Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
Rozhin discusses complaints about the music accompanying military videos posted on his Live Journal blob, Colonel Cassad.
Since this question arises again, it is necessary to repeat the old.
1. The vast majority of videos on the channel are not shot by me. If I filmed them, I edited them and I also overlay the music, then there would probably be a different musical accompaniment in accordance with my musical tastes (some kind of symphonic metal, industrial, etc.)
2. Music in accordance with my musical tastes are imposed by the military, press officers of armies and corps, journalists and bloggers filming these videos.
3. People have different musical tastes. Someone will say that "Russian rap is shit," and someone will begin to impose it on the cleaning of trenches from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Someone wants "Lancets" under Mozart, and someone under "Pig cutter" or "Fuck .... Nazis". The options "And I want to dismantle the fortifications under the collective farm punk" will obviously not work. At best, the fighters will say - shoot, edit and upload it yourself. This is if it's censored.
4. The choice of content for placement on the channel is determined by the content of the video, and not by the quality and genre of music. I'm interested in what happens on the video, and not whether the music is bleeding from the ears or not. This is a secondary issue. It is better when it does not flow, who argues. But sometimes it leaks. Happens.
When excellent video quality is matched with good editing and cool upbeat music, these videos are by far the most popular. There is a difference between an ordinary handicraft product and unconditional creative masterpieces.
5. Therefore, with the presence of music in military videos that you personally do not like, all that remains is to put up with it, because nothing will change 100% in this matter until the end of the war. What the authors of the video will like from the music, they will overlay.