Best Musicians to Learn Russian With | Easy Russian 77

Hello, dear friends, and welcome to a new issue of Easy Russian. The incredible success of the issue in which I told you about several books in Russian inspired my colleagues to ask me to make a similar video about music in Russian. However, this task is not trivial. According to the rules of YouTube and our channel in particular, we cannot use in this video neither audio nor video fragments of music, which I will talk about today. So I will try to describe it to you in words and figuratively. Next to me is my dear colleague Svetlana, who agreed to help me, and her gorgeous image immediately hints at the first performer we will talk about. Primadonna of the Russian stage, Alla Pugacheva. Tell me, Sveta, what comes to your mind when you hear this legendary name? A million scarlet roses. This is her song about an artist who fell in love with an actress and for her sake, to make an impression on her, so that she would pay attention to him, he sold his house, canvases, paintings, and spread the square, it seems, near her hotel To find out what happened there, you can listen to the song, it is very beautiful. Let's quote. A million, a million, a million scarlet roses. From the window, from the window, from the window. You see who is in love, who is in love, who is in love and seriously. Your life will turn into flowers for you. My mother listened to these lines and explained them to me, and I seriously believed that magic would work. Well, and my main song from Alla Pugacheva is, of course, And you are so cold as an iceberg in the ocean, which I learned from the cartoon Well, wait, in my childhood, where a hare in the image of Alla Pugacheva and in the clubs of smoke, actually performed this song. By the way, Sveta can tell you a few words about this legendary recognizable image. Yes, there are legends that during one of the festivals in Poland, Alla Pugacheva had an unsuccessful chemical curl of hair. And she was in horror, because how to go on stage in such an image. And she was saved by the love of Aksyonova, this is her partner, who sewed her just a crazy image. Alla Pugacheva saw the balaclava and said, Oh my God, I am saved, and so she performed. Anyway, Alla Pugacheva is known to everyone from small to large. She seems to be a whole eternity on the stage, and in my opinion there will be an eternity. We are very happy about this and we highly recommend you to listen to her songs. In this romantic pose, we decided to talk about the next performer, namely about Valeria Miladze. Well, what are the associations with Miladze, Sveta? For me, Miladze is a trip to the country, in a car with my mother and sister, a trip around the regions of Russia with my friend, as well as sad and fun evenings with friends, on which we included Miladze. He also has a very rich repertoire, both sad and fun. I was lying and trying to remember if I have a favorite song of Miladze. And I realized that I have my favorite song for each mood. Well, to be honest, at first I was very skeptical about Miladze. At the time when Miladze came into my life, I listened to other serious music, I was a teenager. And somehow, so to speak, I considered this music of not so distant people, forgive me for such a youthful snobbery. However, it soon turned out that, one way or another, Miladze again and again appears in my head. Indeed, music for any mood. My associations are, of course, something like when you broke up with someone, you have a broken heart, and you need to splash your contradictory bright emotions somewhere. The best thing is to turn on Miladze's songs and scream well, and, perhaps, dance well. But for some reason everyone underestimates his voice and artistry. After all, Miladze is, as it were, from Georgia, and these South Caucasian motifs are very well felt in his voice and manners. At the same time, he has very close cultural ties with Ukraine and Russia. That is, it is such a mixture of everything, which for me, of course, especially today, is a great symbol of how it would actually be worth living. Even during such an active shooting day, I am absolutely unable to disconnect from the phone, where, guess what, our channel is in Discord. There we talk about our shootings, about our life, tastes, hobbies, experiences, in general, about everything in the world. If you become our paid subscriber, you will also be able to communicate with us in Discord, and I highly recommend it to you. After all, it is always interesting to get to know your subscribers in person. Well, I hope you are also interested in communicating with us, asking us some questions, telling us something about yourself, criticizing or praising, well, and offering us new topics for shooting and podcasts. So subscribe to us and come to communicate in Discord. Only they are blue, and not a gram of gold. The next genre that we simply have to highlight is the so-called Russian chanson. Do not confuse it with the French chanson, beautiful romances about love. The Russian chanson is about a harsh prison theme. It is not a secret that there are a lot of former prisoners in Russia, or current prisoners, so such songs are of constant popularity. And there is one, in my opinion, the absolute master and king of this genre, now deceased Mikhail Krug. In general, Mikhail Krug is my childhood. My dad had a music center. The whole collection of records that was at home, it was Mikhail Krug. Therefore, I know more songs by Krug, than many, I think. Probably one of my favorites, the well-known Vladimir Central. The second is Nervitiya Tsvety Nervitiya, and no one knows it. By the way, I can't agree that the Russian chanson is something rude, but this song is often very, not always, but often, very gentle, and there are a lot of mentions about mom. Which, again, is typical of the prison theme. And by the way, do you know that Krug did not really sit? As Sveta has already mentioned, from the songs of Mikhail Krug you will learn a lot, not only classical Russian, but also prison jargon. In addition, as well as the other participants in our selection, Mikhail Krug articulates very clearly in his songs, so it is quite easy to listen to them, even for a foreigner who is just starting to learn Russian. I probably remember the lines of Mikhail Krug most of all. Come to my house, my doors are open, I will sing you songs and treat you to wine. And also, of course, the legendary police sirens. What did you, friar, give back? I'm not talking about you. To solve this puzzle, you definitely need to get acquainted with the creativity of Mikhail Krug. Whatever it is, do not think that these are just prison songs. This is a complex lyric, complex music, which I certainly advise you. Our next performer is Yuri Shevchuk and the DDT band. Oh, truly, this performer has