Pussy Riot have returned with one other stabbing protest anthem aimed on the Russian authorities – a synth–punk quantity titled ‘Mama, Don’t Watch TV’ – with which they name for president Vladimir Putin to be prosecuted for his battle crimes towards Ukraine.
In a press release shared alongside the track’s launch on Saturday (December 24), the band defined their perception that “Putin’s regime is a terrorist regime, and Putin himself, his officers, generals and propagandists are battle criminals”.
They went on to notice that the track’s refrain “is predicated on the phrases of a captured Russian conscript soldier who, in a phone dialog together with his mom, stated ‘Mother, there are not any Nazis right here, don’t watch TV’”. Detailing the importance of that line, Pussy Riot pointed to the Russian authorities’s tendency to unfold propaganda via televised broadcasts, which they are saying “poisons the hearts of individuals with hatred”.
The band additional referenced the authoritarian measures Russia takes to punish its critics, persevering with: “Those that oppose Putin are imprisoned, poisoned with army poisons and killed.”
As for the Russian authorities’s continued assaults on Ukraine, the band defined that such “army aggression” has been frequent since 2014, “when Russian troops annexed Crimea and commenced the occupation of the Donbass area”. They continued: “Each day since then Ukraine has needed to combat for the correct to reside and for freedom, combat to ensure its sovereignty.
“Throughout all these years, the worldwide group has seemed for compromise and performed enterprise with Russia, on the identical time sponsoring Putin’s merciless battle. The Kremlin receives billions of Euros from the sale of oil and fuel and every day this cash converts into Ukrainian blood.”
Take a look on the accompanying music video for ‘Mama, Don’t Watch TV’ under:
With the discharge of ‘Mama, Don’t Watch TV’, Pussy Riot detailed their goals in utilizing the track as a method to protest the Russia-Ukraine battle. Firstly, they’ve referred to as for “an embargo on the acquisition of Russian oil and fuel, on the sale of weapons and police ammunition to Russia”.
Subsequent, the band petitioned for authorities to “arrest the western financial institution accounts and property of Russian officers and oligarchs, and introduce private sanctions towards them”. And at last, they’ve referred to as for “a world tribunal to attempt Vladimir Putin, workers of Russian state propaganda, military officers and everybody who’s answerable for the genocide of the Ukrainian nation”.
Pussy Riot have had a busy yr in 2022, with a serious spotlight being Masha Alyokhina’s escape from Russia again in Could. She and her bandmates have arrested and imprisoned a number of occasions over their tenure for publicly protesting Putin’s rule. Final January, she was detained for 2 days after attending demonstrations encouraging others to protest on social media.
The band additionally launched their debut mixtape, ‘Matriarchy Now’, again in August through Neon Gold Data.
