Line #12 Music/RankoUkulele


1	Ranko is a girl who has an [[QuirkyUkulele ukulele]]. And crayons.
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3	What she does may be described as FolkMusic, or simply as cute, funny, friendly, [[ThreeChordsAndTheTruth unpretentious songs]] about love and everyday stuff, current issues included. Also various covers. Many of the songs are accompanied by chibi animations with the lyrics and a bunch of characters, some recurring (spot the Christmas Dinosaur!)
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5	Ranko also sings in English, if you're interested.
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7	Here's her Website/YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyZgdW0q-DN78XA1_CycZrA
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9	!!Ranko sings about these:
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11	* CanNotSpitItOut: "W tramwaju" ("In the Streetcar") is about a lady in love with a guy she sees every day in the streetcar, but it's just not proper for her to make the first move. So she sticks to fantasies about marrying him. [[spoiler: But he's simply BlindWithoutThem and physically can't notice her.]]
12	* FirstWorldProblems: "Całe życie pod górkę" (an idiom meaning "nothing ever goes my way"), a tragic song about lack of snacks and muddy shoes.
13	* FromBadToWorse: "Biedronki ludojady" ("Man-eating ladybugs"):
14	--> Więc nawet gdy już gorzej być nie może - ''So even when it can't be worse''\
15	O, jednak jest gorzej! - ''Oh, but it is worse!''
16	* FoodSongsAreFunny: Usually just mentions of food, often sweet food, but "Lodówka" ("Fridge") is an entire Funny Food Song. Also "Kluska" ("Noodle").
17	* HiddenDepths: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O26Dc1O3aE Jesieniara]]" ("Autumn Girl", yes, Polish doesn't really have a word for an autumn guy, though it could be easily coined, we don't know either) is about a guy who loves autumn along with all the stereotypically "autumn girl" things (cocoa, ginger, pumpkin spice latte, walks, woolen clothes and snuggles), but hides it.
18	* NobodyLovesTheBassist: In "Żaklin"
19	--> czy kogoś to obchodzi - ''does anyone care''\
20	że Twój chłopak jest alpaką, gorzej jakby był rasistą - ''that your boyfriend is an alpaca, it'd be worse if he were a racist''\
21	lub czymś gorszym, recydywistą lub basistą - ''or even worse, a criminal or a bassist''
22	* MagicRealism: Christmas dinosaurs, Santa, alpacas (who date people) and evil ladybugs coexist peacefully with streetcars, people in love, people arguing and making up, and the plague of COVID. Anthropomorphised.
23	* MelancholyMusicalNumber: "Przegryw" ("Loser") is about, basically, feeling depressed. "Smuteczek" ("A Tiny Sadness") is a little less sad, but features HeartbreakAndIceCream.
24	* MoneySong: "Nic mi się nie chce" ("I Don't Feel Like Doing a Thing"), a bit, because the singer wants to earn money to buy herself things, but can't. Because she doesn't feel like it.
25	* LeFilmArtistique: Żaklin is as difficult to understand as a French movie, apparently.
26	* SignatureHeadgear: An entire collection of classic Warsaw flat caps. Ranko's doodle incarnation wears one with a cute flowery pattern. In the live videos for "Jesieniara", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q0zy6EhXjI Motylkiem]]" and "W tramwaju" she wears either a blue one or a beige one with blue piping.
27	* SillyLoveSongs: Not particularly ''serious'' love songs, but love is a constant subject nonetheless.
28	* SpidersAreScary: Not, you know, very, since in Ranko's world nothing is.
29	* StylisticSuck: The video for "Nic mi się nie chce" is made in a rather lazy way, because it's a song about being lazy and dismotivated.
30	* ThreeChordsAndTheTruth: You can find the chords underneath the video.
31	* UnholyMatrimony: They never get married in the song, but... "Pan Demia i Pani Kara" (pretty much untranslatable, it's about {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s of the COVID pandemic and panic, respectively):
32	--> chciał się w sumie już ewakuować - ''he actually wanted to evacuate''\
33	ze związku z Panią Karą wydostać się spróbować - ''get out of that relationship with Pani Kara'' [[note]]Pani Kara = mrs. Kara, but actually Panic[[/note]]\
34	lecz ona nie jest łatwą do rzucenia osobą - ''but she's not that easy to dump''\

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