Oh my lord, I’m sure I’m the only English-speaking person on the planet who finds certain manele songs delightful but so it is :P

Here’s a superior product from Nicolae Guta and the incomparable Roxana, Printesa Ardealului aka Roxana, the Transylvanian Princess.

First of all, on a highly personal note, The Woman is openly aware of my fascination and admiration of Printesa Ardealului so it’s no secret or anything. She is simply fabulous.

I only know a few things about her. One is that she is easily about 2 meters tall (say 6’4″ in USA) and towers over others, including Guta. That’s why they’re sitting down together on the couch so you don’t notice the height differential (although you can see it here).

If you speak Romanian at all, do not miss this article and video interview wherein you meet 1) Printesa’s awesome cousin, 2) see Printesa, cousin and family go shopping at the piata, 3) See the cousin do a burlesque dance and 4) Printesa wears a tiny thong bikini to go swimming with her female family members. Plus about a million other awesome things (Q: What colors do you like? A: Bright ones).

So she’s tall, heavily made up with a lot of make-up and has flamboyantly dyed blonde hair, the classic definition of statuesque.

But the best part, absolutely the best, is that she was arrested earlier this month for allegedly smuggling tobacco into the country. Awesome. Really makes her human, you know?

Sadly, Guta on the other hand looks like a fat lump of lard in this video and is stuffed into a teal polo shirt. Luckily his voice sounds fantastic.

There’s a brief intro read by the uncredited Susanu in the style of a warning that follows pharmaceutical TV commercials (adverts) in Romania. It “warns” that this song is only for “the players” out there.

So without further ado, the awesome lyrics:

Watching the video itself is… whew. Besides seeing the glamorous Printesa there’s a “story enactment” of the lyrics with actors interspersed with the singers. What’s this?

“Highlights

00:01 – Seeing Susanu pretending to read is hilarious.
00:09 – We begin to see two GUYS acting out the lyrics of the song. One is wearing a wig and pretending to be the wife, sleeping in a room completely covered in dolls and stuffed animals.
00:40 – Uh oh, who’s this? A woman enters the room where the all-male couple are hugging.
1:02 – The woman begins to prepare a bed on the floor alongside the regular, unoccupied bed.
1:11 – She covers herself in a kind of a rug and lies down and is smiling most of the time while doing this.
1:23 – Someone throws a pillow on her face.
1:29 – The male half of the all-male couple is making his “wife” scrub the same rug that the woman was using as a blanket.
1:41 – Now we see the husband of the woman lying on the floor as he arrives home and sets down his leather briefcase and sunglasses on a desk in front of a computer. This guy never shows up again in the video!
1:45 – The all-male couple wakes up in bed together and begins to argue.
1:52 – Now it’s the woman flirting or smiling at the “husband” half of the all-male couple.
2:00 – Male “wife” is applying lipstick.
2:01 – In succession, both male and female “wives” kiss the all-male husband on the forehead.
2:21 – Now the woman “wife” and male “wife” are interspersed while cuddling with the all-male husband.

Seriously is that about the weirdest concept you ever heard for directing a video? Whew. Someone got paid to make that video!

Hey, welcome to Romania.