The best quotes from Zemfira's songs

Zemfira's image and creativity have become iconic among children and teenagers who grew up in the 90s. Fans still look forward to every concert and memorize quotes from Zemfira’s songs. What does she talk about in her texts and why do the topics she touches on remain relevant for so long?

Zemfira sings, as a rule, about herself and her experiences. She talks to the listener in simple language about what interests everyone in one way or another - about love and hate, about death, about money and about what is not customary to talk about - about mental illness, about sexual development.

According to the singer, rock for her is a protest, and even in her later years of creativity, after gaining stable financial well-being, music remained her way of fighting for her independence.

"Zemfira"

The singer's first album, called "Zemfira", was released in 1999. Now, many years later, the singer admits that she doesn’t like many of the songs from the album - she can’t even perform them at her concerts.

Zemfira Ramazanova noted the virtual absence of arrangements, calling the album's musical flaws the mistakes of youth. At the same time, the record instantly brought popularity to the artist, the scale of which surprised even her producer.

Many quotes from Zemfira’s songs were instantly remembered by teenagers and young people; they were light, courtyard, rebellious.

I burst into your life, and you were stunned.
I’m a cynic, and you’re telling me about some soul, have mercy on my ears.
I am suffocating from tenderness, from your-my freshness.
Why do these glances bother me? I'm an outlaw, I'm a weather forecaster.
If you cannot be God, I will be.
You are a genius, I am a genius too.
I’m wearing rings and show-offs, and I have three calluses on my left.
I am a scandal girl, an air girl.
Who told me: “It won’t work”? If I want it, it will come true.
I am a fire girl, a splash girl.
I'll burn the ships in my harbor, I'll change my ticket for rubles, if I grow it all the way down to my shoulders, I'll never return home.

Quotes about loneliness

I don’t like it when people gather in a bunch, I don’t like big companies. It seems to me that the most perfect form of communication is dialogue. And the desire to join the crowd is due to a lack of ourselves.

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I rarely, but have attacks: I suddenly pick up the phone, go through the entire list (and I have quite a large list: 200, in my opinion, numbers), and somewhere on the letter “u” I think: “God, call there’s no one.” There are friends and acquaintances, but there are no people whom I, for example, would call at three in the morning and start howling into the phone. Those who call at three o'clock in the morning - of course, I listen to them. I consider myself a tactful and well-mannered person, no matter what (despite all the newspaper articles), and I listen, yes. And then, they still have some good reasons if they call at three in the morning.

In general, I have a very narrow circle of friends, sometimes it narrows down to fish.

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Doesn't loneliness bother you? And I have fish. Since childhood I have loved fish in the aquarium because they are silent.

"Forgive me, my love"

Working on the second album, released a year after the first, Zemfira Talgatovna decided to independently act as a producer, because she was not satisfied with the quality of the Zemfira record.

The album “PMML” gave fans such hits as “Forgive me, my love” and “I was looking.”

In terms of text, “Forgive Me, My Love” can be called a logical continuation of the debut disc: there are both socially oriented and autobiographical compositions. But the most popular lines this time were quotes from Zemfira’s song “Do You Want” and other love songs.

Do what you want with me, become my shadow suddenly, break my fingers, kiss my skin.
Please, just live, you see, I live for you.
Please don't die or I will have to too.
If you want, I’ll give away all the songs, I’ll give away all the songs about you...
Home - too early and empty. With you it’s too late and sad.
I have been looking for you for many years, looking for you through dark courtyards. In magazines, in movies, among friends. The day I found it, I went crazy. You are just like in a dream, just like in the albums where I painted you with gouache.
Just behind the dunes, a sailboat I invented is waiting for you.
You are running over my abyss. Then you will repent, and your wings will fly.

Quotes about love

If I fall in love, it means for something. And then it’s very hard to give it up in favor of another person. This is what I call monogamy. But, of course, not for life; projecting yourself 25 years into the future is stupid.

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Now you forgive, but once a brick is in you, it falls. And so, accordingly, some kind of wall grows, and you end the relationship...

Love is almost the only thing that really exists in this stupid reality filled with illusory garbage.

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If I love, then desperately, if I hate, then this also happens powerfully. I am against half measures, I am not capable of them.

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I can't hurt those around me. I treat them very tenderly and carefully, you know?

Success without love is loneliness.

"14 weeks of silence"

The singer’s third work, released in 2002, was fundamentally different in content from Zemfira’s previous music. Many called this album more feminine than the first two.

Before starting work on the album, the author went through a creative crisis and doubted whether she would continue her musical activity. During periods of doubt, she spent a lot of time on the Internet in search of inspiration, which is reflected, for example, in the lyrics of the song Webgirl.

