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Nezavisne, December 30 "Eurovision is
pathetic"
Nezavisne: Are you surprised you were chosen to
represent BiH at the next Eurovision Song
Contest?
Laka: Well, I don't know. When they told me to
sign on, maybe I had a little hope to be the next
representative. But, knowing what kind of songs
succeed there, I did not have much hope. And it
looks like they've decided to "break"
that concept of songs that go to Eurovision.
Every there there are inovations, which means
that nothing is excluded. The most important
thing is to make it to the final night.
Nezavisne:
You are the songwriter of "Pokusaj." If
you make it to the final night, what kind of
placing are you hoping for? Laka, I don't know,
who wouldn't want to win? So, I would want to win
too. I don't know how possible that is, but I
guess if that heavy metal band won, it looks like
anything is possible. What do I know! Everything
depends on the phone calls.
Nezavisne: Do you think you can beat Hari's
placing, who won the third place in Eurovision
2006.
Laka: Hari was good. Still, these are two
different types of music, so I don't know if I'll
manage a better placing. In any case, we can't be
compared. He is in some kind of soft pop, and I
am in soft alternative.
Nezavisne: Will performing at Eurovision help
your career?
Laka: I think it will. It's lucky that the next
Eurovision is held in the region. I've already
released my first album "Zec" in
Belgrade. I hope that Slovenia, Macedonia and
Serbia "push" me as well, so it looks
like it might help. I don't know. In any case, I
am not pretending.
Nezavisne: Do you live better after releasing
"Zec"?
Laka: I don't have any money from
"Zec," only from concerts. I play and
have money. Selling albums brings no money, but
it's allowed me to hold concerts. If I didn't
release the album, I probably wouldn't have any
concerts. Ah, I live the same. No better.
Nezavisne: What's the problem?
Laka: The long road has to pass. Maybe after the
third, fifth or tenth album you start to live
better in material sense. Nobody has gotten much
material benefit from the first album. Maybe I
expect the second and the third to bring
something more serious in material sense.
Nezavisne: Do you regret coming back from USA?
Laka: No. Only you can do in America is earn a
living on your own, as there is no social life
there. Here it's the opposite. I decided to live
a life of music and to live a social life. You
can't hang out with money. You have to hang out
with people. I don't regret it, but I miss New
York every day. I miss that city. There I didn't
have many friends, I had two friends in New York
who were completely natural people. You can't
exactly find many friends there. When I went to
go out with someone, he says, "I'm free
February 15 at 8." There's no hanging out
every night like here.
Nezavisne:
How did your parents react to the Eurovision
news?
Laka: They didn't believe it. There were happy.
Nezavisne: How much do your parent support your
in your career?
Laka: They support me in the sense to find a job,
get married. They say, "Find a job and then
pursue music."
Nezavisne: They tell you to get married?
Laka: As if I'm here to make others happy. I
should be planning my own life. I don't think
about marriage. I operate the way I feel, in a
natural way. The biological lock hasn't started
ticking yet.
Nezavisne: You are the most original and
controversial public person when it comes to
fashion. If the "BH Eurosong" team
finds a team to design some conventional clothes
for your performance, will you consent to it?
Laka: At the first I told Dejan Kukric (Bosnian
head of delegation), "Dejan, I do not want
to do what I have not done before. And I can't
work with people I have not worked before. I am
not going to pretend, or dress like I have not
thus far." He said, "OK. If you win the
selection, that's how it'll be. If you don't,
then nothing." So, with me, there will be no
pretending or changes. The clothes may be
suitable for that occasion, but in my way.
Nezavisne: You don't hide the fact that you buy
in second-hand stores.
Laka: I buy it there and will in the future. If
someone has a thousand-dollar coat, it doesn't
mean they're a better or worse person. I don't
know anybody who has expensive clothes and a car.
Nezavisne: What are you planning in the future,
after Eurovision?
Laka: I would like to prepare an album, to
release it right after Eurovision, to keep the
continuity. I don't know if I'll succeed, but I
would like to do it.
Nezavisne: Will you have a dance act during your
performance?
Laka: We were thinking... We haven't had that
meeting yet, but it will not be any
patheticalness.
Nezavisne: How do you mean? Is Eurovision a
symbol of patheticalness?
Laka: I think Eurovision is pathetic.
Nezavisne: Still you are in this project.
Laka: Which doesn't mean I will be pathetic. I
will be the way I was until now.
sarajevo-x.com, December
27 "I told them I've got
nothing to wear for Eurovision"
Bosnia and Herzegovina will be represented by
Elvir Laković Laka at the 2008 Eurovision in
Belgrade. For sarajevo-x.com, Laka said that he
got the lucky news last night "while
hand-washing some socks."
"They told me I can't say anything about the
song, but I like it. It's the same style of mine
because I did not want to give up on my style and
sing some ballad with lyrics like 'river of
tears' or 'you left, and I'm crying.'"
"They told me the news yesterday, and I was
in the middle of hand-washing some socks when the
phone rang. They said, 'you're through,' and I
said 'through what?' and they responded 'to
Eurovision!' Right then I told them, 'people I've
got nothing to wear, so you need to think about
that.' They said not to worry and that they'd
take care of it all. What I asked them next is
will I bring my own food or will there be food
there, and they said everything will be there and
not to worry. They said everything is organized
and planned out, and I expressed my desire to
split a roasted lamb head with Estonia. But
nothing will probably come out of that because
everything has to be on a certain level. I can't
even eat beans because there is no eating bean
stew on such a level."
"If political interests are turned towards
Bosnia and Herzegovina, maybe I'll win, but I
think the winner will be some country with some
kind of problem," concluded Laka.
