entire dance floor at the top of their voices.įor starters, let’s give it over to Zenek Martyniuk, the undisputed king of disco polo, and his band’s hit single Przez Twe Oczy Zielone ( Because of Your Green Eyes), viewed nearly 200 million times to date on YouTube: The beginnings of disco polo were far less refined though, at least production-wise. Conceived in the late 1980s, the genre was initially known as sidewalk music because cassettes were sold primarily in stalls on streets and in bazaars. Sales soon shot through the bazaar roof and the genre was given a more attractive-sounding name, calqued half-heartedly from Italo disco.

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