But, as before, the most memorable lines for fans were quotes from Zemfira’s songs about love and laconic everyday sketches.

A cold wind will blow through my window.
Frozen fingers in the absence of hot water.
The last trolleybus is not greeted at the depot.
So little time left before the first snowstorm.
And in the open windows there are stars.
The wind will desperately blow away the hats.
Just let's be friends, let's be friends on the lips.
A girl living online, living for everyone.
On a smoky morning, we left a big break and fell into the soft piles.
Smoke, monitor, smoke again. And the dawn is breathing down my neck.

"Vendetta"

Zemfira Ramazanova's rather depressing album appeared in 2005 and was warmly received by critics. Rock sound is combined in “Vendetta” with electronic compositions that are atypical for the singer.

As for the lyrics, they have become more concise and poetic. The lyrics of the fourth album are mostly very personal, more adult than in earlier works. They are focused not on the external world, but on the internal experiences of the author.

Many people remember the succinct quotes from Zemfira’s songs, with the help of which polysemantic and at the same time understandable images are created.

I am ready to change, without looking, with anyone who calls.
I know all your tricks. I'm just angry.
You are silent and don't try to understand.
I'm leaving, leaving reasons for controversy, my funny dog, my beloved city.
Sadness and cigarettes - what could be better, better than this.
Ships have a heart and the ability to choose and, while dying, smile.
But even the stones are rolling somewhere, and I am more alive. And this Friday I'm going to get off the ground.
I am like a dried up puddle, and my heart is completely empty and cold.
And we must bear this pain together, glass.
Lantern, rope, ladder. Forget…
It's quite warm under the stars on the roof. Maybe we can go for a walk and take a step forward.

"Thank you"

In 2007, immediately after the release of the album “Thank You,” Zemfira called it her best work, noting its conceptuality and positive mood.

Critics and fans received the release extremely mixed. The album seemed unusual to the public due to the acoustic sound and the melancholy clearly present in the songs.

Some listeners were happy that the performer finally managed to find a new style, others lamented that the former charm of the singer’s early work was hopelessly lost. Some critics considered the lyrics raw or forced, while others successfully sought out strong quotes from Zemfira in the songs of the fifth album, the main message of which was designated by the singer as gratitude.

We will live long and together we will explode in the subway.
Remember me sad and happy, proud and free.
The boy wants to be a god, but it is so difficult, and sad, and so lonely. He told me this drunk, looking into my eyes.
And while walking in the morning, I really wanted someone to sing about it.
Forgive me for my weakness and for the fact that I love so strangely and desperately.
Gentlemen, you did not understand the most important thing.
I chose life while standing on the windowsill.
This rain probably doesn't know about me.
Thank you for these tears, pure as snow.

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[Zemfira. History of songs.]

"Zemfira" (1999)

►“Why” The song is “molded” from two different ones: a verse from one, a chorus from the other. In the original version, it was one and a half times slower, and from the acceleration “it benefited a lot, which allowed us to shoot a video for it.” The song is “full of irony, jokes and forty-degree heat”, based on real events of the summer of 1998 in Ufa and, contrary to popular belief, it is not about a girl. ► “Snow” Written in October 1997 - the first song written for the album, and the first song written after a ten-year break. The writing of the song began with the lines that arose in Zemfira’s head: “I understand, there’s no point in talking, I don’t want a quarrel with you, if you believe, you know better. You can take off, fly away, fly in...". Then the composition was written spontaneously, from nature: “I didn’t know what to write about, I looked blankly out the window and discovered the first precipitation in the form of snow.” The attitude of Zemfira’s acquaintances and the sound engineer of “Europe Plus Ufa” towards the idea was initially ambiguous, but later changed for the better. The lyrics of the song also touch on the topic of non-traditional sexual orientations: several people from Zemfira’s circle at “Europe Plus Ufa” were homosexuals, and by writing this song, the artist “simply bought them.” ► “Forecaster” One weekend, when the entire staff of “Europe Plus Ufa” went skiing to the Minyar ski resort 100 kilometers from Ufa, Zemfira, overpowered by the desire to work on new songs, stayed in the studio for the eldest for two days with an overnight stay . Several songs were written this weekend, including “Weather Forecaster.” Zemfira treats the song well, calling it a “joke” because “she didn’t kill anyone, <...> she didn’t buy glasses either, because, thank God, she didn’t kill anyone.” ► “Daisies” The phrase “Hello, daisies,” which is the refrain of the song, was born in the “Europe Plus Ufa” studio: this is how Zemfira greeted the employees for some time. The author attributes the phrase to Dunno from the cartoon “Dunno on the Moon.” The rest of the song’s lyrics are “stream of consciousness,” but Zemfira associates the chorus with himself because he, too, hasn’t taken his headphones off his head for several years. She considers the composition “sweet”, and its text “does not oblige you to anything.” In the demo version of the song, Zemfira plays the piano, and the drum part is taken from one of the songs of “The Chemical Brothers”. ► “T-shirts” The song was written in the summer of 1998 after Zemfira’s arrival from Moscow. The characters in the song are real[4]: the male one, who “writes the story,” is Zemfira’s great friend, and the female one is herself. “Anechka” from the chorus, who “asked to take off my T-shirts,” is the maid Anya from the radio station. In the context of the song, this phrase does not carry any semantic content and is inserted only because it rhymes well. The music was composed on the piano, but it wasn’t until the first rehearsal that the arrangement became guitar-based. In the album version, according to the singer, the song is played “very naively and funny” against the backdrop of its “maximalist” text, but, nevertheless, she has a positive attitude towards the song, it reminds her of Freddie Mercury. ► “AIDS” After a quarrel with Burlakov due to the lack of “hit” of the available material and the subsequent departure to Ufa, Zemfira needed new songs. “AIDS” was born at night, starting with the now famous line “And you have AIDS, and that means we will die” (Zemfira later expressed the hope that doctors would soon refute this line and “discover means to get rid of this disease”). After her, Zemfira forced herself to get out of bed and quickly spoke the remaining two verses into the recorder. Declaring the theme as “the worldview of two young people - a girl and a guy,” the composer calls the song opportunistic (with the exception of the verses), initially scandalous and not making any discoveries, but close to himself, although not autobiographical. The arrangement of the song, in particular the drum part, is simple, made in the style of “Mumiy Troll”. ► “Rumba” “Rumba” was written in a hospital; in the bedside table of the ward, in accordance with the text, there really was an OM magazine. The song, which Zemfira calls “winter,” leans toward jazz. ► “Scandal” One of the autobiographical songs on the album was written at home, while the singer, playing and singing in front of the mirror, prevented her mother from watching the series. In this daring song, Zemfira sang, as she says, “everything that was told to me, and how I feel,” so she uses it as a kind of alarm clock, after which it is difficult to fall asleep if you listen loudly. The music of the song is an experiment, and Zemfira claims that depending on the mood, “Scandal” can have 84 arrangement options. ► “Not vulgar” “Not vulgar” is another song written in the hospital on the eve of recording the album. In it, Zemfira, according to her own statement, sings, and does not just hit the notes. ► “Prepevochka” This song was written either on the same weekend as “The Forecaster” on the radio station, or, like several others, in the hospital. Like “The Weatherman,” it is comic and is dedicated to another quarrel between real Ufa acquaintances of a girl and a guy Zemfira. ► “–140” –140 is the air temperature, as Zemfira apparently jokingly claimed, the air reaches this temperature in January in her area. The song (it is unclear which version is demo or album) was recorded overnight together with Sergei Mirolyubov. Zemfira listened to the demo version after recording it in the player every day in the morning when she was driving home from the studio (most often it was recorded at night) for a week. “-140” was radically rearranged for the album: the demo version featured a long piano solo in the style of Raymond Pauls, which sound producer Ilya Lagutenko categorically did not like. Ramazanova said that she loves this song very much, despite the fact that many people do not like it and seems like “some kind of jazz,” she called it “light” and mentioned its “spring mood.” ► “Arivederchi” Zemfira composed “Arivederchi” on board the Moscow-Ufa plane. The song, apparently based on real events, turned out “even better than they wanted,” but the author’s attitude towards it, as well as the video for it, is cool. The maxi-single “Goodbye” included a remix of this song. ► “Rockets” The singer wrote the song, which was included as the first track in “U1 - Collection of completely different music” even before the release of the album, after ear surgery, which is expressed, for example, in the words “Patterns, and a head in bandages.” In the studio version, according to Zemfira, the drive and dynamics that were evident when performing the song at concerts disappeared. ► “Zemfira” In accordance with the title, the composition is autobiographical and tells about the feeling of affection experienced by Zemfira at the time of writing, urging not to be nervous in difficult moments. The song has an atypical, minimalist arrangement, the author of the idea was Lagutenko. Yuri Tsaler plays the double bass, which he and Zemfira stole from Studio No. 1 of the Mosfilm tone studio, which specialized in symphonic music, during the recording of the song and immediately after it was returned to its place.

