Artist banned in Russia thinks all Russian music is “depressing”: EADailly

All Belarusian show business ends up in Russia sooner or later. In order for Belarusian to become popular, it must first be popular somewhere and then Belarusians will accept it, Belarusian player Ap$ent (Arseniy Kislyak) told the VotVot.TV project.

Ap$ent also believes that Russian and Belarusian artists cannot be compared.

“Belarusians are not Russians, that’s all, they are very different. Our groups: “Lyapis Trubetskoy” – a progressive person, this one is one of a kind Tim Belorusskikh – a positive person, Max Korzh – positive, always positive. Russian music is always “I’ll kill my neighbors,” “I’m depressed,” — Ap$ent expressed his opinion.

Note that he refers to the song of a woman who escaped from Russia Zemfira*which contains the following line: “Do you want me to kill the neighbors who disturb your sleep?”

As reported EADailyAp$ent lived in Belarus for a long time. His most popular album “Can I be with you” for a long time remains at the top of the best services “Yandex Music”, “MTS Music”, “VK Music” and “Sound”. On the YouTube platform, the video clip with this writing has currently received 42 million views.

This song was written in 2022. Then the artist’s wife Maria the court sentenced him to a year of restriction of liberty for insulting the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko in the comments of the telegram channel. Before the sentence was executed, the artist and his wife left for Georgia and then for Poland.

In March of this year, the Yandex Music service blocked access to Ap$ent’s page, and it is still closed. A representative of the service said that Yandex Music received a notification from Roskomnadzor asking to block the Ap$ent page on March 27. MTS Music said that the profile of the Belarusian artist will be blocked soon. The reason for the ban was not stated, but the artist himself wrote on the social network that it was because of “envy, meanness and hypocrisy”.

*An individual performing the functions of a foreign agent