Cultural Impact
As Shnurov said himself: "Our songs are just about the good sides of life, vodka and girls that is." Several of Leningrad's recent songs portray women (using Yuliya Kogan's voice) worshiping man's penis.
The band are known to be so disliked by the mayor of Moscow Yuriy Luzhkov, that he has cancelled all of their ever attempted large-scale events in the city during his long term in office. Thus Leningrad's numerous performances in Moscow were limited to privately-owned night clubs or bars.
Another field of the band's artistic interests are mainstream cultural and political clichés. 2007 song Vybory's final string Kandidaty - pidory ("Candidates are faggots") became a widespread post-Soviet meme referring to the election abstention. 2010 song I Bolsche Nikogo ("And Nobody Else (That I Love") addresses Saint Petersburg's intended image as "Russia's cultural capital", ridiculed with the use of mat and references to alcoholism and street crime.
Shnurov is also fond of ridiculing Russian pop music and pop rock, particularly by covering their songs and inviting their stars to perform live together.
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