Tag: Monetochka

Russia’s Musical Blacklist

Vera Musaelyan (Aloe Vera) is one of the pop musicians on Russia’s black list.

Fontanka.ru has come into possession of a list of musical performers whose performances in Russia were allegedly considered undesirable. According to our information, the document has been circulated among promoters.

Some of the musicians on the list have, in fact, had difficulties organizing concerts since the start of the special military operation (due to their public stance on it), while others have simply left the country. The list was provided to us by one of the musicians who found themselves on the stop list.

Fontanka.ru contacted a number of concert organizers. Although they admitted having heard about the list, most of them refused to continue the conversation. One of our sources, however, confirmed that the list was authentic. But he clarified that the list was amended and supplemented daily. However, even without it, “all producers know perfectly well” which musicians they can work with and which they cannot.

We publish the list in the form (including peculiarities of spelling) in which it was submitted to us:

  • rap artist Noize MC (Ivan Alexeyev)
  • rap artist Oxxxymiron (Miron Fyodorov)
  • DDT (soloist Yuri Shevchuk)
  • Time Machine (soloist Andrei Makarevich)
  • Aquarium (soloist Boris Grebenshchikov)
  • Kasta (soloists Vladislav Leshkevich, Mikhail Epifantsev, Andrei Pasechny)
  • B2 (soloists Alexander Uman, Yegor Bortnik)
  • Accident (soloist Alexei Kortnev)
  • singer Zemfira (Zemfira Ramazanova)
  • singer Valery Meladze
  • Dmitry Spirin (ex-soloist of the band Cockroaches)
  • Anacondaz (soloists Artem Khorev, Sergei Karamushkin)
  • Louna (soloist Lusine Gevorkyan)
  • Pornofilms (soloist Vladimir Kotlyarov)
  • Nogu Svelo (soloist Maxim Pokrovsky)
  • Krovostok (soloist Anton Chernyak)
  • Elysium (soloist Dmitry Kuznetsov)
  • 2MASHI (soloist Maria Zaitseva)
  • singer Manizha (Manizha Sangin)
  • singer Monetochka (Yelizaveta Girdymova)
  • singer Grechka (Anastasia Ivanova)
  • rap artist Face (Ivan Dremin)*
  • rap artist Morgenshtern (Alisher Morgenshtern)*
  • IC3PEAK (soloists Nikolai Kostylev, Anastasia Kreslina)
  • Little Big (Ilya Prusikin, Sofia Tayurskaya)
  • singer Vasya Oblomov (Vasily Goncharov)
  • rap artist Ligalize (Andrei Menshikov)
  • singer Dora (Daria Shikhanova)
  • Aloe Vera (soloist Vera Musaelyan)
  • singer Musya Totibadze (Maria Totibadze)

* Deemed a “foreign agent” in Russia.

Source: Fontanka.ru, 7 July 2022. Thanks to Marina Varchenko for the heads-up. Photo, above, courtesy of Then24. Translated by the Russian Reader

Monetochka, “Burn Burn Burn”

The stats don’t lie, alas
Surveys and forms
Bad numbers, a hard year
But I sing in vain

I replace fabric with foil
Paste a bandage on my webcam
You can’t swing a cat without hitting
The wall-to-wall government

It’s gray and dressed in designer jeans
An absurdity, a caricature
It’s funny: culture has ended
In a multicultural country

The lights are out, the coffin’s made
And I’m cloud sad
In the land of Yesenin’s poems
Art is finished

(Refrain)
Now there’s only ash on the ground
Dig and search where you like, not a soul around
Burn, my country, burn
Don’t put it out, oh, don’t put it out, don’t put it out

The piano in the city park
Is really quite upset
Someone terrible bangs on it
A blue note blacker than night

A boondocks Banksy roams there
In a black hoodie
The lines he spray-paints on the corners
Are the words to this song

The rap of Moscow parties
And northern suburbs blackens
While in my black robe I pray
And my God hears: amen

God sees the shining cross
But I know it won’t help
For there are few too white spots
On my black skin

(Refrain 2x)
Now there’s only ash on the ground
Dig and search where you like: not a soul around
Burn, my country, burn
Don’t put it, oh, don’t put it out, don’t put it out

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Monetochka
VK
August 9, 2019

PREMIERE!

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Monetochka, “Burn Burn Burn”

News about the forest fires in Russia appears in our news feeds less and less frequently, but the problem has not gone away. Today, August 9, the peak of the forest fires was recorded, and yet firefighters are battling the blazes in only seven percent of the affected areas. We have to deal with his problem not only by taking emergency measures but also by engaging in year-round prevention. Volunteer forest fighters tell children and adults about the fires and help extinguish outbreaks at the early stages. But they lack money for training and doing their jobs.

All the money raised when people listen to this track on streaming services will go to purchase backpack pumps, spray guns, and navigators. It will also cover other vital expenditures in Greenpeace Russia’s campaign to combat fires in natural areas, including amending school textbooks, some of which have been found to give erroneous advice on extinguishing and preventing fires.

From August 16, the new track will be available on all other venues. As soon as we get the first stats on the number of listens, we will start helping out financially. Reports will be posted here and on other social networks.

Let’s make the world better together. 💚

For more details, go to https://pomo.sh/monetochka

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On August 9, Valentin Tarabrin commented, “These fires are a cover-up for illegal deforestation. Millions of hectares are being cut down. Open Google Map and you will see nothing is left of Siberia. These fires are deliberate arson.”

Image courtesy of Monetochka’s VK wall. Translated by the Russian Reader