Ukrainian pop: Anna Sedokova - Heart in Bandages (Сердце в бинтах)

For the first time ever, I recommend anyone visiting my blog to actually first watch another video as a starter. You should start with Anna Sedokova's video "Between Us", which is about a relationship where the idea is of a positive relationship. Then you watch this "Heart in Bandages" which for all purposes is something so unusual in pop as a tie-in to an earlier video. Here the partner spurns Anna who dont want to let go and therefore is abused again and again in a very visual way. The recording used lots of blood and fake body parts, and may be quite explicit at times, but I think depicts how many may feel at the end of relationship.

• Anna Sedokova - Heart in bandages (Сердце в бинтах)

Ukrainian pop: Anna Sedokova (Анна Седокова)

Ex-member of VIA Gra, Anna Sedokova, does what would seem a typical "russian" video with between us, but I think there is something extra about as it somehow actually seems to recreate the dual (ie not just men => woman) sexual tension that is created between people attracted to each other. You could say that I find the video believable in at least an allegorical sense; it conveys an image of attraction that feels true.

• Anna Sedokova - Between us (Между нами кайф)