Three new songs from people from the Black List: Little Big, Bi-2, Oblomov

The St. Petersburg Edition "Fontanka" announced the next black list of musicians. Compared to the March list, which the New Gazeta wrote about, it expanded noticeably. Those who in March were dissatisfied with the absence of Makarevich, Shevchuk and Vasya Oblomova can be satisfied. Now the promoters are not recommended to organize their performances in Russia. It is amazing how they are still allowed to perform abroad. Where the presidential administration is looking!

By coincidence, the three most noticeable Russian-speaking premieres of the beginning of summer released just the artists from this list: Little Big, Bi-2, Oblomov.

Little Big. Generation Canselation

The western of our musicians, real European stars. They were never political artists, but they were symbols of the new generation, but for many they remain. High -tech, cosmopolitan, ironic, world -class product. When Russia nominated them for Eurovision, Europe accepted them as its own.

On February 24, a laconic inscription No War appeared on the official page of Little Big. And almost immediately they left Russia. There were persecution, there were threats, there were even proposals to deprive them of citizenship.

Now Ilyich and Sonya in Los Angeles. The song that this clip was shot on, they wrote for a long time, at the beginning of the war, just Production in connection with universal emigration and crossings dragged on.

Generation Canselation has more than seven million views on YouTube. The most interesting is that the clip is not anti-Russian and not anti-Putin, it is truly anti-war. It appears in politicians very similar to American, black youth, soldiers in clearly not Russian form.

The position of Little Big is not against Russian aggression in Ukraine (although against it too, they talk about it frankly), but against all wars. And it is for this that many condemn them. Abstract humanism. Too softly, too kindly, too objective in the current times.

But the main message of the song is different, it is about the canceled generation. The war took the future from millions of young people who dreamed, made plans, made careers, loved. They are also victims of war.

Bi-2. Lullaby

Bi-2 is a powerful commercial pop corporation, which, if it was related to politics, is the most indirect, hints, halftones. Bi-2 is about richly relaxing and spending time well. But they have a large audience, they are very famous, this is a stadium group, and now no one will allow such people in Russia to stay on the fight.

They were not allowed. About two months ago, a wild scandal erupted after the refusal of Bi-2 to speak against the background of the letter Z. It turned out that it was not necessary to against persecution and canceling, it was enough not to be “for”.

And here they are on the black list. People with patriotism of the brain demand to drive them out of the country. How Schura and Leva laugh (one Israeli citizenship, the other Australian) earn money in Russia! Now, if they rejoiced at the shelling of Ukrainian cities, then another thing, then other people's citizenship is excusable.

It only seems that the war intimidated people and ended with freedom. In the case of Bi-2, everything is exactly the opposite. For many years they were silent, they were afraid to express their position, although their views were liberal, there is no doubt about it. They were afraid that there would be problems on the border when returning from a tour or from vacation. They were afraid that the business would suffer. But the war began, and anyway: what borders, what business.

Recently, in the Posoputinsky and radical militarist telegram channel Rokot Z, I saw a scan of their comments on social networks. Leva writes: "All this" special operation "is a huge crime."

Regardless of whether this is or a fake, they made their choice, it already makes no sense to hide.

The “Lullaby”, which came out in June, is dedicated to the memory of Alena Meshkova from the Khabensky Foundation. The song is very personal, definitely not about politics. But looking at what is happening around, it is impossible not to respond to the text that Leva sings:

I went through the denial of evil

Only happiness from someone else's good

It won't

It won't

The world of animals is initially cruel

But not animals press the trigger

And people

And people

Now everything about the war, there is no way to get away from it.

Vasya Oblomov. The kid fell under sanctions

Oblomov was never a fierce enemy of the Kremlin, a fighter with a regime. You will not find statements in the spirit of "Putin thief!" And "Russia will be free!" On the contrary: his lyrical hero loves Putin, he really hopes for him, and he does not need freedom, without it better. A sort of Schweik, an enthusiastic idiot.

Oblomov has long realized that it was impossible to look at what was happening in Russia from the point of view of common sense and logic. You just won’t see anything. It is the absurdity of Russian life that gives it beauty and artistry. At times, however, this is a bloody absurdity.

His new single is written on the verses of the famous poet, the writer-fantast and feuilletonist Leonid Kaganov. This is a ballad about a high -ranking kid - "a large cock / famous Duma faction / was a member of the board of directors / had a church dignity."

Before us is a mathematically accurate portrait of the beneficiary of the Putin era, the beneficiary of the war:

He said that God is with us,

That all other nations

Walk to hell, and only we

Towards heaven.

He perceives sanctions as a fatal accident. Auto -catastrophe or earthquake. This definitely cannot be punishment, because-and for what? I am good, rich, I have everything, money, power, position. The logic is: the rich should become richer, and the poor are poorer. But sometimes - extremely rarely, unfortunately - it happens the other way around.