BHRT has decided - Elvir Laković, known as Laka,
is going to Eurovision 2008! Instead of just
choosing an artist, as was the original plan,
BHRT has also chosen Laka's song, working title
of which is Pokusaj (Try) as the Bosnian
representative.
Elvir Lakovic, known as Laka, is one of Bosnia
and Herzegovina's most eccentric contemporary
artists. He hails from Goražde and lives in
Sarajevo. Since first coming onto the music scene
with the song "Razočar'o" in 1998, he
had released only 6 songs in as many years. His
plan was to release one single per year, to the
dismay of many who wished him to be more
productive and offer more of his shocking work on
perusal.
Alas, he had other plans in mind and ended up
moving to New York in 2004, in hopes to conquer
the world music scene. This was not to be and he
returned to Sarajevo in 2007 and released his
first album "Zec" (Rabbit).
Laka is in sharp contrast to the Bosnian entries
of late, which include ethno ballads and schlager
pop. He describes his music as "hard
pop."
Bosnian daily Nezavisne, May 16,
2007 Interview with Laka
Goraždan
Elvir Laković Laka, known for songs
"Vještica na metli" (Witch on a
Broom), "Ti si se upiškila" (You've
Peed Yourself) or "Ja sam mo'ro" (I Had
To) is sure to be one of the most controversial
and most originally dressed personalities on the
Bosnian music scene.
After returning from New York, where he worked as
a waiter, he wants to continue his music career
with the first album he's recording in Sarajevo.
In this interview, he admits that in New York he
missed his friends most, as well as a good band
with which his talent would shine through.
"This is how my days were. I wake up in the
morning and go to work. The worst was not having
people to hang out with. I was in New York, the
most beautiful city in the world, but I had no
friends. There I could not work with music. I was
supposed to get American papers, but then I came
back."
Nezavisne:
So why did you leave BiH?
Laka: I don't know. I wanted to know why exactly
this New York was the greatest. I wanted to see
those big buildings. And there you have it, I saw
it and decided to come back to Bosnia and
Herzegovina. I could not play music in New York.
Nezavisne: You worked as a waiter in New York?
Laka: I first started working as a waiter in
catering. Then I moved to a bar. There were tips.
I did not know that waiting was a physical job.
In America is where I first saw that and felt it
in my legs. My knees are still week. The question
is whether it's from football, waiting or
sculpting. Ah, let it rhyme!
Nezavisne: Did you have an opportunity to meet a
manager?
Laka: I started to play with some Americans. But,
they got jobs. Say, the drummer, when he go a
job, we never again saw him in rehearsals. The
band did not have a name as were were just
fooling around. We played my stuff but in
English. We fooled around a bit, but there
weren't enough rehearsal for it to become
anything.
Nezavisne: And so you came back to BiH to record
the first album?
Laka: Yes. On the album there will be six old
songs and as many new ones. Those new songs are
in my style too. They are about what's happening
between me and life, the way I see it. I think
that music style-wise they are rock. My manager
tells me that Dallas Records will release it in
Slovenia and Croatia and Hayat Production in
Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Nezavisne: Will you be able
to live off the album?
Laka: I don't know, but for seven years I worked
in a humanitarian organization. I was a financial
manager. I realized that I don't want to that in
America. I wanted to sing and to have some kind
of artistic expression and for my talent to come
out into the light. Someone gave me this talent.
And if I were to stifle it, then maybe I'd
neutralize my existence on this planet. I want to
show what I've got.
Nezavisne: Do you go to your town Goražde?
Laka: I've realized that hometowns have an
expiration date. I go to Goražde often, to my
parents'. What I love the most is when mom makes
me bean stew. It has the same potency of flavor
as the food that the rich eat in New York. It's
good even after two hours of cooling down in
Drina river. But, the people are different, there
are new generations. It's hard to spot someone I
used to hang out with. If I don't have friends,
I'm kind of not there. I don't exist.
Nezavisne: Are you thinking about marriage, kids?
Laka: I'm thinking, how am I supposed to
withstand all of that. I would have to work for
someone. I can't reconcile it in my head.
Everybody says that a child has that something. I
don't know, maybe one day I will have a family
and take out a mortgage and auto credit, go to
the seaside, barbecue for May Day, buy a modern
washing machine, refrigerator.
Nezavisne: You missed having friends in USA. Do
you have them in Sarajevo?
Laka: Tons.
Nezavisne: What do your get-togethers look like?
Laka: We're on the same, grown-up level. We
understand each other completely. We laugh like
crazy. Sometimes we don't even talk, as long as
they're there. I guess our energies must be
exchanging.
Nezavisne: Would you try folk music?
Laka: I would. I've performed folk music for a
while, but in English.
Nezavisne: What do you think about our music
scene?
Laka: In essence, I don't mind kitsch.
Nezavisne: Will you change your fashion style
with the new album?
Laka: There will be lots of suits with ties. I've
gathered a lot of clothes in my house. Gotta show
it off now. Some things are from America, and
some is second-hand. If I have this talent in
music, I have it in fashion too.
Nezavisne:
You are the songwriter of "Pokusaj." If
you make it to the final night, what kind of
placing are you hoping for? Laka, I don't know,
who wouldn't want to win? So, I would want to win
too. I don't know how possible that is, but I
guess if that heavy metal band won, it looks like
anything is possible. What do I know! Everything
depends on the phone calls.
Nezavisne:
How did your parents react to the Eurovision
news?
Goraždan
Elvir Laković Laka, known for songs
"Vještica na metli" (Witch on a
Broom), "Ti si se upiškila" (You've
Peed Yourself) or "Ja sam mo'ro" (I Had
To) is sure to be one of the most controversial
and most originally dressed personalities on the
Bosnian music scene.
Nezavisne:
So why did you leave BiH?
Nezavisne: Will you be able
to live off the album?
