With a name like Pussy Riot, it doesn’t seem out of the ordinary for the Russian feminist punk rock group to bring to life some of the most unorthodox and vulgar lyrical concepts and music videos. Not that that’s a bad thing. Thanks to the band’s extreme imagery and its members’ rebellious stunts, they have (unsurprisingly) become the poster child for dissent in modern Putin-controlled Russia.
And thanks to the band’s last single, “Straight Outta Vagina,” they have even started to add their opinion on America’s presidential election, considering the song a riposte to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. And just like the song title, its music video was quite radical as well, featuring founding band member Nadya Tolokonnikova in white clerical robes and trademark pastel ski mask singing in English about the power of the vagina.
It seems like with the band’s latest song and video, titled “Organs,” they have stepped on the breaks a little bit musically, but the lyrics are still undeniably controversial. The track features Tolokonnikova chanting in Russian about corruption, injustice and oppression of female sexuality in her homeland. In turn, obviously, the video has Nadya bathing in blood.
To be honest, every single lyric in the song is quite a gem, with lines like “Female orgasm faces obstacles/ My strap-ons are being replaced with uniforms and icons” and “Freedom and bondage is the same shit now/ But when instead of inserting cocks, they insert tanks in my town.”
Check out the video below: