Ukrainian pop: Svitlana Loboda - Down With Love (К Чёрту Любовь)

Eastern european rock often is rather sexual which can become a bit tedious when it done on routine, and even though I believe Svitlana could go easy on the lip-expansion, the video "Down With Love" does a great number of combining sexual tension with violence, making the borderline between sex not as clear as it normally is. As a fantasy it is surprisingly sublime and reminds me of Anna Sedokova's Between Us and "Heart In Bandages" in that the video creatively evolves inside its discourse.

• Svitlana Loboda - Down With Love (К Чёрту Любовь)

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)