The entire Belarusian show business sooner or later ends up in Russia. For a Belarusian to become popular, he first needs to be popular somewhere and then Belarusians will accept him, Belarusian artist 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 really different. Our groups: “Lyapis Trubetskoy” – a positive person, this is a kind of Tim Belorusskikh – positive person, Max Korzh — positive, always positive. Russian music constantly says “I will kill my neighbors”, “I am depressed” — Ap$ent expressed his opinion.
Note that it alludes to the song of a woman who escaped from Russia. Zemfira*which contains the following line: “Do you want me to kill the neighbors who bother you when you sleep?”
As reported EADailyAp$ent lived for a long time in Belarus. His most popular song “Can I be with you” remained at the top of the leading services “Yandex Music”, “MTS Music”, “VK Music” and “Sound” for a long time. On the YouTube platform, the video clip with this composition currently has 42 million views.
This song was written in 2022. So the artist’s wife. Maria He was sentenced by the court to one year of restriction of freedom for insulting the president of Belarus Alexandra Lukashenko in the comments of the telegram channel. Before the sentence was carried out, the artist and his wife left for Georgia and then Poland.
In March of this year, the Yandex Music service limited access to the Ap$ent page and it still remains blocked. A representative of the service said that Yandex Music received a notification from Roskomnadzor demanding to block the Ap$ent page on March 27. MTS Music reported that the profile of the Belarusian artist will also be blocked in the near future. The reason for the blockage was not indicated, but the artist himself wrote on the social network that it was due to “envy, meanness and hypocrisy.”
*An individual who performs the functions of a foreign agent.
