Zladko Vladcik
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Zladko "Zlad!" Vladcik is a fictional character created by Australian comedian Santo Cilauro and is the unofficial mascot of the equally-fictional nation of Molvanîa. Over time, he has become a kind of Internet phenomenon. He is notorious on the Internet for the novelty pop song and music video "Elektronik Supersonik" which, according to Zlad!, "is a melodic fusion combining hot disco rhythms with cold war rhetoric."
Many consider Zlad! a form of viral marketing for Cilauro's Molvania book.
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[edit] Music
Zlad! won the Molvanian Idol contest and was the leader of the supergroup Wow!, but during their first tour, he went solo after he felt the band was "moving in a different direction (Romania)".
[edit] Elektronik Supersonik
"Elektronik Supersonik" is itself a kitschy, over-the-top combination of Electro, Synth Pop, and Europop. Zlad! is featured in a mullet, bushy moustache, and silver spacesuit. His lyrics are often in spoken word or badly sung, not to mention full of grammatical errors, reversed semantic units, and meta-references to thick Slavic accents. It was featured in a recent ad campaign for Mountain Dew MDX.
[edit] I Am The Anti-Pope
Zlad!'s hopes for the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev, Ukraine, were again quashed when his entry "I Am The Anti-Pope" was disqualified due to the satanic nature of its content. Zlad! has since defended the song as "a light-hearted ballad recounting the short reign of little-known Beelzebub the First", who apparently was the first Pope to be "crucified at the stake".
The song itself is quite orthogonal to its predecessor, as it lacks the poppy electro-feel, which was replaced by a sound that can be vaguely categorized as a "light" version of doom metal filled with stock sound effects. The lyrics resemble neither the wit nor the terrible grammar of Elektronik Supersonik either, and only contain a few sexual innuendos - albeit the way of the vocal delivery didn't change at all. The song ends with a reversed sample of Zlad! saying "Kneel before Zladko, the Goat!"
