This song has a political hint , the lyrics can be fully understood only by Moldovan and Romanian citizens, even if the lyrics would be translated to English , one wouldn't understand the meaning of the song , if you don't know the history of Moldova and Romania. The meaning is that there are these two countries Romania and Moldova that in the past was one country , united and divided for several times throughout the history. The train shows that the passenger takes off from Chisinau (Moldova's capital city ) and travels to Bucuresti (Romania's capital city), they say that it looks like you go abroad, because we have different passports and have to pass the customs at the border , but at the same time they say it is like going from home to the same home, because we have the same language, the same traditions and the same history, the same kings in the past. They never pronounce in the song the names of the countries but this song is a programming for the reunification of these two countries. The traveler says that we are brothers but see each other one time in a hundred years , this phrase also has a political hint because once in a hundred years Moldova and Romania unite again in a single country , or divide again into two countries. That carpet has on it the portrait of the Great Stephan , a king of to both Moldova and Romania in 15 hundreds. And was a hero, and declared saint because he protected the orthodoxy , during his rule years he was in 50 battles against the Otoman Empire from which he won 47 of them. So it is a National hero for both Moldova and Romania. This song definitely sounds strange for foreigners but is plays with the feelings of both moldovans and romanians. It has a greater emotional charge than it seems at first sight.
Exactly! Also important to note that we never chose to be divided! The greates dream of our nations has always been to be one country. In the 1940's the Soviet Union took Moldova away
We romanian are brothers with moldavian, even the folclore sound, the music, the dance and the happiness of this type of musical chaos. And yes, Moldova always make lovely stuff for fun in Eurovision. They always rock the stage in their own way! ❤️
The image on the carpet is apparently "Stefan the Great" a major military/royal figure in ROmanian/Moldovan history. VAMA, as seen onthe sign, is the border crossing point on the main railline from Chisinau to Bucuresti (Bucharest in English)
It's a song with political implications. A train crosses a border but is practically in the same country because two states (Moldova and Romania) are practically one state (Russia stole this territory in 1812). Look for the lyrics and you will understand.
Do you know what happened in Moldova during World War II? Romanians were killed, robbed ordinary people and the Soviet Union did not steal anything, even now, many here in Moldova does not want unification with Romania.
@@nekkki.k Republic of Moldova is Romanian territory who was taken from Romania and given to the Soviet Union. Many moldavians from the Republic of Moldova were sent to Siberia or killed. If some of the moldavians from the Republic of Moldova don't want to be united with Romania is for economical reasons. Some must have forgot who they really are. In the way Romania looks like today, a slave of the western world, no wonder they don't want to return, but the history is just one. In the same manner romanian territories were give to the actual Ukraine, via Soviet Union.
@@nekkki.k It was the simplified version. The people from the Republic of Moldova, speak exactly the same language, share same traditions, history and culture as the people from the Province of Romania, called ..Moldova! Not a coincidence, because once upon the time, the two Moldova's were one big territory. As All the people of the two parts of Moldova and All the people from other historic provinces of Romania, speak the same language, Romanian, we say -in a simplified version- that The Moldova, the Republic, since it was cut off from a mother land, tongue, family ties etc due to political treaties, and given to a foreign language, land etc ruler, is part of Romania. The Moldavians from the Republic, might choose for Russia these days, due to the all political nonsense and lack of democracy in the entire world and messed up values from the West, and poverty in Romania, but that doesn't make them less "Romanian". "Romanians" = people who speak Romanian language and feel romanian, share history together, former rulers and enemies etc. Just like the fact that Crimeea, being taken from Russia to form at some point a bigger Ukraine doesn't make the inhabitants of Crimeea rather Ukrainian than Russian. There are surely people who forgot their origins, but the vast majority of the local population (in all the provinces that were taken away and given to smb else), keep their roots intact. Those without roots will be washed up by the wind of history.
Hy guys. I want to avoid to comment what happened during the voting process at Eurovision Song Contest 2022. For sure, this song is not a " piece of art ". It doesn't knock you down with a complex melodical line and lyrics to induce a complex emotional state.. It's just an explosion of basic, simple, yet, overwhelming joy. What's for sure is that this song will be one of the 2022's huge market hit. You'll hear it (and dance it) where ever there will be a crowd joined together to have a good time and a smashing party. For sure, Zdob si Zdub & the Advahov Bros will make a lot more money out of this song than the Kalush Orchestra. We've just received a crazy enough remedy to help us go along such crazy times that we are living now. Mulțumim frați de peste Prut. Cum să zîce la noi, în Ardeal : Dumniezo vă-mburdie-n Rai.
