I want to be mentally ill

What is in common with the Buerak group with the ideas of formalists of the 20th century, why be a hitchhiker on the way to hell is normal, and Tsoi could sing about electronic cigarettes if he was alive. Officials constantly talk about the destructive impact of modern culture on teenage minds and are looking for signs of suicide propaganda in everything. The editors of the Samizdat “Batenka, you have decided to keep up and asked the psychologist Alexei Odollamsky to make out the work of three popular groups that will perform this Saturday at the Form festival at the Winery and diagnosed them.

Gully

I want to be mentally ill

I want to be mentally ill
A child's dream in life to fall asleep,
Without burning, burn unearthly,
Live and cry the soul of a baby
Forever forever, forever.

Tired of the stubborn lie
Tired the suffering of souls, -
I want to be mentally ill!

The eternal theme of the search for truth by a young man in the ocean of lies, which can only be found only by becoming madmen. This is almost a quote from the gospel. The hero of the song also wants to become a mentally ill, madman, to understand the truth of life, to understand something deep, and at the same time distract from reality. The glory of the slurry in the excellent book “Less than Nothing” divides people into three types: 1) “idiots” - personalities like Alan Turing; 2) "Bolvanov" - ordinary people; 3) "Imbetsov" - like Franz Kafka. So, according to Zizhek, you need to become an idiot to find the truth.

This idea is also inherent in the works of formalists at the beginning of the 20th century. In a slightly different concept and another concept: in order to know familiar things, you need to look at them from a different angle. Madness can just be called "another angle." The desire to become crazy and getting sick of a soul in adolescence is an absolutely normal thing.

Sonic Death

Asteroid

She said: just fuck
I'm crying again, so turn away
Now you are looking for only disasters
And you left all your love

You are a hitchhiker on the way to hell
They will be alarmed and lights burn
And let everyone turn away from you
But the first, as always, was Jesus

I see this by the classic of the youthful tragedy of love with the accompanying unwillingness to live and accept it. The main character exudes aggression, but again - this is absolutely in the order of things when a gap between people occurs. This is a passive aggression, where the hero understands that he can not change anything, he buys “shit” and cries.

Slackers

Electronic cigarette

Mom, mom - I have a day off today.
Mom, mom - I will not return home tonight.
Mom, Mom, Mom - Let me take money.
To ensure that I could have entertained myself!

I will buy an electronic cigarette
And I will die for hours.
A pair of mugs of electronic beer
We skip with my electronic friends.

As an adult, this is seen by a certain interpretation of Tsoi with fewer self -irony. Unwillingness to grow up, let go of mother, fear of loneliness and company at the same time. I also trace the experience of the inaccessibility of the objective world: everything is electronic, that is, fake, although friends themselves, beer and cigarettes are signals of socialization, so the teenager is not torn from reality. In general, I did not see anything new in this lyrics on the topic of teenage loneliness, and I will quote the Tseva classics: "There is time, but there is no money, and there is nowhere to visit."

Interestingly, I noticed a different attitude towards my parents, to my mother. The hero of the plot turns to his mother, whom he trusts, to the mother who continues to take care.

I would even say that positive emo-motives are inherent in this text.

I see the lyrics of these songs from a psychological point of view harmless and safe, and also understandable to adolescents. One way or another, various topics close to them are beaten: lost love, the desire to know/find the truth, fear of loneliness, or vice versa, crowds. Goethe for teenagers is much more dangerous, and this music is all right.