Timati and Gufa Face Online Backlash Over Political Video Supporting Moscow Mayor
In 2 days, the video has garnered 770 thousand dislikes.
On Saturday, September 7, Timati released the clip "Moskva" together with Gufa on his eponymous YouTube channel, timed for the city's day and in support of Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin ahead of the upcoming elections to the Moscow City Duma.
In 2 days, the video has gained 2.5 million views but also 770 thousand dislikes. Only 57 thousand viewers liked the clip.
Commenters under the YouTube video began parodying the track's lines: "I don't go to rallies, I don't spread nonsense, Uncle Sobyanin promised 120 thousand," "I don't go to rallies, I don't spread nonsense, my whole family is in America, but I'm a Muscovite" and similar ones.
And although one of Timati's lines does indeed say "I don't go to rallies and I don't spread nonsense," users found a photo from a rally in support of Putin in March 2018 in which Timati also appears.
The Moscow performers did not ignore the negativity toward their new clip. Timati said: "I'm not ashamed, I wasn't paid, and I'm not saving business." The rapper also noted that "it's fashionable in youth circles now to criticize the authorities, but that doesn't mean I have to do it to follow fashion; I have my own opinion on this."
Gufa said he did not expect negativity toward the clip and that there was no state commission behind it: "The track and clip were made in 2 days, there is no state order, there is no money here, it's simply a drone and a desire to congratulate my city."
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