I am a huge fan of Zdob si Zdub (btw that is supposed to represent the sounds of a drum or somesuch, basically onomatopoeia). I have actually dug up and downloaded some of their music. A better Turbofolk band does not exist!
The face of the king on the carpet is the face of a ruller of both Roumania and Moldova at one point in the history of these two countries who used to be only one in the past. As for the style This is the style that represents Zdob şi Zdub. If you thought this song was chaos you should go to one of their live performances and it's the most chaotic, fun, uplifting and crazy experience you can have. Been their fan for a long time and I actually going to attend their first concert in Roumania after the Eurovision
Jaryd I will attempt to give you both the core lyrics, and then the translation: Merge trenul, parcă zboară Dintr-o țară-n altă țară Merge și nu poate pricepe Care țară? Unde-ncepe? Țară veche, țară nouă Parcă-i una, parcă-s două Ba aparte, ba-mpreună Parcă-s două, parcă-i una Hey how! Let's go! Folklore și Rock'n'roll Pleacă trenul! Unde esti? Chișinău - București Și-ntr-o țară, și-n cealaltă Joacă hora laolaltă Și în fiecare țară Face farmece vioara Când ajunge trenu-n gară Parcă n-a ieșit din țară Parcă-a mers, fără să iasă De acasă pân-acasă Hey how! Let's go! Folklore și Rock'n'roll Pleacă trenul! Unde esti? Chisinău - București Hey how! Let's go! Folklore și Rock'n'roll Pleacă trenul! Unde esti? Chisinău - București Hey how! Let's go! Folklore și Rock'n'roll Pleacă trenul! Unde esti? Chisinău - București Chisinău - București! Меrgе іutе, mеrgе bіnе Тrеnu' lеgănаt dе şіnе Dar nu poate să înțeleagă Рrіn саrе țară aleargă Țară veche, țară nouă Parcă-i una, parcă-s două Ba aparte, ba-mpreună Parcă-s două, parcă-i una Hey how! Let's go! Folklore și Rock'n'roll Pleacă trenul! Unde esti? Chisinău - București Hey how! Let's go! Folklore și Rock'n'roll Pleacă trenul! Unde esti? Chisinău - București Hey how! Let's go! Folklore și Rock'n'roll Pleacă trenul! Unde esti? Chisinău - București
The train is moving, it's like it's flying, From one country to another He walks and can't understand Which country? Where do you start? Old country, new country It's like one, it's like two Separately, together It's like two, it's one Hey how! Let's go! Folklore and Rock'n'roll The train is leaving! Where are you? Chisinau - Bucharest And in one country, and in another Play the chorus together And in every country Charms the violin When the train arrives at the station It's like he's out of the country It was as if he was walking without coming out From home to home Hey how! Let's go! Folklore and Rock'n'roll The train is leaving! Where are you? Chisinau - Bucharest Chisinau - Bucharest! Goes fast, goes well, [The train is swinging there] ** But he can't understand [Рrіn?]* саrе country runs Old country, new country It's like one, it's like two Separately, together It's like two, it's one Hey how! Let's go! Folklore and Rock'n'roll The train is leaving! Where are you? Chisinau - Bucharest (x3) ** [this was the best translation I could cobble together from Moldovan slang] It would require an actual Moldovan to translate the idiomatic usages, and we all know how certain words concepts NEVER translate directly across
It is nice nice that the western jury members didn't understood that this song IS reffering to THE union between Romania and Moldova. Good that they didn't realized that Stephen The Great (the king on the carpet) is considered a national hero for both...countries. Or, did they understood?
