Reader Tips

Welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) edition of SDA Late Nite Radio.
When someone is singing a song in a language you don’t understand you can nonetheless often get a pretty good idea as to whether it’s a love song, a patriotic song, or, say, a drinking song simply by noting the tempo, the nature of the dance moves, the singer’s facial expressions, the clothing and set decorations, whether the song is in a major or minor key, and so on.
Good luck with that tonight: our feature performer’s facial and physical gestures are sufficiently foreign as to make it almost impossible for non-Russian speakers to determine either his emotional state or his intentions. He could be welcoming an honored guest with his heartfelt performance, or he could be openly celebrating his success in removing said guest’s toenails with a pair of pliers. There’s no way of knowing for sure, but after repeated viewings I lean towards the latter interpretation.
Here he is then, Smolensk’s own Eduard Hill, aka Edward Anatolyevich, National Artist of the Russian Federation and member of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, performing the unease-inducing Я очень рад, ведь я, наконец, возвращаюсь домой.
You are invited, in a reassuringly unambiguous way, to provide your Reader Tips in the comments.