“Forgive me my love” (“P.M.M.L.”) (2000)

► “The sensors are scaling” The song is dedicated to the male members of Zemfira’s group and touches on acute social problems (drug addiction), continuing the line of the first album (the song “AIDS”). The singer herself spoke about the positive mood of the song: “I’m a pop singer by and large, such ..ndatum-ndatum-ndatum-thump-pa... And then, I have a school... there.. what... long-term - studying the art of jazz. But it’s not about jazz, it seems to me that she lay down there cheerfully... The main thing is that the music carries some kind of mood. This piece carries a certain mood - you know, you imagine a pianist in a tuxedo.” ► “Zero” The song was written before the release of the first album. Zemfira also noted that this is the second song written after “Snow”. The song had 18 different arrangements. ► “Ripe” Zemfira noted that the lyrics of the song are about maturation, pornography and its search on the Internet: “Well, this is an exciting topic. Well, 90 percent of people go online exclusively for porn. And everyone is silent about it... What's wrong with that? Porn. Well.. It’s no secret.. Everyone knows it.” ► “Do you want it?” Song "Do you want?" dedicated to ex-producer and close friend Anastasia von Kalmanovich. When Zemfira became very ill and was once again hospitalized - she had problems with her ear - Nastya looked after Zemfira and was very worried. They say [who?] that’s when the first lines of the song were written. The song's lyrics talk about the loss of a loved one and are one of the most famous songs in the singer's repertoire. Despite the fact that the album was recorded in 2000, the song “Do you want?” performed by Lyudmila Gurchenko was included in the cycle of New Year's musical television films "Old Songs about the Main Thing", which consisted mainly of popular Soviet songs. Subsequently, the song was included in Lyudmila Markovna’s repertoire and was often performed by her at concerts. In 2011, Lyudmila Gurchenko shot a video clip for this song, which became the last in the work of the famous actress. ► “Dawns” The lyrics of the song talk about the search for ideals. In the context of the song, Zemfira sifts out everything that surrounds her, forming a cycle of time, characterized by the lines “Sunrises - sunsets...”. ► “City” The singer dedicated this song to her hometown Ufa and its residents. Although, as she herself admits, she considers Moscow a beautiful and beloved city. ► “I Hate” The song is inspired by the phrase “I hate” when they tried to force the sound of an organ onto her during the recording of the song. After much debate, she defended her opinion. ► “Cigarettes” Zemfira wrote this song when she was thinking about her personal problems, including smoking. ► “Proven” The song was written by Zemfira when she saw a girl on the subway reading Nabokov: “In this case, the phrase “the strings are tied” means that the chain of events has been restored. There was, indeed, a girl who read Nabokov. Well, I wrote right on the subway while I was driving. This was a specific episode - the fact that the girl was sitting, reading Nabokov, which surprised me - on the subway they usually read other reading material. And then, you know, I have a method of deduction, like Sherlock Holmes. She reads, I immediately remembered something as I read it. And I read it at home... And at home it stood there... And my mother stood in the kitchen. And so, well, such a chain and a rope are connected and that’s it...” ► “P.M.M.L.” The song arose from a phrase that Zemfira constantly heard somewhere: “This is the phrase that... It always seems to me that I heard it somewhere, but in my opinion it didn’t exist... There are such common phrases. Forgive me, my love. There’s even some kind of pathos... You know, you go out like this: Good bye, my Love. But in fact, she is very... sincere. Well, I liked it...” ► “I was looking” Zemfira did not talk about the process of writing the song. On a radio show, she talked about the process of shooting a video for this song, which is one of the most successful in her clipography: “I’m probably happy with the shooting process. There was one great shot - I fell accidentally. I hope that the director is smart enough to insert this shot.. I accidentally... Well, there it was necessary to go from the nine to the Opel. I slipped and fell.. I think this, well, definitely needs to be inserted.. They say I fell well.. Beautiful. But it’s natural. We fight for naturalness." ► “Don’t Let Go” Zemfira wrote this song as a memory of her childhood idol Dean Reed: “When I was five years old, I loved Dean Reed terribly, I was even going to go to America - my mother says. I was very worried about... well, he had a tragedy there, a man died, but I don’t remember a single one of his songs. But they say she loved..." ► "London" The song "London" took over all the radio airwaves during the New Year's week. A beautiful and touching composition with a fairly simple arrangement turned out to be competitive among newfangled rhythms, becoming the leader of all kinds of charts. Zemfira herself was sincerely touched by the soulfulness of her listeners and admitted that she never expected such a breakthrough for this song. For this reason, it was decided to include the composition “London” in the collector’s edition of the new record as a bonus track, recording a chamber version of the song. Also, a “live” version of the song was released on the single “Snow/London Sky”. “She really was like a song - ownerless. We called it “an ownerless song.” The first version was generally in the style of, mmm, God forgive me, jungle.. And later at one of the soundchecks we played.. They just went to smoke, the hairy ones.. And the keyboard player and guitarist played.. I say: “Well, that’s great, let’s play it in the concert..” I, frankly speaking, am singing along to this song.. It’s nice for me to sing.. Because I don’t sing in all my songs.. Here. Somewhere I recite, somewhere I shout, but in this one I sing.”

