New Wave

***New Wave*** is a song by Russian DJ Smash and Russian rap artist Morgenstern , released on April 2, 2021 by Shirman, Morgenshtern and Mansion. The song is a new version of DJ Smash's 2008 single "Wave".

## History

In 2008, DJ Smash releases the music single and video clip "Wave" with the participation of Fast Food and Lyudmila Sokolova . On April 2, 2021, a new version of the song and a music video were released together with Morgenstern "New Wave". “I grew up on this Wave, and now you will grow on the New Wave,” Morgenstern wrote on Instagram.

## Music video

The music video was released on the day the single was released on April 2, 2021, directed by Alexander Romanov. In it, DJ Smash appears as a Catholic priest, and Alisher as the Pope . According to the plot of the video, a meteorite flies to the earth, the end of the world is expected, so people gather in the church to break away for the last time .

On April 6, 2021, a State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation , Chairman of the State Duma Committee on the Development of Civil Society, Issues of Public and Religious Associations Sergey Gavrilov filed a complaint with the prosecutor's office against a music video clip on extremism, and a complaint was filed with Roskomnadzor demanding to block the video clip .

"*The text of the song can be omitted - we can hardly write off the freedom of creativity. But why arrange dances in the temple, it is not clear. The release date of the clip "accidentally" fell on the eve of Catholic Easter. still managed to offend believers"*
Despite the assurances of the authors that the video does not aim to offend the feelings of believers and is of an entertaining nature, this was done on purpose, and, in my opinion, State Duma deputy Sergei Gavrilov

The prosecutor's office sent the video for a psycholinguistic examination to check for insulting the feelings of believers. “As part of an audit conducted by the TsPE [Center for Combating Extremism] of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of Moscow, the specified information material was sent to the State Budgetary Institution of the City of Moscow “MITS” for a psychological and linguistic study, the results of which are expected no earlier than the fourth quarter of 2021,” it says in a letter from the prosecutor's office in response to a complaint to the department signed by and.about. the prosecutor of the capital Sergey Savenkov .

The video clip was criticized by the Russian Orthodox Church :

"*It seems to me that Morgenstern's work is already quite provocative, and transferring shocking to the walls of imaginary churches, including Catholic ones, is too much. Unfortunately, the challenge to culture, accepted as a creative role, naturally ends in attempts to mock the shrines. Shrines of any religion, which should be obvious to believers and religious leaders of all traditional communities in our country. Drugs, debauchery, greed, pride, perceived as the meaning of life, are equally destructive for the soul of an Orthodox, Muslim, Jew and Buddhist,*" **Vakhtang Kipshidz, Deputy Head of the Synodal Department of the Moscow Patriarchate for Relations between the Church, Society and the Media**
Alisher Morgenstern's lawyer Sergei Zhorin commented on the allegations regarding the music video, the clip cannot offend the feelings of believers in any way, since all the events in it are fictitious, and the props are just props .

"*The authors of the video clip under investigation made a reservation at the very beginning of the video sequence: “This video is not intended to offend anyone, including the feelings of believers, and is of an entertaining nature. All characters are fictional and take place in a parallel universe." The fact of the reservation confirms the absence of intent on the part of the authors to desecrate religious symbols, moreover, it emphasizes the entertaining nature and fictitiousness of the images of the artists"*
According to Sergei Zhorin, the video clip was filmed in a film studio using computer graphics with creative individual development, and the name of the place where the events in the video clip in question take place is as follows: Cathedral st. Filorenella. “There is no temple in the world with such a name that only refutes the arguments of the deputy. The video clip also does not contain a demonstration of Christian crosses and Catholic cassocks, since the totality of objects found in the video is nothing more than a shooting prop, namely: props (a dummy, specially made items used in theatrical performances),” the lawyer explained