a real Russian spirit, a real Russian poet. Yuri Shevchuk has been with me all my life. I remember perfectly well how I listened to his song in the sky of a crow, under the sky of a monk, and I'm in a tattered shirt between them. His songs, especially here, are associated with home. First of all, an amazing, velvety, short voice. It feels like either an angel or a demon is whispering to your ear. These are incredible, subtle, very symbolic poems. Shevchuk has a fantastic vocabulary and image reserve. I strongly recommend you to translate his lyrics and try to think about them. Although even for me, a native of the Russian language, sometimes it is quite difficult to figure out what exactly this poet meant. I remember the beautiful song, Freedom, Freedom. So much, so little. You told us about some kind. Oh, how bitter it is to feel the loss of what Russia could have. Where did we come from? Where did we seem to be striving for? And where did we suddenly return to, in a bizarre and unpleasant way? In a word, his song still perfectly illustrates what is happening right now. Very close attention and constant visits to Chechnya during the war made Shevchuk, in general, and this made him a truly international authority. Yes, anyone listens to Shevchuk, including, it seems to me, those who support this war today. Therefore, it is so important that Yuri Shevchuk is also against this terrible war. I hope that his work, his poems and songs will help to end this horror as soon as possible. Please don't die, or I'll have to too. You, of course, go straight to heaven, and I don't think so either. Do you want sweet oranges? Do you want to hear long stories? Do you want me to kill the neighbors that prevent you from sleeping? Let's continue the topic of Russian rock. The singer Zemfira is a truly iconic character for the Russian scene. For me, of course, Zemfira is associated with my graduation evening at school, when the first official hit of her song «У тебя спит» was played. At first, I was terribly outraged by the lyrics of this song. Also, as a non-conformist teenager, I was outraged by the general, just universal love for Zemfira, which instantly broke into the minds and hearts of all Russians. Nevertheless, Zemfira is a very serious singer and a very serious poet. And, as I like to add in this issue, a wonderful example of Russian language. This is a Russian singer with one of, perhaps, the purest voices and the most amazing diction. So it's really very convenient to learn Russian with Zemfira. «Под каждое настроение» is my favorite song. Of course, I like «Прости меня, моя любовь». I like the song from her new album «Я иду в красивом пальто по набережной». Zemfira has a great talent to play with words and meanings. In general, all her songs, I want to sing them all. Not just to sing, but to sing along, putting out everything that you have. In the late 90s, in the early 2000s, an important example of a female singer on the Russian stage and a singer with a female heart, a female love, this did not exist for some time. Such wild 90s, they still built on the stage such an image of dominance of men, business, men and women as their faithful companions, who are always waiting for them at home or worry about them. And here we have a lyrical hero and a woman who is brave, bright, with her feelings, is not afraid to suffer, is not afraid to make mistakes, to fall, to rise, a strong woman. Russian rap. This, of course, is an important topic that we must mention today. And I'll start with the Rostov guys. This is the band Kasta. There, you can just hear an unusual southern Russian accent in the Russian language. Nevertheless, they also have very clear and diverse voices and no less clear lyrics. I remember perfectly well how Kasta started with such hooligan songs, as it should be for rappers, about gang fights, about jealousy, about some suffering and slowly evolved into very serious, I would say, social artists. I started listening to Kasta when I was taking exams in high school and I calmed down so much before the exams. Around the noise, let it be so, everything is cool. For me, of course, these are the songs of my youth. Catch a car, Max was stabbed in the stomach. Or, for example, about jealousy, I will not quote you now, but there was a TV remote flying into the wall and so on. That is, in general, a discussion of what is now called an abusive relationship. Well, now my favorite song is the song Come out for a walk with me. And it may be not only in the text of this song, but mainly even in the clip, in an absolutely incredible video clip for this song, which is dedicated to the protests in Russia and how the security forces dispersed these protests, how incredibly cruelly they beat the dissenters, how later the detainees were also beaten in the detention center and how they were imprisoned. In general, Kasta unexpectedly touched on the complete frankness of what, in general, not everyone in Russia was ready to talk about then. Our next participant is also a representative of Russian rap, Ivan Alekseev, also known as Noize MC. I love Noize for its absolutely fantastic, diverse musical taste and for its very cool lyrics. My acquaintance, like most other people, began with a song about a TV. From the window. From the window of my hotel room. I threw the TV on the car. Local authority, so what? I'm a rock star. Well, it seemed back then that this was also old-fashioned, something so funny and not serious, but it turned out very quickly that Noize is a great artist, a great artist. I really like his song Voyager 1. I like his, in my opinion, from the last ballets. I want to watch ballet. Let the swans dance. This is a reference, in fact, to Putch. In 1991, in the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union collapsed. It must be explained that at that time on television, non-stop, Swan Lake Ballet was shown instead of the news, instead of the usual, usual programs. And therefore, for a Russian person, Swan Lake is associated with major political changes. In Riga, we went to Noize MC's concert, and he performed one of my favorite songs, Voyager 1. He told the audience that he dedicates the performance of this song to his mother. The lyrical hero of this song is Voyager 1, lonely, forgotten in space and striving to somehow reach the native loving hearts. Silence in your answer. In my throat comes Jupiter. The pain is the size of a hundred square light millennia. I'm not in your orbit. I'm blown away by a starry wind. Far beyond the horizon of your events. Mitya. With such an acting play, we tried to explain to you what kind of Russian music we love and recommend to you. Write us in the comments what you know about Russian music. Subscribe to us, like us and support us so that we can shoot new videos for you. And see you soon! Bye!