797
submitted 7 months ago by NIB@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

Authorities in the Russian Republic of Chechnya have announced a ban on music that they consider too fast or slow.

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 381 points 7 months ago

Music too fast? Straight to jail.

Music too slow? Believe it or not, straight to jail.

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 107 points 7 months ago

Just a little bit too perfect? Burned for witchcraft

[-] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 44 points 7 months ago

and after the burning, whatever is left, straight to jail.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 52 points 7 months ago

Sounds like a healthy form of governance. People can't be trusted to manage tempo on their own. They should do this for heart rates as well.

[-] Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz 16 points 7 months ago

Checks out. If your heart rate is too slow or too fast you're probably doing a sin.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[-] timkenhan@sopuli.xyz 15 points 7 months ago

Straight to jail! Right away!

[-] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 7 months ago

Thanks to jail we have the most moderate musical tempo in the world!

[-] unreachable@lemmy.world 179 points 7 months ago

darude sandstrom ✖️

careless whisper ✖️

never gonna give you up ✔️

[-] Murvel@lemm.ee 28 points 7 months ago

YMCA by Village People? We'll give it a pass ✔️

load more comments (2 replies)
[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 157 points 7 months ago

80 to 116 BPM. I actually chuckled audibly that the BPM was specified, I assumed it would be extremely vague.

[-] assembly@lemmy.world 55 points 7 months ago

They couldn’t even make it higher than the DAW defaults at 120bpm. So you have new musicians that have never recorded accidentally producing music at 120 and breaking the law. This is the dumbest shit I’ve seen since last week. I don’t typically put anything together that is below 120. Looks like I’m on my way to being a Chechen fugitive.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 18 points 7 months ago

Shocking.

No house, no techno?!

Suddenly a larger market for those sped up/slowed down ByteDance remixes, depending.

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 17 points 7 months ago

Phonk producers with normal, slowed and speedy versions of their songs were already prepared for this.

load more comments (7 replies)
[-] OwlPaste@lemmy.world 98 points 7 months ago

Are they just late for 1st of April?

[-] ConditionOverload@lemmy.world 113 points 7 months ago

April 1st was too fast for them so they opted to use April 8th.

[-] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 40 points 7 months ago

April 9th would have meant straight to jail!

[-] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 95 points 7 months ago

So, they just banned the Russian national anthem too, since that sits at 76 bpm?

[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 25 points 7 months ago
load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[-] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 87 points 7 months ago

Not even Nazi Germany or Stalin's Soviet Union had this arbitrary and stupid of a music ban.

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 65 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Isis and taliban do tho. Chechnya is primarily muslim. But yea, another sign russia has become a dystopian nightmare

load more comments (12 replies)
[-] Mistic@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

In Soviet Union, the rock genre was for a very long time existing underground due to the inability of artists to be properly published.

Only starting with the 1980s could the artists finally publish their songs officially. And even then Soviet government put a lot of measures to prohibit rock music in the country.

This resulted in the appearance of many beloved bands and artists, like

  • Kino (tl. Cinema),
  • DDT,
  • Aria,
  • Chaif,
  • Grazhdanskaya Oborona (tl. Civil Defense),
  • Mashina Vremeni (tl. Time machine),
  • Sektor Gaza (tl. Gas Sector)
  • Korol i Shut (tl. King and Jester)
  • And many others

The history of Russian rock is actually quite fascinating. It was inspired by bard songs and often touched darker subjects as well as being satirical and judgmental of Soviet government.

Due to that, some artists, like Yegor Letov from Grazhdanskaya Oborona and Yuri Shevchuk from DDT, had troubles with KGB (Soviet FBI).

Nowadays, rock artists are still being persecuted for their views. For example, DDT is de facto prohibited from performing in Russia.

load more comments (4 replies)
[-] General_Effort@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago

I think you seriously over-estimate the level of tolerance of Nazi Germany. The Nazis persecuted Degenerate Music just like they persecuted Degenerate Art.

load more comments (3 replies)
[-] DancingBear@midwest.social 81 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The Russian national anthem is 76 beats per minute lol….

Which is banned

[-] perishthethought@lemm.ee 17 points 7 months ago

So did they do this to ban the Russian anthem intentionally??

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[-] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 61 points 7 months ago

Ok but what about double time? This rule is so ridiculous if it was a joke I would think it's too unrealistic

[-] Neato@ttrpg.network 69 points 7 months ago

The Onion is over here crying because it's been having to low-ball reality for a decade.

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 15 points 7 months ago

I don’t know how they stay in business.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 48 points 7 months ago

They're inching closer to the plot of Footloose.

load more comments (4 replies)
[-] viralJ@lemmy.world 42 points 7 months ago

Wait... Did The Onion buy out CNN?

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] eardon@lemmy.ca 39 points 7 months ago

Read up a bit on the Chechnyans and their relationship with Russia.

Apparently, their leaders were responsible for atrocities on par with typical Russians.

I don't really have sympathy for them. They support people who assassinate journalists as a "birthday gift" to Putin.

load more comments (2 replies)
[-] ATDA@lemmy.world 38 points 7 months ago
load more comments (5 replies)
[-] 1luv8008135@lemmy.world 35 points 7 months ago

This is memeable, yes; but usually when news like this starts coming out a nation shit’s definitely gone sideways for it.

load more comments (5 replies)
[-] Shurimal@kbin.social 35 points 7 months ago

Writes a song at 115 BPM. Makes it use double time. Occasionally changes tempo to 161 BPM half-time. Adds three layers of polyrhythms to it. Spices things up with metric modulation between 4/4, 13/8 and 17/7. Hides a sample of the "trolololo song" somewhere in there.

Trollface.jpg

[-] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 7 months ago

Deleted by Chechnya

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 34 points 7 months ago

I guess next thing Kadyrov will make his horse a consul.

load more comments (3 replies)
[-] voracitude@lemmy.world 32 points 7 months ago
[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 31 points 7 months ago

Imma go blow some Chechnyan minds with my happy hardcore outfit that plays songs at 100bpm, but only plays 64th notes.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] ech@lemm.ee 25 points 7 months ago

Was trying to figure out why this felt so familiar, then I remembered it's literally a plot point in the game Beholder 3, a game about an excessively oppressive surveillance government. Wild.

load more comments (3 replies)
[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

BPM between 80 and ~~130~~ 116 are allowed. Their own national anthem is almost criminally low!

load more comments (3 replies)
[-] bstix@feddit.dk 23 points 7 months ago

80-115 bpm only.

What is their legal definition of a beat?

load more comments (2 replies)
[-] brey1013@lemmy.world 23 points 7 months ago

RIP the Chechen Drum n Bass scene 😢

load more comments (2 replies)
[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 20 points 7 months ago

So what’s the opposite of eating the onion, and not believing that this is actual news, but it is?

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 26 points 7 months ago

It’s beating the onion. But you can only do it 80 to 115 times a minute.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 7 months ago

saving us from the national menace that is cotton eye joe.

[-] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 27 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I’m sorry, where did this come from? Where did this go?

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago
load more comments (1 replies)
[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago

Fundies gonna fundie.

[-] ahriboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 7 months ago

RIP nightclubs. RIP Cheeki Breeki.

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

Reading through, I suspect that they are trying to restrict music to those forms similar to national/traditional/folk music. They just got rid of rock and roll here.

load more comments
view more: next ›
this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2024
797 points (98.4% liked)

World News

38979 readers
2419 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS