ROMANTIC Lyrics in English by SQWOZ BAB
"ROMANTIC" is a cheeky little street romance. SQWOZ BAB rolls up to a girl in "копченной девятине" [a smoked nine], which is slang for a VAZ-2109, the boxy Soviet-era Lada hatchback, with the windows tinted black. He "подкатил, как рональдиньо" [rolled up like Ronaldinho]: подкатить means both to drive up and to hit on someone, and the Brazilian footballer is there for the swagger and the slick moves. The hook is just "Ай-яй-яй", which is very easy to sing along to.
The verses are funnier than the hook. He says "Я с тобой не тупил, будто съел фенотропил" [I wasn't slow with you, like I'd taken Phenotropil], a Russian brain-boosting pill, and complains that her family turns up its nose at him: to them his adidas tracksuit is "атака DDoS" [a DDoS attack] and he's "как альбинос" [like an albino], a total outsider. Then the family gets a verse of its own: "Детка, он тебе пудрит мозг" [Baby, he's messing with your head], and "Что ты хочешь: карьерный рост или этот подъездный лоск?" [What do you want: a career, or this stairwell glamour?]. A подъезд is the entrance and stairwell of a Soviet apartment block, where teenagers hang out, so the parents are calling him a "подвальный босс" [basement boss], a king of nowhere. It ends with the two of them insisting "Ты мой романтик, я твой романтик" [You're my romantic, I'm your romantic], and the parents lose.
