WRITERS REACT (ft. Fortunus): Arkona - Zimushka
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ต.ค. 2024
- Guest today! Fortunus is joining me in analyzing Arkona's song "Zimushka" from the 2011 album "Slovo".
We also did a live reaction to this on Fortunus' channel: • EP 131: Fortunus and D...
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Disclaimer: No copyright infringement is intended. I do not own nor claim to own the music nor the video used for my analysis. All rights go to their respective owners.
Arkona on Napalm records: / napalmrecords
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Fortunus is a graphic novelist and podcaster.
Her official website: www.fortunusgames.com
Her literary podcast "The Nuts and Bolts of Writing": • Nuts and Bolts of Writ...
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Thank you for watching and feel free to share your thoughts in the comment section! See you next time for another analysis of a rock/metal song :)
I love how you've edited our video! The lag's been totally removed, making the whole video very smooth and enjoyable. It's also great to hear the song coming in loud and strong as well as our voices! We learned so much about this song, particularly thanks to your great analysis of what a folk song is like and what its themes are generally like. I agree, this is a very good example of one because it has that sense of predestination that we would never see in more modern interpretations of folk music.
Can't wait to analyze more songs with you! Yes, I agree, we should analyze a Finntroll song next!
Thank you, and thank you so much for joining me for this video! It's weird that it didn't seem laggy at the time. How about we discuss Finntroll's Det Iskalla Trollblodet or Svartberg? They show a lot about the concept behind their songs (and the worldbuilding, if I can call it so).
@@dr.metalhead5452 How about Det Iskalla Trollblodet? That sounds like a great one!
@@fortunusmedia Great ^^
Спасибо Вам большое за реакцию на нашу сибирскую песню. Я из региона Сибирь. Аркона отлично исполнили нашу песню. Сибирь, очень своеобразна зимой. У нас очень злая зима. Чтобы пережить зиму необходимо консолидироваться и уметь ладить между собой. Спасибо вам большое.
спасибо большое за красивые слова! Сибирь звучит как место для сильных. Я рада, что вам понравился наш анализ!
Thank you
Unfortunately the lyrics translation isn’t correct totally but it’s good enough to understand the plot and the main idea of the song :) great job girls 👍🏻❤️🔥✨
Thank you very much, I'm glad you enjoyed our analysis! I wish we had a better translation, indeed (it sounded awkward in English too, but since we have no notion of Russian we just went with that). I hope there wasn't any nuance that got lost in translation which would've made us understand the song differently.
@@dr.metalhead5452 you have nothing to worry about :) my favorite part of your reaction is when you discuss about the personalization of winter. It’s really very common thing in Ancient Russian folclore to personalize seasons and some abstract things like youth, life, death and so on.
Thank you for your comment! Glad you enjoyed our analysis!
1. I can't really tell, if it's based on Siberian traditions. The song sounds like something that is inspired with what our ancestors had before they've colonized Siberia. Central Russia is hursh enough too, after all)
2. Although I've just heard the word "zhona", which is "zhena" (wife), but in Siberian dialect. The band itself was formed in Moscow Oblast', and Siberian dialect is pretty rare even in Siberia itself, so they've used it intentionally. So maybe Siberian tarditions are bigger here, then I thought (although I can't hear any other elements of Siberian dialect here).
3. I'm not quite sure, that our "good fellow" is the husband.
4. Now as for predestination. There was an interesting division in our culture. Peasants and other lower classes were really far from the concept of predestination, and instead - closer to the concept of "Russian maybe": maybe it'll be fine, maybe we'll find a way, maybe we'll outwit. Completely opposite with the nobility (in fact - military) - they were hardcore fatalists. Makes you think, that this is a noble woman singing)
Very interesting! I have no knowledge of Russian, so the linguistic elements are especially valuable. Who do you think the "good young fellow is", winter?
Your point about predestination adds great insight to the analysis, and it also puts these cultural attitudes in a different light! I imagined the woman as a peasant (since she seemed to live alone with her husband), but she could well be a noblewoman from a remote region and a distant past.
Thank you for sharing these fascinating pieces of information!
@@dr.metalhead5452 good fellow might be either a guslyar (scald), or it might be just a random guy, making the first verse just a kind of a generic setup.
By the way, there's one mpre proof that it's a noble woman. It's sang, that she killed her husband in the garden. Due to the "Little ice age" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age), the medival Rus' was even colder, then it is now, so having a garden implies having money and people to maintain it.
Though my theories have little point, cuz the whole song is written in modern Russian. Thus I can't tell, if it's written by the band, or is it indeed a folklore.
@@КириллКувинов-ь5к Thank you for sharing your knowledge! This is very fascinating. We're going to think more about this song with this new info.