Vaida

Iedere Zondag van 23:00 tot 00:00 uur

Pop music is everywhere and universal and has been for as long as we can remember. It blasts the latest love-songs at us at the supermarket when we are there to get a bottle of wine to help us forget our loneliness.

It wasn’t for Vaida when she grew up in Lithuania under the Communist regime. There, if you wanted to get Western pop music, you needed to go to dodgy market stalls and have it copied for you to casette tapes and listen to those in private. Listening like that, you’re not influenced by what’s “new” and more by your emotions in the moment. It also becomes less important whether something is “pop”; our mood might suit both that song that’s been overplayed back in the day but that our first lover introduced us to, an unknown experiment by Thom York, and a well establish composition by Bach.

Vaida has both the time-slot; the last hour of the week, and the voice, to make this approach sound like the most natural way to listen to music; “Good evening, this is Radio Tonka, this is Vaida Tonka.”.