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Russia tried to hold a World Music Lesson, connected with "talk about the important." It was beautiful, but they heard her weakly
International Musical Competition "Intervation-2025". The winner of the competition singer Duc Fuc. Photo: Alexander Shcherbak / TASS photo hosting agency for the interval contest
In the Novoivanovsky near Moscow in the Live Arena, in accordance with the Decree of the President of Russia, an interval music contest was held. What was it, how it was and for whom it was? Stepan Khalansky, a correspondent of Novaya Gazeta, visited the show.
Friendly Russia and forbidden artists
If you say that the interval is thrown to the front line of the struggle of the pro -Soviet mentality with the western, the reader will think that this is too sophisticated and pathos formulation. But thanks to the press conference of officials of the first rank on the eve of the competition, such thoughts involuntarily occurred to the head.
The head of the Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov, the key figure of the presidential administration, Sergei Kiriyenko, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko and the general director of Channel One Konstantin Ernst, are not drawn to music producers-producers (especially the first three), but it was they who headed the organizing committee of the singing competition, which is positioned as non-political.
The general idea was such that the West kicked Russia from Eurovision (and not only from there), and Russia in response invites all countries to participate, this is how democratic and friendly it is.
True, in the course of the “musical” press conference, it turned out that, for example, the Borodny Conchit VURST, who won at Eurovision 11 years ago, was still not waiting for Sergei Lavrov. “These are not restrictions, these are criteria,” Sergey Viktorovich explained when he was asked about this.
Sergei Vladilenovich Kiriyenko left the press conference very early (many things), and he should have asked a question not only about the bearded Austrian characters of an incomprehensible sex, but also about DDT, Zemfira*, “Bi-2”, “Aquarium”, “Spleen”, “Mumiy Troll”, Noize Mc*, Monetochka*, Monethechka*,, Tequilajazzz, “accident”, Maxim Leonidov and more about dozens of Russian musicians and groups, which are unknown according to what laws were actually prohibited on the territory of democratic and friendly Russia.
According to the terms of the competition, the vocalists sang alive in it, but these “conversations about the important” turned out to be some kind of plywood. Non -Summodes. The interval stood on a par with the festival of youth and students, the upcoming film “Antioskar” - “Diamond butterfly” and several attempts to arrange alternative Olympic games. Moreover, about the last laurels, not at all embarrassed, he said that Russia made the “games of the future” almost as large -scale as the Olympics. ” With such bravura reports, interval could be in advance to pre -recognize the greatest event in the history of world music (even if all the contestants unfolded and left Moscow).
Around such rhetoric, the leading and “raised” the competition on its move. It was helped by his main organizers - Vladimir Putin, who performed in the record, and Sergey Lavrov, who included in the “non -political” show “Live”. On a “politicized” Eurovision, it is impossible to imagine such a frank bureaucratic-political PR. But whoever pays, he orders music: 750 million rubles were allocated from the budget of Russia to the “Musical answer of Chamberlain”.
*Heterosexual Keep a step
Restless does not doze the enemy!*
Only one contestant - Vassy from the United States, replaced Brandon Howard, who left for a few days before “for family reasons”, turned out and left Moscow. VASSY is a mysterious singer: she flew to Moscow to play for America in her Greek passport, and suffered (according to the organizers) because of ... "unprecedented political pressure from the Australian government."
Shortly before the News contest, she found out that Vassy was in defense of LGBT ** rights, but before the announcement of her visit to Moscow, this information was promptly deleted from Wikipedia. The fact that Vassy will not reach the Moscow stage were announced on the course of the competition live. The performer herself did not comment on the situation in any way, she only placed his thanksgiving emoticons to several Russian-speaking commentators who expressed her support on Instagram ***, who was also recorded in Russia in something prohibited and exposed and blocked (for communication with the same extremist and prohibited META company).
The remaining contestants arranged a large cultural program in Moscow. The most widely covered visit by the Victory Museum (among other things, the exhibitions “Sw. Za -Highlights of the Fatherland” and “Ordinary Nazism” are held there - about the “Ukrainian version of Nazism”). However, the artists themselves, judging by their stories on the sidelines, were more remembered by visits to the Bolshoi Theater, to Red Square, to the Pushkin Theater ...
