"Now, only the lazy does not poses serious questions"

Alexei Kortnev - about how to brush your teeth on quarantine, and about your new song “The World during the Plague”. The premiere of the clip

Kortnev, like all of us, sits in isolation, but unlike us writes songs. In his “world during the plague” is not only an accurate and ironic description of the situation (“Yesterday / you were in Moscow a restaurateur. / Comrade, / Are you stocked up by a respirator?”), But also the diagnosis: “Freedom is worse than the prison”. And this is not only about quarantine.

- What the world looks like during the plague, you described. And what awaits us next: “We will be sterile as angels or as the devils are black”?

- In the song, it is so sung: "We will see." I do not give an answer, I just put a question. So far, it is only clear that the epidemic will go away, and the screw nuts will remain screwed, no one QR codes will zero. But, you know, I believe that we are doomed to this, civilization moves forward in this way.

People at one time were horrified by the fact that they were able to move around the world at a speed of more than 30 kilometers per hour. They said that this would lead to the collapse of civilization, that a person dies at a speed more than a horse rides. Everyone was horrified by the appearance of radio, television, the Internet, and as a result they were resigned. Even with the monument to Peter the Great, we reconciled, he already seems pretty to us compared to the monument to Kalashnikov. Slepakov in his “viral”, which is so popular in YouTube, is just about that.

All negative connotations with the rewriting of the Constitution, with the collapse of the ruble, everyone thinks only about the right or incorrect steps of the government to save the infection and, in general, consider them correct.

By the way, I think so, I do not separate myself from the people. Neither you nor I can know how many people died if the regime was inactive.

It is ridiculous to repeat this Putin phrase: "Do you want, like in France?" “But she is now climbing in her mouth.” I do not want, as in Italy. I do not want my 85-year-old mother to get sick and die, so I hide her in the country, where we are sitting with the whole family. And when I get into the store for seeds and beer, I put on a mask, put on gloves. Well, how? I don't know another way.

- What do you do on quarantine?

- Nothing is important here, but how. My advice to everyone is to do everything very slowly, it helps. I began to brush my teeth ten minutes! In the morning we go out into the central room and make exercises for an hour. On April on April, Chelendge was launched: they squeezed three times from the floor, shot it on camera and posted on social networks with an appeal to increase the number of push -ups per single every day. Thus, by April 30, when our imprisonment may end, the whole country will be able to push up 30 times. Agree, this is not bad.

Despite the quarantine, we continue to record songs with "accident." I terribly liked to sign up for a smartphone. You put it on a selfie stick, jump in front of him, sing.

The technology is this: I insert a micro -nestle into my ear, into which it goes metronome. I play, I sing, then I send this entry to the guys and write at what pace the metronome works.

They impose guitars, keys, drums, and it turns out a cheerful sausage. In this way, we wrote the “world during the plague”, it is not as funny as Slepakov’s, I raise quite serious questions there. But now, only the lazy does not posing in serious questions, especially after the president said that one more month should sit and look at his navel until the radiance appears around him.

-What plans have you canceled due to coronaavirus?

- We had to go with concerts in Siberia and the Urals. They had to play a concert in Glavklub under the name "36.6", because we turned 36 years old and 6 months. All this, of course, went under the tail of the dog. The play “In the city of Ltimitrov” was covered with a copper basin. This break can kill him financially, because we must continue to pay for the storage of scenery and in general for everything. No one will return the money spent on advertising. To play performances in March and April, we swelled almost a million rubles. This is a critical amount for us. Well, we’ll wait-we will see, maybe we will somehow tax. In any case, so far no one is throwing costumes and decorations.

- Your charity activity is also, of course, frozen?

- But here not. Oddly enough, it became only more active. Every day I take part in online concerts and broadcasts for the funds with which I work.

The philanthropists simply have a mean situation, they have dying, suffering from a mental illness, from loneliness, from abandonment, and the number of donations was reduced to almost zero.

The Foundation “Our Children”, which cares about street children, collected 100-200 thousand rubles at each concert, for which I am infinitely grateful to our viewers: they bought a ticket for 2 thousand, and then 3 thousand donated the fund. Now everything has been covered, and the children have the same problems, no one cured them and did not provide them during this time.

Well, you need to understand that people, as a rule, donate surpluses, and now many just have nothing to live on. The stream dried up not so much because concerts were canceled, but because people now have nothing to sacrifice. They will sit without work for at least a month, they will spend this money on their children, and not give it to a stranger. And this can be understood, no one in this situation condemns anyone. Therefore, I sing and dance as a company, I have never had such a number of concerts as now.

- The musicians are generally very active on the network. Activity doubled, tripled. Previously, this was not even close.

- Yes, my younger and advanced colleagues worked with social networks, and I scored it, because I am 53 years old, we have been playing for 36 years, well, what a fuck online, and so everything is fine. And now everyone stirred, as if the turpentine splashed on the ass. When the show business wakes up after quarantine, it will clearly benefit him.

An insanely complex genre - all these online. You communicate with the camera, and not with people, you do not hear applause at the end of the song. You sit in front of your own phone and pretend that in front of you is the hall. Moreover, it is necessary that you do not fade away, but twist yourself, as if everyone shouts to you: "Come on, yes, yes, yes!" - And you hear everything, you see everyone. A wild sensation when you finish the song-PA-RA-PA-RA-PA-Ui-oh! “And you find yourself in your room again.” He finished, then it is necessary that there is a reverse reaction, feedback, but he is not. But these are trifles in comparison with what is happening in the world, small inconvenience, no more.

-And more about show business. Usually artists release new songs and albums to advertise a concert or tour. But there are no tours. So this is charity in its purest form.

- Yes, we are now releasing songs, just to maintain a tone from our audience. We will not seek monetization. I understand perfectly that no one will pay me for what I will do within the next month, but, nevertheless, we are going to lay out new songs every three days. Because I need it, it is laid in the nature of the artist. I would like to prove that we are alive, that we will return, that we are still in shape.

- Do you believe that in quarantine people will write brilliant songs, novels, poems?

- No, if the author is not Pushkin. After - yes. After letting go when we get out of isolation. It should take time, we must move away from the events to some distance in order to comprehend them truly deeply. Read Mayakovsky’s article “How to make poems”. He wrote that while you are inside the situation, you will not write about it well - so that it makes the reader laugh or sob. You need to cool, comprehend, and then you can express it so that the audience is interesting. In the meantime, this is interesting exclusively to us - how we are experiencing our conclusion. But this does not mean that you should not try. Necessary.