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recording artists who speak out and take a stand again, social exclusion against unrealistic, a normative standards of beauty and against the war in ukraine. pop star to death, to be different. who protest ends provoke. starting with one of germany's most successful ever hard rock bands to hamish dying with the 2nd single off the new ramstein alba. 6. zach takes aim at cosmetic surgery. ramstein at their most grotesque and satirical

ah, german rock band is also about to finally resume touring after the cobra pandemic. in march, the release and video premier of the new album's lead track site was eagerly anticipated by fans around the globe and berlin. they gathered at the venue of one of rom, stein's earliest concerts. the weight is almost over a show. no, ma'am, i been told the song lament the fact that time doesn't stand still and allow us to enjoy the moment. but rather it moves relentlessly on for propelling us ever closer to death . oh,

the fans are not disappointed. it was really good. i loved to like building up after melody and like drama, kind off and also the like how to guys from the band like they played daryl's like really good guy look great song. i almost had a tear in my eye and one as well, it's quite low key, not your typical ramstein song, and it fits the times right now. the thing toffee is the topic is very well chosen with ramstein, or one of germany's most successful rock bands ever famous for their incendiary live act. they've sold 22000000 records worldwide with songs in german. they got their break in the us after their songs were included on the soundtrack album of the david lynch film lost highway.

ah, and um there are clearly intense crazy out of control. i'm learning german for them. i just finished my 1st year. they wow, good back. in the early years, the bands highly provocative approach caused a lot of controversy in that germanic way they roll their ours. the almost militaristic aesthetic of their live shows, complete with min demons, goose stepping. and the use in the music video for their cover of depeche mode stripped of footage from the 1938 film olympia by hitler's favorite filmmaker. lenny leave install it all that to accusations the band was right wing allegations . the band has always denied front mantell lindman had this to say. we are

all from east germany and grew up as socialists. we were all either punks or gods. we hate nazis. all of the ban come from former communist east germany. in the 1980s, guitarist pol landers and keyboard player, christiane, flock, a logons, played in the fun punk band feeling b, ramstein biographer. oh, lou decay says the band, have their roots in the bohemian east berlin artist and squatter scene. they moved here and the, and the time i went to wal code michelle to before the wall came down. and that's when the punk music was lifted by the people, which was something like a kind of resistance sir,

in opposition to the communist system for lou decay, it's very clear that the band is actually left leaning all of the musicians they came from families that were all close even close to the system and punk as the punk as well. obviously you belong to the left, the wing seen as you fight against the right wing. people in the band also responded to accusations they were right wing with the song links side that i fear . left to $34.00 declares that rom, stein's heart beats on the left. the bands of recent actions have helped put the matter to rest at a concert in poland in 2019 where l g b t q writes were under attack band. member christoph schneider waved the rainbow flag and posted the message equal rights for all on instagram members. of the band also kissed on stage in moscow in protest against anti l g

b t q measures in russia. the message here, russia, we love you. but rom shines love of russia. didn't stop them from coming out in support of ukraine shortly after the country was invaded by russia. i was ill in demand has been spotted helping ukrainian refugees arriving at berlin's main station. the track zeit seems to up hit the zeitgeist. the ballad became the bands. 3rd, number one single in germany. the fans are now looking forward to finally seeing the band they live for live. again, ramstein long delayed to are kicks off in prague on may. 15th blue star also has a devoted time based not just at time in ukraine, but ali leon,

as essence, to keep up morale on making her more popular than ever but but, but, but ukraine's most famous, female rapper, a former kindergarten teacher who isn't afraid to speak her mind, oh, but i yona aiyona refuses to conform to society standards for her fans. she's an alternative style icon and a model for body positivity. but since russia were attacked ukraine, aiyona ayana's been using her fame to take a stand for her country. what did you buy? the lou dorothea in the palm, al green, rosier boy. you they, jim, oak, you've provided muscle is 3, shall spot him with number 6. when you track is not a ramp but a prayer. it's bid, wiley, the pledge, some hooting as wasp, adobe play a village in the my media. are you the going buddhahood open?

