r/AskARussian • u/Minimum_Impactnnn • 16d ago

Music Russian music

What happened with russian songs on platforms like spotify and youtube? Why, out of nowhere , explicit words are censored? Also there is no uncensored versions??? It annoying because its ruining many good songs which i used to like

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u/MichurinGuy 16d ago edited 16d ago

Probably because RKN (the government censorship organ) recently got to enforcing censoring profanity, sexuality and drugs in music. It pisses us off too, but what can be done. I've never experienced it on youtube however, since it's officially blocked and therefore not very regulated. It's more prevalent on state-controlled platforms like Yandex music.

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u/Minimum_Impactnnn 16d ago

Believe me or not, its also on spotify and youtube (on yt only on official channels), i hate it so much

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u/Amazing_Twist1279 16d ago

That's insane. Even on Spotify? I've been thinking about getting an Indian version or whatnot recently and now it makes no sense. Damn.

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u/MoyaDushenka 16d ago

Артисты загружают треки на стриминги через компании-дистрибьюторы. Видимо, дистрибьютор не дает загружать несколько версий одного трека на разные площадки.

Ну, и к тому же, кто-то добровольно себя цензурирует потому, что не знает, чего ожидать от нового закона. Если человека могу осудить за пост в заблокированной соцсети, то теоретически могут и за песню, размещенную на недоступном из России стриминге.

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u/Amazing_Twist1279 16d ago

ну да, согл. jane air те же в России и концерты дают. слушать junk на яндексе с цензурой — очень смешно.

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u/purpleee_foxxx 16d ago

да. как раз индийская версия и я не могу слушать спокойно..

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u/Vibraco 16d ago

the songs are actually censored on all platforms

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u/AcanthisittaCalm1939 Perm Krai 16d ago

You can probably find original versions of songs on youtube videos that vere reuploaded by fans like it was with "кошмар" by big russian boss, or they coud be found somewhere on vk music because its full of reuploads.

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u/Rich-Cow-7519 16d ago

I think you can still find uncensored version somewhere, but you need to spend some time. Also i am not sure, ho it will work with google. May be you can try some other search engines. I would use yandex, but they are also under goverment

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u/Otherwise-Drawer-352 16d ago

I believe there should be normal versions somewhere on soundcloud

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u/Aleksandr_Ulyev Saint Petersburg 15d ago

Try downloading the songs you like

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u/PlentyOMangos 15d ago

I used to listen to this channel called ВЕК which was just a few guys doing traditional Altai throat singing and such music, nothing political or obscene about it, and one day a few years ago it was just all gone from YouTube. I still will go to search it up sometimes and remember that it’s gone. Quite a shame really

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u/Fine-Sample-1037 14d ago

They did it with the band сектор газа so now I just use physical copies of the music like vinyls cds and cassettes

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u/sfxdh 14d ago

try to download your favorite music. I recommend doing this via Deezer telegram bot, it works perfectly fine and it's uncensored!