the leader of the legendary rock group have always been uncompromising and the desire to cut a plain truth about what is happening in the country and in society. The world’s current situation has only exacerbated these trends, and it seems the musician is one of those who is convinced that life will never be the same. At the beginning of the quarantine DDT showed the audience a video for the song “Russian spring”, partly filmed in prison – the infamous “Cross”. Next came more hard clip-horror “Dead man” in which masked men ankle-deep in blood run through the streets with coffins. The next step was the video for “Chorus”, not less threatening.
On a black background, it is unexpected for a rock band – accompanied by electronic music joining vsplyvayut people’s faces, like thin bubbles that would burst. Yuri Yulianovich begins to read ironic rap: “When you lose a hero, remains the choir, but collective sex for me – too much. I have stereotaxis, and I live here alone among the snakes and dragonflies. I breathe the forest far from the graves of equality, brotherhood and other illusions. Where the chorus reigns – I’m gone, I’m with the ants now in the Union.” Ovate faces on the screen appears more and more. The camera moves away and they become like many unsightly larvae, while the rocker continues to pour images and meanings, denouncing the heartless crowd, and concludes: “the Crowd sees and hears, she is in us for centuries, but the memory of her as always short. In crowd it is impossible to fall, you need to go, and no matter what knocked it out of the way. The idea is still alive, has not yet appeared in print. When you are a hero, in the crowd you’re stuffing. Look around, all your heads visible in the crowd you’re immortal, in the crowd there’s no guilt.”
the plot is that hundreds of individuals is small pieces of meat passing through the holes of a giant grinder. Something similar of course, we all have seen in the video Pink Floyd “The Wall”, but the theme is relevant again, as they say – for centuries. However, Shevchuk manages to complete the whole story on a rather positive note, if this definition might be appropriate here, in principle: “I am tired to survive, choose to live. When you’re free, you’re impossible to kill”. Interestingly, the phrase “when out a hero, remains chorus” that is repeated twice in the song, is a reference to the poem Brodsky “Theatre.” There are residents of some abstract city decide to throw the stranger in the tower, because he doesn’t like them. It is no coincidence that Shevchuk is called a rock poet – his lyrics always have interesting allusions.
