{"id":52939,"date":"2019-09-05T14:14:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T14:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=52939"},"modified":"2019-09-05T14:14:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T14:14:53","slug":"josie-cotton-ukrainian-cowboy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/09\/josie-cotton-ukrainian-cowboy\/","title":{"rendered":"Josie Cotton &#8211; &#8216;Ukrainian Cowboy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Josie Cotton knows that pop music thrives on unlikely combinations. An upbeat, catchy chorus combined with a hip hop bridge shouldn&#8217;t work, but it does. But genre bending doesn&#8217;t usually cross this far: for her new single, &#8216;Ukrainian Cowboy&#8217;, she blends a twangy baritone guitar and a country-inspired melody with the deep-voiced chants and buoyant rhythms of Russian folk music. It sounds bizarre when written down, but believe us when we say, it works.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Random Ad stuff --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"3107208401\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2076862002005673\"><\/ins><\/p>\n<p><script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Josie Cotton&#8217;s vocals betray her new wave roots, and her devotion to film noir; the melody meanwhile harks back to girl groups, Nancy Sinatra&#8230;and the Bolshoi Ballet. It&#8217;s a true merger of east and west, and crosses cultural boundaries as much as musical ones.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The music video for &#8216;Ukrainian Cowboy&#8217; see the costumes and performances come from steamier side of Hollywood. The star appears in the very first frame in a replica \u201960s B-movie poster, and dresses the part perfectly, she gallops through the rest of the footage, high in the saddle while an electric guitar is strapped to her back. She\u2019s not riding her horse through the Old West however. Instead, she runs into Russian dancers, soldiers, titles in Cyrillic, and the domes of Eastern Orthodox churches. There\u2019s even a bear, playing a balalaika no less. It all works together brilliantly, forging connections that might otherwise escape the purview of the average observer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can find out more about Josie Cotton online on her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.josiecottonmusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Watch the video for &#8216;Ukrainian Cowboy&#8217;:<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\">\n<div  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_42358\"  width=\"640\" height=\"360\"  data-origwidth=\"640\" data-origheight=\"360\"  data-relstop=\"1\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xjuhmbg5Su0?enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/essentiallypop.com&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=1&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;color=red&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" data-epautoplay=\"1\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\"  alt=\"Josie Cotton - UKRAINIAN COWBOY (Official Video)\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/Xjuhmbg5Su0\/maxresdefault.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\"  \/><button class=\"epyt-facade-play\" aria-label=\"Play\"><svg data-no-lazy=\"1\" height=\"100%\" version=\"1.1\" viewBox=\"0 0 68 48\" width=\"100%\"><path class=\"ytp-large-play-button-bg\" d=\"M66.52,7.74c-0.78-2.93-2.49-5.41-5.42-6.19C55.79,.13,34,0,34,0S12.21,.13,6.9,1.55 C3.97,2.33,2.27,4.81,1.48,7.74C0.06,13.05,0,24,0,24s0.06,10.95,1.48,16.26c0.78,2.93,2.49,5.41,5.42,6.19 C12.21,47.87,34,48,34,48s21.79-0.13,27.1-1.55c2.93-0.78,4.64-3.26,5.42-6.19C67.94,34.95,68,24,68,24S67.94,13.05,66.52,7.74z\" fill=\"#f00\"><\/path><path d=\"M 45,24 27,14 27,34\" fill=\"#fff\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josie Cotton knows that pop music thrives on unlikely combinations. An upbeat, catchy chorus combined with a hip hop bridge shouldn&#8217;t work, but it does. But genre bending doesn&#8217;t usually cross this far: for her new single, &#8216;Ukrainian Cowboy&#8217;, she blends a twangy baritone guitar and a country-inspired melody with the deep-voiced chants and buoyant rhythms of Russian folk music. It sounds bizarre when written down, but believe us when we say, it works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":52940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,9,21453,21445,21446,21449,640],"tags":[22602,77,370,1945,22603],"class_list":["post-52939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","category-new-singles","category-reviews","category-single-reviews","category-video-reviews","category-videos","tag-josie-cotton","tag-new-release","tag-new-single","tag-new-video","tag-ukrainian-cowboy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-dLR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":84907,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2023\/11\/its-the-day-of-the-gun-for-josie-cotton\/","url_meta":{"origin":52939,"position":0},"title":"It&#8217;s The &#8216;Day Of The Gun&#8217; For Josie Cotton","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"17\/11\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The second music video we present for Josie Cotton is 'Day Of The Gun', which sees her going through just an average day - albeit one featuring psycho bikers, bounty hunter priests, and kung fu killers - oh and the disembodied head of an ex.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Josie-Cotton-Day-of-the-Gun-Single-Cover124238.jpg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Josie-Cotton-Day-of-the-Gun-Single-Cover124238.jpg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Josie-Cotton-Day-of-the-Gun-Single-Cover124238.jpg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Josie-Cotton-Day-of-the-Gun-Single-Cover124238.jpg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Josie-Cotton-Day-of-the-Gun-Single-Cover124238.jpg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":84904,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2023\/11\/josie-cotton-gets-funky-with-new-video-disco-ball\/","url_meta":{"origin":52939,"position":1},"title":"Josie Cotton Gets Funky With New Video, &#8216;Disco Ball&#8217;","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"17\/11\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Josie Cotton is no stranger to Essentially Pop; we've been writing about her and her music since 2019. 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