Music

Songs and the acts behind them. Disco polo, hip-hop, the pop that charted, the parody tracks, and the songs that became memes on their own.

Part of Polish culture

17 moments in this segment.

1. 1995-01-01 - Boys - "Wolność". Foundational 90s disco-polo band Boys.
2. 1995 - Top One - "Ole Olek". Top One, pioneers of the disco-polo sound.
3. 2009-01-01 - Akcent - "Przekorny los". Zenek Martyniuk-era Akcent, the face of modern disco polo.
4. 2010-01-01 - Sokół feat. Pono - "W aucie". Classic Polish hip-hop singalong, endlessly memed.
5. 2011-01-01 - Bracia Figo Fagot - "Bożenka". The vulgar disco-polo parody band, peak Polish absurdist humour.
6. 2013 - Donatan & Cleo - "My Słowianie" (Eurovision 2014). 2013. "We Slavs", Poland's Eurovision 2014 entry. Controversially erotic music video featuring bouncing-buxom-Slav-girls churning butter. Instantly meme'd worldwide. The first Polish Eurovision moment that crossed over to global ironic-internet.
7. 2014-01-01 - Zenek - "Przez twe oczy zielone". The green-eyes disco-polo megahit, a wedding-dancefloor staple.
8. 2014-08-28 - Maanam - Chce Ci Powiedzieć Coś (Old Spice Edit). (unofficial short video) POLISH EDITS 12 "OLD SPICE" Marketplace https://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Very-Polish-Cut-Outs-Sampler-Vol-3/release/6089331 https://soundcloud.com/polishcutouts/sets/polish-edits-12-by-old-spice https://soundcloud.com/polishcutouts https://www.facebook.com/theverypolishcutouts To promote good music https://www.instagram.com/welcome_john/ "Welcome Johon" Will remove on request, please contact: welcomebeep@gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/Village666
9. 2016-12-01 - Bayer Full - "Majteczki w kropeczki". The disco-polo anthem of the 90s, polka-dot panties and all.
10. 2017-01-01 - Popek x Matheo - "Wszystko i nic". Tattoo-faced rapper/fighter Popek, a Polish-internet legend.
11. 2018 - Junior Eurovision: Roksana Węgiel + Memes. November 2018. 13-year-old Roksana wins Junior Eurovision for Poland. The win is meme-recirculated for years as "ostatni raz Polska wygrała coś" inside political contexts. Pop-cultural-political bridge.
12. 2019 - Mata - "Patointeligencja". The 2019 teen-rap phenomenon that broke Polish streaming records.
13. 2020 - Cypis - "JBĆ PiS". 2020. Cypis's remix of Eric Prydz's "Call on Me" becomes the unofficial anthem of the 2020 Strajk Kobiet abortion-rights protests. Played at marches across the country; chanted by thousands.
14. 2021 - Cypis / Dancing Polish Cow ("Gdzie jest biały węgorz"). 2021. Inowrocław rapper Cypis's track "Gdzie jest biały węgorz" becomes the soundtrack of the viral "Dancing Polish Cow" TikTok meme. Hits #1 Spotify Viral in UK, Chile, Ecuador. The first Polish song to become a global TikTok-native meme.
15. 2022 - Lil Yachty - "Poland". November 2022. Lil Yachty's codeine-rap one-off track "Poland" goes viral globally. The Polish-flag-Kraków music video coincides with the cross-border missile-strike news cycle. Sends Polish-memes mainstream-Gen-Z; "I took the WOCK to POLAND" enters the universal vocabulary.
16. 2023 - Blanka - "Solo" (Eurovision 2023). 2023. Poland's Eurovision entry "Solo" by Blanka becomes deeply-meme'd. Accused of vote-rigging, mocked for the "soluuu, soluuu" hook. Becomes the centerpiece of an entire pl-Twitter cringe cycle; the year's most universally-laughed-at Polish cultural moment.
17. 2025-01-18 - Shazza - disco polo. The "queen of disco polo" of the early 90s.