Manele [English translation]

Manele , manele .. wut!?

Gypsy Music1 Manele, manele!

Manele , manele ..how?!

Manele , manele, manele !!

HA?!

That's us , bro! 2

Manele , manele !

"Yo , but what have ya against them!?"3

When i roam with the car the street and its body plate goes boom

Its heard from my speakers .. manele , manele

I park longside castles

Bmw-s with leather rims

I give signals/ light flashes , to them fools

Yo, move aside, cus' the king is passing!

Gypsy Music, Gypsy Music !

i work the back at gym , them girls to see

The versace shirt and the too heavy gold chain

That i must put to it some braces

Don't ya see that "i'm trendy , stylish" like ..

Wearing colorful clothes, slippers and beads 4

Found i am At the bar , hangin with different models

And them all got theirs"G.E.D" i swear it on m'a word

Manele , manele

Come on let the trap aside , cus' we know what ya do/listen , ya old bunny5

Manele, manele

Male artists and female artists

With common songs

Manele manele

And all them hypocrits are hidin , but dances on it 6

Smells alike some doe,

Someone wash me over! 7

Manele , manele X8

And "i" can't get enough of 'em 8

Love, pain, the dollars, them doe,

Sandals , curtains , "my problems",

Icons with Armani Goldish frames

"Them enemy's to die "!! 9

"Cause God gives only to the ones whom wish"

To the one whom asks !

I have no school , But ask me how much i do a month

I'll give ya some sums that ya won t know to count

Manele , Manele

I have a watch with taraf ! Is of gold !!

But ya wait see it , when the alarm rings

Them poor peeps , gathers At Mega store,

At lidle , At penny , AT pECO , Lambada

"The needles, gets me tattoed under the skin"

But i don t know what it means , cause "is" hard , the words "is" hard

"The heart aches !"

1. Manele aka The gypsy Music stands for a genre of "music" with Balkan influences, Indian info here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ for me personally , and at least in my country the way this "music" is sang and its "message" represents a disgust, a mockery towards music with real message. The reason why i (and many others) see it that way is simple , the message of this "manele" music genre always promotes hate towards others , always shows people that runs their mouth about (theirs, their closed ones , husband , wife even the cat) wealthiness .. and not at least, to not forget the fuckin bad vocals that i kinda use them when i get drunk and in need to puke ..it is easier somewhow2. "Bro" maybe that's you, and the rest that are part of the herd/"inteligent peeps" listening to that type of music and conducting themselves after those "epic teachings" that they "could get" from manele(Altough some Romanian people listen too to this "music", mostly this manele thing is heard at Gypsy weddings, and listened by gypsy. so my point here and personal input would be for our dear "Spyky"/Spike to not put me in the same place with others, you see , i am not one of the herd, i kinda have different tastes/ adversity,feelings(as the majority of us Romanians have especially when it comes to this type of "music") and i for once detest this genre so yeah .. this is not "us ("That's us bro"), "That's some of us" would be the correct line to describe the reality for better. Now letting that aside, the line "That's us , bro" is kinda debatable, same as this whole song, and can be seen as an figurative way of saying/ by which the author tried in fact again to ilustrate the very sad true that "Manele , somehow is "ours"/the guidance point /it represents us"- reffering in fact/ targeting/labelling only the people whom sadly takes all the bad things , hate, violence , infatuation..that this music genre promotes, and makes a life style out of it. Still we don't have to generalise things that much and spoke in such a generalised manner , aren t we lil\ Spike!?, AKA the ex non-comercial rapper turned to a hoe of the musical industry "Us" is not me , it may be some of us like i said...3. This whole verse, is exemplifying all the things i said before , and it is in fact describing hypocrisy , superiority (in its bad form ), show off ,and last but not least stupidity. it starts with this question asked in a funny/ figurative way, ironically stated "Yo , but what have ya against them!?"(funny some "inteligent" listeners of this manele genre would think, and in fact i ve seen many persons stating/thinking and perceiving this line and in fact this whole song, as a song that aims to praise them, their "beautiful" music, when in fact most of this song lines are ironical and describe the bad sides of this junk , and the image of the ones who consume it , also ilustrating through this image, the reson why is seen that way and yeah finally you know what they say "You are what ya eat, so yeah". The verse simply continues to answear the nice question " Yo but what have ya against them", with all the bad things, from this music and their promoters/ listeners behavior within the lines like "Yo, move aside, cus' the king goes by"/BMWS With leather rims"/"i work

the back at gym , them girls to see the versace shirt and the too heavy gold chain ,That i must put to it some braces for i able to be to wear it" etc4. These few lines again are used to denote the infuatuation that 'tis to be found in the admirators of this music and mostly the gyps race behaviour (at least spoken from the perspective of my country idk about others but for mine i can speak from experience, sadly having to get in contact with these species enough to state that what this song says is nothing but pure true at its finest), a behaviour in which even if something isn't really a good thing or something of a real value they'd still talk shit and find a "way" to shout it out as being the coolest and tha best thing AKA "i'm the best, oh my oh my i'm so superior to the res , i have them gals man bo hoo.. etc" sadly they are, but rather in stupidity than in real and proven certain things 5. This line again empowers the truth that many fakes it that they don't listen manele , in public going with trap music , while in fact being a common chav listening to Gypsy music 6. If this song and its video is nothing of what some 'chavs' would wish or picture it to be ( like a hymn or iconic song to represent and defend this junk ..) , still it is a song that states a truth through this line ("All them hypocrits are hidin , but dances on it/listens it") , that In Romania there are plenty that hides and , negates listening to manele ( idk from different reasons , but i would call it complexes.., complexated people)7. "Someone wash me over!" Again line makin reference to the habits of chavs, gypsy's also Romanians , but less , at wedings, some clubs, party etc , the habit of "makin it rain" throwing money on the "singer"8. "i can't get enough of 'em" Line that is representative ad should be seen from the manele listeners view, also ironical line again preparing once again to ilustrate the beauty contains of this music, and ilustrate this manele music, representants, lovers 9. The most common line met in manele music , the enymys to die , cause of my wealth "bo hoo i am so bad ", i am the best etc just what i've told 100 times music of infatuated people

• Artist:Spike (Romanian rapper)