The carpet represented Stefan the Great an important old Moldavian king when Moldova included Basarabia (actual Moldova) and Bucovina, today part of Romania. There are a lot of jokes about how a Moldavian can be recognized by only mentioning king Stefan the Great. The song talks about the connection between Moldova and Romania, in fact they say that the train doesn't know when leaves a country and enters the other. The video is quite funny, almost a meme and what is curious is that Moldova participates with a song in Romanian language (some years ago Moldavian authorities change the name in Moldavian language although is the same language), while Romania participates with a song in English and Spanish 🤯
Moldavians have a better sense of identity than Romanians! I admire them for standing out for what they are and not trying to be something they're not!
I mean I love Moldova for sending crazy and unique entries and liked zdob zdob’s previous entries but this is not for me and I really don’t think it will qualify. It defo has its market (Balkan and Eastern European countries) so will depend on what countries are in the same semi. Juries on the other hand nahhhhh
That's fair enough! We've seen juries bury good songs before, we've also seen the public overlook entries too. That's why Eurovision is incredible - totally unpredictable!
This song has a political hint , the lyrics can be fully understood only by Moldovan and Romanian citizens, even if the lyrics would be translated to English , one wouldn't understand the meaning of the song , if you don't know the history of Moldova and Romania. The meaning is that there are these two countries Romania and Moldova that in the past was one country , united and divided for several times throughout the history. The train shows that the passenger takes off from Chisinau (Moldova's capital city ) and travels to Bucuresti (Romania's capital city), they say that it looks like you go abroad, because we have different passports and have to pass the customs at the border , but at the same time they say it is like going from home to the same home, because we have the same language, the same traditions and the same history, the same kings in the past. They never pronounce in the song the names of the countries but this song is a programming for the reunification of these two countries. The traveler says that we are brothers but see each other one time in a hundred years , this phrase also has a political hint because once in a hundred years Moldova and Romania unite again in a single country , or divide again into two countries. That carpet has on it the portrait of the Great Stephan , a king of to both Moldova and Romania in 15 hundreds. And was a hero, and declared saint because he protected the orthodoxy , during his rule years he was in 50 battles against the Otoman Empire from which he won 47 of them. So it is a National hero for both Moldova and Romania. This song definitely sounds strange for foreigners but is plays with the feelings of both moldovans and romanians. It has a greater emotional charge than it seems at first sight.
Ana. Great way to explain all that history!!
👍👏👏🙏 🇷🇴🇲🇩
❤ from 🇦🇺
Thanks a lot for the explanation! I like the song even more now!
Gracias. Ojalá se unan pronto los 2 paises
Super explicatia! ❤️🇲🇩🇷🇴
Exactly!
Also important to note that we never chose to be divided! The greates dream of our nations has always been to be one country.
In the 1940's the Soviet Union took Moldova away
Moldova just know how to do Eurovision, don't they? Hope Zdob și Zdub qualify again, this is brilliantly chaotic! :)
Turned me into a giggling idiot, they deserve to win for that alone 🤣
I love it🇲🇩❤ Moldova👍
It’s fun, it makes me smile and has a Balkan sound. Personally I don’t need sth more 😃😅
This entry had me grinning like an idiot, I can't ask for much more haha
We romanian are brothers with moldavian, even the folclore sound, the music, the dance and the happiness of this type of musical chaos. And yes, Moldova always make lovely stuff for fun in Eurovision. They always rock the stage in their own way! ❤️
No we are not stop this b…..
The image on the carpet is apparently "Stefan the Great" a major military/royal figure in ROmanian/Moldovan history. VAMA, as seen onthe sign, is the border crossing point on the main railline from Chisinau to Bucuresti (Bucharest in English)
It's fun! Hope they will be in the final! Romania likes it! 😋
Well deserved too! 😁
Yeah i know! My dad is romanian and he is crazy abt this song!
So proud to be half Romanian half Moldovan
i danced SO BAD and voted for them SO BAD.
Kings.
Perfection.
Wholesomeness.
Pure Happyness.
Grazie!
12 points from Italy.
Grazie! Molto amore de la România!
This is GREAT somehow - makes you happy! A Dark Horse - TOP TEN! Thanks from Sweden!
On the carpet it was the portrait of the biggest ruler of Moldova who has a statue in the center of the capital
It's a song with political implications. A train crosses a border but is practically in the same country because two states (Moldova and Romania) are practically one state (Russia stole this territory in 1812). Look for the lyrics and you will understand.
Do you know what happened in Moldova during World War II? Romanians were killed, robbed ordinary people and the Soviet Union did not steal anything, even now, many here in Moldova does not want unification with Romania.
