katya lel
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In a month we will celebrate the New Year, and in a couple more years it will be two years since the beginning of the New Year. Since then, the world has changed. And especially in the cultural field. Russian artists, directors, musicians and other creative people were mercilessly dismissed from European operas and philharmonic societies. Foreign artists officially banned Russians from listening to their music. It was even reduced to the property of Russian emigrants: for example, Sergei Rachmaninov’s dacha was simply expropriated in the best traditions of communism, albeit in capitalist Switzerland.
And yet, all is not lost. There are still islands of common sense, where people who have a Russian passport are not excluded from an esports team and it is not ordered to hide the Russian flag when entering the stadium.
“I feel like my head is spinning again.”
For example, surprisingly, the composition “My Marmalade”, unknown in the West, which Maxim Fadeev wrote for Katya Lel in 2004, broke into music trends on TikTok and beyond. A song with a catchy chorus about “jagu-jagu” suddenly jumped to the top 5 of the world charts and conquered the music platforms Spotify, Apple Music, etc. I went viral! Listeners, forgetting about shame and Russophobia, dance in fur coats to the tune of Lel and spread the hashtag #slavicgirl (“Slavic girl”) on social networks. Katya rightly considers this a victory for Russia. There are a whole series of homemade clips of this song on YouTube, which have an English translation.
“I have always said that one day, thanks to our culture, many confused people will look at Russia again,” Fadeev wrote on his Telegram channel. — People don’t want Russian culture to be eliminated, they love it, as evidenced by the success of the song “My Marmalade” 20 years after its release. When Katya came to me for the album, she did not have the most successful and modern repertoire behind her, so I was thinking about how to make her voice different, unrecognizable in my music, so that the new material would not be associated with what she was releasing. In this sense, she not only came up with a slight foreign accent, but also in the process of mixing her voice we changed it significantly in frequency and structure, replacing her vowels and consonants. In a word, they did everything to make it sound completely new.
Max Fadeev
Photo: GLOBAL LOOK PRESS
The composer explained that this was supposedly what was intended: Katya sang the song about “jam” with a slight “foreign accent”, which is why the foreign audience accepted the song on a melodic level. It is true, with an effect that is delayed twenty years.
Even the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, noted the upward movement.
— I would like to congratulate everyone who had the idea to “abolish Russia”: “You lost, bastards!” — the diplomat wrote on social networks. —We start with Pushkin and Tchaikovsky. And problems came from unexpected places. What do you care about Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, when with all your money and resources, even in today’s conditions, Russian song has become a leader? Cancel culture is like trying to drink the sea or sweep the desert. Because evil, as the heroine of our wonderful Oscar-winning film “Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears” said, must be punished and will be punished.
Happy new year!
The heroes of Russian networks continue to delight with their successes. After the surprising (they took 1.4 million dollars) and historic (for the first time!) victory of the Russian team at the Dota2 World Championship https://www.kp.ru/online/news/4480925/ the famous e- athlete Dmitry Kostin (playing pseudonym Happy).
He expanded his impressive collection of trophies by defeating the Korean Chan Jae-ho at the world championship Being Esports World Series (Germany) in the game Warcraft 3. The prize is not cosmic – 2.4 thousand dollars (214 thousand rubles), but, Firstly, it is beautiful, and secondly, it is about the state of the event and the presence of the Russian flag.
Land of growing taste
VKontakte Philip Stepina
Russian ballet has traditionally been considered one of the main instruments of Russia’s “soft power”, almost the strongest in the world. Therefore, it is not surprising that connoisseurs of real beauty and aesthetics, despite the vulgarity of the anti-Russian agenda, continue to admire this type of art.
A week ago a series of performances by Russian artists “Ballet Muses” began in Japan (in Tokyo, Osaka and other cities). The best forces of the country came on stage: the artists of the Mariinsky Theater Philip Stepin and Mei Nagahisa, the representatives of the Mikhailovsky Theater Angelina Vorontsova and Ernest Latypov, Alena Kovaleva from the Bolshoi Theater, Vadim Muntagirov (a Chelyabinsk dancer performing in London) and many others.
VKontakte Philip Stepina
Before the Japanese public they performed excerpts from the ballets “Romeo and Juliet” by Prokofiev, “Sleeping Beauty” and “Swan Lake” by Tchaikovsky, “Giselle” by Adam, “Don Quixote” by Minkus, which created a true sensation. The already excited residents of Japan were deeply impressed by the performances and accompanied the concerts with thunderous applause and shouts of “Bravo!”
Sasha Petrov snuck up on Hollywood
Dreams really do come true! As much as people in Russia laughed at “Rublyovka Policeman” star Sasha Petrov when he announced his Oscar race, the actor is slowly but surely moving toward his goal. He first starred in Luc Besson’s action film “Anna,” as Russian drug addict Petya, who quickly dies.
And now she has moved one step closer to Hollywood and appeared in the role of a short-haired Russian gopnik in Roman Polanski’s freshly campy comedy “The Palace”, which ridiculed capitalism, oligarchs, luxury, the bourgeoisie, porn business and all that. modern humanity in general. Critics panned the 90-year-old director’s film, but it’s all a matter of taste, artistic education and perception.
For us it is much more important that the Russian actor can still be seen in the film that was screened at the 80th Venice Film Festival. Petrov got the image of Anton, traditionally in Hollywood cinema, a bad Russian: a “problem-solving” bandit named Anton.
Together with Petrov, the film featured not only the legends of world cinema, Mickey Rourke and Fanny Ardant, but also another Russian actor, Anton Pampushny, the protagonist of the films “Defenders”, “Crew” and the television series “The baptism of Rus”. “, “Cossacks” and etc.
Position No. 1
While the Universal studio and the Netflix service disdain Russian producers of films and television series, breaking previous agreements, sane viewers and even critics in the United States are watching Russian projects.
For example, the Russian sci-fi thriller “Overlay”, starring Konstantin Lavronenko, Pavel Tabakov and Lukerya Ilyashenko, suddenly became the winner of several American web festivals. First, it was recognized in Minnesota at the Web Fest and then took home four (!) key awards at the Next Media Web Fest Internet Project Festival in Baltimore.
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