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Songs of praising type started appearing as soon as Vladimir Putin took the office. An early notable example is the song Takogo, kak Putin! ("[I want] The One Like Putin") by the girl band Singing Together [2] It topped the Russian Music Charts in 2002. [3] [4]
In a 2018 speech, Russian President Vladimir Putin denounced rap music, saying that it would lead to the degradation of Russia and that it rested on the pillars of "sex, drugs and protest." [ 15 ] He asked the Council for Culture and Art in St Petersburg to bring rap culture to heel, saying "if it is impossible to stop it, it should be taken ...
Once leaving University in 2015, he began pursuing rap as a career. In 2016, he stated that he was making very little on rap and living modestly off his earnings. [12] He took odd music jobs, for instance working at the ticket control station for a Big Russian Boss concert, the concert in question occurring in November of that year.
Alarmed by the growing popularity of rap among Russian youth, President Vladimir Putin wants cultural leaders to devise a means of controlling music.
These songs are sung by impressionist Christopher John as "Donald Trump", with several tracks also featuring impressionist Andrew Harris as "Vladimir Putin". [27] Paul McCartney's song "Despite Repeated Warnings" from his 2018 solo album Egypt Station compares then-president Trump's failure to acknowledge climate change to the sinking of the ...
In November 2017 the song gained the notoriety when a video was popularized in which Anna Kuvychko , then assistant to a State Duma deputy, performed this song with the schoolchildren in military-style uniforms of the cadet class of Volgograd school no. 44, joining a long list of songs praising Vladimir Putin.
"Takogo, kak Putin!" (Russian: Такого, как Путин!; lit."One like Putin"; commonly translated as "A man like Putin") is a 2002 Russian propaganda pop song written by Alexander Yelin [] (Александр Елин) and performed by the all-girl band Poyushchie vmeste.
During the repression of candidates for the election of the Moscow State Duma, police brutality was used to hold back protestors and Timati collaborated with another rapper "Guf" to make "Москва" (Moscow), a song including the chorus "my best friend is President Putin", dissing the protesters and Russian opposition movement while praising ...