Music too fast, jail. Music too slow, believe it or not, also jail

Musa Dadayev, the culture minister, said “all musical, vocal and choreographic works should correspond to a tempo of 80-116 beats per minute” to make music “conform to the Chechen mentality and sense of rhythm”, according to the Russian news agency Tass.

“Borrowing musical culture from other peoples is inadmissible,” Dadayev said. “We must bring to the people and to the future of our children the cultural heritage of the Chechen people. This includes the entire spectrum of moral and ethical standards of life for Chechens.”

I have actually no idea how to respond to this. This is just a comedic level of stupid. You are so terrified by change, that you go after music.

Not just some lyrics or the messages hidden in them, but for anything that could possibly be seen as some kind of cultural growth. You want your people to morally and ethically stagnate, you herb! And it is so blatant.

And the community name gets a new meaning 😛

What’s wild is that Chechnya has an amazing indigenous folk dance music form that by most metrics is way, way too fast to fit into the guidelines.

I learned this from Adam Neely.