About the mass that filled the standing stall in front of the stage, it is worth saying separately. A lot has already been said about how these people were recruited, how the flags of different countries were handed out to them (the correspondent of the Novaya Youth Arena with the Arena with African pigtails, who was given the flag of Kenya, and also spectators with the flag of little Abkhazia). They also discussed how many statists paid for a rather difficult work vigorously jumping and rejoice for many hours in a row.
Half an hour before the live, the mass was warmed up by the DJ seta, which included the songs of Tatyana Kurtukova and Nadezhda Kadysheva.
When the set ended, the ground continued to warm up and the chapel was even more patriotic: they sang not only about birch and mother-earth, but also the “horse” of Igor Matvienko, and Katyusha, and even the anthem of Russia. Whether this choir was a conductor, it was not possible to make out.
The hall was dominated by the shaman's fan club. But the idol himself cooled their ardor, violating the regulations of performances and pushed the speech after his number with a request to remove it from the vote. Whose idea (the singer or organizers) was unknown. But there was a meaning in it: the shaman’s victory would have drowned the interval and ether of Channel One in a patriotic frenzy, and interest in the competition from other countries could have strangled. But the shaman could not lose either, because he was “Russian”. It remained delicately merged.
The producer-producer Matvienko, who flaunted a show in a shoe with an advertisement for his opera “Prince Vladimir” (with a shaman in the main role), talked a lot about the crisis of pop-, rock and rap music. But Folk, if he is modern, according to Igor Igorevich, is now in the trend itself.
It was Folk (Latin, Arabic, African) and was represented for the most part at the interval. The quality of the songs can be evaluated in different ways, but often the numbers were pulled out due to visual and stage effects.
There were also frankly boring performances resembling Eurovision of the 1950s. Many contestants performed in splendid loneliness, and this reduced interest in their numbers. But something turned out to be more incendiary, like the Brazilian duo Lusian Kalazans and Tair Nader, the representatives of Ethiopia, Netsanet Sultan or the victorious Vietnamese Duc Fuka, who showed the number at the level of modern Eurovision and conquered sincere (and not paid) love of the audience in the hall.
By the way, not only the VASSY American, but also the triumph of Duc Fuca turned out to be noticed in the thawed LGBT propaganda. The day after the competition, enthusiasts, getting acquainted with the creative heritage of the Vietnamese and enriching, according to the covenant of the organizers of interval, the interpenetration of immaculate crops, found a clip with the corresponding scenes. Even the lack of beard did not interfere with this.
At least a million, at least a billion
Million Voices-Polina Gagarina’s song from Eurovision-2015-was chosen as a final interval-2025 by chance. Millions of votes and billions of ears: the organizers trumped from the very beginning with large numbers of those who suffer from the suffering. Sergei Kiriyenko calculated that 4.3 billion people live in the countries - participants in the competition. Then Konstantin Ernst said that if at least every third or fourth of them looks at the competition, "it will be unprecedented." The swing of a billion spectators was prescribed in the script.
How many of this billion learned that there are so many of them? Not even in all countries they found at least some modest broadcaster. In Saudi Arabia (which announced the desire to accept the competition next year), Kenya and Brazil “Historical” international television competition on TV was not shown at all. And as a broadcaster in the United States, ... YouTube blocked in Russia.
In the only European participating country-Serbia-the interval of interval took the cable channel with the characteristic name of TOXIC TV, which has existed for only six years.
The broadcaster from the inhabited country of the planet of India with its 1.5 billion residents was the Newsx channel, which has a very low spectators - 0.7–1%, and this is only in the segment of English -language channels. About which billion, what kind of one of the third homomo, Sapiens, looking interval, was said by Konstantin Lvovich and his leaders? Probably, this was a pleasant information serving for the customers of the show and for the Russian layman, who is to be deceived on the topic “Hurray, we are not ahead of the planet of the whole”.