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A proposito di parodie. Nel 1999 Bob Rivers, un celebre Disc Jockey di Seattle, produsse “Kosovo” una canzone satirica di protesta contro l’intervento americano in Kosovo e la politica estera USA in generale. Come base Rivers scelse la famosa “Kokomo” dei Beach Boys. Il brano, complice la scarsa diffusione di internet e l’assenza di servizi di file sharing come YouTube, circolo’ in modo molto limitato e quasi esclusivamente negli Stati Uniti.

Sei anni piu’ tardi, un gruppo di soldati norvegesi del Telemark Battalion appartenenti al corpo di pace KFOR, realizza un video amatoriale usando il pezzo di River come sottofondo. Il video in breve tempo fa il giro del mondo, TV balcane comprese. Nasce un mezzo vespaio, e l’ambasciatore norvegese e’ costretto a intervenire e porgere ufficialmente le scuse.

Anche Rivers non la prende bene e ad un offeso giornalista serbo che lo contatta in e-mail risponde: “The song has been stolen … and I wish there were a way to stop it.” La risposta completa la trovate QUI.

Il testo:

Croatia, Albania, somewhere near Romania
It’s Euro and NATO, why the hell do we go
Priština, blew up huh, head for Macedonia
I’ll race ya

Somewhere far overseas
There’s a place called Kosovo
That’s where you don’t wanna go if you’re Albanian and all

Protecting human rights
Air strikes and fire fights
And we’ll be dropping our bombs
Wherever Serbian bad guys hide
Just up from Kosovo

Somalia, Grenada, or rescuing Kuwait yeah
We screwed ya Rwanda, wish we coulda helped ya
Iraqi embargo, that’s where got hustled

Ooo so now we’re helping out in Kosovo
We’ll kick some ass
And then we’ll see how it goes
And then we really don’t know
Good luck to Kosovo

Milo-so-vitch, you sorry son of a bitch

Every time we go
To little places like Kosovo
We never really know what happens after we go
Tough luck for Kosovo

Croatia, Albania, somewhere near Romania
It’s Euro and NATO, why the hell do we go
Priština, blew up huh, head for Macedonia

Well we’re heading down to Kosovo
We’ll kick some ass
And then we’ll see how it goes
And then we really don’t know
That sucks for Kosovo

Somalia, Grenada, or rescuing Kuwait yeah
We screwed ya Rwanda, wish we coulda helped ya
Iraqi embargo, how it is we don’t know

Ooo I wanna take you down to Kosovo
We’ll get there fast
And then we’ll take it slow
That’s where we wanna go
Way down to Kosovo