Somewhere between the stage of “I am an uncompromising rebel” and the stage when your playlist for loud parties imperceptibly turns into the background for a quiet evening, one not very pleasant, but useful realization comes. You are an ordinary person. With your neuroses, toxic habits and baggage, which is intelligently called “life experience”, informs Ukr.Media.
It seems that Valeriy Kharchyshyn decided to make a new song out of this realization.
I'm looking at the news that “Druha Rika” released the single “MI” on the eve of its 30th anniversary, and I catch myself smiling ironically. Thirty years of the band. During this time, a generation has grown up that has already managed to become disappointed in ideals and rediscover them. Kharchyshyn says that in the new track he tried to honestly talk about this path of growing up – from teenage denial of everything to accepting one's own shortcomings. And you know, there is a certain therapeutic adequacy in this. When the lead singer of a rock band does not try to play a mystical genius, but calmly admits that he is just as raking through his own problems as everyone else, it inspires much more trust.
The most interesting thing begins where the autobiography ends. The track, which was conceived as a personal reflection, unexpectedly turned into a story about “us”. The band relies on Symonenko's lines: “Each “I” has its own name”. The thought, it would seem, lies on the surface: we are not a set of identical details, we are different universes. However, the musicians make a very accurate remark that hits the nerve of the time: we all now catastrophically lack the concept of “WE”.
In couples that are falling apart due to fatigue, in families, in society as a whole. We have become so obsessed with building impenetrable personal boundaries and nurturing our uniqueness that we have somehow overlooked the obvious: losing each other is too high a price to pay. Strength is not in merging into a gray mass, but in being able to negotiate and become that very “we” when the storm rolls in.
Kharchyshyn admits that he intentionally wrote the song in such a way as to imagine ten thousand people in the Kyiv Palace of Sports singing “We Are We” together. This visualization might seem like just a beautiful musical romance, if not for our realities.
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