people ask me like a loaner. you have to write, read, but all expect from me some aggressive rep, but i didn't have placed for aggression in my heart because i, every time i read all time, i think about people what people did. how can i help? i i want the all old people who feeling that they do not think understand that they can pray. and this is big job. this is big energy, big power, because i believe it, but you know, and, and for me is very important to connect people. could you hold 2 people even, even if people think that they can do nothing? very, she can ukraine an hour outside keith and you know, worked here as a kindergarten teacher before her breakthrough as a rapper 3 years ago. the big one is likely to for those who don't know me

and i'm a girl who's not different, but i am someone special or probably will see. i see my so called disadvantages is something positive also something you need to leave for ya, christie? yeah, for you few skips class. yeah. this is where she made her 1st big music video. i'm leaving my home since the war. her family has stayed here in barbara sheath car, but they're ready to flee at a moment's notice. we have books in the middle of the flat and we have 15 minutes. ready? like if, if it is, when you're a true, be more dangerous, we have 15 minutes. all and go go to the center of japan. we have relative to palm . the nissan yamaha body shop. this is someone as a novelty for weeks. russia fired missiles,

embarrassed sheaf cab buildings were damaged, but no one died. we hear explosions. we hear sounds of wire all this time. i think maybe last week. we did hear it because the soldiers go from the origin. now is more safety place that was one months ago. but the war is far from over. millions of ukrainians have already fled the country. and yona yona has decided to leave ukraine to. for now, she's embarking on a tour of charity concepts to raise funds and spirits the ukraine. first stop, poland i make this season hard to leave because i think the helpful my hard to see you crate, but i understand that i am in but a shift in which i help of the buddy shook her region. if i will go to europe getting countries, and then i can take microphone to my head. i show that

she has come in, poland, and germany and says she wants to perform wherever there are refugees from ukraine . you would talk about you bringing people here, you know, i bring them hope. i tell them that we will win this war and everything will be ok and don't be scaring everything. ok. and we don't have to stay here for super long time. and i just don't know how long she'll be gone, but she wants to return to ukraine as soon as possible for her. there is no question of where her home is. for the day, i see the most beautiful places in all the world. but i love my country. i love all of this people. i love mentality of these people. i understand that you are not as grateful for the help her countries receiving from abroad and hope that keeps coming really important to my country. my people that my people will be alive into

the church. i wish to all children in your say they that they see what the real world. ah, shoot me. ah, you with one of rush as best no rapids oxymoron, is also using his platform and popularity to rally support for ukraine, and showing that music has the power to bring people together nearby in front of a berlin crowd. russian wrapper, oxy miran, rails, against putin's war on ukraine. part of the series of charity concerts called russians against war submit just, i mean that's essentially the through. yeah. i did when the with you so

sort of yellow with a buddhist cholenski. you really fun. oh yeah. but he was gone. so with no going to know us when you marshal cheers for with crazy. i'd love with his assignment was more than yeah, this was about almost a message of hope from oxy miran or miran yon of ich fyodor up to a crowd made up mainly of russians and ukrainians. emma, good excuse me. i have a lot of russian friends and it really hurts to see how many people don't understand what's going on as school did. it's very painful and i don't feel hey, and i just feel pain with boys oxymoron is one of the most influential and prominent russian hip hop artists born in 1985 in what was then leningrad to

a librarian, mother and a physicist. father. the family moved to germany, and then later to england or oxy miran studied medieval english literature at oxford university. he started making music at 13 music with ad to my oxy. moran should be touring russia now with his 3rd studio album, beauty, and ugliness. but he canceled his sold out concerts to protest the invasion of ukraine. the russians against war 2 are kicked off in istanbul. scenes 15 percent of me is russian and bowed to see people who are against the what is happening now. i'm glad that there are a lot of bright people who are not silent during that terrible times for their brazza's in russia, an act of defiance like this would be a criminal offense. any one they are brave enough to speak out against the war. currently faces up to 15 years in prison. oxy miron himself is well aware of the

risk of criticizing hooton's regime after being arrested in january 2021 at a demonstration. anytime his ill. yep. off the villa did to madison mass by to mail, which are funded sale problem during the berlin concert oxymoron, warned against fake news. he said that while post modernism may be a beautiful thing. there was still such thing as truth, noel, but i'm so struck nonfiction panella, a breakdown of what this was about, the seal, google. i know exactly what you said. the russian rap scene has seen a surgeon popularity in recent years. day and russian speakers have claimed the music genre as their own. la trilingual performer with famed for having taken part in the most viewed rap battle ever says the russian language is especially suited to the form for now with his concerts at home cancelled oxy. marin's message is one

of unity and one that rages against war lament. but canadian, rob, stop ryan, adam. these days he switched his guitar for a camera, and while he made his name with celebrity portraits, his latest subject, some wounded war, veterans, scars, disfigurement, and prosthetic limbs. with war raging in ukraine, bryan adams, photos of maimed former soldiers resonate more than ever. what prompted him to take these pictures? there were many people coming back from iraq and afghanistan that were in pieces. lost their arms or legs and you started to see them on the high street. it started with one pitcher, and then i met somebody else who met somebody else and that somebody else started formulate, what was the beginning for his photo series,

