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 Soviet Pop. 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 squashed 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 "crucifixed at the stake". The song was considerably less popular than its predecessor.