"Fourteen Weeks of Silence" (2002)

► "Paranoia"

It has a “British” sound and sounds melodic. Maxim Kononenko noted that the song is built on the line “a dream as long as paranoia,” and he noted: “The rhyme, of course, is beautiful, but it does not clarify the meaning.” The journalist also noted that the song is light and “cute” in mood.

► "Traffic"

It was called characteristic of the album as a whole. Alexander Murzak on Zvukah.ru noted that the composition contains “creepy symphonism” and a quote from Led Zeppelin. Kononenko noted that the ending of the song strongly resembles the ending of the “fatalistic” song “I Dream of Ashes” by the Aquarium group.

► “Infinity” “Infinity” (indicated in the album booklet as “∞”; also called “Infinity” in English) is a pop-rock composition with a predominant guitar sound. The song was called too complicated for pop music, including the line "I just happened to figure out the infinity sign." Alexander Murzak wrote about the composition: “One of Zemfira’s most touching and sentimental songs, it takes you to the quick and doesn’t let go for a long time.” Alexey Munipov in Izvestia about composition. The song is recorded in 2/4 time signature, in the key of E minor. In the first verse and chorus, the chords are played by fingerpicking. In the second verse, “the guitar strings are not pressed all the way, so the sound is somewhat similar to a violin pizzicato,” which sounds like a clock ticking.

► "Macho"

It starts with a “lonely” sounding piano and the phrase “Call me, I’ll be waiting.” Maxim Kononenko noted the similarity of sound with the works of Phil Collins and added that this is “in general the highest quality music ever released by Russian musicians.” The poems have been described as standard Russian pop lyrics, reminiscent of the works of Alla Pugacheva. ► "Fairy Tales"

Reminded critics of the composition “Traffic” in mood and sound. Thus, Kononeko noted that the arrangement is very similar to the specified song, and the lyrics resemble a “nightmare dream,” with the line “If you don’t read my favorite fairy tales, don’t, and I’ll stomp on the roof.”

► "Song"

“Ultra-sad sluggish” in the work of Zemfira.

► "R"

Zemfira said in an interview that it is read like the Russian “er”. It is also a slow composition, but with a heavier sound. Maxim Kononenko wrote that “this song encrypts the recipe for making a cheerful potion, which replaces what for decades throughout the world was called the letter “E” (extasy). The recipe is encrypted in the form of an acrostic poem. If you put together the first letters of the lines of the lyrics of this song, you will receive clear instructions for action.” ► "The main thing"

It starts with the sound of a hum and the sounds of a music box. The song differs from the previous ones in a more accelerated tempo. The composition includes ironic phrases, for example, “you will find out about me from the newspapers, keep in mind - they lie,” and the chorus melodically refers to the music of the eighties.

► "Who?"

Reminds me of Zemfira's earlier works. Alexey Munipov called the composition “unexpectedly cheerful.” Konstantin Bakanov also wrote in “mNews.ru” that the song is reminiscent of “Zero” and “Sensors Are Scaled” from the album “Forgive Me, My Love.” “A song that is most reminiscent of the Zemfira we know. There is one difference, but a fundamental one - the super musicians again soften everything and turn the crystal clear surroundings of Zemfira’s voice from past albums into a dense English sound, from which there has been no escape for many years now,” Maxim Kononenko wrote about the song. Katya Karinina described the song as a “very frank”, “in a good aggressive way”, but “completely adult” recording. ► "Webgirl"

Pop-rock lyrical ballad with guitar accompaniment. Kononenko described it as an anthem for the IP generation with great imagery: “fingers trying to guess” and “keys keeping warm.” The critic also noted that no one had ever sung about the Internet like that before, and at the end of the composition the sound of a dialing modem could be heard.

► "Sage"

The song contains echoes of Zemfira’s earlier, more “nervous” performance. In the composition, “the rhythm changes from slow to fast-heavy and vice versa.”

► "Feelings"

It was called a “transparent jazz number” with a “very lifelike saying that fits literally everything”: “But what a feeling! I have to fly, fly higher than everyone else, fall more painfully, but then...” In Komsomolskaya Pravda they wrote that the composition was unusual for the singer and Zemfira appeared in it as a “Russian Sade”, and “the melodic, jazzy introduction immediately transports you to a cozy bar with dim lights and barely audible music.”

► "Dream"

In the bonus track, which is built on “Zemfira’s Chords,” an independent electronic bass appears. The composition also contains a saxophone part, which was recorded by Vlad Kolchin, Zemfira’s former classmate at the Ufa School of Arts.

