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Pussy Riot and Avenged Sevenfold team up for sinister single Candy Dopamine as band announces debut album CYKA
“This song is kind of a love and hate song to prescription and designer drug culture,” says Nadia Tolokonnikova as she reunites with Avenged Sevenfold for new single Candy Dopamine and gears up to release debut album CYKA.
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Pussy Riot and Avenged Sevenfold have collaborated again on the new single Candy Dopamine, taken from their freshly-announced debut album CYKA.
The project, led by Nadya Tolokonnikova, announced the album in typically powerful style at the Venice Biennale, known as the "Olympics of the art world", to coincide with Russia’s controversial return to the event. CYKA will be released next Friday, June 12.
Pussy Riot have also brought Avenged Sevenfold on board for the album’s lead single, with A7X returning the favour after releasing a new version of their song We Love You with them in 2023.
“This song is kind of a love and hate song to prescription and designer drug culture,” says Nadia. “It started with my dependence on anti depressants, but it’s also looking at everyone now mentalhealthmaxxing and looksmaxxing via pills and injections. It’s not a judgement, it’s just an observation and my personal experience with these things is that I have to be in a long term relationship with them for my PTSD and depression.”
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On the album, she says: “All these old men ruining the world right now act tough - but we see thru their fragile egos - and I’m not afraid to call them out. They are, in fact, pussies. While the world is waiting for the UFC Freedom 250 on June 14 at the White House, I challenge President Putin to a cage match. He thinks he’s so tough, but afraid of a girl? Let’s see. He loses? He gets the fuck out of Ukraine. The world can watch him lose to a girl, even with all his judo training. He can’t even URA anymore, but he throws the world into despair.
“Just like Brener in 1995 when they bombed Chechnya, and he challenged Yeltsin, now they bomb Ukraine, and I challenge Putin. ‘Putin! Come here!’
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