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Осторожно – хрупкое by Стекловата (Jan 17, 2003)

You know, in general they are nothing special at all. The band is just another example of “Ласковый Май” (Laskoviy May / Gentle May) trend that exploded at the down of the USSR era. Laskoviy May was purely commercial project. One producer created a band of orphan boys with very tearful luscious glossy lyrics. In general, it was a normal success of another pop-band. But since all the boys were of pre-pubertal age, all of them had almost similar high voices. You just needed another boy under the age of 12 with basic musical skills and he would sound indistinguishable from the original “Laskoviy Maj”. Thus by the end of the 80’s there were literally dozens of same bands of orphan boys performing all over Russia. Sometimes they even went under the same names.

So Steklovata is part of that “orphan-band” movement, which still sometimes emerges in small province cities. But their feature, that turned them into a meme is their name. Steklovata in Russian means “glass wool”. As you see, it’s nothing sweet and glossy in that title. Moreover, they have a song, which goes under the same title. The lyrics in translation are something like that:

Also they are using some elements of low-class language, criminal slang, which also promoted them to their success (in terms of becoming a meme, of course).