Maksim_Frolov

Thanks!

I'm not sure if he was a dissident. He was an actor and a wonderful poet. Dissidence is a position and, one way or another, it is propaganda. Great musicians and poets are not engaged in propaganda, they are above it all. Of course, many people get involved in politics and propaganda in their youth, but they quickly switch to truly eternal things. For example, even Brodsky was not a dissident, despite emigrating. That's why the Great Ones are loved by everyone.

It is visible even now. For example, one of my favorite musicians is Noise MC (Ivan Alekseev). A very talented man... but politics and the desire to impose one's opinion destroys creativity. He become not a poet and a musician, but a propagandist.
An example on my favorite Letov's covers . The song "Everything's Just Like People's" (song of 1989, a bitterly ironic take on the sameness of everyday life). A tribute can (and probably should) sound different, like this one:
Band "Animal Jazz"

https://youtu.be/N10pn_hpWkA?si=B6p4PTlzngXjiEt5

But when Noise made his own lyrics, leaving only the chorus, it was not a tribute, but propaganda:

https://youtu.be/eLAHSRmFFzE?si=GWnP33zIr7G9ETwI

And it's very sad, because one of the most talented people of my generation is unlikely to become great, despite tens of millions of views.

It's just one of his funny songs . I remember when I was 6 or 7 years old (before school), I loved playing the same song on my father's old tape recorder, and my father scolded me that the right thing to do was listen to all the songs on tape, rather than constantly rewinding to the beginning, but I liked this particular one (although I didn't even understand half the words).))
from 0:35

https://youtu.be/-UpZXFwY8S8?si=0enTMXMtSCDPekCc