The image and creativity of Zemfira became cult for children and adolescents who grew up in the 90s. Fans are still looking forward to every concert and remember by heart quotes from Zemfira's songs. What does she talk about in her texts and why did the topics she touched so long remain relevant?
Zemfira sings, as a rule, about herself and her experiences. She speaks in plain language with the listener about what interests everyone in one way or another - about love and hate, about death, about money and about which it is not customary to talk about - mental illnesses, sexual formation.
According to the singer, rock for her is a protest, and even in the later years of her work, after gaining stable financial prosperity, music remained her way of fighting for her independence.
Zemfira
The first album of the singer, entitled "Zemfira", was released in 1999. Now, after many years, the performer admits that she does not like many songs from the album - she cannot even perform them at her concerts.
Zemfira Ramazanova noted the actual lack of arrangements, calling the musical flaws of the album errors of youth. At the same time, the disc instantly brought the artist popularity, the scale of which surprised even her producer.
Many quotes from Zemfira's songs were instantly remembered by adolescents and youth; they were light, domestic, rebellious.
- I burst into your life and you were stunned.
- I’m a cynic, and you’re talking to me about a soul, take pity on my ears.
- I gasp from tenderness, from your - my freshness.
- What do I slant these views. I am outlawed, I am a weather forecaster.
- If you cannot be a god, I will be.
- You are a genius, I am also a genius.
- I'm in the rings, and with the show off, and on the left are three corns.
- I am a girl of scandal, a girl of air.
- Who told me: “It won’t work out”? If I want to - it will come true.
- I'm a fire girl, a spray girl.
- I’ll burn ships in my harbor, change my ticket for rubles, grow to the shoulders, I will never return home.
"Forgive me, my love"
Working on the second album, released a year after the first, Zemfira Talgatovna decided to independently act as a producer, because she was not satisfied with the quality of the record "Zemfira".
The album "PMML" gave fans such hits as "Forgive me, my love" and "I was looking for".
In textual terms, “Forgive me, my love” can be called a logical continuation of the debut disc: there are compositions of a social orientation, and autobiographical. But the most popular lines this time were quotes from Zemfira’s song “Want” and other love songs.
- Do with me what you want, become my shadow all of a sudden, break my fingers, kiss my skin.
- Please, just live, you see, I live you.
- Please don't die, or I'll have to too.
- Do you want me to give all the songs, about you I will give all the songs ...
- Home is too early and empty. With you - too late and sad.
- I have been looking for you for many years, I have been looking for you with dark courtyards. In magazines, in movies, among friends. On the day I found, I went crazy. You, just like in a dream, just like in the albums where I painted you with gouache.
- Just behind the dunes, a sailboat, invented by me, awaits you.
- You scatter over my precipice. After repent, and wings in the blades.
"14 weeks of silence"
The third work of the singer, which saw the light in 2002, was fundamentally different in content from previous Zemfira music. Many have called this album more feminine than the first two.
Before starting work on the album, the author went through a creative crisis and doubted whether she would continue musical activity. During a period of doubt, she spent a lot of time on the Internet in search of inspiration, which is reflected, for example, in the text of the song Webgirl.
But, as before, the most memorable lines for fans were quotes from Zemfira's songs about love and laconic everyday sketches.
- A cold wind will blow into my window.
- Frozen fingers in the absence of hot water.
- The last trolleybus in the depot is not met.
- So little is left before the first snowstorm.
- And in the open windows of a star.
- The wind will desperately blow away the hats.
- Just let's be friends, on the lips let's be friends.
- A girl living on the net, living for everyone.
- On a smoky morning they left with a big break, fell into soft bristles.
- Smoke, monitor, smoke again. And the back of my head breathes dawn.
"Vendetta"
The rather depressing record of Zemfira Ramazanova appeared in 2005 and was warmly received by critics. Rock sound is combined in Vendetta with electronic compositions atypical for the singer.
As for the lyrics, it has become more concise and poetic. The texts of the fourth album are mostly very personal, more mature than in earlier works. They are focused not on the outside world, but on the inner experiences of the author.
Many remembered the capacious quotes from Zemfira's songs, with the help of which ambiguous and at the same time understandable images are created.
- I am ready to change without looking, with any dialed.
- I know all your tricks. I'm only angry.
- You are silent and not trying to understand.
- I am leaving, leaving reasons for controversy, my funny dog, my favorite city.
- Sadness and cigarettes - what can be better, better than that.
- Ships have a heart and the ability to choose and, dying, smile.
- But even the stones are rolling off somewhere, and I am more alive. And this Friday I'm gonna get off the ground.
- I’m like a dry puddle, and in my heart it’s completely empty and cold.
- And we carry this pain together, glass.
- Lantern, rope, ladder. Forget ...
- Under the stars on the roof is quite warm. Maybe we’ll go out, take a walk, step forward.
"Thank"
In 2007, immediately after the release of the album "Thank you", Zemfira called him her best work, noting the conceptuality and positive mood.
Critics and fans took the release very ambiguously. The album seemed unusual to the public because of the acoustic sound and clearly present in the songs of melancholy.
Some listeners were glad that the performer finally managed to find a new style, others lamented that the former charm of the singer’s early work was hopelessly lost. Some of the critics considered the lyrics raw or extorted, while others successfully sought out Zemfira's strong quotes in the songs of the fifth album, the main message of which is indicated by the singer as gratitude.
- We will live long and explode together in the subway.
- Sad and happy, proud and free, you remember me.
- The boy wants to be a god, but it is so difficult, and sad, and so lonely. He told me this drunk, looking in the eyes.
- And walking in the morning, I really wanted to sing about it.
- Forgive me for my weakness and for the fact that I am so strange and desperate to love.
- Gentlemen, you do not understand the most important thing.
- I chose life, standing on the windowsill.
- This rain probably does not know about me.
- For these tears, clear as snow, thank you.
"Live in your head"
Zemfira's sixth album was released in 2013, received many positive reviews from critics. According to many of them, the best quotes from Zemfira’s songs sounded precisely in the sixth album, permeated with the theme of love and death.
After the album “Thank you”, which was brighter and more abstract in content, the singer returned to intimate and gloomy lyrics with notes of decadence, anguish and restlessness.
- And to kill you unconsciously, by accident.
- Count to a hundred, live to a hundred!
- My songs will one day leave me.
- And do not know anything about you, do not know anyone before you.
- I want to sing and fly, fly and sing.
- I want to be impossible, unthinkable, unacceptable, wrong.
- In order to change something, I have to die.
- I will rip out my heart, I don’t need it anymore.
- And I'm looking for your face in my face.
- You see the time - I see the light.
Five years have passed since the release of the album "Live ...", and while the singer is holding a creative pause, and loyal fans continue to wait for new releases.