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Oh come now, what did you expect from "Borat's" soundtrack -- sensitive ballads? No way.

Instead, this crazy, Balkan-flavoured soundtrack basically upholds the flavour of the hit mockumentary, about the world's most offensive Kazakh. It's basically nutty gypsyish music interspersed with offensive ballads and bizarre movie clips -- just what you'd expect.

It opens with an earsplitting yowl... which then transforms into a rousing Balkan tune with lots of hand drums and accordion. There are plenty of other good Eastern-European tunes -- the fiddle-and-brass march, demented accordions, computerizedmore… Balkan dances, and the glitzy bouncy stuff done by O.M.F.O.

But this is Borat stuff. There are clips of Borat from the movie ("You will be my boyfriend?"), usually just a few seconds' worth of dialogue, and the not-so-rousing anthem "O Kazakhstan" ("Kazakstan, greatest country in the world/all other countries are run by little girls/Kazakhstan is number-one exporter of potassium...").

And of course, the most memorable songs on the album: Borat's anti-Semitic folk song "In My Country There Is Problem" (warning: not for the easily offended), and the just-as-offensive-in-a-different-way karaoke song "You Be My Wife," which is apparently Borat's attempt at romance.

Basically, this song can be summed up by its lyrics: "I hope you are nice, and not treat me mean/Or I take out my knife, give you extra vagine... You Be my wife, I treat you nice/We will make love, when ever I like/I give you to chose, a dress that is red/it belong just to you, since my old wife now dead."

Basically it's all very offensive and weird, just like the movie. But musically it's also pretty good, a blend of gypsyish folk, colourful Beirut-style marches and dance music, which ends up being quite catchy and pleasant to listen to.

There's a lot of accordions (both slow and fast), sprightly fiddles and blaring tubas in here, sometimes paired with a flute or some electronic edging. And you do not know pain until you have heard the butchered Balkan version of "Born To Be Wild," which sounds like a convulsing gypsy band.

The "Borat" soundtrack sounds just as you'd expect -- imagine Beirut, Balkan Beat Box and a bit of Gogol Bordello, all with Sacha Baron Cohen as the frontman. God help us.

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Music > Soundtracks

Case Type:

CD

Release Type:

Retail

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Title:

Borat (2006) Retail CD

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Front

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764 x 750 px

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