Хадн дадн – 900 rubles & home today (Мы сегодня дома)
Several things about Киви кошелёк (2019) by Хадн дадн are small or modest. Starting from the very first words. Я переведу 900 рублей: I will transfer 900 rubles – 9 euros 88 at today’s exchange rate. На киви кошелёк: to the payment service (кошелёк means wallet) of Qiwi.
So, there’s nothing revolutionary in the title and no drama. The musical arrangement, performance, lyrical scope, and variation: on all these fronts, it’s more restrained than exuberant. It’s almost fragile. But then/then again.
И дорога луной озарилась вся
Мы с тобой никогда не поссоримся
И ладонь на слои распадается
И асфальт под ногой уменьшается
With a repeated phrase at the end about having no end, И дорога домой не прекращается – the road home never ends.
Киви кошелёк is the opener of
Ляоакын (2019). Watch and listen recommendation: maybe watch clip 2 and listen to clip 1.
#stayhome
From the Тайный альбом (Secret Album, 2018), Мы сегодня дома (We are home today). And not just сегодня (today), but also завтра (tomorrow), послезавтра (the day after tomorrow), and послепослезавтра (the day after the day after tomorrow). In 2020, with all the staying at home, this song took on new meaning. It had nothing to do with the pandemic originally, but now it’s forever linked to it.
«Ее будут вспоминать как страшный сон» (Meduza, 2020): it will be remembered like a bad dream. See also this Song Story – истории песен.
Home versions by Заячий Стон (April 2020), Konstantin Smirnov (April), Nikola Negorod (April, edited September), and САНИТЭЙ (May). The version by Лёгкие люди is from before the stay-at-home measures and lockdowns (2019) and is all the more fun for it.
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More about Хадн дадн (or Hadn Dadn) from Moscow (since 2016) on Genius.com and Wikipedia (RU). Articles on Colta.ru from 2018 and 2019.
Interviews in video at Интервью с Хадн дадн: О пододеяльнике, Тимуре Муцураеве и судьбах России (Pavel Yablonskiy, 2019, 17 m) and Хадн Дадн – о популярности, закате рэпа и клипах-мультиках (This Is Media, 2018, 18 m).
More on Facebook, Instagram and VK. You can also listen on Bandcamp, Soundcloud and Spotify. The latest album (2020) is Ностальгия.
Most of the music here is also available in an
R1 playlist on YouTube (in order of release).
See also
Best Russian Music and
Russian Song Lyrics.
last updated 10-03-2021
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