Vladimir Putin Probably Isn’t Going to Like The New Pussy Riot Video
Nope. Vlad will not be happy at all. From The Daily Beast:
MOSCOW — Probably it had to happen. That Putin-taunting Russian punk-performance group with the provocatively prurient moniker, Pussy Riot, has gone Hollywood. Or almost. For sure its lead figures, now out of jail and out in L.A., are in a movie-making fever. They have a
For sure its lead figures, now out of jail and out in L.A., are in a movie-making fever. They have a slick new music video, “Chaika,” and in an exclusive interview over Skype they tell The Daily Beast their heads already are buzzing with new ideas. Might they be stars? Or directors? Shall we say auteurs?
Last December, a guitarist and record producer, Dave Sitek, offered his help producing a video that would be different from anything the group had done before. “It would shake minds and open them,” said Pussy Riot’s leader, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (whom we’ll call NT for the hip-hop hell of it). So the Russian-American team began to create their little film together. NT played the leading role and also debuted as a director.
Read the rest here. And now, the video.
