Rasputin the Music Video (Context Post)

Rasputin the music video was generally just a few photographs peppered into a montage of performance scenes. However, that doesn't mean there is nothing to talk about.

The most defining characteristic if the video is They are overlayed upon stills of the Moscow Kremlin, trying to establish that they are indeed in Moscow. What with the Iron Curtain and such, I don't buy it.Bobby Farrell's performance as Rasputin. The costume consisted of a shiny disco shirt, short black pants and an enormous fake beard. He pranced around in a kind of mock Russian classical dance. He pulled this shtick the whole video except for certain parts where his voice was required. The fake beard, only worn for what seems like half the video, is kind of offensive to the general Russian population (they like their beards like that). The women in Boney M wear more traditional Russian garb, but they still kind of look like shiny versions of Jacqueline Kennedy on the day of the president's assassination.

Of course this all fits in correctly with the song's style: a mock of classical Russian music.