"We dream of gasoline, gasoline in a canister..." Old songs – in a "fuel" tune
A new trend in Russia is to record a song about the countrywide gas shortage. There are already dozens, if not hundreds, of new "hits" on Instagram. Perhaps they're being dreamed up right in line at the gas pumps.
Here are just a few examples. In some songs, the lyrics were adapted to the new reality, while in others, nothing had to be changed—they fit the meaning just fine.
“Where can I find you, please answer me,
Which cities should I fly to after you?,
sang A user with the nickname Spasatelnastil sang a Dima Bilan song while dancing expressively with two empty canisters in his hands.
“If you ask me where I got a full tank of ninety-five,
Then I’ll answer that I leaked it from my neighbor from house number nine.”,
confessed Dmancela, rewriting the lyrics to Irina Allegrova's song. Further text: he's not going to return it, don't even ask.
And car owner egor_lubarets in a song to the famous tune of the group "Zemlyane" proves that "There is no gasoline in Saratov, Rostov, and Kurchatov"So
“And we dream not of the deputy minister’s speeches,
That this is just a temporary trifle.
And we dream of gasoline, gasoline in a canister
and a completely filled gas tank".
The authors attach videos to their songs. huge queues to gas stations, filming how entire families try to occupy their time while waiting for fuel. they're joking On the topic of traffic police officers bored without the flow of cars: they allegedly have to detain each other, then a toy car—all this to the opening lines of Shufutinsky's song: "Quiet, like in paradise..." And to the song with the lyrics "the gas stations are empty, there's no gas at all," the car owner has opened A new way to fill up your gas tank: instead of looking for a working gas station, catch a fuel truck along the way and follow it to your final destination.
Russians, previously accustomed to various crises, came up with a bunch of memes about missing gasoline.
Video: Instagram