"Vendetta" (2005)

► “Sky Sea Clouds” The song was originally recorded in a light electronic arrangement and released on the radio, but a different arrangement was made for the album. Alexey Mazhaev noted that the song opens with “straightforward hard rock sounds.” Kapitolina Delovaya wrote that not a trace remained of the original version of the song on the album, and the new arrangement was reminiscent of Korn, Nine Inch Nails and Rammstein. “We tried on a lot of “caps” for the “message” song - the most appropriate was the alternative sound welded together by Tsahler and Pungin,” Kapitolina specified. The composition is also known for its phrase These gray faces do not inspire confidence. Now I know who the singer Valeria sings to. The song also contains the line: “My mom and dad turned into televisions a long time ago.” Zemfira said that her mother calmly accepted the poem: “Mom has nothing against this line, moreover, she positions herself that way: “I, you know, I’m on TV all the time!” Here.” Evgenia Pishchikova drew attention to the similarity with the title of the film “Sky. Airplane. Girl" and the closeness of their idea, which lies in "the conflict between the singer and the crowd, the double life of a gifted person." ► “Breathe” The song “Breathe” was recorded with “live” drums (Oleg Pungin), guitar and bass (Korney) and Moog (Zemfira). Alexey Mazhaev considered that the song begins with an overly monotonous chorus, but “from the words “don’t hold back, I know all your tricks,” a piece of the most beautiful melody follows.” Apelzin.ru noted that the composition is reminiscent of “On the Flight” of “Mumiy Troll”, “only Comrade. Lagutenko was flying off somewhere, and Comrade. Zemfira is arriving." It has also been said that the song's line "your analyst is just a b---" is the most memorable on the album. Overall, the song has been described as "a collection of incongruities. A direct message “I’ll be back anyway” and, to top it off, a loss a la Interpol.” ► “Itogi” Alexey Mazhaev wrote that in “Itogi” “on an electronic frame created with the help of Vlad Kreimer, a text is strung so precise and touching that the experimentalism of the sound fades into the background: “I’m leaving, leaving mountains of cigarette butts, kilometers of days, millions of idiots ...“". Korney performed guitar, bass and mellotron parts in the song. He and Vlad Kreimer were also responsible for the arrangement and programming. Kapitolina Delovaya described the composition as a “light” track, to which “you want to smile, dance and reach up...”. It was noted that the song was “played to the rhythm of an energetic walking walk.” The theme of the song's verses was highlighted as one of the most mature on the album: “The hooligan and the “scandal girl” are noticeably growing up and summing up certain results (see the title of the track). The text is as honest as possible, reflecting the past, present, and future as much as possible.” ► “Let’s leave it like that” Guitar ballad and the first of three songs, created together with Igor Vdovin. Kapitolina Delovaya called the song “a guitar-electronic rhapsody of incredible beauty and power.” According to her, when listening, you get the feeling that “in a few minutes the Universe unfolds and collapses in front of you.” It was also noted that the guitar in the song refers to the works of Nike Borzov, and at the end there are vocal allusions to Radiohead. There is no chorus as such in the song, but it was replaced with "incredible Britpop vocalization". ► “Airplane” The song “Airplane” was described as “a stream of consciousness, a melancholy drone, other people’s revelations that you can listen to or not listen to, but you won’t be able to get away from them.” Zemfira composed her text on a plane on the Moscow-Kyiv route in three minutes, during which the flight attendant briefed passengers. The song also features a harp (the part was recorded by Valentina Borisova). The lyrics of the song contain lines similar to literary classics: “The sail is whitening alone, fool.” Alexey Munipov wrote that “Airplane” is “one continuous feverish line, broken by an asthenic rhythm.” Alexander Belyaev wrote in Vremya Novostey that the song reminded him of “sparse minimalist avant-pop in the spirit of Björk.” According to Zemfira, in the song she deliberately moved away from the “verse-chorus” form, as she wanted the composition to develop like a story. The song also records the breathing of the singer’s nephew Artyom: “He was visiting me in Moscow, wandering around the studio, I was working and suddenly I was distracted by some sound - he was standing and sniffling. The decision came immediately. Before that, I tried to breathe on my own, and it came out too rhythmically,” Zemfira said. ► “Give me your hand (I’ll shake it)” In the song, the advantage of sound is given to rock and roll guitar (Korney). The work was called very “stadium-like”, as well as Fr. However, the song also included lyrical, “slow, insinuating fragments.” According to Semyon Kvasha, in it Zemfira “says hello to Zhanna Aguzarova.” Zemfira described the song as “very concert-like.” According to her confessions, initially