Interview with Pussy Riot about new video

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Soooo many hand motions in this video. Good stuff!

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Decent, for hiphop.

But Vladimir Vysotsky they are not.

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Pussy Riot are a radical, anonymous collective. These women in this video are awesome, but they’re more Pussy Riot alumni.

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More details on Pussy Riot art movement, a bit NSFW: http://www.henrikaeshna.com/apps/blog/sex-orgy-in-a-museum-what-does

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Be loyal to those in power, because power is a gift from God, son. I love Russia. I’m a patriot.

Wow that sounds like a lot of Americans.

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Having lived in both, and in some of the Eastern and Western European countries ‘in-between,’ I’ve found that the US and Russia are kind of fun-house reflections of each other. Massive, former-Cold-War-superpowers, which indulge in a great deal of patriotic self-mythologizing (perhaps most uncritically regarding the WWII era), and which are large enough geographically that their denizens rarely have need to leave their country’s borders, and tend to resultantly be a bit provincial, xenophobic, monolingual, and ‘my-way-or-the-highway.’ The denizens of those countries who DO opt to leave their homelands’ borders both tend to have a reputation for being especially demanding and ignorant tourists, Both countries also give off a kind of ‘wild west’ or ‘mad max’ vibe as a result of being places where, due to rampant privatization and corruption, life is pretty cheap.

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@xeni the comment link for the Edgar Mitchell post doesn’t work.

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Hip hop does not originate in “gangster culture,” it originates in street party culture. If, as punks, they changed format to make a point about state corruption, the style appropriation seems misguided and clumsy…imo.

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You are undoubtably correct. But the Pussy Rioter is addressing Russian people, so speaks of what Russians believe, not what is factual, in which case the comparison is pertinent.

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“Pussy Rioter is addressing Russian people, so speaks of what Russians believe, not what is factual”

Okay? Just wanted to clarify the misrepresentation of hip-hop by Pussy Riot in the interview section. Maybe the producer steered them wrong?
If Russians believe that Hip Hop is rooted in Gangster-ism, they are wrong. Publicizing misleading information for political ends is propaganda…even when metaphorical…imo

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No, I can’t see that comparison at all.

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Also, there’s a saying here that Americans are Russians with a deodorant.

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Ugly America abroad (and at home) is as ugly as ever.

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misleading information about the origins of a musical style, is propaganda?

Well, that sure seems like the most important part of the Pussy Riot saga.

Many thanks for setting us straight! /s

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Are we allowed to consider the song without the political message? Just as a song, it doesn’t satisfy any traditional aesthetics. Hip hop? Really? I think what they are missing is a true musical hit. If they focused on making something that people can’t get out of their heads, some kind of infectious groove, their message would have a much greater impact.

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True that. Compare with this:

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“allowed”?

Also, who outside of Russia knows what works as an earworm in Russian ears?

I do think your main point is a good one; I’ve gathered that this song for instance worked that way:

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I wonder if his stuff resonates with anyone under the age of say, 40?

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I for one always liked it, and I am under 40 even if rather narrowly.