Ever find yourself wondering: hey, what's going on in the Bulgarian pop scene? Or thinking: I've really got to catch up on the latest Bulgarian pop.  <em>No</em>? Okay, I haven''t spend much time thinking about it either. Sorry.

Then last night, I was doing dishes and watching/listening to "the Voice." Sofia's not-mtv but also not-chalga station for music videos. Generally they play really bad American pop music--which is lucky for me (as MTV seems to have gotten out of the business of playing music videos--go figure). Because it turns out, now that I live abroad, I have a very fond spot for bad American pop music in my heart.

Anyhow a song that I didn't recognize came on. So I turned to see who it was. I had no idea. But he was singing about coffee and you all know how much I love coffee. I stopped doing dishes and started watching. The video is pretty straightforward--angsty guy at piano--but I couldn't make out what his accent was or what his nationality was. I wondered if he was German.

Ha. Turns out that he's Bulgarian. Who knew? His name is Monyx.  Here's his video:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8AY9n9NSvM&amp;feature=youtube_gdata]

As luck would have it both youtube and the Bulgarian version of youtube--vbox--have the video. VBox also has a <a href="http://vbox7.com/play:6659a4f9">version with subtitles</a>. But, don't ask me why an English language music video has English subtitles. I just don't know. It would be much easier to understand if the video had Bulgarian subtitles but Monyx sings in English and his English is pretty accent-less. So that's that I have no idea what's going on with the subtitles.

I still don't really know anything about Bulgarian pop. So this post is basically a report. Yes. There is Bulgarian pop. And here is a video. It's proof.