she did not want to include the song in the album, but she had long been thinking about “such an impudent riff that is called ‘in the forehead’.” The artist clarified: “I clung to this riff and quickly wrote the lyrics. Perhaps the presence of such songs means that I miss concerts.” ► “Blues” In an interview with Guru Ken, Zemfira mentioned that the song is her first blues and it was made according to all the canons of the genre: “In principle, I never loved them [blues songs]. Even in school, we were all forced to listen to them and play. There are some traditional blues forms, twelve-bar, minor, major... It was because of the traditionalness that I didn’t like it. But, probably, somehow it accumulated in me - and the first blues in my life came out. I wanted to make it as archaic as possible, so that there would be an old drum sound...” The song is recorded in the key of E minor, in 2/4 time. The melody is performed with blues intonations. The main chord progression: Em - Em / D - C - D. Alexey Mazhaev considered that the arrangement of the song turned out to be almost blues, but melodically it resembles the composition “Infinity” from the album “Fourteen Weeks of Silence”. Kapitolina Delovaya noted that the song is still an atypical blues. It is about Zemfira’s song “London Sky”, and also the fact that the composition shows the wide range of the singer’s voice. Alexander Belyaev noted that the keyboard part in the song was performed by jazzman Ivan Farmakovsky. ► “Walk” This is an electronic dance composition. The song was arranged and programmed by Igor Vdovin. Zemfira herself classified the song as a pop music genre and added about the arrangement: “I like this version. It’s so relaxed, and I think there are beautiful electronic violin sounds. I think this is an appropriate version.” In an interview with the Timeout.ru website, the singer said that the mood of the song is positive, but in general it does not reflect the mood of the entire album. ► “Friend” The song is made in the form of an electronic ballad, according to Alexey Mazhaev, more reminiscent of an electronic romance. Kapitolina Delovaya described the song as "an electronic ballad of light and pure sadness. Actually: Zemfira plus Korney (creative-computer tandem).” Igor Vdovin also worked on the song. The song's programming was done by Zemfira, Korney and Vdovin. On Apelzin.ru the composition was described as “an electronic saga in the form of a request to a mythical friend whom the singer calls upon to return.” ► “Zhuzha” The song was recorded with an acoustic guitar, strings (Zemfira), vst-bass, Mellotron, guitar and electronic drums (Korney). Sonya Sokolova wrote on Zvuki.ru that the work “shows a very sad, very distant, beautiful electronic picture: air and space appear in this song.” Alexey Mazhaev noted that the song includes several “pairs of delightful rhymes and images,” such as: “we dissolve each other, Zhuzha, like acid or worse.” ► “Baby” Apelzin.ru considered that the song was made in the style of the “former” Zemfira. The composition uses heavy, hard rock guitar (Yuri Tsaler) and live drums (Oleg Pungin). Alexey Mazhaev argued that here Zemfira “again deftly moves from chopped hard rock to heavenly beauty of musical phrases.” ► "Range" A rock song described as a mission statement with the line "Lantern, rope, ladder." The choruses were called marching choruses. ► “Beauty” The song is based on piano and strings. Alexey Mazhaev o. On Apelzin.ru the song was considered a reference to “trip-hop Portishead” and noted its mood of “light sadness”. “One single phrase blurred by rain against the backdrop of melancholy flickering keys,” they wrote about the song on Music.com.ua. ► “Different (all are like that)” Zemfira said about the composition “Different (all like that)”, which is the first on the list of bonuses, that it is a “joke song.” When asked why such a “light and cheerful” composition was included on the album only as a bonus track, the singer replied that “it could have been, or it could not have been.” According to Denis Stupnikov, in it the musician expresses contempt for “the petty spiritual needs of our contemporaries.” The song uses slap bass. On Km.ru they noted that the song is characterized by the “principle of indifferent cataloging”, known from the works of Vasily Shumov (from the Center group), as well as inherent in “Boshetunmay” by Viktor Tsoi. “In the 80s, these performers rhymed everything, trying to create a comprehensive slice of objective reality. Zemfira uses the same method, drawing a generalized portrait of our contemporary,” the publication wrote. It was also noted that the song contains a “combination of a bass solo with keyboards a-la soundtrack to the film “Needle” in the bridge.” ► “Jim Beam (Ufa 97) ” Re-recorded old composition by Zemfira from 1997. Capitolina wrote about the song: “Do you want to see Zemfira at the very beginning? Even before she was hooked on guitars and the rockapop messages of the first album were outlined? Ufa, 1997, 20-year-old Zemfira and a computer, one on one. And even if someone now did something barely comparable... it’s hardly childish, but incredibly touching.”

