Ukraine War Music

Last week Zemfira, a prominent Russian singer who has been labeled a foreign agent and driven into exile, released a song—”Motherland”—that I found quite striking, in a brutal way. It’s about modern Russia, but it’s really about forced patriotism more generally, and indeed about forced adherence more generally. It has 1M views on YouTube, and […]

From the prominent Russian band Leningrad; the video has over 750K views, though it was just posted Wednesday. The band members, as I’ve mentioned before, aren’t themselves particularly pro-Ukraine (see here and here)—they are more cynical and realist than ideological, it seems to me (see this song, which I blogged last year). But here, unless I’m completely missing things, […]