Yuri Loza is a Russian pop singer who became a human meme after he accused the Rolling Stones of not being able to sing. Once on the pages of newspapers and magazines, the musician felt the taste of fame and decided to use the new image of the critic in his favor. Now every second news about music and show business is not complete without Vine's statements.

Origin

It all started on March 24, 2016, when Yuri Loza spoke sharply about the Rolling Stone and Led Zeppelin groups, saying that their members can neither sing nor play. This happened at his concert as part of the Salt program on the Ren-TV channel.

80% of what is sung by Led Zeppelin is impossible to listen to because it is played and sung badly. The Rolling Stones never tuned their guitar in their entire lives, and Jagger never hit a single note. Keith Richards couldn't play then, and can't play nowYuri Loza

The statement outraged not only connoisseurs of rock music, but even people far from culture. Many began to ridicule Vine for such criticism. Meanwhile, his quote was snapped up by all online media, and soon news about him reached foreign publications.

In April, producer Jimmy Douglas, who worked with Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones, responded, saying that Vine was wrong. He also uttered a phrase that became a response meme: "Hu from Mr. Vine."

It didn't end there. Vine flickered on social networks for a long time, they began to make memes and fotozhabs on him. His name (more precisely, surname) began to symbolize an arrogant critic who is ready to speak out on any topic. And Vine continued to support this image.

In just a few months musician Yuri Loza turned into one of the most prominent people in the media space of the former USSR. Perhaps, even at a time when the legendary song "The Raft" became an all-Union hit, its performer was less known than now.

Each new statement by Yuri Loza is eagerly awaited, since the musician's non-trivial thoughts about everything in the world cause an extremely violent reaction from the public. At the same time, individual phrases are often snatched from Loza's statement, which is why it greatly changes the original meaning. Attempts by the musician to then explain that he meant something completely different, as a rule, are not successful.

Vine about badly playing and singing Led Zeppelin

It all started in March 2016, when Yuri Loza became a guest of the TV program Zahara Prilepina"Salt". When it came to the work of world rock bands, Loza said: “80 percent of what is sung by the Zeppelins, that is, Led Zeppelin, is impossible to listen to. Because it is played and sung badly. At that time, everything was perceived, everything was liked. The Rolling Stones have never tuned their guitar in their entire lives, but Jagger never hit a single note, so what can you do. Richards Just as he couldn't play then, he can't play now. Well, it happened.".

Fans of the classics of world rock took up arms against Vine, and journalists realized that they had stumbled upon a "gold mine". The words of the Russian musician were given to the producer of the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin Jimmy Douglas, who was indignant at such an assessment and stated that he had never heard Loza's songs.

Vine and duet with Mick Jaeger

Loza himself, who was approached for a comment by representatives of the Moskva Speaks radio station, also did not lower the heat, declaring that he was ready to sing a duet with Mick Jaeger: “We could very well perform on the same stage. I look at it like a pro. I would say: we will earn good money and do a big PR campaign. 'Cause he's going to be great here, if he sings the verse of "The Raft," it'll be funny and cool and wonderful. And I would sing Satisfaction. They want, they need, let them go. I’m sitting here, everything is fine with me, they are also self-sufficient”.

Journalists often have a problem getting their interlocutor to talk, getting really bright answers from him. Yuri Loza, however, is not at all like that - he is a direct person, and if he is asked about something, he answers vividly and figuratively. Realizing this, the reporters did not limit the range of questions to music, as a result of which the collection of Loza's statements began to grow exponentially.

Vine and checkmate Vladimir Putin

"National News Service" after the next "Direct Line" with Vladimir Putin asked the musician how he assesses the president's recognition that he sometimes uses strong words.

“Putin has never cursed on the air. Putin never cursed at the conference. I don't know where he swears if he says he does it. Let him do it as much as he wants, if no one hears. If he says that he swears, for God's sake" Loza said.

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Loza and the gay minister

Yuri Loza does not pass by the news of politics. So, in May, it became known the appointment of the first openly gay as the Secretary of the US Army Erica Fanning.

“For all my tolerance, I could not restrain a malicious laugh, and this is why: firstly, Eric will obey not only the Minister of Defense, but also his now lawful spouse, for “let the wife be afraid of her husband” (the letter of the Apostle Paul to the Ephesians, 5th chapter); secondly, the low-level personnel military received real confirmation of their thesis, repeatedly voiced earlier - “they are all there, at the top, fagots ... aces”; Well, thirdly, the chances have been added that in the US Army now everything will be done through zh..pu, and this is very beneficial for us, as their potential opponents, ”- Loza wrote on his Facebook page.

Vine and Eurovision

Naturally, Yuri Loza was actively asked for comments after Eurovision, replicating a lot of juicy and vivid phrases. But on Facebook, the musician spoke much more calmly and clearly: “Everything is as always: a) Europe received a new “hit” from the winner, which no one will listen to or rehash; b) Ukraine received a winner who will not be allowed into Eurostars once again; c) we got another idiotic tantrum for many hours on the Russia 1 channel; d) our native Russian culture has received nothing. Yes, and could not get anything even in the case of the so-called victory ".

Vine and Sergey Lazarev

To the question of what he thinks about Sergey Lazarev, who represented Russia in 2016 at Eurovision.

“At the very beginning it was said “our Lazarev”. This is not our Lazarev. Kirkorov, Lazarev - these are not our guys, but "theirs". Lazarev has nothing of ours, except for a passport, ”the musician remarked,“ You yourself said that the Greeks gave him the number. What is our relationship to him? Well done Greeks, Swede and Englishman. From a formal point of view, he did not show the world anything new. Hit the notes, but sang even-medium. As he always sings. You can't call him a great vocalist. By and large, he sang differently than Celine Dion sang at Eurovision at one time. She voiced the song. And Lazarev's number was good because the Greeks did well. What are we up to? There is nothing of ours there but money.”.

Vine and Petro Poroshenko

Yuri Loza did not pass by the topic of returning to Ukraine Hope Savchenko paying attention to the speech Petro Poroshenko on this occasion.

“This is the day when hope returned to Ukraine. Nadezhda Savchenko, hope and firm will in our victory. And just as we returned Nadezhda, so we will return Donbass, so we will return Crimea under Ukrainian sovereignty.” It is very strange, but for some reason no one tried to delve into the essence of his words, and yet it is this:

As we were all told, as compensation for the release of Nadezhda Savchenko, the Kiev authorities sent two Russians home, so if Poroshenko decided to return the Donbass and Crimea in a similar way, then he is going to offer two Ukrainian regions in exchange for each of the above-mentioned territorial objects !

It remains to wait - that he is ready to give in " Loza wrote on Facebook.

Vine and Gagarin

In general, if you get acquainted with Loza's statements in full, they, for all their originality and poignancy, look much less scandalous than the "squeeze" from them, exploding the media space.

So, in fact, it happened with Loza's last statement at the moment, regarding the first cosmonaut of the Earth, Yuri Gagarin.

In an interview with a journalist of the Zvezda TV channel Evgeny Muzhikov the musician discussed the work of The Beatles.

“You understand what it is. Gagarin was the first. Gagarin did nothing, he was lying. He is the first most important astronaut. The Beatles were the first to be in the right place at the right time."- answered Yuri Loza. — “The Beatles came at a time when television appeared in every home. These were the first idols who stepped into every home. The Beatles wouldn't have been the same if they'd been ten years earlier or ten years later.".

"Fucking Moldavian, your mother!"

Oddly enough, but the controversial and debatable statement about The Beatles remained in the shadows. The media of the post-Soviet space thundered with a sensation: "Yuri Loza: Gagarin did nothing, he just lay."

While social media users unleashed their anger on Vine, journalists got to the first man who went into outer space - Alexey Leonov. One of the first Soviet cosmonauts was a close friend of Gagarin, and, having heard from a reporter that "Gagarin was just lying," he gave vent to his feelings.

“So, tell this Yuri Loza that he is an asshole, nothing more! He's just a scoundrel, this Vine, he doesn't know him. He is an immature man - Vine! This is not a serious person! Fucking Moldavian, your mother!”, — quotes Leonova Life.

It should be noted here that the Moldavians got it absolutely in vain, because the musician, who has Polish roots, has nothing to do with Moldova.

Journalists got to one more veteran of the Soviet space program, a cosmonaut George Grechko.

“I would love to hear his opinion about songs, about trends in songwriting, about what has survived, what has gone. That is, I would listen to his opinion about the songs with pleasure. And his opinion about space and about Gagarin, sorry, does not interest me, ”Georgy Grechko told the website of the Zvezda TV channel.

“Brothers, maybe I missed something?”

“Brothers, maybe I missed something? All my life I have trusted popular science literature and various technical books. The day before yesterday, on the air of the Zvezda TV channel, I said (considering this a generally accepted fact) that the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was lying in a rocket. This is confirmed by all sources known to me, ”Voza wrote in response on his Facebook page,“ It is also everywhere stated that the flight of Vostok-1 took place in automatic mode, nothing depended on the person, and only one task was set for him - to return alive. And in all publications it is written that six people were selected directly for the flight, equally ready and rushing into space. Gagarin was chosen for parameters that were not related to the training itself, but this in no way detracts from his great feat. A feat that cannot be repeated at all, because he was the FIRST to step into the unknown, all the rest followed him..

Loza also reacted to the rebuke of Alexei Leonov: “What kind of non-humans are these journalists who upset the honored cosmonaut Leonov by giving him distorted information about my supposedly negative statement about his colleague and, perhaps, friend. Do they really not understand that it is impossible for the sake of a scandal and a banal struggle for rating to unnerve a person who is 82 difficult years old? And what should they be called after that?

When will it end?

Shortly before the story with the statement about Gagarin, Loza wrote on Facebook: “I think it’s time to stop talking on the phone altogether - whatever you say to these journalists, everything will be distorted.”

It seems that Yuri Loza will really be able to stop this process only if he stops giving interviews or commenting on anything on social networks.

That's just, apparently, the author of the legendary "Raft" in terms of character is far from silent. This means that sooner or later it will “break through” again. Moreover, both journalists and the public are really craving new “aphorisms from Vine”. And demand, as you know, creates supply.

The Russian musician spoke unflatteringly about the work of first-rate stars and even swung at the classics. “Mick Jagger didn't hit the notes. 80% of Mozart's works are self-repetitions,” Loza is sure. Runet rebelled

Yuri Loza. Photo: Mikhail Fomichev / TASS

Yuri Loza instead of John Travolta. The author of a once popular song about a raft in just a week turned into the most popular Internet meme. To do this, he had only to declare that The Rolling Stones "never tuned a guitar in their entire life," and Mick Jagger did not hit the notes. In addition to the question - why does Vine say all this, another one arises - why did this hook everyone so much?

Perhaps one of the best photoshop looks like this: Vladimir Putin at the white piano. Igor Nikolaev, Nadezhda Babkina and Iosif Kobzon listen to him with approving smiles. Natasha Koroleva leaned over the piano, looking with admiration at the president. And next to it is a strict Yuri Loza with his mouth sealed with tape!

It all started when Yuri Loza, speaking in one of the TV programs, suddenly began to criticize the legendary Western musicians. “80% of what is sung by Led Zeppelin is impossible to listen to - it is played badly, and The Rolling Stones have never tuned their guitar in their entire lives,” Loza said. Colleagues in the shop reacted first. As Andrei Makarevich wrote on Facebook: “That's the trouble. And our Yura can do everything. Nobody needs it." In a conversation with Business FM, Makarevich was even more critical: “Well, what can I say about a fool?”

Evgeny Margulis musician “He raised some interest in his person. Therefore, if further, when his statements about academic composers went on, if all this is perceived as some kind of strategic trolling plan, then it probably works for him.

But Loza's songs on Yandex.Music began to be listened to three times more often. And in mid-May, he will give a big concert in one of the Moscow clubs, in the announcement Loza is called "a master of comparative musical analysis." However, perhaps by mid-May, everyone will have forgotten about him.

I remembered other prominent representatives of show business who were laughed at on the network, and found out how they reacted to jokes and memes with their participation.

“In any incomprehensible situation, press the red button”

The meme with Leonid Agutin pressing the red button has been actively distributed by the administrators of popular publics for a week now. "In contact with". The users really liked the emotional expression on the musician’s face, as if saying: “Yes, burn it all with a blue flame!” As a result, this picture has become a symbol of making difficult life decisions.

Users of VKontakte transferred Agutin to different situations: he wondered whether to turn off the annoying morning alarm, meet a pretty girl, or go to a bar with friends. "When you're drunk as hell and decided to write a message to your ex," reads the text to one of the most popular pictures of the musician. On the button, of course, it says "send".

Agutin himself told Lente.ru that he should not pay attention to the sudden network popularity, because there was nothing to be done about it anyway. “The main thing is that I don’t harm anyone, even, as I understand it, on the contrary,” the musician laughed.

"Let's drink to love"

One of the oldest memes with Russian musicians is the hit "Let's drink for love" by a charismatic composer and singer. Released in 1995, the song today not only has not lost its relevance, but has also significantly increased the number of the musician's fans.

Almost forgotten by 2014, the track gained a second wind thanks to the inhabitants of the entertainment resource "Peekaboo", who began to distribute a photo of Nikolaev relaxing in a bathhouse with a mug of beer in his hand and the caption "Let's drink for love." With the help of Photoshop, the musician was placed in the most unexpected environment, and then a special game was invented. According to the rules, you need to drink for love only in three cases: when “your eyes are shining now”, “a crystal tear is trembling” and “no more words are needed”.

A cult YouTube blogger (Maddison) also contributed to the spread of the meme.

blogger not only wrote down cover version of the hit, but also promised subscribers to get a tattoo with a portrait of Igor Nikolaev on his chest. He never kept his promise, but he set an example for other YouTube bloggers, who began vying to release remakes of Let's Drink for Love.

Nikolaev himself, according to rumors, is not offended by jokers.

BBPE

But not all Russian musicians behave this way. For example, the BBPE meme (“hit a woman in the face”) launched in 2008 by users of the anonymous imageboard “Dvach”, the personification of which, by coincidence, was a member of the pop group Bravo known for his gallantry, the reason for the trial between and the administration of the Internet Lurkmore Encyclopedia.

The singer himself said that he planned to file another lawsuit against the resource in defense of honor and dignity. “My task is to achieve justice. I know I'm not the only one. I would like to gradually restore order in our network. And that personal data be used with respect, ”the artist explained.

The Lurkmore article, which Syutkin did not like so much, tells about the origin of the BBPE meme. It is also noted there that the singer was chosen as a symbol of the beating of women due to the fact that his cheerful, intelligent image is diametrically opposed to the meaning of the slogan. With a photo of a smiling singer, the BBPE meme looks as ridiculous and ridiculous as possible.

As a result, the court sued Roskomnadzor against the Internet encyclopedia and demanded that the page with memes about Syutkin be removed. “From the courtroom they transmitted that the claim was satisfied. This is the first decision made on an Internet meme, ”the department proudly noted.

But a conspiracy theory is circulating on the net, according to which Syutkin deliberately set up a scandal around Lurkmore, and the date of the trial "quite by accident" coincided with the release of the Moskvich 2015 album by the Syutkin & LIGHT JAZZ association.

too heavy

But the star of the 90s, on the contrary, actively turned himself into a meme. In October 2015, the singer kindly asked about

Musician and composer Yuri Loza did not refuse his style. In his opinion, Zemfira is a bad performer, and as an author she does not shine.

Yuri Loza

Singer, composer

We need to try to demolish these five-story buildings, block houses, so that people leave St. Petersburg and go to work. You have five million freeloaders admiring the views and the bridges. Who the hell needs them nationwide? I'm not against St. Petersburg as a city, I'm just trying to explain to you as an economist how great it would be from the point of view of the economy and governance of the country.

Yes, and Zemfira's texts are meaningless, the composer believes.

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Yuri Loza

Singer, composer

All these cracks are incomprehensible to me. We run around with people they don’t understand, trying to put deeper meanings into their words. When you speak incomprehensible phrases, you will find admirers who will fill them with meaning.

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What shall we do with the Vine?

The author of the hit about a small raft of songs and words has clearly lost its shores. Since Yuri Loza spoke frankly about the "Zepellins" and "Rollings", no one dared to say a word against him. And he swung at the sacred, at Gagarin. But the astronauts answered the guitarist.

“So, tell this Yuri Loza that he is an asshole, nothing more! He is simply a bastard, this Vine, he does not know him (Gagarin - ed.). He is an immature man - Vine! This is not a serious person!” This is how cosmonaut Alexei Leonov commented on the statement of musician Yuri Loza about cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

The fact is that on June 2, Yuri Loza compared the first cosmonaut of the planet, Yuri Gagarin, with the British group The Beatles, noting that Gagarin did nothing, only lay: “You understand what's the matter. Gagarin was the first. Gagarin did nothing, he was lying. He is the first most important astronaut. The Beatles were the first to be in the right place at the right time,” the musician answered the question about what he thinks of The Beatles, which is considered the greatest group of all time.

So unexpectedly, Yuri Loza turned from a thunderstorm of aging rockers into a naturalist critic. True, in this capacity, he may have to stay. Because now they are already collecting signatures under the demand "To ban the creative and concert activities of Yuri Loza, as insulting people's feelings."

Reaction in LiveJournal

Bloggers also reacted quickly to Vine's words:

“Loza has a clear psycho. disease (((I doubted the greatness of Yuri Gagarin! Alzheimer came to him! ”- said.

“Crapping the first cosmonaut is to be an idiot. Moreover, this is a compatriot cosmonaut, especially since there is only one anti-Soviet around (more precisely, in the media). It seems from the idiot Loza's side that a flight, and even more so the first flight into space, means “lying down” and doing nothing. It’s stupid to even explain, but firstly, this is at least a strict regimen, constant training; secondly, this is a huge risk of not returning, for the simple reason that no one has ever done this before you.

Vine is, by and large, a loser. The name of Gagarin will always be remembered, the streets will be named after him, but no one will remember about Vine. Simple “Yura, musician”, moreover, very envious and angry, ”he was indignant.

“There are two possible answers (and both are correct).

1. Vine went crazy and it's time for him to lie down for a week or two in the hospital. Kashchenko. They will help him there.

In any case, after the collision with Gagarin, Loza no longer exists for me. I think that most of the inhabitants of Russia also sent him to ... ", - said.

How Loza's career as a critic began

Keith Richards can't play, Mick Jagger never hit a note, and Led Zeppelin is simply impossible to listen to. On March 24, Yuri Loza made the first loud statement. LiveJournal Media offers to compare the work of the domestic musician, popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and his negligent Western colleagues.

“80% of what is sung by Led Zeppelin is impossible to listen to because it is played and sung badly. At that time, everything was perceived, everything was liked. The Rolling Stones never tuned their guitar in their entire life, and Jagger never hit a single note, so what can you do. Keith Richards couldn't play then, and he can't play now. But there is a certain drive in this, some kind of buzz. Many people project their youth onto these groups, but they were very weak,” Loza said on Ren TV.

In 1989, Yuri Loza, who gained nationwide fame thanks to the song "Raft", recorded the lyrical rock ballad "Mother Writes". A young guitarist with a shock of hair, a shirt unbuttoned with an extra button and a gentle voice finally conquered the Soviet, predominantly female audience. In the same year, the American band The Rolling Stones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and recorded their nineteenth studio album, Steel Wheels. They later recorded three more, and the total number of Rolling Stones albums sold exceeded 250 million.

1995 - Loza, who created his own recording studio "Yuri Loza Studio", following the collection of songs "For the Soul", releases the mature work "For the Mind ...", summing up the musician's creative work. Despite the fact that the musician's popularity began to gradually wane, the inhabitants of free Russia especially remembered his laconic and polished "Winter", "Beer", "Death" and "Tosca". In the same year, the British Led Zeppelin got into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a few years earlier they had recorded their last, ninth studio album. Seven of them climbed to the top of the Billboard 200, and the total circulation of the Zeppelins' records exceeded 300 million.

Yuri Loza has been on stage for more than 25 years and is skeptical about all kinds of prizes and awards. He doesn't have them. According to him, this is due to the fact that he “never stood on the barricades with the opposition, but in his songs he represented life as he saw it. At the same time, he never adjusted to the policy of the party, did not bow to those in power.”