"Thank You" (2007)

► “In the Subway” Opening composition, which combines wind instruments and keys. Zemfira herself characterizes her as “militant, but romantic. The song is the nerve. The pipe is like hope.” ► “Sunday” Built on guitar accompaniments accompanied by classical, wind and drums. The lyrics of the two songs are quite atypical for the singer’s work. Alexey Mazhaev from InterMedia wrote that “the rhyme ‘Friday - Moscow is going wild’ leaves a feeling of some kind of forcedness.” The song was written quite quickly. Author Fr. ► “Home” The song was written in a rather bright state of mind. Zemfira said that she was able to carry her high spirits through all the work on the song. Critics compared the lines of the song “I have a wonderful house, old and beautiful, I recently lived in it sad and happy...” with the early work of Andrei Makarevich. ► “We Are Breaking Up” The formal second part of the disc opens with the song “We Are Breaking Up” - a piano ballad that is the central composition of the album. The song became the most successful for Zemfira and did not leave first position in the music charts for several weeks. A short film clip was also shot for the song, directed by Renata Litvinova. She became the main character. The action takes place on the outskirts of the city, where a car with four men - killers - arrives. According to the assignment, they must kill the fifth accomplice because of whom their colleagues died. The story is told by one of the agents, who is in love with her and carries out the sentence himself by shooting her in the back of the head. Zemfira appears in the video, standing next to the accompanist in the barn and performing the chorus of the song. ► “Boy” A song with a rather catchy chorus “Zero money, zero sex - the music is dead, the boy is zero!” and a piano part accompanied by a guitar part. This song became the first recording for the album after a long break. The maxi-single “10 Boys” was posted on the singer’s website, which includes 10 remakes of the song “Boy” sent to the singer during a competition held on the Internet. ► “Gentlemen” The composition consists of two parts - a slow one, based on rhythm and voice, and an instrumental one, consisting of skillfully made piano solos, reminiscent of the atmosphere of a cabaret. InterMedia also noted that the song ends with "Dominique Frontiere's rollicking variety show tune from the movie 'The Trickster'." A video clip was also shot for the song, directed by A. Ramazanov. According to the plot, four young “gentlemen” sit down at the table, drink vodka and start playing cards. Among the players is a sharpie, who, of course, always wins. The company is nervous. At some point, they notice the actions of the sharper and a fight ensues. At the end, the smartest one, hiding under the table, comes out, searches the sharpie lying on the floor and takes all the money; from the sleeve of the culprit of the fight, he takes out the Queen of Spades card, which turns into Zemfira and winks. ► “I fell in love with you” Like the composition “Gentlemen”, the song is also built on piano solos accompanied by violin, castanets and accordion. The song was written in the morning under the impression of reading Marina Tsvetaeva’s poems. ► “Take Me” A composition with Zemfira’s low vocals, built on the accompaniment of piano, vibraphone and jazz rhythm section. Zemfira noted that this song is “the most delicate in sound and condition.” ► “It will start to snow” A melancholic song “about waiting” with contrasting vocals and an interesting instrumental insert. A video clip was shot for the song and posted on Zemfira’s official website on December 1, 2008. The video was made by the album's designer Alexander Lobanov and resembles a video installation. ► “1000 Years” The darkest composition from the album is remembered by the scream (by Renata Litvinova) in the middle of the song and the accompaniment of the harpsichord part. The song also has the line “Take Chanel, let’s go home,” which many perceived as Zemfira’s departure into “glamorous postmodernism.” The song was written when the singer had problems with her ligaments and the doctor forbade her to talk. Zemfira kept the sound of the song in her head for a long time, without trying it out by ear. The author also says that this song is his favorite from the album. ► “In Me” A lyrical composition with percussion and keyboard accompaniment (many also noted that the piano parts are reminiscent of an interpretation of Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata”), telling about the singer’s most personal thoughts: “I have cities in me, all love is in me...”. Zemfira characterizes the song as “a thought that pierced her. The song is a revelation." ► “Thank You” The album ends with the calm keyboard “Thank You”. The track is a recording from a rehearsal in November 2006 (on the second verse Zemfira commands: “Chorus!”). Zemfira considers this song “the main message of the record. The song is gratitude."

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"Live in your head"

Zemfira's sixth album was released in 2013 and received a lot of positive reviews from critics. According to many of them, the best quotes from Zemfira’s songs were heard precisely in the sixth album, permeated with the theme of love and death.

After the lighter and more abstract album “Thank You,” the singer returned to intimate and dark lyrics with notes of decadence, anguish and restlessness.

And kill you unknowingly, accidentally.
Count to one hundred, live to see one hundred!
My songs will one day leave me.
And not know anything about you, not know anyone before you.
I want to sing and fly, fly and sing.
I want to be impossible, unthinkable, unacceptable, wrong.
To change anything, I will have to die.
I'll rip my heart out for you, I don't need it anymore.
And I'm looking for your face in my face.
You see time - I see light.

Five years have passed since the release of the album “Live...”, and while the singer is taking a creative break, loyal fans continue to wait for new releases.