Great video! I discovered your channel long ago when Ploho played in one of your festivals, but only checked the other videos of the channel recently. I was born several years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and grew up in one of those gray apartment blocks that became a staple of the doomer meme. In my country, and apparently everywhere else, they are heavily criticized for being bland, boring, badly built, etc., but one thing I can see is that the new apartment blocks built since the crisis of 2008 ended are just as bad if not worse, because they are produced as cheaply as possible to be sold at maximum profit. The only advantage of the new apartment blocks I can think of is the reduced heating cost, which can be mitigated with renovation (as seen in the pictures of those blocks in Slovakia, presumably renovated and coloured). The regulations imposed upon banks and estate developers after the 2008 crisis did nothing to improve the situation and the market is due for another crash (another reason why doomer meme is relatable in the West). The monotonous gray color was replaced by monotonous white with stripes of light blue or yellow or green. Yeah, it's mixed with some color there and there, but all those accents help achieve is make all these allegedly different-looking fresh apartment blocks look the exact same, much like all the different hipsters tend to look the exact same if you put 100 hipsters in 1 room. I feel as doomer in my newly built apartment as I did back when I lived with my parents. Having said that, I am curious if there are many other people who feel what could be best named "tragic optimism" when listening to the genres you cover on this channel and discussed in this interview. Whenever I'm listening to this music, I don't really feel depressed, and I don't listen to it as a way to cope with terrible reality - I listen to it to get motivated, sort of "once you've reached the bottom of the pit, there's only 1 way, and it's up" thinking.
@TheWaveofThings
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the nice and elaborate comment:) I understand very well what you mean, the sadness in music can be cathartic, therapeutic, and neutralise one's own anguish. Much the same as black metal can take away aggression. It is a feeling like being understood, or not alone...
@nightsofcabiria9700
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you, I learned a lot! :) I think Girl Doomer and Dark Sovietwave will represent the revival of the Sovietwave genre; at least here on youtube. In a bring to the masses way of speech, I really hope Sovietwave will find the spot that always deserved since Space Sovietwave era. PHONK is getting so popular, and now it's the turn of Sovietwave!
@DomesticatedGoth
3 жыл бұрын
Thankyou for this really interesting interview/discussion. It was really fascinating. I've recently come across these types of music, and have been fascinated - I started learning Russian last month, and thought that finding music in genres/styles I like, but in Russian would help with that, so started looking for things I might enjoy on KZitem. As I usually listen to post punk, darkwave, French Coldwave, etc. this sort of music really appealed to me. I don't have TikTok, so seeing the sudden popularity of Molchat Doma was very surprising! I think as a miserable millennial watching the political situation in the UK decay, having come of age around the time of the '08 economic crash moving through to now, when employment prospects seem worse and worse, and having grown up around far too many dilapidated '60s Brutalist buildings and poor-quality social housing, there's certainly common ground aesthetically and philosophically, but it's also a very different experience in Russia and former Soviet Union countries. I really wanted to learn more, and I think this interview/discussion has been really educational. Спасибо or Дякую :) (I Googled the Ukrainian)
@CemeteryConfessions
3 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU FOR THIS! I learned so much listening, and there is so little information out there, at least here in America, about youth culture and the music scene around the post punk music coming out of places like Russia. I really appreciate your thoughts. Both of the guests were brilliant and André as always you were an excellent host!
@TheWaveofThings
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for the kind words :-)
@wcg66
9 ай бұрын
You have to give credit to Molchat Doma. Belarus is not an easy place to rise from to success. The appeal to me is both the mood they project but it was also timely with a healthy synthwave revival in general.
@doverlights303
3 жыл бұрын
Very interesting interview/short documentary, André . I wonder if Molchat Doma is actually popular in Minsk but people are not willing publicly show support for some reason. I was curious a couple of months ago about where Molchat Doma was most popular in the world, so I did a Google Trends search in December to see where the search term "Molchat Doma" was used the most. The number one place it was searched was in Belarus, and the second place, I believe, was Mexico City. I wonder if your friends could comment on that or give their theories. I shared this video in multiple Dark wave and other music groups on Facebook. I hope more people see this. André , thank you for making some of the most interesting videos on the planet! Looking forward to catching up with you soon.
@TheWaveofThings
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for the nice words and the support, we are flattered and flattened :-) I will ask the X's about their opinion regarding the interest of Mexicans in a Belarusian band. But I guess the conrete jungle doom would very much fit also to the huuuuge Mexican capital city, where it is certainly easy to get "lost" or to lose oneself.
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