Vesna Vukelic Vendi – The NSFW of Turbo Folk
Vesna Vukelic Vendi is too big of a legend not to be mentioned on a site like this.
If you from time to time stumble across the wastelands of Serbian internet, you are bound to bump into this queen of Serb virals – her picture and video exploits are being sent around the net on a daily basis. But who is she really?
No one can figure Vendi out to the very end, that’s for sure. She’s been around the scene for throughout the nineties, shot to prominence after a host of a popular TV show noticed her sitting in the audience behind him and made a comment about her boobs. She is a renaissance personality having played in some of the worst movies ever made by a living organism, being a member in one of the weirdest Serbian political parties, made some of the worst songs ever to penetrate a human ear, owns the weirdest Serbian myspace friend collection (now that IS difficult!) and to this day her very existence continues to baffle the average and above-the-average Serbian mind. Let her now corrupt yours:
disclaimer: i won’t be held responsible for anything that might happen to you after playing this video
Some will say that she does it all for money, but that would be too easy to be true. Some say that she truly believes what she does is good, but this outspoken ex-teacher is definitely not a stupid woman. Others claim that she does it all for fun, but it’s definitely too much work and self-sacrifice involved for such a trivial gain.
I’m personally convinced that she does not do it for the money nor the fame but for some higher purpose – IMHO she’s probably on a subversive mission sent from God to Serbia to destroy the Turbo Folk scene from inside, but that’s still just a wild guess. We’ll probably never know, so it’s maybe for the best to just enjoy this show, because she obviously does.
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Oh dear, I think I’m going to have nightmares tonight! She makes very interesting noises to say the least!
Ive seen 1, 20 minutes of Vendi’s youtube video
Couldnt listen longer. She must be drunk?
How come she ever appeared naked in Playboy??
What a great read. That video was classic. I saw her live once, i think it was about two years ago, no makeup, no boob-flashing or anything like that and she looked so normal, i was stunned. So maybe she actually is an undercover agent trying to eat turbofolk from the inside. If that is the case, GO VENDI!
Adam, I believe that in this case the gentle line between “man-made music” and “interesting noises” has never been thinner.
Miss C., you should really rewind to 6:00, there’s one great vocal performance at that point.
Analiticar, that is my theory exactly. I see you already analyzed one of Vendi’s songs, “Pracnuo se sarancic” and that the song got the highest grades. Well deserved!
At first I laughed, but then I played the video O_O Your disclaimer should be in much bigger letters.
Wendy is made of stuff of legends, but I vote for the host, which I think is Zorica Markovic. Her renditon of Sexy robot sends me overboard every time.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5x-572xIAOg
Taking of the mask – Darth Vader moment.
Bit of a combination of Bjork and Benny Hill.
PopKitchen, we already covered Sexy Robot long time ago – it’s definitely a class of it’s own:
http://www.belgraded.com/blog/culture/turbo-folk-evolves
Amila, beklager!:D disclaimers are usually sneaky like that.
Owen, great description!
have another retarded turbo-folk-ish song I discovered recently:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87AqUVmsBfc
@Milos:
What the hell is she saying? Is that Romani or just gibberish? Btw, that “young Ivana Zigon on crack” look she’s going for – I like it.
well to tell you the truth I find this Gordana Arsenijevic very hot compared to other turbo-folk stars, she has this strange innocent little girl face, I dunno how to explain it
Oh, I think I can explain it – extremely long legs, small waist and huge boobs. Plus that innocent girl face like young Ivana Zigon. On crack. I think I know what you mean.
I’ll put her video on the front page – why should we be the only ones who get to enjoy this, right? Thanks for the tip!
Zelim vam reci da mislim da ste VENDI , najlepsa zena na svetu, ako ne odimam vase dragoceno vreme, volio bih da mi psaljete mail, na moju mail adresu, ja sm vas velik fan.
Zovem se Dragan iz Banja Luke, imam 26 godina, molim Vas, zelim da vas upoznam ili bar da stupim u kontakt sa tako prlepom damom kao sto ste VI.
Obradovacete me mngo, ako mi se javite.
Vi ste neprocenjivo bogatstvo VENDI
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Thanks for the great write up Victor. Caught her at Hacijenda last night, though she only managed a couple of songs around 2AM, squeezed between sets from a 6 ft. turbo folk amazon. Managed to have a short chat with her- opinion, she just does not seem vain enough to think it is all real, but I think her audience does. So much for destroying folk from the inside out!
I simply love her, but i don’t know her, an internet encounter, now trying to know much and much about Vendi, saw her website http://www.vesnavukelicvendi.com , but most interesting is your article.
Thanks
Hey folks! Read this!!!!
I highly recommend for all of you to listen to her songs on youtube as well as to her interviews, there are some treasures, Like: ‘’Uljez’’, ‘’Praćnuo se šarančić’’, ‘’Ucena’’ and so on… And here are some facts about her: Her boobs aren’t fake; her lips are so juicy because of an non-stop allergic reaction to air; she always sings live, never on playback; and she designs her own clothes. I understand if you think that she might be a goddess, but believe it or not, she IS human!!!
P.S. I hope that you got the irony and sarcasm…