Индульгенция – Feministka
Punk is often socially engaged, but the nature of that engagement can vary. Индульгенция (Indulgencia) might step on the toes of many punks with Феминистка (Feminist, 2014). Their stance comes from values unusual in the genre, namely Christian ones – and that might be the most punk thing of all.
Explained in Панк-католицизм группы «Индульгенция», the punk Catholicism of the band Indulgencia (Nihilist.li, 2017).
Oegarelaja
The language used to address the feminist in the song isn’t exactly Christian. To start, she’s called угорелая (oegarelaja), which loosely translates to “crazy.” She’s also такая тупая (so dumb), like the whole world (как весь этот мир), and такая кривая (so crooked, skewed, wrong), like everyone around her (как все вокруг). Your life is now black and white (твоя жизнь теперь чёрно-белая), which rhymes with feministka oegarelaja. It also rhymes with не пытайся подойти ко мне близко – don’t try to get close to me. Mission accomplished, apparently.
We don’t support
In a studio session at Наше-ТВ (2020), Феминистка also comes up (starting at 7:47). Drummer Dima explains that there is no aggression in the song, but in general, мы не поддерживаем, we don’t support feminism or LGBT. However, that’s a очень большая тема, very big topic – not for that moment, and not for here either.
Live versions from
2019 and
2015, more for the visuals than the sound.
See also this one-man-band performance (2016).
More Indulgencia
- Вы думали (2017)
- Псевдо-анархисты (2017)
- Pussy riot говно! (2013)
- Протест (2009)
Svaboda
Ending with a message that may resonate even with feminists: Свобода (Freedom, 2013).
Lyrics
Watch: What Russians think about feminism? (1420, 2020, 9 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.
More
Music
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.
