Yury Khovansky – This is Russia
This is America by Childish Gambino ( Donald Glover) in a Russian version and setting. That becomes Это Россия (This is Russia, 2018). By Юрий Хованский ( Yury Khovansky), also known as MC Khovansky (1990).
Most Beautiful
From the video description: Клип “Это Америка” лишний раз доказал, что мы с вами живем в самой прекрасной стране – the clip “This is America” once again proved that we live in the most beautiful country. В качестве гимна я предлагаю вам этот дисс: as a hymn, I offer you this diss.
Also featured in What happens when Russia parodies Western hits? 4 craziest examples (Russia Beyond, 2018); from the same source: These YouTubers do awesome Russian covers of international hit songs (2020). Also see Russian “This Is America” Parodies (NFKRZ, 2018, 11 m).
Most of the music here is also in an
R1 playlist on YouTube (in order of release).
See also
Best Russian Music and
Russian Song Lyrics.
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Anyone who wants to present Russian music cannot ignore Zemfira. Popular and mainstream – millions of records sold – but also distinctly idiosyncratic. The music is usually accessible (we categorize it under Pop), but the attitude is rock.
Raw Anti-Putin punk from
Nizhny Novgorod /
Нижний Новгород. Loosely based on ‘Maggie’ by The Exploited.
From the green city of
Zelenograd /
Зеленоград. Dreamy indie-folk with a melancholic undertone. Created by
Mikhail Rodionov (1992).
The alarm blares (Ревёт тревога), the road awaits (ждёт дорога). They are many (Их немало), we are few (нас немного). We are in an unjust world (Мы в несправедливом мире) tin wolves in the shooting range (Жестяные волки в тире).
The word offret is Swedish and means ‘sacrifice’; the band Offret is Russian and makes heavy music. The link between the word and the band: a
1986 film in Swedish by the Russian Andrei Tarkovsky.
A band from Saint Petersburg that makes a kind of post-punk/indie-pop. Not for long yet, so not much material yet. However, they already have a few very successful tracks with original music videos. До свиданья, дорогая is the
Russian title for the film
The Goodbye Girl (1977), but it has nothing to do with it.