@@nekkki.k mars ma la Moscova cu propaganda ta de cacat!
@@nekkki.k Republic of Moldova is Romanian territory who was taken from Romania and given to the Soviet Union. Many moldavians from the Republic of Moldova were sent to Siberia or killed. If some of the moldavians from the Republic of Moldova don't want to be united with Romania is for economical reasons. Some must have forgot who they really are. In the way Romania looks like today, a slave of the western world, no wonder they don't want to return, but the history is just one. In the same manner romanian territories were give to the actual Ukraine, via Soviet Union.
@@larisatomsa3829 Moldova appeared much earlier than Romania, it is stupid to say that Moldova is the territory of Romania when it is not
@@nekkki.k It was the simplified version. The people from the Republic of Moldova, speak exactly the same language, share same traditions, history and culture as the people from the Province of Romania, called ..Moldova! Not a coincidence, because once upon the time, the two Moldova's were one big territory. As All the people of the two parts of Moldova and All the people from other historic provinces of Romania, speak the same language, Romanian, we say -in a simplified version- that The Moldova, the Republic, since it was cut off from a mother land, tongue, family ties etc due to political treaties, and given to a foreign language, land etc ruler, is part of Romania. The Moldavians from the Republic, might choose for Russia these days, due to the all political nonsense and lack of democracy in the entire world and messed up values from the West, and poverty in Romania, but that doesn't make them less "Romanian". "Romanians" = people who speak Romanian language and feel romanian, share history together, former rulers and enemies etc. Just like the fact that Crimeea, being taken from Russia to form at some point a bigger Ukraine doesn't make the inhabitants of Crimeea rather Ukrainian than Russian. There are surely people who forgot their origins, but the vast majority of the local population (in all the provinces that were taken away and given to smb else), keep their roots intact. Those without roots will be washed up by the wind of history.
Bravo ! Feliri i!
It's ok if you say Kusturica!
Without translation, I don't understand not a single word, but still this song is fire and just must qualifying to final 😃😃
The best kind of song! 😆
Moldova is România one people .
Moldova 😍❤❤❤🔥
Hy guys.
I want to avoid to comment what happened during the voting process at Eurovision Song Contest 2022.
For sure, this song is not a " piece of art ". It doesn't knock you down with a complex melodical line and lyrics to induce a complex emotional state..
It's just an explosion of basic, simple, yet, overwhelming joy.
What's for sure is that this song will be one of the 2022's huge market hit.
You'll hear it (and dance it) where ever there will be a crowd joined together to have a good time and a smashing party.
For sure, Zdob si Zdub & the Advahov Bros will make a lot more money out of this song than the Kalush Orchestra.
We've just received a crazy enough remedy to help us go along such crazy times that we are living now.
Mulțumim frați de peste Prut. Cum să zîce la noi, în Ardeal : Dumniezo vă-mburdie-n Rai.
România ; and Moldova , for that matter, is a Latin island in a Slavic sea...
I really loved your enjoying this! And also how you guessed what happened without understanding the words!
I can't take all the credit, the subtitles helped 😆
@@JarydReacts To me it looked like they were in Romanian.
@@stefania-eleni1347 the UA-cam subtitles 😅
@@JarydReacts Cool!
I am a huge fan of Zdob si Zdub (btw that is supposed to represent the sounds of a drum or somesuch, basically onomatopoeia). I have actually dug up and downloaded some of their music. A better Turbofolk band does not exist!
Thank you 😍😘
You got the rhythm boy 😅 go ahead and crack it on 🕺
The face of the king on the carpet is the face of a ruller of both Roumania and Moldova at one point in the history of these two countries who used to be only one in the past. As for the style This is the style that represents Zdob şi Zdub. If you thought this song was chaos you should go to one of their live performances and it's the most chaotic, fun, uplifting and crazy experience you can have. Been their fan for a long time and I actually going to attend their first concert in Roumania after the Eurovision
Jaryd I will attempt to give you both the core lyrics, and then the translation:
Merge trenul, parcă zboară Dintr-o țară-n altă țară
Merge și nu poate pricepe Care țară? Unde-ncepe?