wounded bryan. adam spent years meeting with british war veterans. he invited them and their families to his studio, since they're all casualties of war. he portrays them in a respectful, not voyeuristic light. i have this theory about pictures and that when you're working with somebody, you have one. there is only one minute in the session. that is magic. the rest of us just pictures. because if you get one good picture out of her a day than you've done well, oh, bryan adam rose to fame in the 1980s through his music. but now he's a respected photographer to tammy winehouse, got down on her knees for him. and bellow rock star, pink, post topless. i mean,

the whole thing in between the 2 art forms is that they both have one thing in common, which is, you start with nothing. and then at the end you have something. so the rest are recently toward huggins, aust house museum, which just showed his photos in an exhibition titled exposed factors. musicians and models love to pose for him. whereas adams likes to stay behind the camera and out of the limelight. what it comes down to is i don't particularly like to talk about myself if ever the people want to talk about it, no problem, you know, but to be promoting myself, this is. yeah. i'd rather go and have breakfast. brian adams trains his gaze on lives full of glamour and gloom. he has access to

celebrities and v. i piece even britain's queen elizabeth. but he demonstrates just as much interest and people who are homeless in london. unlike the portraits of the stars, there's our hung close together, a deliberate choice. it has more impact when you see it altogether, as one than you do if you see it individually spread out. since bryan adams is also just released a new album. so happy it hurts is a throwback to more optimistic and care free times. he thinks it's just what the world needs to hear right now. well, i've been putting out albums. i've heard for years and there's been years of war. seems like there's always wars when there's music, but you know, music is, is here to lift human spirit. that's what the point of it is.

from an icon of the 1980s to a promising young you come a singer songwriter that we the says music is rule heartfelt and authentic hazard o news. i don't want to lose control things, so ease it's intense, bordering on painful this deeply personal song was what launched zoey's international career. it's been streamed hundreds of millions of times. she writes her lyrics herself, her language is music. and if she has something to say, she prefers to thing it totally showers. i'm not one for talking. i hate talking learning my hate speaking. and if i have to, then i'm going to sing. so music takes over when i don't want to talk anymore with rector. ah, it's time for the sound check in dresden as though he kicks off her 1st european

tour. a few years ago when she was still at school in hamburg, this would have been unimaginable do. oh i. 4 in 2018, so he performed at a school concert. a music teacher was impressed by her talent and encouraged her. she soon began to make a name for herself on tick tock. early in the morning to get her breakthrough song was control a heartfelt song about processing trauma. her long term struggle with benign merlin, dick epilepsy control in chapters irish women. i wrote the song back then because i have a sickness, but i always had support my teacher and that's not a given. so i thanked her in this song cuz she was always there for me and my family well from my class would always have a 2nd room. i could go to if i had an accident on 2 seconds later, i would turn around and she'd be right behind me. leave out and her meal. oh,

the song, one gold and platinum awards in 10 countries. in 2020 one's though he performed at the american music awards. a remarkable achievement for the 19 year old. her song daddy's eyes explores her difficult childhood. she grew up with her mother and only got to know her father when she was 16. she sings about hating that she looks like him a on a star who doesn't conform to traditional stereotypes. valley title, so i write a song exactly the same way as i talk to my therapist. perfect. so this really is like therapy for me, cause i paul. it's something i've always done often i to happy as for it. if i come

to terms with the things that have happened to me, come off to being a claudia, to what operator i exact on with my music was ha, ha, silly. these voices, her generations concerns through lyrics that deal with self doubt. the song girls like us explorers, distorted beauty standards and the search for acceptance. lou lou darzy, you is soon back to me. chopin's anguish i wrote the song when i wasn't feeling so good and i didn't like myself. i looked in the mirror and thought, i don't like what i see. so on. so that's what i wrote the song about chalabi. so i tried and learned to accept myself with this song here because i have to be in my body for the rest of my life as it doesn't achieve missing, not liking it. so i have to start trying to love it as

a lovely and finance live. she wants to get involved using her music and has performed fridays for future. and as a recent piece concert at her old school, singer in song and everything. this is a song i wrote a few days ago for people who have lost loved ones. the people who are fighting right now for united exotica world is your show. don't. you don't know how to fix to learn hsu lu, alice walker developer. it's obvious that if there's something going wrong in the world that we can change, we need to get involved as a business, microsoft cloud as well. i'm at work. it kind of every artist knows that if you have an audience, a community that you should use it responsibly for the record, not a zoe says she'll never stop making music

about things that matter to her. let's hope so. a fit for this edition of arts 21 to you again next week. a good a ah ah ah ah ah ah.

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