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If there is any problem regarding the content, copyright, please leave a report below the article. *The article has been translated based on the content of. VK Fest will be held from July 23 to 24 in three places at once: in Moscow, St. Petersburg residents and city guests, who stopped by and sang the lines of the VK Fest headliners in chorus,” shared Konstantin Sidorkov, Director of Music Projects.

“The most valuable thing for us was the positive feedback from St. The unusual event also attracted popular bloggers who sang their favorite songs together with passersby. The townspeople en masse sang the compositions of the headliners of VK Fest – 2022, among which were “Sansara” by rapper Basta, “Districts-Quarters” by rock group “Zveri”, “Lyubimka” by NILETTO, “Crash” by Klava Koka and many other songs from the participants of the upcoming festival. It is noted that this has never been done in Russia before – no one projected karaoke with songs by popular artists right on the bridge. So the city prepared for the musical event, according to a press release from the festival organizers, received by the editors of .Ī karaoke projection was placed on one of the bridge’s wings, which immediately caught the attention of residents and guests of the Northern Capital.

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So I think making this video is a deniable way to appeal to a queer/gay fanbase, to make queer Russia visible, and to publicly announce a message of free love, which is very queer.Įdit: And just to be complete, the Roman alphabet transliteration of the song title is 'Lyubimka' or 'Lubimka' (Beloved).A huge karaoke projection with popular artists from the biggest open-air show of the current summer VK Fest took place on the wings of the Palace Bridge in St. Whether or not Danil himself is straight or not, he would be unable to announce himself as gay or explicitly support gay right or gay people as a celebrity in Russia, or he might actually be disappeared by secret police. Danil even pimps out his body a bit in this video for gay viewers, showing his unthreatened acceptance of being objectified (by men). So maybe part of what makes this video queer is that it has a hidden meaning: Maybe it's a video announcing a message of love and acceptance of homosexuality to Russian fans, in a deniable way. I think that the mere presence of the sign 'gun' does not have a predetermined meaning it must be read in context.Īnd the context here is that Russia is an incredibly homophobic Roman Catholic totalitarian police state. Normative discursive practitioners would jump in here to say 'It's ugly to use a gun, to promote guns at all like that, this video is violent' but I would, personally, strongly disagree, because the video is simply so much fun! This video does not make me feel like there is any threat or violence, it seems more like the opposite of that. Similarly, the beginning of the video sets us up to think he is going to kill people, but then his gun shoots hearts, subverting our expectations as well as the meaning of a gun. But then Danil Prytkov shoots them with love/hearts and they start dancing freely with each other, smiling. This is a typical portrayal of the hot girl being mean to the guy she doesn't find attractive trope that we have probably all seen portrayed in many movies.

He tries to hand her some papers and she rejects them, not because of the papers, but because she isn't into the guy. This messiness and freeness with which the song plays around with its subject matter demonstrates a lightness toward the subject matter of war, peace, and love that shifts the thematic meaning of the video away from a simple pro- or anti- war message to something that both challenges and demands direct engagement from the viewer.įor example, in an early vignette in the video, a woman (perhaps the ex implied by the lyrics) is working in an office with another man. It is mixing the symbols of war and love in troubling and messy ways. There are some superficial details that made me start to wonder whether to classify this video as 'queer': it's fun and upbeat, lots of pink, it stars a pretty man.īut I think really it's queer because it is transgressive. Except that the overarching theme of the video seems to be a sort of play with the symbols of love and war intended to imply global love and solidarity.

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