Some references, that can be found there. Baba Yaga - in slavic folklore its witch, that lives in deep forest (word Baba or Баба in russian means either grandmother or countryside style of calling any woman. Thats kinda rude, but still), and in some stories acts as helper to hero of story, and sometimes works as "horror" antagonist, like she's stealing children and cook em in big pot. Also, btw, anthropologists, who study russian folklore also associates Baba Yaga with... How to say that. Like gatekeeper between real world and world of the dead, like clear origins of that character are somewhat unclear. In famous John Wick series John's nickname is Baba Yaga, altough she's clearly mythologycally woman, no male counterpart. So i can think that they either played on topic of either Alex acting as Baba Yaga, like some of russian lyrical parts saying, or he acted as killer of witch, because you can see, that body parts - head look like kinda womans head. So, he killed and they with boys eaten Baba Yaga, presumably. Also, interior in start of video is clearly interior of traditional russian/slavic home from mid-ages to even nowadays in countryside parts of Russia. One of boys also cooked some body parts in pot in start. So, thats mythological references. English lyrics and some parts of russian one are in style of "Im so tough, cool, dont cross way before me", etc. So i assume, thats probably reference to John Wick, like all that lasers pointed at Alex, tank, rocket launcher, bulletproof west. Also, scene in the end, where they play russian roulette - they all wearing russian gopnik, or 90-2000's russian mafia style clothing, thats why tracksuits with gold chains, leather jackets, etc. It is canonical look of russian gangster from mid nineties to up to 2010. Also, whole scene, i think, is reference to somewhat "cultish" russian dark comedy, called Жмурки, or Jmurki in stransliteration. I dont know, how to translate that word in context, because there can be serious wordplay. That is very obscure, gory and dark comedy about some unfortunate russian bandits and their doings. Also, i think, that song is somewhat collection of all russian related stereotypes, like bear, russian house, baba yaga (folklore witch), tank, rocket launcher, AK rifle, winter, bandits, vodka, russian roulette. But its not just like stereotypes, but whole design of video is not just make fun of em, but to make em look cool and stylish, so group definetely embracing that "folklore". Sorry for bad english and long post
Good reaction but being a drummer I would like to get a little bit more insight on your thoughts about the drumming techniques breaking down the song a little bit more even if you want to do a straight listen through keep timestamps in your mind go back to those timestamps play them again and kind of go through what you thought about it what it was how it works stuff like that would be pretty cool not enough people do that in my opinion sorry if some of the spelling is all messed up I use voice text to write comments so it’s not gonna be proper grammar or nothing but I’m sure people can understand what I’m trying to say
В славянском фольклере, Баба Яга - это нейтральный, но страшный герой. Она готова помочь богатырю, который заблудился в лесу, накормит, согреет, спать уложит. Но те нерадивые путники, кто попал к ней на ужин, будут гостить у нее в качестве главного блюда... Баба Яга колдунья, может как и помочь, так и навредить. Про Бабу Ягу я в детстве слышал не мало сказок, если буду непослушным, она за мной придет... Но если я буду хорошим, она мне поможет!
Pretty sick! Not my everyday music but definitely fun to watch from time to time. Yeah ... "watch"! 😅 For some reason I can't really imagine to listen to this without the video... 😅 Anyway ... I know I keep bugging you about The Warning but they released a new song and video yesterday and both are just awesome! Nothing like this ... a little more civilised hard rock. Would love to see you react to it! Check it out here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TlOy0XbFVlM.html
Hey brother, there's now a drum play though of this song which would be awesome to see you react to. You can find it on the singer's (Alex Terrible) youtube page