Țară veche, țară nouă Parcă-i una, parcă-s două
Ba aparte, ba-mpreună Parcă-s două, parcă-i una
Hey how! Let's go! Folklore și Rock'n'roll
Pleacă trenul! Unde esti? Chișinău - București
Și-ntr-o țară, și-n cealaltă Joacă hora laolaltă
Și în fiecare țară Face farmece vioara
Când ajunge trenu-n gară Parcă n-a ieșit din țară
Parcă-a mers, fără să iasă De acasă pân-acasă
Hey how! Let's go! Folklore și Rock'n'roll
Pleacă trenul! Unde esti? Chisinău - București
Hey how! Let's go! Folklore și Rock'n'roll
Pleacă trenul! Unde esti? Chisinău - București
Hey how! Let's go! Folklore și Rock'n'roll
Pleacă trenul! Unde esti? Chisinău - București
Chisinău - București!
Меrgе іutе, mеrgе bіnе Тrеnu' lеgănаt dе şіnе
Dar nu poate să înțeleagă Рrіn саrе țară aleargă
Țară veche, țară nouă Parcă-i una, parcă-s două
Ba aparte, ba-mpreună Parcă-s două, parcă-i una
Hey how! Let's go! Folklore și Rock'n'roll
Pleacă trenul! Unde esti? Chisinău - București
Hey how! Let's go! Folklore și Rock'n'roll
Pleacă trenul! Unde esti? Chisinău - București
Hey how! Let's go! Folklore și Rock'n'roll
Pleacă trenul! Unde esti? Chisinău - București
The train is moving, it's like it's flying, From one country to another
He walks and can't understand Which country? Where do you start?
Old country, new country It's like one, it's like two
Separately, together It's like two, it's one
Hey how! Let's go! Folklore and Rock'n'roll
The train is leaving! Where are you? Chisinau - Bucharest
And in one country, and in another Play the chorus together
And in every country Charms the violin
When the train arrives at the station It's like he's out of the country
It was as if he was walking without coming out From home to home
Hey how! Let's go! Folklore and Rock'n'roll
The train is leaving! Where are you? Chisinau - Bucharest
Chisinau - Bucharest!
Goes fast, goes well, [The train is swinging there] **
But he can't understand [Рrіn?]* саrе country runs
Old country, new country It's like one, it's like two
Separately, together It's like two, it's one
Hey how! Let's go! Folklore and Rock'n'roll
The train is leaving! Where are you? Chisinau - Bucharest (x3)
** [this was the best translation I could cobble together from Moldovan slang]
It would require an actual Moldovan to translate the idiomatic usages, and we all know how certain words concepts NEVER translate directly across
Haha thank you very much 😁
Mulțumim pentru versuri.
It is nice nice that the western jury members didn't understood that this song IS reffering to THE union between Romania and Moldova. Good that they didn't realized that Stephen The Great (the king on the carpet) is considered a national hero for both...countries. Or, did they understood?
The carpet represented Stefan the Great an important old Moldavian king when Moldova included Basarabia (actual Moldova) and Bucovina, today part of Romania. There are a lot of jokes about how a Moldavian can be recognized by only mentioning king Stefan the Great.
The song talks about the connection between Moldova and Romania, in fact they say that the train doesn't know when leaves a country and enters the other.
The video is quite funny, almost a meme and what is curious is that Moldova participates with a song in Romanian language (some years ago Moldavian authorities change the name in Moldavian language although is the same language), while Romania participates with a song in English and Spanish 🤯
Moldavians have a better sense of identity than Romanians! I admire them for standing out for what they are and not trying to be something they're not!
Siii...Va place muzica romaneasca!??? FAINA, TREBUIE SA RECUNOSTI🤗😉
Moldova doesn't know tragic
Oh we do. We just really don't like it )
I mean I love Moldova for sending crazy and unique entries and liked zdob zdob’s previous entries but this is not for me and I really don’t think it will qualify. It defo has its market (Balkan and Eastern European countries) so will depend on what countries are in the same semi. Juries on the other hand nahhhhh
That's fair enough! We've seen juries bury good songs before, we've also seen the public overlook entries too. That's why Eurovision is incredible - totally unpredictable!
Ended up 7th overall. No real support from the juries but 2nd in the overall televote.
They had to win:( and united states:(