Going on Stephen Colbert, breaking up every other day, getting whipped by Cossacks at Sochi--the all-grrrl, balaclava-clad punk band Pussy Riot has recently become the biggest little band in the world.
Given all their extra-musical hype (that disastrous Amnesty International concert, especially), it's long past time for their actual sound to be questioned.
I mean, has anyone really listened to Pussy Riot? They're not exactly Iggy and the Stooges.
Granted, that's not what you're supposed to do with backlashing punk of their ilk. But shouldn't a song with a title like "Putin Will Teach You How to Love the Motherland" serve some semblance of musical purpose, too?
Was it purely Vlad Putin's political machine that led the Cossacks to attack Pussy Riot? Or did they just hate their shitty music?
To put it into a better perspective, check out Digby Warde-Aldam's blog over at The Spectator.
Remember, Pussy Riot hasn't released a single record. D.I.Y in the digi-age, the greater measure of their catalog spans dozens of YouTube uploads.
"With Putin and Medvedev bricking it over Ukraine and protests kicking off around the sentencing of pro-democracy activists in Moscow, let's be clear: annoying they might be, but Pussy Riot are making a brave stand against censorship and repression," writes Warde-Aldamn.
"If nothing else, they give yet another reason for Russell Brand and his apathetic apparatchiks to sod off."
And isn't that what their kind of music is all about? Louder leftover grunge providing commentary on social norms and hypocrisy?
Perhaps. I just don't think I'd put Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina or Yekaterina Samutsevich on my personal playlist.
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